The Asia Foundation in Mongolia, with support from GAC, implemented a four year project to increase women’s economic empowerment in Mongolia through supporting women-led CSOs, and improving the environment for women’s entrepreneurship. Kore Global worked with TAF Mongolia to help strengthen the GESI and MERL aspects of this project since its inception. Our technical assistance covered three areas: feminist mobilising, women’s entrepreneurship and project MERL for adaptive management.
Together with the Asia Foundation in Mongolia, we provided support to Mongolia’s Feminist Network (MONFEMNET) to strengthen their ability to lead change in support of women’s economic empowerment and greater economic justice. Using feminist organising and advocacy theories, we worked in partnership with the TAF team and MONFEMNET’s leadership to design an approach to MONFEMNET’s capacity strengthening and mobilising work with their member organisations. We also developed MEL tools for assessing capacity and the results of increased mobilisation and advocacy.
We also supported TAF Mongolia’s work on women’s entrepreneurship, developing strategies and programme approaches intended to enable TAF Mongolia to support current and future women entrepreneurs to increase skills, abilities and resources to start, run and grow their businesses. We worked with the TAF Mongolia team (together with the Independent Research Institute of Mongolia) to conduct a COVID-19 impact assessment on Micro and Smallscale Women’s Business Enterprises in Mongolia.
As part of our technical assistance to TAF Mongolia, we also worked with the team to develop a theory of change and MEL strategy for the WEE Project that all partners could use to measure impact and learn “what works” in the Mongolia context.
