MUVA: Female Economic Empowerment in Mozambique

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A social incubator for female economic empowerment

We are a social incubator dedicated to empowering women and young people to fully exercise power over their lives. We recognize that achieving this empowerment requires not only addressing economic barriers but also ensuring mental and physical well-being. Our goal is to create pathways for women and youth, particularly those from socioeconomically vulnerable communities, to access meaningful opportunities for employment, self-employment, and business growth. To overcome the social and economic challenges that limit access to decent work, we develop innovative, holistic interventions. These programs are designed to foster confidence, resilience, and the skills needed to thrive in the labor market and beyond. By promoting mental and physical health as integral components of empowerment, we equip individuals with the tools to lead sustainable, self-determined lives.

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AREAS OF WORK

01 The Innovation Hub

It is in our DNA to think ahead and do things differently. We use a gender lens to transform with innovation, policies and practices of socio-economic development.

02 Access to first employment opportunity (Private Sector)

MUVA prepares young people in a situation of socio-economic vulnerability for, and facilitates their access to, first employment opportunities or internship in the labour market.

03 Access to first employment opportunity (Public Sector)

We work in coordination with the Government so that social protection initiatives for public sector jobs in the country use a gender lens and can benefit more young people with technical skills and a work experience. This approach has an emphasis on creating opportunities for first work experience in public sector activities, in order to contribute to social initiatives, while allowing young people to gain new skills, new technical knowledge and, most importantly, an experience of work.

04 Entrepreneurship

We support female entrepreneurs in growing their businesses, increasing their income, and becoming more inclusive leaders. We work with micro-enterprises (such as vegetable sellers in informal markets), SMEs - Small and Medium Enterprises (such as traders with structured businesses), and formal and informal businesses. Our commitment is to increase the business productivity and profit of these businesses.

05 Organizational Transformation

With a commitment to promoting gender equality in the world of work, this area of work sees MUVA collaborate with large organizations and businesses to enable them to create an environment of greater inclusion and diversity. Our approach is to build and co-create working environments with greater well-being, ethics, innovation and productivity.

Transformative
methodology

INNER EMPOWERMENT SELF-CONFIDENCE OVERCOMING FEAR

Our interventions are rooted in methodological principles that seek to transform the life conditions of young people, especially women, through effective and long-term economic empowerment.
Our inspiration comes from two methodologies: The Freirian Methodology, in which the role of education is to teach how to read the world in order to be able to transform it, and the Active Learning Methodology, which is based on 'learning by doing'.
We have introduced a gender lens to the principles of these methodologies,.

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Opportunities

Project Manager

We are looking for a Project Manager for Nampula to help us increase our impact and make it happen.

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MAPUTO

Rua Carlos Albers, 67. Bairro Polana Cimento.
Cidade de Maputo.

SOFALA

Rua Francisco Matange, 871.
UC D, Q 04. Bairro Macuti.
Cidade da Beira.

NAMPULA

Avenida FPLM, 845.
Bairro Muahivire.
Cidade de Nampula.

GERAL

Telephone: +258 84 534 1584
info@muvamoz.org