When women win, everyone wins.

hand in hand international

Every day we equip under-served women with skills and resources to earn more money, ignite local economies and lift nations out of poverty.

Help us create over 10 million jobs

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Data-driven impact

Five metrics that prove we’re equipping women to win long term.

116%

Income uplift

93%

Business resilience

53%

Personal financial
resilience

82%

Equal decision making

475%

Return on investment
(ROI)

Designed and delivered locally
to shape the future they want

Our evidence led approach keeps decision-making power within the communities we serve - no matter the location.

Our approach

Trusted by funders worldwide

Our accolades

The Hand in Hand
model

Developed over twenty years to equip women long-term, 10 million women are earning more already, and – with an ROI of 475% - it’s ready to scale even further.

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What we do

Our global network

8 CEOs and 8 independent boards in 8 countries to maximise scalable, long-term impact. And that’s just the start.

8 CEOs

8 independent boards

8 countries

Partner with us to help women win at scale

When women win, everyone wins.

Collaboration is essential to fighting poverty.

Partnerships are the foundation our work is built on. If you want to increase your impact and transform lives at scale, contact us today.

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Get to know the communities we support, see our work in action, and hear what the world is saying about our cause.

Hand in Hand partners with Fund for Innovation in Development to evaluate the impact of a project to boost Tanzanian women’s incomes by engaging with communities to shift gender norms

Hand in Hand, in partnership with Fund for Innovation in Development (FID), is launching a three-and-a-half year project to find

Hand in Hand and IKEA Foundation’s regenerative agriculture project boosts Kenyan smallholders’ incomes by 155%

A groundbreaking pilot project led by Hand in Hand has successfully supported almost 2,000 smallholder farmers in Kenya to move

Meet Magadalene Radier – eco entrepreneur

The world produces around 350 million tonnes of plastic waste each year, of which around 82 million tonnes is mismanaged

Meet Damiana – Using digital skills to go from street vendor to hotel supplier

Women often have less access to technology and the internet compared to boys and men. The gender digital divide in

Meet Mariam – changing the future for and her grandchildren

Through Hand in Hand’s proven business creation model, developed over twenty years, we’ve equipped five million women start and run

Meet Elishiwaria – on the fast track to business success

There are millions of under-served women in Africa with the potential to expand their businesses, but who lack the credit,