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 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

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’s saffron project attains vital ISO certification

A pioneering initiative to lift saffron farmers in Afghanistan out of poverty has hit a new milestone, with producers involved

Hand in Hand and Cartier Philanthropy project boosts Tanzanian women entrepreneurs’ incomes by $59 a month

A three-year trial conducted by Hand in Hand between 2020 and 2023 to support women to launch and run profitable

Hand in Hand saffron producers receive organic certification

Hand in Hand is delighted to announce both of the saffron producers and exporting companies taking part in its Organic

An update on Hand in Hand’s operations in Afghanistan

As you will know, the de-facto authorities banned women from working in NGOs on 24 December. In response to the