Get to Know Us
Founded in 2019, SWAGWOR is a registered non-profit organisation supporting women rebuilding their lives in fragile and post-conflict contexts, particularly South Sudanese women both at home and in refugee settlements.
We believe that when women achieve economic independence, entire communities are strengthened.
Through entrepreneurship, we equip women with practical business skills, access to start-up capital, resources, and the confidence to build sustainable livelihoods. Our approach integrates business innovation with gender-responsive frameworks, ensuring that economic empowerment also strengthens leadership, agency, and long-term resilience.
By enabling women to create and grow their own ventures, we foster lasting transformation, restoring dignity, advancing rights, and contributing to inclusive community recovery.
Our Mission
To empower women in fragile and post-conflict contexts to achieve economic independence through entrepreneurship, fostering resilience, dignity, and community transformation.
The Challenge
Women in fragile and post-conflict contexts face significant barriers to economic participation. Displacement, limited access to education, restricted financial resources, and social norms often prevent women from securing stable income opportunities.
In many recovery settings, women carry the burden of rebuilding households and communities, yet they remain excluded from economic systems and decision-making spaces. Without access to skills training, capital, and sustained support, cycles of poverty and vulnerability persist.
Economic recovery in post-conflict settings cannot succeed without the meaningful inclusion and empowerment of women.
Our Approach
SWAGWOR adopts a holistic and gender-responsive approach to economic empowerment. We recognise that rebuilding livelihoods in post-conflict settings requires more than short-term aid, it requires sustainable opportunity.
Our model combines practical entrepreneurship training, access to seed capital, and long-term mentorship to ensure women not only start businesses, but sustain and grow them.
By integrating business innovation with leadership development and peer support networks, we strengthen women’s economic resilience while reinforcing their agency, confidence, and voice within their communities.
We do not provide temporary relief, we build pathways to long-term self-reliance and community transformation.
HOW WE WORK
At SWAGWOR, we deliver impact through three integrated programme pillars designed to strengthen economic resilience and leadership in post-conflict settings.
Our Institutional Partners
