Incubator for Economic Empowerment and Solidarity - Working Together to Create a Feminist Economy

A joint project of Sister (Achoti) and Comme Il Faut, the Incubator for Economic Empowerment and Solidarity creates a link between the workers at Comme Il Faut and women on the geographic and economic periphery of Israel. This project seeks to:

  • create a community of women who live in various places in the country and belong to different economic classes
  • generate mutual learning and common action by women from different economic sectors with the goal of creating a model for feminist economic activity in Israel
  • enhance the feminist knowledge and practice of women from the business sector and later among students of management
  • empower women in Kiryat Gat and Beersheva who are involved in economic projects by providing them with theoretical and practical knowledge about business development, marketing, and sales
  • provide business consulting services to these women while they are setting up their cooperatives
  • expand participants' knowledge and raising their consciousness of issues of gender, ethnic communities, and class
  • promote direct acquaintance between the women at Comme Il Faut, the social activists of Sister (Achoti), and women who are part of the economic projects

The project involves Bedouin women from the Negev and Israeli-Arab women from the village of El-Azaria.