Our partner: Women in Business Development Incorporated (WIBDI)
Women in Business Development Incorporated (WIBDI) was the first non-governmental organisation of its kind in Samoa.
WIBDI ensure that rural families and communities are actively engage in developing local and national economies through the niche market opportunities of organics and fair-trade and that structures are put in place to provide ongoing support to them through this process.
- Headquarters: Apia
- Founding date: 1991
- Website: www.womeninbusiness.ws
- Support from Oxfam: Since 2001
- Mission: To provide and empower members with knowledge and skills, opportunities, access to finance and markets.
WIBDI's key programmes include:
- Microfinance and small business training
- Skills training, for example, handicraft, printing
- Fine mat weaving and sponsorship programme
- Organic certification of farms to international standards
- Virgin coconut oil (VCO) production
- Fairtrade labelling
- Niche market linkages for VCO, bananas coffee, vanilla
- Disaster mitigation
- Regional outreach throughout the Pacific region
- Facilitating export to international markets
WIBDI in action:
- Trading coconuts: Transforming coconuts into a viable income with help from the Body Shop
- Women in Business: Mat weaving and microfinance funds communities
- Voices from Samoa: WIBDI's impact on the lives of two Samoans
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