GREAT Women Project: Harnessing Bamboo Production: Development of a Business Plan for Women-Led Bamboo Production in Bula, Camarines Sur

This case study highlights the experience that the key players went through in creating the local enabling environment for women’s economic empowerment in partnership with the GREAT Women Project. The development of the Business Plan for Bamboo Production in the town of Bula serves as a stage on which a committed Local Team for Project Implementation membership, equipped with support from the LGU leadership and technical assistance from concerned government agencies, played a critical role as an effective catalyst for effecting interventions for gender-responsiveness at the local level.