Location: Asia → Cambodia

Grant Amount: $50,000

Grantee Website: www.nominetwork.org/

Mission of Nomi Network
Nomi Network is part of the global effort to end human trafficking in our lifetime. Its vision is a world where every woman and girl can know her full potential. Its mission is to end human trafficking by creating pathways to safe employment, empowering women and girls to break cycles of exploitation in their families and communities.

Summary
This grant will enable Nomi Network Cambodia to strengthen and expand the Workforce Development Program for economically marginalized women in Banteay Meanchey and Thboung Khmum, provinces with high rates of labor and sex trafficking driven by poverty, limited education, and gender inequality. Funding will provide life skills, job-readiness, and entrepreneurship training; connect women to safe employment; and support small-business start-ups. The grant will cover salaries for trainers and program staff, stipends for participants, incubator grants, and operational costs that support community leadership development. It will also fund a comprehensive program evaluation to measure outcomes, inform adaptations, and enhance the delivery of effective, locally relevant anti-trafficking solutions.

Overall, the project aims to reduce vulnerability to trafficking and re-trafficking by expanding safe, sustainable income pathways and helping women build right-fit economic security, social capital, and safer futures for themselves and their families.

The following are the expected impacts of this grant:

Direct: 500
Indirect: 1,000


Why We Love This
This project tackles one of the root causes of human trafficking — economic vulnerability — with a proven, trauma-informed approach that centers women’s dignity, agency, and long-term stability. Through the Workforce Development Program, economically marginalized women in high-risk trafficking regions gain life skills, job readiness, entrepreneurship training, and access to safe, sustainable income opportunities. This project goes beyond short-term relief by building economic security, leadership, and social capital, while strengthening community-driven solutions to exploitation. By investing in both direct services and rigorous program evaluation, this initiative not only protects women from trafficking and re-trafficking but also generates learning that can improve anti-trafficking efforts across the region — creating safer futures for women, their families, and their communities.