"Educating a woman is educating a nation". This is the saying that affirms for NCCWEDT the necessity for empowerment of women in society through their economic development in order to fight poverty and improve the socio-economic conditions of women and youth. NCCWEDT believes that age, education and experience do not automatically prevent them from entering the economic mainstream through productive economic activities and entrepreneurship. Confidence building is an added factor in such undertaking that helps women to transcend the prevalent social barriers.

NCCWEDT sets itself as goals:

• to create and develop a culture of entrepreneurship and income generating activities among women and youth who have drooped out from school;
• To empower women through education, vocational training and gender issue awareness;
• To create a revolving loan fund for women for income generating activities;
• To improve the living conditions of the rural and urban poorest women and youth through an integrated approach;
• To provide career guidance and information on self-employment and self-reliance;
• To counsel women and families on matters relating to responsible parenthood education and family planning
• To educate and counsel women on health issues, particularly on AIDS and STD;
• To sensitize and educate women, in particular the adolescents, on issues relevant to alcohol and drug abuse;
• To carry out programs on environmental issues and protection;

From its inception, NCCWEDT has given training to women in small enterprise development. Its first unit, Small Enterprise Development Training, exists until today and has trained more than 3000 women in 12 organized urban and rural women groups. Screen Printing, Tie and Dye, Tailoring and hair Dressing units were opened. NCCWEDT developed its own modules for Entrepreneurship Development Training Programs that are now considered to be among the best in the country.

Despite the investment in the training of the women, most of them could not employ their skills due to lack of capital to go operational. Therefore, NCCWEDT added a micro-credit program through a revolving loan fund to assist women in establishing their businesses and income generating projects. Because it believes that a good business activity without savings or investment does not ensure sustainability at the grassroots level, it has also set up a savings scheme for its members to encourage them to build up a small capital to be able to expand their activities.

The NCCWEDT program has further grown out to also include a training program for field workers on entrepreneurship and on project and credit management to accompany and follow-up the women in their entrepreneurial efforts and to improve the overall success of the revolving loan funds programs. It has established a center in the English-speaking South-West Province as well as in the capital Yaoundé.

NCCWEDT provides regular hands-on training and tech-transfer on skills in sewing, fabric imprints and food processing and preservation. It also has established a much solicited computer training unit. Other activities of NCCWEDT include a walk-in and more intensive one-on-one business counseling in its center as well as during workshops, seminars and awareness programs. NCCWEDT has just recently started demonstration farms for kitchen garden projects. Following request from women's groups it is looking to replicate and expand its programs to other parts of Cameroon

NCCWEDT is further involved in policy advocacy for women entrepreneurs. Research studies on issues related to women entrepreneurship development, market surveys and feasibility studies play an important role in the further development of the program. In the future NCCWEDT hopes to organize programs for its staff and clients on micro-business financing, training of trainers for women economic empowerment, training of trainers for gender and development, and on women as agents in the process of democratization in Cameroon.

NCCWEDT founder and President, Mrs. Cecilia Fomenky, was from 2001-1004 the President of RELUFA's Board of Directors.