Anglican Overseas Aid's Livelihoods and Women's Empowerment Project supports small-scale livelihoods projects which are initiated, planned and managed by community groups in the most remote areas of Northern Vanuatu. This aims to bring income to isolated communities that otherwise can struggle to make a living.

Participants take part in a course called Statem Bisnis Blong Yu (Starting your own business) run by the local Chamber of Commerce. The training is delivered in the local language, Bislama, with Bislama resources for the people to take home with them. Participants learn about how other businesses operate in and around the capital of Vanuatu, Port Vila. In addition, they learn about marketing to both local and tourist markets to apply lessons in their own communities on the islands of Gaua, Pentecost and Maewo.

This year the project is supporting a small group of women in food processing techniques to prepare cassava and coconut for market. The women have bought packaging for their oil and they have great ideas on how and where to sell their products when they return to their communities. One woman owns a shop, another will utilise a cooperative, and another will discuss her products with the popular shop in the local town and try to sell there. The coconut oil they produce uses a different machine to others and utilises a method which is more pure than other approaches. This means the oil is of particularly high quality, which should set it apart from other available products.

Anglican Overseas Aid is supported by the Australian Government through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP).