Promoting Women’s Entrepreneurship Development and Gender Equality (WEDGE)
Contributes to the creation of greater opportunities for low-income women and their families to secure decent employment and income through women’s enterprise development.
Partners: Vietnam Women Entrepreneur Council under Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Target Beneficiaries: Women and men entrepreneurs, especially women managing micro- and household businesses.
Regional Focus: National level in two target provinces which include Phu Tho and Quang Nam.
Objective
To contribute to the creation of greater opportunities for low-income women and their families to secure decent employment and income through women’s enterprise development.
Activities
- Build capacity on gender mainstreaming for officials of relevant government agencies and other partners involved in women’s entrepreneurship development at national level and provincial level in the selected provinces;
- Build capacity of BDS providers to improve their services delivery to women entrepreneurs; and
- Provide suitable business training and after training services to women entrepreneurs.
Project outcomes
- Improved enabling environment for women entrepreneurs;
- Improved capacity of business development service providers to deliver services to women entrepreneurs; and
- Improved capacity of business development service providers to deliver services to women entrepreneurs.
For further information please contact:
Mr Nguyen Thai Minh
National Project Coodinator
Tel: +84 4 38489314
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