The project includes the following components:

1.   Building capacity of key local partners to better serve to and improve enabling environment for women entrepreneurs:

a.   survey among 500 business women in 10 regions to inform about needs and barriers;

b.   Advocacy and policy recommendations to alleviate most common administrative barriers;

c.    Gender focal point training;

d.  Access to funding (work with financial intuitions);

e.   Conducting conferences on women entrepreneurship issues.

2.   Increasing women economic participation through capacity building, vocational trainings and new business start-ups:

a.   Leadership trainings;

b.   Entrepreneurial skills training;

c.    Vocational training;

d.  Mentorship;

e.   business start-ups

3.   Improving access to markets for women entrepreneurs:

a.   To improve access to useful information through cellphone applications and EDF website;

b.   Promote women networking platforms to increase women-entrepreneurs awareness on ongoing initiatives supporting women owned businesses and other topics.