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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.