
Women Empowerment through Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship provides the best way to be economic empowerment. And the best part about being an entrepreneur is the flexibility to work and operate a business at your convenience. In fact, with the ever growing tech start-up market across the world, there are even more resources available for entrepreneurs and alike, making it easier and faster to launch a business.
Our Focus for Economic Empowerment and Entrepreneurship
Successfully starting a business helps women become self-sufficient, and provides more flexibility for their families. For economic empowerment of women, AWEC activities are tailored so as to:
economic independence
Promote women’s economic independence, including employment, and eradicate the persistent and increasing burden of poverty on women
Ensure Gender Equality
Ensure women’s equal access to economic resources, including land, credit science and technology, vocational training, information, communication and markets,
Gender Sensitive Programmes
Develop gender-sensitive multi-sectoral programmes and strategies to end social subordination of women and girls and to ensure their social and economic empowerment and equality
1. Women Access to Economic Resources
Ensure women’s equal access to economic resources, including land, credit science and technology, vocational training, information, communication and markets, as a means to further the advancement and empowerment of women and girls, including through the enhancement of their capacities to enjoy the benefits of equal access to these resources, inter alia, by means of international cooperation .
2. Women Economic Independence
Promote women’s economic independence, including employment, and eradicate the persistent and increasing burden of poverty on women by addressing the structural causes of poverty through changes in economic structures, ensuring equal access for all women, including those in rural areas, as vital development agents, to productive resources, opportunities and public services