Assessing the Framework Conditions for Women's Entrepreneurship Development (WED)

Results and implications Examples of the returns of undertaking past WED assessments have been the development of national action plans for WED in Senegal and Mali; the use of the findings as an input to the Women's Economic Empowerment Strategy within the Department of Trade and Industry in So...

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Published inICSB World Conference Proceedings p. 1
Main Authors St-Onge, Annette, Stevenson, Lois, Simpson, Joni
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington International Council for Small Business (ICSB) 01.01.2014
Subjects
Developing countries
Economic growth
Empowerment
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Gender
LDCs
Researchers
Small & medium sized enterprises-SME
Women
Women owned businesses
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Summary:Results and implications Examples of the returns of undertaking past WED assessments have been the development of national action plans for WED in Senegal and Mali; the use of the findings as an input to the Women's Economic Empowerment Strategy within the Department of Trade and Industry in South Africa; improvements in the quality of dialogue between partners and responsible ministries; and the use of the findings by women entrepreneurs' associations to formulate policy messages and advocate for their needs in policy-making venues and with employers' organisations. [...]performing national WED assessments has significant potential to influence more favourable policies and support programmes for women entrepreneurs/ womenowned businesses, on a more gender equitable basis.