The objective of the intervention is to generate meaningful, environmentally sustainable and economically stimulating self-employment for the project women living in the informal areas of Dhaka and around, who are mostly involved in informal or vulnerable activities. The intervention offers skills training in entrepreneurship development for empowerment of women and life skills, access to seed money as to startup capital and mentoring.
The "Women Skill Training and Empowerment through Entrepreneurship Development Initiatives Program" is a five-year project that aims to bridge the skill-gaps between the Project Women and Self-Employment Opportunities. It aims to facilitate to select 80 disadvantaged Women aged 25+ to start with to make informed choices, develop small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and market oriented self-employability skills, access funds, savings and enterprise development support.
This program aims to improve economic opportunities for disadvantaged women by providing market-relevant skills training, entrepreneurship training, internships, mentoring, financial education, electronic literacy, cyber security awareness, eCommerce/eMarketing etc. 1) Self-employment ability and market skills, financial and business related education and small business development training. 2) Access to internships and jobs during training, pre- and post-job placement counseling and support.
The key focus of this project is to be evident the optimum benefits (both tangible & non-tangible) of the target audiences (primary, secondary, tertiary) that would be produced by the development interventions. Here, the Intervention is meant for the women to follow T/Each - each one to teach one as a loop (multiplier effect) from 80 to 160 to 320 & so on. Net Impact is the increase in income of the Project Women with provision of 100% self-employment.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
