Women's Entrepreneurship

Boosting women’s entrepreneurship has the potential to grow economies and simultaneously enhance levels of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment – essential for sustainable economic development and poverty alleviation. 

But business environment constraints and social norms in the enabling environment, can impact the size, scale and productivity of women’s businesses, their level of formality and the sectors that they operate in.

We support our partners to understand the constraints for women’s entrepreneurship, such as in access to finance, and in business registration process, in specific sectors and markets and develop strategies and recommendations for policymakers, corporates, development agencies and financial institutions to address these constraints and leverage the opportunities.