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Gender Programme IPA 2010

Support to Women’s Entrepreneurship

Sub Regional Workshop on Employment and Social Inclusion 16. – 17. April 2015. Skopje, Macedonia

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GENDER PROGRAMME

FIELDS OF WORK

• Violence in family and violence against women

• Political Empowerment of Women

• Women’s Entrepreneurship

Partners • EU Delegation to Montenegro

• Department for Gender Equality, Ministry of Human and Minority Rights

• Parliamentarian Committee for Gender Equality

• CSOs, Local Authorities

Resources and time-

lines

• 2010 – 2014

• Budget 778,000.00 Euro

Gender Programme Women’s Entrepreneurship

CONTEXT

Some groups of

society are

3-4 TIMES POORER

than averageOnly 4 % of

real estates

and 8% of

flats owners

are women

9,6 % of ENTREPRENEURS

are women

18% of women

in the Parliament

17 financial institutions

present but with

unfavorable conditions

for entrepreneurship

42% of women and 27%

of men is IT illiterate

Home-budget and women:

40% freely manages

35% limited access

26% has no access to

money

16.4%

UNEMPLOYMEN

T RATENorth: 39.3%

‘importing labour from

the region

POVERTY RATE

TRENDS

2010 - 6.6 %

2011 - 9.3%

2012 -

11.3% 2013 -

8.6%

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Gender Programme Women’s Entrepreneurship

• Study on women's entrepreneurial potential in Montenegro • Assessment of finance institutions policies • NGOs, business associations & experts • Local campaign and follow up assessment

of women’s entrepreneurial ideas, capacities, educational needs • Tailored trainings for women • Business plans development ,

municipality support and networking

APPROACH

• Local level - awareness raising and education on women's entrepreneurship potential in 4 pilot municipalities

• Field work –motivational campaign with CSOs and local community to mobilize participants, potential women entrepreneurs (168 participants involved)

• Capacity building –the ideas & needs assessments findings followed up with tailored programs (138 women took active part in educational packages)

• Business Plans – In total 60 women developed business plan were 54 business plans + 6 start-ups predominantly in services, tourism, production (food and souvenirs)

• Local Support Plans for Women's Business Plans – local authorities commited to support 54 women's business plans

• Networking – with other women entrepreneurs, business associations, development agencies resulted with financial support to 34 businesses plans

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Piloting the multi institutional approach

Women entrepreneurs in action

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Open Women's Entrepreneurship Day

Portal of Women Entrepreneurs

www.zenski-biznis.com

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Ownership of national and local stakeholders and CSOs

Synergy with other activities on women’s empowerment in the country

Evidence based advocacy work for gender aware policy design

Capacity development from individual to institutional bases, creating demand

Addressing and including most disadvantaged groups of women

Enable information and knowledge exchange at all levels

Policy impact – new credit lines for women introduced by the State Investment Development Fund

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Gender Programme Women’s Entrepreneurship

PRINCIPLES

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