Organizations

Organizations

Women's Entrepreneurship Development - International Labour Organization

Women's Entrepreneurship Development - International Labour Organization

The ILO’s Women’s Entrepreneurship Development programme (ILO-WED) works on enhancing economic opportunities for women by carrying out affirmative actions in support of women starting, formalizing and growing their enterprises, and by mainstreaming gender equality issues into private sector work. The ILO-WED approach is threefold, working with governments, employers' organizations, trade unions, and local community-based organizations to: create an enabling environment for WED that generates quality jobs; build institutional capacity in WED; and development of tools and support services for women entrepreneurs. This integrated approach to promoting WED on Macro, meso and micro levels works both through targeted approaches and gender mainstreaming, with a clear objective to contribute towards job creation and women's economic empowerment. The ILO-WED programme has developed an extensive WED toolkit and accredits national and international trainers.