Our entrepreneurship programmes that exist in India include:
• Industry Disruptor
• Investor Consortium
• We Empower Asia
Our entrepreneurship programmes that exist in Myanmar include:
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The Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) provide a framework for all businesses to guide their work towards gender equality – regardless of size, sector or geography. The Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) are a set of Principles offering guidance to business on how to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment in the workplace, marketplace and community.
Established by UN Global Compact and UN Women, the WEPs are informed by international labour and human rights standards and grounded in the recognition that businesses have a stake in, and a responsibility for, gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Join us and become a WEPs signatory today!
UN Women’s WE RISE Together programme tackles the structural gender inequities that exist within the global procurement market in which Women Owned Businesses (WOBs) secure only one per cent of spending worldwide. In Thailand and Vietnam, the programme empowers women entrepreneurs to strengthen their business models by enhancing their understanding of procurement processes, digital skills, and providing networking opportunities, among other areas. This initiative enables them to compete effectively in both public and private procurement markets, fostering economic growth and gender equality. UN Women plays a pivotal role in supporting these endeavours, facilitating opportunities for pitching to buyers and making women’s entrepreneurship visible in the region.
Women’s disproportionate burden of unpaid care work – four times more than men in Asia and the Pacific - is a significant barrier to their empowerment. This has been made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has reversed progress on gender equality and deepened the care economy crisis.
Care entrepreneurship can be one pathway to address gaps in the childcare sector in Asia and the Pacific. In fact, the business case for investing in affordable, accessible and quality childcare entrepreneurship solutions is pro- women, pro-children and pro-poor. Women-owned and women-benefitting entrepreneurs have been increasingly contributing to solving this issue by developing innovative, market-driven solutions to providing care.
Listen below to innovative solutions to address unpaid care work to transform the care economy from our Care Accelerator Cohort 2.0 participants!
The Care accelerator 2.0 programme provides business training, mentorship, access to networks and finance, and inclusive and gender-responsive business-building practices, with a focus on inclusive and sustainable business models in the care sector. The programme is part of GICEEP (Gender-Inclusive Care Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Program) funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Visa Foundation, and implemented in partnership with Bopinc, UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, and the Swiss Association For Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets (SAFEEM) and will be working with governments, investors, employers and other support organizations.
If you are an investor interested in gender equality or the care economy, and you want to be involved as an expert, receive startup opportunities, join workshops on funding for gender equity, or attend program events, please reach out to us.
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