This report highlights key trends, challenges, and opportunities for advancing women’s entrepreneurship and increasing their access to finance. Due to their high growth potential, women-owned SMEs in developing countries are of particular interest. The report therefore focuses on the presence of women-owned SMEs in developing countries across different types of enterprises, and the ability of these business owners to access finance to grow their businesses; identifies financial and non-financial institutions with scalable approaches to increase access to finance for women entrepreneurs in developing countries; pinpoints specific knowledge gaps for which further research is recommended; and, provides policy recommendations on expanding access to finance for women entrepreneurs.
Strengthening Access to Finance for Women-Owned SMEs in Developing Countries
Comments
Dear Agnes,
My name is Pat Brown, President & Chairman of Eco-friendly Jobs Employment and Training we have a Training program that we believe will be of benefit to the Outreach Partners in Development! We have Green Training Courses sessions will begin on June 26th, to will teach the students, Healthy Learning = Health Living Techniques
How to make Green 4 Green, Green Jobs, & Green Businesses.
Please feel free to contact me @ ecojobsinfo@yahoo.com
Best Regards,
Pat Brown, President & Chairman
E-JET, Inc
Dear, Which type of professional material you required? is it related to capacity building?. please clear it that i can arrange it accordingly. Fayyaz
I am the CEO of an apex microfinance micro credit company (MCC) in Kyrgyzstan. We are starting a project (Sezim) together with a German foundation to bring disadvataged women from a women´s house into business - rendering professional training and giving micro loans.
Does anybody have some professional training material. Does anybody know how we could get affordable refinance for this project?
Thank you very much for your reply.








Outreach Partners in Development (OPID) is a Community based, non-profit organzation based in the Gambia. As Managing Director I would like guidance and support to get access training facilitors in SME. OPID hopes to conduct training and capacity building programme for SME targeting young unemployed low skilled women and men in urban areas of the Gambia to become fully trained to access funding and technical support to start vable business ventures, create better job propects and become economically empowered. OPID is also seeking funding oppurtunities and grant to help this target beneficiaries redecive funds -micro-finance laons to start their own busness and work in green jobs, agribusiness, value added food processing, textiles designs and crafts in fact to help young women and men be in export oreinted SME. Any assistance or guidance. Thank you. Anticipating your kind response.