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IFC's Gender Entrepreneurship Markets (GEM) program helps to better leverage the untapped potential of women in emerging markets, recognizing that aspiring businesswomen are often prevented from realizing their economic potential because of gender inequality. Learn More...
Women Get the Business Edge is a business skills training series designed to enhance the management performance of women-owned and managed small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Middle East and North Africa. The training series is designed to improve the performance productivity and profitability of women-owned enterprises as well as to provide women business owners and managers with the support necessary to compete in the mainstream business world. Learn More...
This project responds to the demand from development institutions and women’s organizations for more research on the importance of women’s entrepreneurship for private sector development. It aims to equip existing institutions in Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates with up-to-date research tools and networks to demonstrate the contribution of women-owned enterprises to economic growth. Implemented in partnership with the Center of Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR), the regional capacity-building initiative uses IFC GEM survey methodology to promote the ability of both businesswomen's associations and research centers to better serve the needs of women business owners, and to better advocate for their interests. Learn More...
Benefitting from both an International Finance Corporation (IFC) investment and technical assistance, the Siwa Oasis Sustainable Development Initiative is implementing a number of commercial activities aimed to help preserve the delicate environmental and cultural balance of the oasis' threatened ecosystem. The project - which enables people to create economic opportunities for themselves while restoring the physical environment - focuses on ecotourism, agriculture sectors, and women's artisanship. |
