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Enterprising Women: A Decade of Learning from Ethiopia’s Women Entrepreneurship Development Project (WEDP)

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dc.contributor.authorBuehren, Niklas
dc.contributor.authorPapineni, Sreelakshmi
dc.contributor.authorRawlins, Marlon
dc.contributor.authorWeis, Toni
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-03T21:02:22Z
dc.date.available2024-04-03T21:02:22Z
dc.date.issued2024-04-03
dc.description.abstractBeginning in 2012, Ethiopia’s first ever women-entrepreneur focused line of credit was established through the Women Entrepreneurship Development Project (WEDP). WEDP provides finance and business training for growth-oriented urban women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia with an aim to boost business earnings and employment. Over the ten years since inception, WEDP has expanded to operate across 18 Ethiopian cities, registering 60,000 women entrepreneurs into the program. As of February 2024, WEDP has provided more than 25,000 loans, and business training to over 30,000 women entrepreneurs. WEDP has also contributed to a wealth of learning and innovation, including research in partnership with the World Bank’s Gender Innovation Lab (GIL), and the Innovations in Financing Women Entrepreneurs (IFWE) project supported by Global Affairs Canada (GAC). In this brief the authors highlight key results from impact evaluations that were embedded into the WEDP operation and provide details of some of the innovations being tested.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099708303282436503/IDU1ed1a11fc19c0c1436218fbf133d01afd26cd
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/41365
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/41365
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subjectGENDER AND BUSINESS
dc.subjectENTREPRENEURSHIP
dc.subjectWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
dc.subjectGENDER EQUALITY
dc.subjectSDG 5
dc.subjectAFRICA GENDER POLICY
dc.subjectGENDER INNOVATION LAB
dc.subjectWOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
dc.titleEnterprising Womenen
dc.title.subtitleA Decade of Learning from Ethiopia’s Women Entrepreneurship Development Project (WEDP)en
dc.typeBrief
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.crossref.titleEnterprising Women: A Decade of Learning from Ethiopia’s Women Entrepreneurship Development Project (WEDP)
okr.date.disclosure2024-04-03
okr.date.lastmodified2024-03-28T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypeBrief
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099708303282436503/IDU1ed1a11fc19c0c1436218fbf133d01afd26cd
okr.guid099708303282436503
okr.identifier.docmidIDU-ed1a11fc-9c0c-4362-8fbf-33d01afd26cd
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/41365
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34289577
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum34289577
okr.identifier.report188714
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okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099708303282436503/pdf/IDU1ed1a11fc19c0c1436218fbf133d01afd26cd.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeEASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA
okr.region.administrativeEASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA
okr.region.countryEthiopia
okr.topicGender::Gender and Development
okr.topicGender::Gender and Economics
okr.unitEFI-AFR1-FCI-Finance-1 (EAEF1)
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