Publication: Growing Women-led Enterprises in the Mekong : Testing a Methodology for Accelerating Growth
Date
2014
ISSN
Published
2014
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
According to a recent global
entrepreneurship monitor, 48 percent of entrepreneurs
globally are women. Growth-oriented women entrepreneurs face
challenges such as lack of access to support services and
relevant knowledge as well as regulatory and legal barriers.
Recognizing the barriers that often prevent women from
growing their businesses, infoDev embarked on a small pilot
project designed to test a new methodology for increasing
the capacity, confidence, and networks of growth-oriented
women leading small businesses. The objective was to test
whether this methodology will indeed lead to business
expansion. infoDevapos;s pilot - the Mekong womenapos;s
entrepreneurship challenge (MWEC) - set out to test a
methodology based primarily on structured facilitation of
peer-to-peer learning among growth-oriented women
entrepreneurs. This report discusses the design, outcomes,
and lessons of MWEC in further detail and provides a few
preliminary recommendations for the design of future
programs targeting the growth of women-owned enterprises.
Citation
“World Bank. 2014. Growing Women-led Enterprises in the Mekong : Testing a Methodology for Accelerating Growth. © Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21076 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”