strategy
Improving opportunities for women's self-employment
Context:
Women are increasingly seeking self-employment for the advantages of "being their own boss" and having job flexibility, but often as a response to the lack of job opportunities in the public and private sector resulting from recession and restructuring. Implementation:
Actions that would improve women's viable self employment are (a) enhancing and facilitating women's access to advice on how to become self-employed, and to credit; and (b) developing an infrastructure supporting the formation and activities of small and medium enterprises. Broader:
ImprovingPromoting self-employmentImproving job security for womenSupporting participation of women in work force Narrower:
Helping women in exporting Facilitates:
Alleviating female povertyOffering flexible employmentReducing amount of wasted woman powerPromoting gender-responsive developmentTraining for self-employment in the urban informal sector Facilitated by:
Promoting women entrepreneursProviding affordable loans to womenResearching women's role in the economySupporting very small scale economic activities Problems:
Wasted woman powerSubjects:
Society → WomenSocial Activity → Self employed
Development → Reform
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
