Aligned to the vision of Nari Shakti, as explicitly enunciated by our Hon’ble Prime Minister, the need to bridge the gaps in access to market, finance and skilling and reskilling opportunities for women and address gender-based constraints is crucial for advancing women’s labour force participation, enabling them to set up sustainable enterprises, and improving their contribution to the national GDP. With several efforts made to advance women’s entrepreneurship in recent years, this is perhaps a good time to engage in conversations to collectively work to support and strengthen ongoing efforts to integrate more women into the mainstream economic landscape for fostering inclusive and equitable growth.

The one-day conference will bring together a cross-section of stakeholders to exchange ideas, insights, and experiences on women’s economic empowerment. It will provide a platform for enabling dialogue and learning from innovative policy and practice in the region by delving into the unique challenges faced by women in setting up and scaling enterprises and highlighting successful strategies employed to overcome these obstacles. The objective is to collaborate with the key stakeholders in the ecosystem to prioritize actions and recommend strategies that will help push the envelope for a more comprehensive, scalable, and sustainable response to promoting and scaling of women owned and run enterprises.