Workshop Promoting Women’s Entrepreneurship in the MENA Region Held on 11-12 December 2006
At the OECD Istanbul Centre for Private Sector Development

Women’s entrepreneurship is an effective strategy to create jobs, catalyse economic development and diversification as well as serve to empower women and foster social cohesion.  Consequently, the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs & Local Development (CFE) is developing a two-year Pilot Project for Fostering Women’s Entrepreneurship in the MENA Region (2007-2009) to address the needs of both potential and nascent women entrepreneurs in line with the MENA-OECD Declaration and the 2004 Istanbul SME Ministerial Declaration.This CFE Pilot Project comprises a programme on Training the Trainers for Mentoring Potential and Nascent Women Entrepreneurs on how to start, manage and grow a business that would be implemented in a first group of MENA. Countries: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia.