Enabling environment for women entrepreneurship

The ILO is supporting constituents and other national and development actors to identify strengths and bottlenecks in environments/ecosystems impacting a country or sector’s potential for women’s entrepreneurship development.

By identifying conditions requiring specific attention, stakeholders such as governments, social partners, women’s entrepreneurship associations, and private and public financial and business development service providers, and development actors, are better able to design, advocate for and implement policies and programmes in favour of women as entrepreneurs and business owners.

The ILO promotes and oversees two evidence-based methodologies for analysis, advocacy and action:

• At the national level, the Assessment of Framework Conditions for Women’s Entrepreneurship Development offers an assessment tool to gather and assess a comprehensive body of information and identify targeted measures to improve the ecosystem for women’s entrepreneurship development.
• At the sectoral or value chain level, an Inclusive Market Systems and Gender-Sensitive Value Chain Analysis and Development approach offers insights into key root causes impacting the full participation of women entrepreneurs along value chains and sectors and supports in identifying systemic solutions.