Enabling, transformative policy and legal environment

The ILO‘s Women’s Entrepreneurship Development programme (ILO-WED) is centred around three foundational pillars to ensure interventions comprehensively tackle structural barriers that hinder women from starting, formalizing, growing and sustaining their businesses while also improving working conditions.

For women entrepreneurs to thrive, policies and laws at the national and sectoral level must be designed and operationalized to ensure a conducive environment in which women entrepreneurs can actively and equally engage. ILO-WED provides technical assistance to its constituents, advancing transformative and WED-supportive policies and legal frameworks. The programme also advocates for stronger representation of women entrepreneurs in decision-making spaces, ensuring their voices shape the policies that directly impact them.