Slum Women Empowerment / micro business development

This program focuses on empowerment of marginalized women in urban slums by provision of non-financial business development support services designed to facilitate the expansion of local women-led micro-entrepreneurship. A combination of skills, needed to grow a business is provided. These skills include:
• Financial literacy (how to manage money and the use of financial services, such as savings and credit, basic financial management),
• Behavioral and life skills (creativity, innovation, communication, goal setting and achievement, decision making, risk taking etc.), and
• Business skills (market research, budgeting, networking etc.)