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1.1 Background and Introduction: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
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Article Overview: The International Labour Organization (ILO) entered into a general agreement with the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT) in 2003 to implement a Women’s Entrepreneurship Development and Gender Equality (WEDGE) Programme1 in Tanzania.
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1.1 Background and Introduction: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
The International Labour Organization (ILO) entered into a general agreement with
the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT) in 2003 to implement a Women’s
Entrepreneurship Development and Gender Equality (WEDGE) Programme1 in
Tanzania. The implementing partner is the Small and Medium Enterprise Section of MIT
(MIT-SME). The first stage was to commission research to examine the factors affecting
women entrepreneurs in the country (UDEC, 2002). This consisted of a review of the
literature to identify any aspects of the policy, regulatory and business environment that
were hampering the performance of women’s enterprises. The second stage involved a
field study of 128 women entrepreneurs from Dar es Salaam, Arusha, and Zanzibar to
probe those issues, particularly as they affect women entrepreneurs’ motivations,
economic opportunities, and passages to growth and formalization (ILO and MIT-SME
Section, 2003). Preliminary findings from this research were shared at a national
conference in November 2002, from which a set of issues and recommendations for
action emerged.
In addition to these reports, the ILO has already delivered other components of the
Tanzania-WEDGE Project:
• production of a video profiling women entrepreneurs in Tanzania;2
• a series of workshops geared to mainstream gender equality issues in the
government’s 2003 national SME Policy;3
• a two-week international capacity-building workshop on women’s entrepreneurship
development (WED) at the ILO’s Turin Centre, attended by two participants from the
WEDGE-Tanzania project (August 2003);
• a one-week training programme for members of women entrepreneurs’ associations
(WEAs) and their institutional supporters to build their capacity (June 2003), followed
by additional work with three local WEAs in September-October 2003;
• a national programme on Capacity Building on Women’s Entrepreneurship
Development (WED), organized jointly with ILO’s Turin Centre, held in Zanzibar
(October 2003); and
• support for informal economy women to participate in the national Saba Saba trade
fair, as a means of helping to improve their access to markets (transfer of the
Ethiopian experience, June-July 2003).
The ILO’s strategy is to focus next on identifying possible interventions to
accelerate the rate at which women entrepreneurs can achieve growth in their enterprises.
In November 2003, the ILO contracted international consultants to conduct a field visit
to Tanzania for the purpose of assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the enabling
environment for growth-oriented women entrepreneurs.
1.2 Mission Objectives: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
8.0 Promotion of women’s entrepreneurship: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
1.3 Methodology: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
Wanted: jobs for Africa’s youth - Broadening consultation
4.0 The state of women’s enterprises in Tanzania: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
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