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11.1 Recommended actions – business support and information: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
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11.1 Recommended actions – business support and information: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
i) Establish a coordinating office for BDS and outreach services for women-owned
MSEs.
It is recommended that a coordinating office be established to facilitate access to
BDS for women entrepreneurs. This could take the form of a network of women’s
enterprise centres in various regions across the country, or the appointment of a dedicated
women’s officer in SIDOs. The role of this office/officer would be to streamline needsbased
services to women entrepreneurs, with the specific objective of upgrading the level
of their enterprises by improving their access to BDS.
Outreach services would be provided to make women more aware of existing laws,
regulations, BDS, financing options, marketing information, training opportunities and
WEA services (e.g., through a series of regional seminars).
The office would also offer gender-mainstreaming sessions to the BDS network to
ensure more effective servicing of the women’s market.
(ii) Disseminate business information through women entrepreneurs’ associations.
Women entrepreneurs’ associations should be supported in their efforts to
disseminate marketing and other business information through their membership
networks; these associations should be expanded to improve such access.
(iii) Train technical college and university gradates to become BDS providers in the
women’s market.
To increase women’s access to BDS, a programme should be implemented to
increase the supply of qualified BDS providers. One way of doing this would be to
design a training/education component in MSE counselling/consultancy so as to prepare
technical college and university graduates for careers as BDS advisers. A contingent of
these graduates should be focused on the women’s market. The training programme
should be augmented with internships in MFIs, BDS providers, regional agencies, etc.
Discussions should be undertaken with UDEC (among others) to design and deliver
such a programme in concert with the University of Dar es Salaam and other educational
institutions in the country.
(iv) Explore the BDS facilitators’ pilot programme being implemented by the Amhara
Women Entrepreneurs’ Association (see Ethiopia country report).
To assist women-owned MSEs to identify weaknesses and growth opportunities in
their businesses, women facilitators should be trained to provide one-on-one, group and
sectoral business development interventions at the local level.
A good practice approach is the one being supported by the ILO’s WEDGEEthiopia
programme, in cooperation with MoTI-WAD and the Amhara Women
Entrepreneurs’ Association in Bahir Dar.
1.2 Mission Objectives: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
1.3 Methodology: 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
14.2 Recommended actions – women entrepreneurs’ associations: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
8.1 Recommended actions – promotion: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
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