WEFNET
Women Engendering the Finance Network (WEFneT)
Basic information
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Brief description of the consultancy firmThe WEFneT project is based on Women's Resource Centres as an instrument for local development with a gender perspective. The main objective of the project is to achieve local development through an increased participation of women in economic, political and social life - both in quantity and in quality. The Women's Resource Centres are a co-ordination service of territorial actions and actors engaged in improving women's skills and access to financial means to set up their own businesses. They also offer counselling services and territorial sensitisation. WEFneT transnational cooperation is particularly focused on: - Enlargement of the Women's Resource Centre Network in the CADSES area in order to intensify the co-operation between business and social infrastructure for regional innovation, - Identification of a common model to favour access to loans for female entrepreneurs in co-operation with the regional governments, financial institutions, public and private organisations, - Set-up and management of an e-community in the territorial area involved in the project for female entrepreneurs, women's associations and all those structures that promote the woman's role in the local development process. Also to train and assist about 200 local administrators in developing new competencies for local development with a gender approach.
- Planned start of the project 01.01.2004 Expected end of project 31.12.2006
- Duration 35 (Month(s) )
Budget
- Program Total Budget 2854470 Project EU-Funding 1275366 Percent: 45
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