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WeLead (Leading Women Entrepreneurship for Accelerating Development) project has been launched to support entrepreneur women who are working in Turkey, for them to adapt faster to the changing and digitalized world regardless of sector, scale and region in 2021 by Turkish Enterprise and Business Confederation (TÜRKONFED) as implementing partner with the support of Türkiye İş Bankası with the partnership of The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UNWomen).

With the research report prepared within the scope of the project, the current situation of entrepreneur women working in different regions of Turkey, areas and kinds of their needs have been determined. The training modules developed for the needs identified as a result of the report will be made available online through the "WeLead Training Portal" established within the scope of the project, and face-to-face trainings will be held in the designated regions. The training contents are built on two pillars: awareness of gender equality and developing technical capacity. Technical contents include subjects such as digitalization, budget management, supply chain management which are determined as a result of needs analysis. “Gender Responsive Procurement” subject, which was developed with the technical support of UN Women, is also among the training modules.

Within the scope of the Women’s Power in Entrepreneurship Project, 50 entrepreneur women participating in the trainings will be provided mentoring / coaching support for 3 months by successful women in their sector and experts in their fields. In addition, unsecured and zero-interest loan support for a total of 3 million TL, with a maximum of 100 thousand TL, will be given to entrepreneur women who have established their business and wish to expand it while determining a new roadmap for their businesses to flourish. Entrepreneur women who participate in the Project and are successful will be able to benefit from this award of unsecured and zero interest loan support, which will be provided by the Applied Value Group (AVG) as the guarantor and the financing will be undertaken by Türkiye İş Bankası. In addition to the loan, 10 entrepreneur women who successfully completed this process will be provided with business development support by Türkiye İş Bankası, while 3 entrepreneur women will be awarded a visit to the USA Silicon Valley.

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