EU-INDIA NETWORK OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

Sustainable development and women's empowerment are globally important issues today. Entrepreneurship is a major factor in empowering women. Sustainable and environment sound business practices are being widely adopted in the developed world today. Non-tariff barriers for products from other countries that do not adopt environmentally sound practices are a major factor limiting their access to global markets, there is need for knowledge dissemination acquisition on sustainable business practices.

ALEAP has been awarded a grant under the EU-India Small projects Facility partnership with an international training and capacity building organization InWEnt of Koln, Germany. This project entitled EU-India Network of Women Entrepreneurs (EINWE) started on 22nd of December 2004.

The EINWE initiative – a strategic alliance of ALEAP and InWEnt provides training for women entrepreneurs in Andhra Pradesh. Focusing on the Food-Processing and garments sectors the project will answer the question on how to produce globally competitive products in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner and will facilitate the networking with European Organizations.