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GREAT Women in the Philippines
According to the Global Economic Monitor, women in the Philippines are the second most entrepreneurially active in 42 countries surveyed, and are instrumental in creating new businesses.
The GREAT Women project, which began in 2006 as an extension of the original partnership between CIDA and PCW, helps women start businesses and obtain better-paying jobs.
"With the GREAT Women Project's training, my colleagues at WEDA and I learned about business. Before, we really did not know much about handling a business. We learned how to develop products for business and our livelihood grew. We were able to help out our partners and our families. That's why our members now have better lives."
Pura Caramat,
Chairperson of Women Entrepreneurs
for Development and Advancement (WEDA) Association
The goal is to create laws, programs and services that will support women in microenterprises.
By 2010, more than 1,300 staff with national government agencies had increased their knowledge of women's economic empowerment concepts. National economic development policies are increasingly incorporating local experiences, models, and lessons learned in women's economic empowerment. There is also more coordination between non-governmental associations and local government units on gender-responsive economic policies, programs and services.
At the local level, planning and policymaking incorporates gender analysis, baseline and sex disaggregated data from different municipal departments and barangays; stronger legislation has been passed and adopted within local government units; women micro-entrepreneurs have better access to government services and have strengthened their business skills.
The GREAT Women project is part of CIDA's strategy to support sustainable economic growth in the Philippines and help poor women entrepreneurs develop business skills, increase productivity and improve access to financing and markets.
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Investing in women's economic leadership for tomorrow
CIDA and Women's Economic Empowerment: Emmeline Verzosa, Executive Director, Philippine Commission on Women, Manila, Philippines
Emmeline Verzosa from Manila, Philippines
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