African Aurora, a non-governmental organisation engaged in building the capacity of women entrepreneurs, is training 20 Women Entrepreneurs Associations (WEA) to be self- employed.
The aim of African Aurora is to train three million small-scale entrepreneurs with skills in wealth creation.
This was announced by the National Programme Co-ordinator of African Aurora, Ms Maureen Erekua Odoi, at a capacity building workshop for 30 women entrepreneurs associations in Accra.
Some of the associations which attended the workshop included Path Finder Women Entrepreneurs Association, Christian Mothers Association, Development Action Association and Leading Ladies Network.
Ms Odoi said the participants were executives of women entrepreneurs associations who had been equipped with knowledge in the formation, management and sustenance of their enterprises.
The workshop had also assisted them to improve their organisational, technical and financial capabilities to operate new and existing associations.
The women entrepreneurs had learnt to advocate and lobby for policies and decisions that concerned women entrepreneurs in the country.
She said the workshop, which attracted eight national WEAs throughout the country, had equipped the participants to reach out to more women entrepreneurs.
Mrs Celena Green, Programme Officer of Africa for Vital Voice Global Partnership, said her outfit was collaborating with Africa Businesswomen Network (ABWN) to upgrade the capacity of women associations, as well as improve economic prosperity.
She announced that a unit of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) had developed eight training curricula and tools to support various aspects of women entrepreneurial development, and that the WEA capacity building was one such tool.
Mrs Green said Vital Voices and African Aurora were privileged to share these tools with women entrepreneurs in the country and was looking forward to working a lot more with ILO and ExxonMobil Foundation to raise the standard of living, especially of women who were the engine of growth of the African economy.
