About NCBWESC

Women empowerment is a key to economic turnaround since women participation in economic activities are considered must to achieve the targets set for progress and prosperity particularly in South Asia where women accounts for more than half of the total population. The purpose of empowerment of women in South Asia is to bring them into mainstream of development to the journey of progress and prosperity. They should be encouraged to come forward and play their part in socio-economic development.

The women entrepreneurs in develop countries are reaching out to customers and building their businesses in ways they could not do before through mobile phones, electronic platforms and networks, radio, TV, blogs and the Internet. Training in the use of information technology is essential and a key step in taking advantage of emerging economic opportunities. Stronger cooperation between the businesswomen in the South Asian region is compulsory to increase their trade, and avail the equal opportunities and resources to cope with poverty and hunger in the region.

Under this scenario PASTIC carrying out a Project titled “Networking and Capacity Building of Women Entrepreneurs (SMEs) from SAARC Countries being funded by SSAARC Development Fund. All the SAARC member countries are the beneficiaries of this project. The main activities being carried out under the project include a) development of SAARC Women SMEs Web Portal by PASTIC, b) development of database of more than 1600 SAARC Women SMEs (from all the 8 countries) and c) Portal Awareness and ICT Capacity Building Workshop for 850 SAARC Women SMEs (two workshops in each country).