“Economic Cooperation through Women Entrepeneur within BSEC”
Gülseren Onanç
KAGİDER
Women Entrepreneur Association of Turkey
BSEC&Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
1 October 2009
Kisinev/Moldova
Concentrations
Gender perspective of BSEC Women EntrepreneurshipBSEC region as a potential marketWays of development women
entrepreneurship within BSEC
Meeting of Council of Minister
BSEC and Gender Sensitivity?
1 out of 4 “Directorial Staff” ‘s women: Ambassador Sumru Noyan, 2 of 8 “Professional Staff” are women (25%)
Is gender equality an issue or a policy?
Would Economical development / cooperation be possible without women participation?
Thanks to Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung supporting women entrepreneurship
Fever Women Entrepreneurs and wage Employed
Female-Male Participation (Worked in past 12 months) Ratio by Region
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Wage employment Self employment
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Why Care About Entrepreneurship?
Entrepreneurship Contributes to economic growth Leaps in human progress Offers potential of greater wealth and upward mobility Provides an alternative to wage employment Creates jobs
Basis for sustainable economy and democracy
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Who is an entrepreneur?
Major personal characteristics of entrepreneurship: Being able to take risky decisions, Having both a creative and pushy personality Being able to predict and foresee, Realizing the things that others couldn’t have realized, Showing effective leadership and having positive courage. who not only thinks and establish blueprints but also chooses to
“act”.
Entrepeneurship is a culture that is effected by different factors
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Factors Influence to become an Entrepreneur
Education Secondary education is important for women,
positively correlated with the firm size
Networks Information, access to target group, role models
Risk perception
Rewards Autonomy, financial success, and status
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Women Entrepreneurs
Women owned firms are smaller scaled operations in terms of sales revenues generate more profit per unit of sales revenue have higher returns to scale which means that women
would gain more from increasing their firm size Active in service, food and agricultural products, clothing
sectors
This is because women are capital constrained concentrated in industries with small firm size
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BSEC :Land of Opportunity
350 million people
96 billon US $ Foreign Trade Capacity (UNDP estimation) and only half of this potential is tapped
High potential sectors: textile, clothing, food and beverages, metal products, agricultural products, beverages, paper and printer material, travel services, commercial services (consultancy, education, health care)
Development women entrepreneurship within BSEC
Black Sea Trade and Investment Promotion Program Match making events within the countries Support countries women entrepreneurship policies Utilize EBRD resources for credits to women owned
businesses Cooperatıon could be develop in the following sectors
clothing, food, agricultural products, travel services, commercial services (consultancy, education, health care)
Develop a gender action plan
Thank you….
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