Departments
Economy Engagement / Initiatives
Women Entrepreneurship
Women entrepreneurship is one of the core areas where EDII has intervened successfully to bring women to the forefront of the economic world. EDII designs tailor-made courses in women entrepreneurship development and skill building so that women are able to overcome their inhibitions and hurdles that so typically bother them. EDII contributed to entrepreneurship development of women from across the world through
- New Enterprise Creation programmes: These skill development and technical training programmes ensured presence of trained women entrepreneurs in emerging sectors. These programmes helped women identify their strengths, hone their skills, align it with their identified business opportunity, and float a sustainable business enterprise.
- Programmes to create cadre of Women Entrepreneur Trainer-Motivators & Business Counsellors: The Institute not just creates women entrepreneurs but also conducts training programmes for putting in place cadres of women entrepreneur trainer-motivators who take up the task of giving wings to the women entrepreneurship development movement. The Institute has conducted several such capacity-building programmes in the African and the Asia-Pacific region with resounding success.
- Performance Improvement Programmes (PIPs): The success of an enterprise depends on its viability, project planning, implementation and management. Realizing that presence of soft skills in an entrepreneur can help achieve these, PIPs were offered to impart soft skills to existing women entrepreneurs.
Some major initiatives in the domain of Women Entrepreneurship include:
-Skill Development Programmes for Women Entrepreneur Trainer–Motivators & Business Counsellors
Funded by: Commonwealth Secretariat, London (Under financial assistance from Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation). | Activities undertaken with an objective of developing a cadre of hard core professionals who will work for the promotion of economic activities among women in the Asia Pacific Region. These capacity building programmes were organized to increase the supply of competent women entrepreneurs in all strata of society in the Asia Pacific Region and to encourage the consolidation and growth of existing small enterprises by way of providing effective business counselling services by trained professionals. |
-International 3-tier training programmes for women Funded by: UNIDO | With a view to optimize utilization of human resources and to promote entrepreneurship among women entrepreneurs, training programmes were conducted for the participants of developing countries. |
Core Activities
Women Entrepreneurship
Women entrepreneurship is one of the core areas where EDII has intervened successfully to bring women to the forefront of the economic world.
Support System Sensitization
The Support System in every country comprises several layers, and one dysfunctional tier could leave a damaging impact on the results.
Programmes for Existing Entrepreneurs
The vision for economic development for many countries is ensconced in improving the overall entrepreneurial climate for New Enterprise Creation and enhance performance of existing ones.
Institution Building for Strengthening Entrepreneurship
EDII has come forward in a big way to provide technical assistance to developing nations under the aegis of the Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India.
Capacity Building Programmes
In order to meet specific needs of developing countries, the Institute has been designated as a Nodal Agency of Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
Investment Promotion and Entrepreneurship
EDII undertook projects to accelerate growth through Investment Promotion & Entrepreneurship under the aegis of Inter-Regional Centre for Entrepreneurship and Investment Training sponsored by UNIDO and Govt. of India.
Cluster Development
Cluster Development is one of EDII’s niche areas. The Institute is engaged in revitalization of industrial and artisanal clusters.
Mainstreaming Social Entrepreneurship Education project
Social Entrepreneurship in India remains on the periphery of entrepreneurial landscape.
Designing and Offering Business Courses in various languages
EDII offerd a helping hand in improving bilateral ties with developing countries by designing and imparting courses in Business Hindi at both certificate and advanced levels.
Research and Dissemination through Seminars and Workshops
Conducted a 3-day dissemination seminar on ED related activities in Nigeria under the aegis of Nigeria Bank of Commerce & Industry (NBCI), where over 80 participants including senior officers, policy-makers and executives from Federal Government participated.
Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Programme (ITEC)
Conducted a 3-day dissemination seminar on ED related activities in Nigeria under the aegis of Nigeria Bank of Commerce & Industry (NBCI), where over 80 participants including senior officers, policy-makers and executives from Federal Government participated.
Entrepreneurship Education
Entrepreneurship can get a boost only when people at large start thinking, innovating, harnessing resources and thus get involved in the process of ‘creation’.
