SCW hosts a workshop for participants of TAWSEEL

Supreme Council for Women also organized a training course on entrepreneurship in cooperation with (UNIDO) for the beneficiaries of the second patch of the transportation project “TAWSEEL” at the council’s headquarters, where the investment counsellor at the (UNIDO), Afif Barhoomi lectured them.

The project aims at increasing women’s contribution in the national economy, and attracting them to manage private enterprises, reducing women unemployment, empowering women to manage small and medium enterprises and integrating them in the national economy.

The project also aims at finding new areas for the work of women in the free labour market, in addition to resolving the problems of women job seekers.

The beneficiaries from the project were granted a support of 50% of the cost of the vehicle with a maximum of BD5000 by Tamkeen, in addition to the costs of registration and insurance for the first year, and funding 50% of the cost of the vehicle with low profits rate and easy installments by Ebdaa Bank.

It is known that the General Secretariat of the Supreme Council for Women has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with (UNIDO) to train the beneficiaries from the programme and project of women economic empowerment on entrepreneurship dated March 11th 2012.

In accordance with this memorandum, a number of courses and workshops have been implemented including: a workshop of entrepreneurship of beneficiaries from the project of designing fashion in 2011, a workshop of entrepreneurship for beneficiaries from the photography project in 2012, and the workshop of entrepreneurship of beneficiaries form the project of media industry and communication in 2012.

There was also another workshop of entrepreneurship of beneficiaries from the project of transportation (first group – second phase) in February 2013.

It is worth mentioning that the Supreme Council for Women in implementation of the national plan for the strategy of elevating Bahraini Women has launched a pack of rehabilitation and training programmes for a number of projects.

Those programmes are socially accepted aiming at providing women with the required technologies and skills to be able to establish and manage small enterprises in the area of entrepreneurship for a number of suitable professions due to the privacy of the Bahraini women, and in contribution to alleviate the rate of unemployed women, and increase their contribution in the national economy.