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REPORTS 116
EDII

Women Entrepreneurs Access

Connect Transform

...PROJECT WeAct

Women Entrepreneurs - Access Connect Transform
(WeAct) is a forum for women entrepreneurs of rural
regions to provide them with handholding
assistance so that they do protable and
sustainable businesses. EDII has partnered with
Accenture to implement the WeAct forum, which
supports nano and micro women entrepreneurs by
providing a platform for them to network and
represent their products, allowing them to gain
entrepreneurial knowledge & technological know-
how, and undertake product improvement. WeAct
is a one stop platform for rural women entrepreneurs
who wish to improve their businesses. The project
rests on the pillars of market exposure, product The Emporium was inaugurated on 4th December,
creation, networking, and incubation and 2021 by (in the centre) the Hon’ble Union Minister,
mentorship. MSME, Shri Narayan Tatu Rane. Also present at the
inauguration were (3rd from L) Dr. Milind Kamble,
In a signicant move, an Emporium has been set up Founder Chairman, DICCI & esteemed EDII board
at EDII Ahmedabad campus under WeAct Project to member; (L to R) Dr. Sunil Shukla, Director General -
display the products of women as members under E D I I ; D r. R a m a n G u j r a l , D i r e c t o r - P r o j e c t
the Project. This Emporium shall give a wider (Corporates); and other eminent policy makers,
entrepreneurs, artisans and academicians.
visibility and enhance the scope of market linkages
for the enterprises nurtured under We Act. The
Emporium is also serving as a convergence platform for women enterprises from different
projects like Handmade in India, Accenture MSDP and HCL Sattva.

EDII & Rajasthan Patrika Collaborate to Bring
about Focused Development
EDII and Rajasthan Patrika have entered into a collaboration
to jointly organize Entrepreneurship Development
Programmes for emerging women entrepreneurs. Against
the backdrop that entrepreneurship is the need-of-the-hour,
especially among the women community, the two
organizations have joined hands to institute meaningful,
outcome-based programmes and bring the results and
interventions before the society at large to earn a winning
response for the development tool of entrepreneurship. It
is heartening to note that while the registrations are still
continuing, 400 women entrepreneurs have already enrolled.

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