• Foundation

Growing Businesses Foundation

The Women Empowerment Programme is a collaboration of Unilever Plc and Growing Businesses Foundation (GBF). The project is initiated and funded by Unilever Plc and implemented by GBF and its grassroots network partner and is designed towards empowering women via a product loan model.

  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature

  • Nonfinancial support delivery mechanism

    • Online / mobile
    • Peer to Peer / Network-based Support

  • Nonfinancial Support

    • Building HR capacity
    • Financial management
    • Performance management
    • Value / supply chain development
    • Sector development
    • Governance structure
    • Building M&E capacity
    • Technology development or adoption

  • Intervention Type

    • Provide nonfinancial services to entrepreneurs directly

  • Sectors of Focus

    • Logistics & distribution
    • Wholesale and retail trade

  • Stakeholder or Business Model Focus

    • Base of the pyramid
    • Social enterprise
    • Women entrepreneurs
    • Advocacy
    • Rural communities
    • Gender inclusion
    • Youth entrepreneurs
    • Minority or previously excluded population

  • Impact objectives

    • Capacity building
    • Employment generation
    • Food security and nutrition
    • Income/productivity growth
    • Equality and empowerment
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