Grants and Contributions:

P000587001: Supporting Women Micro-Entrepreneurs to Improve Women’s Economic Empowerment

5007061067 P000587001

$7,650,000.00

Jan 21, 2015 - Mar 31, 2025

P000587001: This initiative seeks to assist women micro-entrepreneurs in the food, clothing, and home-style sectors to successfully and sustainably grow their businesses. The project aims to help women entrepreneurs enhance their products and improve their productivity, marketing, and compliance with safety and business regulations and standards. It also aims to help them connect to domestic and global markets. The project works with key national government agencies, including the Department of Trade and Industry, local governments and the private sector to make business development programs and services more environmentally sustainable and responsive to the needs of women entrepreneurs. The project expects to benefit approximately 12,000 women’s micro-enterprises, out of an estimated total of 46,000 in the relevant subsectors. The project also helps the Philippine Commission on Women to implement the Magna Carta of Women, a comprehensive women's human rights law that seeks to eliminate discrimination against Filipino women, with a specific focus on women’s economic empowerment. As with all program based approaches, Canada works in close cooperation with other donors and the Government of the Philippines to strengthen its aid effectiveness, by focussing on effective, transparent, and accountable country systems; increasing donor coordination; and strengthening mutual accountability. The initiative fosters greater policy dialogue among donors, government, and private sector, thus contributing to long-term development results. This initiative is continuously monitored and evaluated in coordination with other donors through the joint government-donor Official Development Assistance - Gender and Development Network.

Global Affairs Canada

P000587001: The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: (1) improved competitiveness and sustainability of women’s micro enterprises; and (2) improved enabling environment for women’s economic empowerment.

Manila, PH

GC-2015-Q4-0059

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Government

The end date is postponed to March 31, 2025

Nov 2, 2020

Government of the Philippines - Philippines Commission on Women

International Development Assistance Program

The main purpose on the International Development Assistance Program is to reduce poverty for those living in countries where Global Affairs Canada engages in international development.