Moldovan PM urges women to open businesses
09:13 | 18.11.2014 Category: Official
Chisinau, 18 November /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Iurie Leanca attended an event dedicated to the Women in Business Programme of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), financially supported by the Swedish government, the government's communication and media relations department has reported.
In just three years, the programme provided assistance to about 90 Moldovan enterprises, owned or led by women, as well as to companies with most women employed. The Women in Business initiative focused on the development of the women entrepreneurship, through various consulting services. Thus, women were helped to launch and develop their own businesses and capacities to manage companies. The Swedish government contributed with over 1 million euros to the project's implementation.
Leanca stressed that the role of woman in society was a basic one and was confident that the women's experience contributed to improve the living standards in Moldova. „Usually, there where women are managers, we find a larger openness towards everything that means innovations, critical analysis of the situation and interest to go faster, in order to overcome current problems. Thus, we are set to increase women's chances to participate in decision-making and not only to execute them,” Leanca said.
Iurie Leanca thanked partners who, via this initiative, had enhanced the capacities of businesswomen, as well as of the companies open by women in Moldova. „I urge Moldovan women to use to maximum all possibilities of this kind, including the dialogue platforms with the government, such as: the Economic Council to the Prime Minister. And I call on the foreign partners to continue to back such initiatives,” Leanca said.
For her part, Head of the EBRD Office Chisinau Julia Otto highlighted that the Women in Business programme had recorded progress, including due to support provided by the Moldovan government. Julia Otto confirmed that EBRD would continue to foster the role of businesswoman in the Moldovan economy.
The companies supported within the above-mentioned programme have extended their activities and increased their productivity, benefited from consulting services, in order to rise up their market quota, improve the quality management system and operational and financial management. Also within the programme, EBRD organised training on launch of business and develop leading capacities, and launched a mentoring programme, due to which Moldovan young and ambitious businesswomen were able to benefit from knowledge and advices on behalf of business ladies with greater experience from other countries.
EBRD is the biggest institutional investor from Moldova, which has invested 900 million euros in over 100 projects so far.
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