STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK ON GENDER AND WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT. This strategy proposes a large number of initiatives aimed at providing various kinds of support to women‐owned businesses. These measures have an effect and influence on cooperatives development and the promotion of collective entrepreneurship. These support measures include the provision of business information to women entrepreneurs; entrepreneurial education and training; financing of women entrepreneurs; involvement of women entrepreneurs in international trade; research and statistics; science and technology for women; and support for rural women.
