Forum held on women’s entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainable development

A forum titled “Women’s Entrepreneurship: Opportunities, Innovation and Sustainable Development” was held in Dushanbe as part of the business forum “Tajikistan, Forward!”.

Sulton Rahimzoda, head of Tajikistan’s State Committee on Investments and State Property Management, said that the number of active women entrepreneurs in the country has reached 110000 and now accounts for 28 percent of business entities.

The forum reviewed state policy and support for women’s entrepreneurship in the regions, vocational training, job creation through women’s entrepreneurship, the role of the banking system in expanding women’s access to financial services, digitalisation, e-commerce, and increasing women’s role in industry and production.