“Economic Cooperation through Women Entrepeneur within BSEC”

Gülseren Onanç

KAGİDER

Women Entrepreneur Association of Turkey

BSEC&Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

1 October 2009

Kisinev/Moldova

Concentrations

Gender perspective of BSEC Women EntrepreneurshipBSEC region as a potential marketWays of development women

entrepreneurship within BSEC

Meeting of Council of Minister

BSEC and Gender Sensitivity?

1 out of 4 “Directorial Staff” ‘s women: Ambassador Sumru Noyan, 2 of 8 “Professional Staff” are women (25%)

Is gender equality an issue or a policy?

Would Economical development / cooperation be possible without women participation?

Thanks to Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung supporting women entrepreneurship

Fever Women Entrepreneurs and wage Employed

Female-Male Participation (Worked in past 12 months) Ratio by Region

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Why Care About Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurship Contributes to economic growth Leaps in human progress Offers potential of greater wealth and upward mobility Provides an alternative to wage employment Creates jobs

Basis for sustainable economy and democracy

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Who is an entrepreneur?

Major personal characteristics of entrepreneurship: Being able to take risky decisions, Having both a creative and pushy personality Being able to predict and foresee, Realizing the things that others couldn’t have realized, Showing effective leadership and having positive courage. who not only thinks and establish blueprints but also chooses to

“act”.

Entrepeneurship is a culture that is effected by different factors

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Factors Influence to become an Entrepreneur

Education Secondary education is important for women,

positively correlated with the firm size

Networks Information, access to target group, role models

Risk perception

Rewards Autonomy, financial success, and status

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Women Entrepreneurs

Women owned firms are smaller scaled operations in terms of sales revenues generate more profit per unit of sales revenue have higher returns to scale which means that women

would gain more from increasing their firm size Active in service, food and agricultural products, clothing

sectors

This is because women are capital constrained concentrated in industries with small firm size

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BSEC :Land of Opportunity

350 million people

96 billon US $ Foreign Trade Capacity (UNDP estimation) and only half of this potential is tapped

High potential sectors: textile, clothing, food and beverages, metal products, agricultural products, beverages, paper and printer material, travel services, commercial services (consultancy, education, health care)

Development women entrepreneurship within BSEC

Black Sea Trade and Investment Promotion Program Match making events within the countries Support countries women entrepreneurship policies Utilize EBRD resources for credits to women owned

businesses Cooperatıon could be develop in the following sectors

clothing, food, agricultural products, travel services, commercial services (consultancy, education, health care)

Develop a gender action plan

Thank you….