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Building Women and Girls' Resilience in Business
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[POSTER] The Poster will explain the innovative strategies employed for empowering women and girls' resilience in becoming champions in the business world. It will demonstrate how grassroot women and girls, trough community engagement and clusters of self-help groups reach the markets as entrepreneurs through various avenues. These include the home business, village market, local market and the international market through engaging the tourism industry and online platforms. The poster will demonstrate how the Women's Development Centre (WDC), provides a range of comprehensive trainings, including appropriate support structures for women and girls who are from the most disadvantaged and marginalized communities. It will showcase how the operations are initiated at the grassroot (Self-Help) Groups, which becomes the savings and credit community groups; engage in developing their livelihood and vocational skills; entrepreneurship skills development; small business management and digital marketing; branding and linkages to microfinancing. This learning and sharing in local communities contribute to sustainable learnings, for communities to increase the socio-economic standards of women and girls and the community groups. In conclusion the poster will showcase how WDC, though its "Sthree" Social enterprise, comprising of a handicraft shop and café, vocational training unit and online market platform provide women and girls and persons with disabilities an opportunity to generate income through eco-friendly livelihoods, locally resourced materials; enhance their individual business skills through coaching to scale up their business ventures.
PCF11 Sub-Theme: Sustaining Communities of Learning and Practice in Innovative Open Education
Paper ID: 6507
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Sri Lanka
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Asia
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2025-09
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Commonwealth of Learning (COL)