Women and Youth Entrepreneurs Leading Change – OBADER (2012 – ongoing)

Awareness raising at several Communities

 OBADER 

 

Overview

OBADER aims to enhance and increase the low-income of women and male youth’s economic empowerment, enabling them to become entrepreneurs and employees in central (including Nablus) and south of the West Bank and Gaza (WBG).

OBADER is designed to strengthen the ecosystem through working to reduce gender-specific barriers (structural and social) that women and youth entrepreneurship face, enhance their agency, and to offer them business opportunities for establishing, sustaining, or growing businesses.

OBADER provides targeted support to women and youth’s start-ups and micro, small medium enterprises (MSMEs) from the traditional and non-traditional sectors, in addition to entrepreneurs who have creative business ideas. The project helps the targeted groups to grow their ideas and enterprises upon market opportunities, and then equip them to establish or build financially and environmentally sustainable, profitable, and growing enterprises.

OBADER project provides different service packages for selected women and youth’s enterprises. The services are designed and implemented by the project’s partners based on the needs’ assessment of the selected entrepreneurs. 

CCE Role

  • Raising awareness on entrepreneurship concepts among youth and women, enhancing their entrepreneurial skills.
  • Building the capacities of women and youth entrepreneurs in a wide range of areas including, but not limited to, market research, business planning, business management, financial management and access to information.
  • Improving the agency, capacities and opportunities of women and youth entrepreneurs to reach an environment that helps them build and develop their businesses.
  • Enhancing their access to financial resources.
  • Enhancing their access to relevant technical services.
  • Enhancing their access to domestic and foreign markets.

 

 

 

Know More

To apply for Obader you need to fill out our application form. You can use the online form to submit your application or get an application from one of the centers below depending on the area that you are applying from and other criteria.

Online

Youth (male and female) entrepreneurs who have established SMSEs

 

West Bank

Business Women Forum

Women and female youth entrepreneurs who have established SMSEs

Center for Continuing Education 

Youth (male and female) entrepreneurs who have established SMSEs

Center for Continuing Education 

Youth (male and female) entrepreneurs who have creative ideas to develop their family businesses

Center for Continuing Education 

Women entrepreneurs who have creative business ideas or start-ups 

Center for Continuing Education 

Youth (male and female) entrepreneurs who have creative business ideas or start-ups 

Business Women Forum

Women cooperatives that have an established businesses

 

Gaza

Small Enterprise Center

Women and female youth entrepreneurs who have established MSMEs

Save Youth Future Society 

Youth (male and female) entrepreneurs who have established MSEs

Small Enterprise Center

Women entrepreneurs who have creative business ideas or start-ups 

Save Youth Future Society

Youth (male and female) entrepreneurs who have creative business ideas or start-ups