Women MPs meet to plot business strategy
From left: Susan Chebet (Elgeyo Marakwet), Rose Rwamba (Embu ) and Alice Nyanchoka (Nyamira) follow proceedings during a breakfast meeting of women parliamentarians at KICC, Nairobi July 25, 2013. ANN KAMONI
Women MPs are meeting in Nairobi to push for their involvement in business.
The legislators want to use Parliament to advocate women entrepreneurship.
The breakfast meeting at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairobi organisers say will look at the "active role Kenya Women Parliamentarians can play all the way to the grassroots to encourage economic empowerment through entrepreneurship for women".
"The meeting will also look at county level entrepreneurship programmes that can be adapted by women countrywide - creating job opportunities, sustainable livelihoods, poverty eradication and innovations,” a statement from the organisers said.
The meeting will be addressed by among others, Grace Ngugi who is President of Eastern Africa Network for Gender and Enterprise Development Trust.
According to the Small and Medium Entrepreneurial Resource Centre women form the cornerstone to any successful society and that supporting them has enabled the uplifting of their communities, creating sustainable livelihoods, job creations and accessibility to basic necessities for their families.
The centre is involved in entrepreneurship development and promotion countrywide.
The centre has looked at available resources and capacity of women to create economic empowerment per county that will avail job opportunities, more entrepreneurs, markets for the available resources and full utilisation of women in business.
