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NEPAL / WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
STORY: NEPAL / WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
TRT: 02:16
SOURCE: ILO
RESTRICTIONS: EMBARGOED UNTIL 02:00 GMT WEDNESDAY, 08 MARCH, 2017
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: RECENT - KATHMANDU, NEPAL / GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
RECENT - KATHMANDU, NEPAL
1. Wide shot, workers making felt items
2. Med shot, Sunita showing worker how to make felt item
3. Close up, workers making felt items
4. Various shots, Sunita arranging items in her shop
5. Various shots, worker making felt items
6. Tilt up, Sunita showing worker how to make felt item
7. Various shots, felt items
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Sunita Shrestha, Business Owner:
“I didn’t know how to run my factory, the management and everything, how to pull profit, how to put the costing, pricing. Everything of that I learned from their training.”
9. Tilt down, FWEAN poster
10. Various shots, products on shelves
11. Various shots, meeting of FWEAN participants
12. Darshana Shrestra, Secretary, Federation of Women Entrepreneurs Association of Nepal (FWEAN):
“They have become part of FWEAN and they have grown their businesses. Some of them have got the entrepreneurship development fund from the Government that is provided to the women entrepreneurs.”
13. Wide shot, women inspecting cloth
14. Med shot, bees
15. Close up, honey jars on shelf
16. Tilt down, beekeeping poster
17. Wide shot, woman arranging honey jars on shelf
18. Wide shot, woman using microscope
RECENT - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Maybud, Senior Gender Specialist, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“The success of women entrepreneurs goes beyond just creating their own businesses and providing jobs for others. They gain confidence during the process. They learn how to compete. They engage with society and their communities, and they find their own voice.”
RECENT - KATHMANDU, NEPAL
20. Various shots, FWEAN Exhibition of products
Women entrepreneurs in Nepal are helping each other succeed by sharing business practices which not only build security and provide for their families but also change long-held perceptions about gender and the role of women in society.
Sunita Shrestha is a successful businesswoman in the Nepali capital Kathmandu. Her small business creates felt handicrafts and employs over 30 people, all but two of whom are women. Despite being able to successfully start a business, Sunita always found it difficult to market her products.
The Federation of Women Entrepreneurs Association of Nepal (FWEAN) was able to give Sunita the skills she needed to take her business to the next level through a training programme supported by the Japanese Government and the International Labour Organization (ILO). Sunita said she has been engaged with FWEAN for some three years now.
SOUNDBITE (English) Sunita Shrestha, Business Owner:
“I didn’t know how to run my factory, the management and everything, how to pull profit, how to put the costing, pricing. Everything of that I learned from their training.”
FWEAN has trained 350 women like Sunita across Nepal in business skills. FWEAN Secretary Darshana Shrestra runs a soap manufacturing business. She explained how the Federation has helped.
Darshana Shrestra, Secretary, Federation of Women Entrepreneurs Association of Nepal (FWEAN):
“They have become part of FWEAN and they have grown their businesses. Some of them have got the entrepreneurship development fund from the Government that is provided to the women entrepreneurs.”
A new ILO-Gallup survey of 150,000 men and women in over 140 countries shows that worldwide, the majority of women, some 70 percent, would prefer to be working and 66 percent of men wanted the same for the women in their families. The survey also showed that 30 percent of working women in Nepal were the main providers of income for their families and another 20 percent were significant providers of income.
SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Maybud, Senior Gender Specialist, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“The success of women entrepreneurs goes beyond just creating their own businesses and providing jobs for others. They gain confidence during the process. They learn how to compete. They engage with society and their communities, and they find their own voice.”
FWEAN organized exhibitions around Nepal, running a campaign to register new businesses and inspiring women to find out more about the opportunities available to them. The ILO said FWEAN not only gives Nepali entrepreneurs better business skills, it promotes the idea that women can run a successful business which changes women's attitudes about what they could achieve.
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