KUALA LUMPUR: The Girls in Commerce and Trade (Witi) programme, an initiative below the Funding, Commerce and Trade Ministry (Miti), will be sure that ladies entrepreneurs usually are not left behind in Asean’s financial progress.
Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz stated Witi, a collaboration between the ministry and the Malaysian Girls’s and Household Affairs Organisation (Hawa Malaysia), goals to boost the capability and capabilities of girls within the industrial and export sectors.
“This initiative is consistent with what the ministry wish to do as Asean chairman subsequent 12 months to make sure ladies’s involvement within the economic system on the Asean stage,“ he informed reporters after Miti and its businesses’ month-to-month meeting and the launch of the Witi Council right here right now.
The implementation of this programme aligns with the Madani Coverage and the Nationwide Girls’s Coverage in guaranteeing that Malaysian ladies have equal alternatives and capacities to advance within the international economic system.
The Witi programme will likely be carried out nationwide in partnership with Hawa Malaysia, established in March 2023. Via numerous programmes and initiatives, Hawa Malaysia seeks to deal with the obstacles and challenges confronted by ladies within the financial sector.
The strategic collaboration between Miti and Hawa Malaysia goals to function a platform for ladies entrepreneurs to interact within the commerce and industrial sectors, enhancing their information and capability, to assist nationwide financial growth.
Miti will conduct the Witi programme by offering coaching and assist to ladies fascinated with venturing into commerce and business. TThe initiative is open to numerous teams of girls, together with entrepreneurs, startup house owners, small and medium enterprise operators, youth, and the B40 and M40 teams.
Tengku Zafrul stated ladies’s empowerment is essential to reaching dynamic and inclusive financial progress.
“One of many missions below the New Industrial Grasp Plan 2030 is to make sure financial safety and inclusivity that encompasses ladies’s empowerment. Thus, capability constructing for ladies within the commerce and industrial sectors by means of the Witi programme not solely helps ladies attain their potential but additionally drives the nationwide economic system to larger heights.”
The programme will even contain collaboration with lending businesses and grant suppliers to assist ladies entrepreneurs safe the monetary sources they want.
By exposing members to firm formation, monetary administration, enterprise methods, and cultivating firm tradition, the programme goals to equip them with the information and abilities to achieve commerce and business.
Tengku Zafrul stated Miti is dedicated to repeatedly supporting and empowering Malaysian ladies of their efforts to contribute to financial sustainability. “With the implementation of this Witi programme, Miti is assured that Malaysian ladies will drive the worldwide economic system and obtain even larger success.”