FIWE’s EDC is offering entrepreneurship education, training programs, workshops, and mentoring to new and existing women entrepreneurs who want to start, run and grow their businesses by providing support through:
- Entrepreneurship Awareness Program (EAP):
- Is a program where FIWE informs its clientele of what services it offers and entrepreneurs entrepreneurship.
- Discussion on business ideas, schemes, and incentives offered by different agencies.
- Conducted often in interior rural areas to reach out to a larger number of women.
- Entrepreneurship Development Programs (EDP): FIWE conducts general entrepreneurship Development programs normally after awareness programs or at periodic intervals FIWE has trained thousands of women covering various states of India.
- Unique training module development and practice by FIWE.
- Capacity building and preparation of clients for business development.
- Includes sessions on empowerment, business, exposure visits, and interaction with successful entrepreneurs, Government Officials, and support agencies.
- Provides networking with support agencies and provision of escort services to clients.
- Follow-up programs for EDP participants.
- Skill Development Program (SDP): We also conduct Skill Development programs in specific sectors like leather craft, woodwork, matting, basket weaving, grass mat, pottery, packaging, handicrafts, photo framing, Barcoding, Hand Made Paper, and Eco-Friendly products, etc. for EDP beneficiaries and other counsels.
- Financial Assistance Program (FAD): FIWE will Provide financial assistance as a credit reference agency for the members who are seeking micro-credit or loans for their enterprises through various government schemes, Banks, or Financial Institutions.
- Management Development Program (MDP): this is an integral part of FIWE’s activities. The objective of MDP is to enhance entrepreneurship skills and technology upgradation to support the growth of their business enterprise.
- Member Service Program (MSP): FIWE has 15000 individual members and 28 state Associates membership base who are practicing entrepreneurship. The membership committee supports the needs of these members.
- Support in Marketing and Networking:
- Periodical exhibitions, Seminars, conferences, and workshops at a subsidized cost for its members, organized at strategic locations.
- Facilitates’ joint participation in important national and international trade fairs, product courts, and buyer-seller meets, and creates linkages with prospective buyers.
