Women
Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) provides an ecosystem for budding &
existing women entrepreneurs across the country by providing different
support services like Incubation, training, marketing, mentorship, etc.
NITI
Aayog has launched a Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) for
providing an ecosystem for budding & existing women entrepreneurs
across the country. SIDBI has partnered with NITI Aayog to assist in
this initiative.
As an enabling platform, WEP is built on three pillars- Iccha Shakti, Gyaan Shakti & Karma Shakti
Iccha Shakti represents motivating aspiring entrepreneurs to start their business
Gyaan Shakti represents providing knowledge and ecosystem support to women entrepreneurs to help them foster entrepreneurship
Karma Shakti represents providing hands-on support to entrepreneurs in setting-up and scaling up businesses
In
addition to providing services such as free credit ratings, mentorship,
funding support to women entrepreneurs, apprenticeship and corporate
partnerships; WEP will encourage entrepreneurs to share their
entrepreneurial journeys, stories & experiences to nurture mutual
learning.
WEP
platform, as a driver of change, will also promote offline initiatives
and outreach programmes to promote entrepreneurial spirit among
potential women entrepreneurs, in collaboration with partner
organizations.
Also,
WEP offers incubation and acceleration support to women founded /
co-founded startups through its various partners who handhold women
entrepreneurs registered with WEP and provide them necessary support to
help them start and scale-up.
Women
Entrepreneurs who are at ideation stage, have just started off with
thieir startups or are an established startup can register under the
scheme to take the benefit.
Corporates,
NGOs, research organisations, Incubator, Accelerator, etc. who can
provide support in any form to the the women entrepreneurs.
For more details, please visit: https://wep.gov.in/
Applicants
can register via their Google or Facebook Id or by filling the online
application form available under the register tab at:
https://wep.gov.in/