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Links to Other Enablers



Connecting the global sisterhood

As a service to the women’s business community, Womenable is pleased to provide these links to organizations around the world that also work to enable women’s entrepreneurship. They are organized alphabetically within these major categories (click on each one to scroll down to that part of the list):
You may scroll down to the list below, or click on the category name above to go to that particular segment of the list. Happy surfing!


Financial Institutions/Development Banks

African Development Bank (Int'l)

Asian Development Bank/Gender & Development (Int'l)

Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence (US)

East African Development Bank (Int'l)

Inter-American Development Bank/Gender Equality in Development (Int'l)

Inter-American Development Bank/Social Inclusion & Equality (Int'l)


Governmental Organizations

Invest Northern Ireland-Female Entrepreneurs (UK)

National Council for Women (Egypt)

National Women's Business Council (US)

National Women's Enterprise Task Force (UK)

PhilGAD Portal: National Commission on the Status of Filipino Women (See especially their GREAT Women project) (Philippines)

UK Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform: Women's Enterprise (UK)

US Small Business Administration: Women's Enterprise (US)


Multi-Lateral Organizations

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation: Gender Focal Point Network

Commonwealth Secretariat/Gender

Donor Committee for Enterprise Development, Women's Enterprise Development page

European Commission: Women's Enterprise Activities

European Commission: Women's Entrepreneurship Portal

International Finance Corporation/Women in Business program

International Labour Organization - Women's Entrepreneurship Development

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development: Gender at the OECD Development Centre

Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development: LEED Program

United Nations Development Fund for Women

UN Development Program: Gender Issues

UN Millennium Development Goals

UN - WomenWatch (Interagency Network on Women and Gender Equality)

World Bank/Doing Business web site

World Bank/Gender & Development


Non-Governmental Organizations

Alberta Women Entrepreneurs (Canada)

Association of Women's Business Centers (US)

Association for Women's Rights in Development (Int'l)

CARE (Int'l)

The Council of Women World Leaders (Int'l)

Global Fund for Women (Int'l)

Make Mine a $Million Business (US)

PARO Centre for Women's Enterprise (Canada)

PROWESS - Promoting Women's Enterprise Support (UK)

Regional Women's Enterprise Unit (UK)

Quantum Leaps (Int'l)

Vital Voices (Int'l)

Women for Women International (Int'l)

Women in Rural Enterprise (UK)

Women's Business Development Agency (UK) See also My Chemist for a special entrepreneurial education game the WBDA has developed for schoolchildren.

Women's Enterprise Centre of Manitoba (Canada)

Women Thrive Worldwide (formerly Women's Edge) (Int'l)


Research/Education Centers

CAWTAR-Center of Arab Women for Training and Research (Int'l)

Center for Women's Business Research (US)

The Center for Women's Leadership at Babson College (US)

The Diana Project (US)

FIELD: Microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination (US)

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (Int'l)

International Center for Research on Women (Int'l)

National Policy Centre for Women's Enterprise (UK)

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): Gender and Institutions Development Database (Int'l)

Siyanda: Online database of gender and development information (Int'l)

UN WomenWatch: Statistics and Indicators (Int'l)

US Census Bureau-Economic Surveys (US)

US Census Bureau-2002 Survey of Business Owners (including women) (US)

Wellesley Centers for Women (US)

WIEGO - Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (Int'l)

Women Business Development Center(Egypt)

World Bank: GenderStats (Int'l)


Women's Business Blogs/Online Communities

Babson College: Women's Leadership Blog (US)

Blogher (Int'l)

DivineCaroline (US)

EveryWoman (UK)

herBusiness blog (Australia)

Sylvia Ann Hewlett: HBR leadership blog (US)

International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship RSS newsfeed (Int'l)

New Deal 2.0: Feminomics blog (Int'l)

On the Ground: Nicholas Kristof blog (Int'l)

20-First: Avivah's blog (Int'l)

UN Gender Equality News Feed (Int'l)

Vital Voices blog (Int'l)

Wiki Gender (Int'l)

Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global blog (Int'l)

The Womenabler Blog (US/Int'l)

Women's Leadership Exchange blog (USl)

Women's Media Center: Majority Post blog (Int'l)

Women Unlimited (UK)


Women's Business Networks

Accelerating Women's Enterprise (UK)

Athena International (Int'l)

Coalition of Women's Business Associations (Romania)

Commonwealth Business Women's Network (Int'l)

Global Summit of Women (Int’l)

Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network (Int'l)

The International Alliance for Women (Int'l)

Les Femmes Chefs d’Entreprises Mondiales (Int'l)

Make Mine a Million $ Business (US)

Network of Entrepreneurial Women WorldWide (Int'l)

Women Entrepreneurs, Inc. (US)

Women Impacting Public Policy (US)


Women's News Media

Enterprising Women magazine (US)

Entrepreneur magazine: WomenEntrepreneur page (US)

Forbes magazine: ForbesWoman page (Int'l, but US-centric)

Global Media Monitoring Project (Int'l)

International Women's Media Foundation (Int'l)

IPS GenderWire (Int'l)

Minorities and Women in Business magazine (US)

Pink magazine (US)

Women Make News (Int'l)

Women News Network (Int'l)

Women's E-News (Int'l)

The Women's International Perspective (Int'l)

Women's Post (Canada)

World Pulse (Int'l)


Women in Corporations

Aurora: Where to Work (UK)

Catalyst (Int'l but US-centric)

London Business School: Centre for Women in Business (Int'l)

News on Women (Blog, US-centric)

20-First (formerly Women-omics) (Int'l)


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Last Updated: April 19, 2010