Financial and Business Capability Building

Entrepreneurial mindset and capacity building among women and youth, awareness creation and knowledge building on financial & digital literacy, enterprise development and business management training to existing & potential entrepreneurs, skill development training, new enterprise setup, market linkage support, establishment of community-operated group enterprise units, gender sensitisation sessions to increase

Entrepreneurship for Enablement (SEE) Project is a new initiative of ACCESS, supported by Amazon to promote livelihood and entrepreneurship by building knowledge of 30,000 youth and women and supporting setting and setting up of 2,100 enterprises (new and existing) through capacity building and by linking them to backward and forward steps of the value chain over a period of three years across three States including Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. The project is proposed to cover 10,000 youth and women from poor and low-income backgrounds in three cohorts over a period of three years to support existing nano-businesses or self-employment opportunities as well as promote new nano-entrepreneurial ventures using the innovative standard Buddhi Money enterprise training pedagogy of ACCESS. The specific objectives of the project are to – Enable entrepreneurial mindset and capacity among youth and women through awareness creation and financial inclusion; Organize potential women/youth entrepreneurs into informal/formal cohorts for capacity building and peer learning; and Empower the community of women/ youth to negotiate in the marketplace, to effectively access resources, markets and capital and markets, as also entitlements.