Why Entrepreneurship for Development?

•  There is currently no UN resolution recognizing that entrepreneurship is a major tool for reducing poverty, improving poverty, improving social conditions and confronting environmental challenges.
• Entrepreneurship empowers people. It generates solutions and helps communities to overcome old problems with new ways of thinking.
•  Entrepreneurship dives economic development - creating jobs, invigorating markets and expanding opportunities for women and youth.
• Entrepreneurship development is a powerful engine that can propel the global agenda forward.

How can we promote entrepreneurship?

The resolution on Entrepreneurship for Development has two dimensions:

•  It emphasizes the importance of creating a system that encourages and nurtures entrepreneurship;
• It focuses on the importance of strengthening entrepreneurial skills in people through education and training with a particular emphasis on women and youth.

The resolution highlights the importance of:

• Improving regulatory environments and public policies;
• Removing bureaucratic obstacles to business;
• Facilitating access to financial services;
• Ensuring that all stakeholders work together to promote entrepreneurship;
• Fostering democratic institutions, transparency and accountability;
• Increasing access to entrepreneurship education for all people with a focus on women and girls;
• Teaching entrepreneurship through capacity-building, training programs and business incubators
• Cultivating entrepreneurial networks