February 19, 2022
Speaker Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA), Sharingain Longkumer, Friday said that the state government was focussing on the empowerment of women entrepreneurs so that the socio-economic development of Nagaland could improve.
The Speaker said this while addressing the evidence-based policy consultation on enabling women entrepreneurship—a multi-stakeholder conclave—organized by the Investment and Development Authority of Nagaland (IDAN) on at Capital Convention Centre, Kohima on Friday.
According to a DIPR, IDAN is partnering with Deutsche Gesellschaftfiir Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), a German development agency, project Her & Now and Dhriiti -The Courage Within, to promote women entrepreneurship in Nagaland. The objective of the conclave was to create a policy brief/policy whitepaper on the women entrepreneurship ecosystem of Nagaland through a stakeholder consultation process.
The NLA speaker invited the Women Entrepreneurs Association to send a delegate to attend the upcoming Budget Session in March 2022 to view the deliberations that take place in the highest policy-making institution in the State.
In February 2019, NLA speaker said the state government announced its new start-up policy, under which the state government was allocating 25% fund for women entrepreneurs and plans to facilitate 500 start-ups in five years, through Start-up Nagaland, a nodal department under the department of industries & commerce.
Stressing the need for the policy consultation to also focus on rural women entrepreneurs so they were benefitted, the NLA speaker said unless women entrepreneurs suggested policy requirements, the government would not know which were the sectors to focus on.
Longkumer expressed hope that through this conclave right questions and suggestions will be put across so that thoughts become policies, and policies become acts. He said this will eventually help to build the socio-economic development of the State through women entrepreneurship and empowerment. Delivering the keynote address, IDAN’s CEO Alemtemshi Jamir expressed hope that the conclave would be the beginning of conversations for women entrepreneurs and remove the prevalent conditioning and ecosystem that were not supportive of women entrepreneurship in the State.
CEO called on the women entrepreneurs to not only focus on profit, but also base their model focussing on people, compassion, collaboration instead of competition, which he said could be their unique selling point. Asserting that policies have to be the collective effort of the people, Jamir said the suggestions, through the Conclave, will impact the government policies. He also encouraged the women to build on their strengths such as their unique culture and natural resources.
Founder, Dhriiti, Anirban Gupta, and Ullas Marar from GIZ addressed the Conclave, while presentations were given by various entrepreneurship support organizations.
Government policymakers and implementing departments, women entrepreneurs, financial institution/ funding organisations also took part in the Conclave. A roundtable discussion session (virtual format) was held on February 3 & 4 with all stakeholder groups separately.
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