Women Entrepreneurship Development Program

The WEDP (Women Entrepreneurship Development Program), which started in 1997, aims at building the competency among rural disadvantaged women in starting and managing their own small business to earn additional income. In cooperation with GIZ, Dhaka TARANGO developed an Entrepreneurship Development Program for semi & non-literate is based on the CEFE (Competency Based Economies Through Formation of Enterprises) approach and is highly adapted and tailored to the Bangladesh environment.

TARANGO’s main social development programs are:

     - Women’s entrepreneurship development

     - Village savings and loan associations

     - Savings, micro-credit and income generation activity development

     - Project design and participatory research

     - Gender training for families

     - Human rights promotion

     - Leadership training

     - Awareness raising covering the negative impact of discrimination and violence against women, dowry, environmental degradation and deforestation etc.