OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan supports development of women managers, building their professional managerial and entrepreneurship capacities
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan organized a three-week training course from 10 to 29 June 2019 in Tashkent, targeting some 200 junior and mid-level female managers from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
The participants included members of the Uzbekistan Business Women Association, representing various sectors of the economy, such as textile industry, food processing, tourism and other services across the country, as well as 12 guest women entrepreneurs from Kazakhstan.
Faculty members of the Westminster International University in Tashkent gave lectures on business management and business idea generation, fundamental marketing concepts and marketing strategies, and financial management. The course also included a train-the-trainer component, in which the participants learned how to pass on the knowledge gained to others.
Women managers training courses, organized by the Project Co-ordinator since 2017, build a network among women and enterprises in the OSCE region. They enable them to generate, design and implement strategic plans aimed at increasing the efficiency of production; improve brand management, generate sales, optimize production processes and motivate staff, creating more jobs in rural areas.
The Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, John MacGregor, opening the panel on 24 June, underlined the importance of Uzbekistan’s 2017 – 2021 Action Strategy priorities to improve the economic activity of women, create jobs, and strengthen their managerial roles.
“This training course for female entrepreneurs is built on the success of similar courses held in 2017 and I offer my congratulations and thanks to our partners for this - the Business Women Association and the Westminster International University in Tashkent,” said MacGregor.
MacGregor highlighted the recent election of Tanzila Narbayeva as Chairperson of the upper chamber of Oliy Majlis: “The election of Narbayeva shows commitment to promoting equal opportunities for women in the economic sphere,” he said.
The training course is organized under the extra-budgetary project “Support to managerial capacity building of female managers” funded by Germany, Norway and the Netherlands.