The College of Administration and Economics, Continuing Education Unit, in cooperation with the Department of Business Administration and the Women’s Empowerment Unit, organized a workshop entitled “Contemporary Trends of Women in Project Management”, presented by the lecturer in the Department of Business Administration, Assistant Professor Dr. Suha Gamal Mouloud, and the teacher in the Department of Accounting, teacher Nadia Shaker Hussein.
The workshop aims to identify the importance of small projects in empowering women and working to spread the culture of small projects, especially among young women and those looking for serious investment opportunities, and help them exploit their limited savings in establishing successful projects.
The workshop came out with a number of recommendations, the most important of which is to provide assistance and facilities to support the work of women to establish small projects, exert efforts and overcome all obstacles and difficulties they face, and work to spread the culture of small projects, especially among young women and those looking for serious investment opportunities, and help them exploit their limited savings in establishing successful projects and seeking by the government to promote small projects through cooperation between private, public and international institutions to provide assistance and facilities to support women’s work to establish small projects, exerting efforts to overcome all obstacles and difficulties they face, working to adopt and nurture new ideas, expanding non-traditional work patterns, supporting women, and focusing on their capabilities, paying attention to increasing the share of women in the sector of establishing and managing small projects by qualifying them professionally, providing them with the skills that qualify them to join this sector, facilitating financial assistance, granting loans, reducing the administrative procedures and licenses necessary for the establishment of the project, accompanying and supporting women entrepreneurs during all stages of establishing micro-projects from the idea of the project to the stage of completion, achieving the desired results, and developing a strategy supported by concrete measures aimed at encouraging women’s initiatives with the aim of establishing small projects.