{"id":28900,"date":"2018-10-24T15:34:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T10:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28900"},"modified":"2018-10-24T15:34:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T10:04:59","slug":"un-india-business-forum-niti-aayog-form-consortium-to-help-women-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/un-india-business-forum-niti-aayog-form-consortium-to-help-women-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"UN India business forum, NITI Aayog form consortium to help women entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/Economy\/un-india-business-forum-niti-aayog-form-consortium-to-help-women-entrepreneurs\/article24106267.ece\">UN India business forum, NITI Aayog form consortium to help women entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Women entrepreneurs, startups<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The<strong> UN India Business Forum <\/strong>and the <strong>Women Entrepreneurial Platform of NITI<\/strong> Aayog recently formed a consortium to <strong>reduce gender disparities in start-up investments.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Consortium will bring together key ecosystem stakeholders, including venture capitalists and impact investors, international donar and funding agencies, private sector partners and state government.<\/li>\n<li>Objectives:<\/li>\n<li>Reducing gender disparity in start-ups, expediting market linkages.<\/li>\n<li>Gender disparities can be achieved by providing mentorship and networking opportunities and accelerating financial and market linkages for women entrepreneurs.<\/li>\n<li>Strengthen women\u2019s entrepreneurship by creating an enabling ecosystem for investments.<\/li>\n<li>Women entrepreneurs will be indentified through key partners, including WEP, UN Women and UNDP.<\/li>\n<li>The consortium secretariat will then connect entrepreneurs, according to their requests, with relevant members.<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Sustainable development:<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Sustainable development has the potential to open up markets worth $12 trillion around the world by 2030.<\/li>\n<li>It is estimated that up <strong>to $5 trillion<\/strong> is needed in a year to <strong>implement UN\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) worldwide.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Return on investments on implementing the SDGs could be about $30 billion a year.<\/li>\n<li>The UN India Business Forum, an alliance of India\u2019s businesses, financial institutions, the government and the UN, aims to accelerate India\u2019s rapid growth and achieve the SDGs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN India business forum, NITI Aayog form consortium to help women entrepreneurs Women entrepreneurs, startups News: The UN India Business Forum and the Women Entrepreneurial Platform of NITI Aayog recently formed a consortium to reduce gender disparities in start-up investments. Important facts: The Consortium will bring together key ecosystem stakeholders, including venture capitalists and impact&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/un-india-business-forum-niti-aayog-form-consortium-to-help-women-entrepreneurs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UN India business forum, NITI Aayog form consortium to help women entrepreneurs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}