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1	Formation of Women Entrepreneur Development Unit (WEDU) in Bangladesh Bank	Women entrepreneur Development Unit (WEDU) has been formed at SME and Special Programmes Department of Bangladesh Bank, Head office as well as at all branches of Bangladesh Bank vide Administrative Circular No.-21 of Human Resources Department-1 dated-30/11/2014. This Unit renders business friendly services to women entrepreneurs’, receives complaints and resolves those, carries out promotional activities for the development of women entrepreneurs’ and also monitors and evaluates the women entrepreneur’s development initiatives of Banks/Non-Bank Financial Institutions. To encourage small women entrepreneurs taking initiatives for their enterprise, WEDU operates Small Enterprises Refinance Scheme to provide low cost fund. This unit is also entrusted with the responsibilities of promoting and supporting women entrepreneurs.	Report	Link
2	Formation of Women Entrepreneur Development Unit (WEDU) in Bangladesh Bank	Bangladesh Bank Initiatives for Women Entrepreneurship Development	Report	Download
3	Facilitation of Women Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh and their Export Potential	Status of Women Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh,characteristics of women entrepreneurs,Women entrepreneurs and exports,Examples of Women Entrepreneurship,Impediments to Women Entrepreneurship Development,Facilitation of exports by women traders through Bangladesh Regional Connectivity Project (BRCP)-1	Report	Download
4	Master Circular on CMSME Financing	SMESPD Circular No. 01: Master Circular on CMSME Financing	BB Circular	Link
5	Master Circular on Start-up Financing	SMESPD Circular No. 02: Master Circular on Start-up Financing	BB Circular	Link
6	Re-determination of the applicable classified loan/investment ratio under the Refinance and Pre-finance Schemes of CMSME.	SMESPD Circular Letter No. 02: Re-determination of the applicable classified loan/investment ratio under the Refinance and Pre-finance Schemes of CMSME.	BB Circular	Link
7	Continuation of BDT 25,000 crore Pre-finance Scheme for CMSME	SMESPD Circular Letter No. 03: Continuation of BDT 25,000 crore Pre-finance Scheme for CMSME	BB Circular	Link
8	Training Module 1	Training module for training program of women entrepreneurs in cut flower	Training	Download
9	Training Module 2	Designing and Implementing Training Program for Increasing Women’s Participation in the Agro-processing Sector in Bangladesh	Training	Download
10	Training Module 3	Designing and Implementing Training Program for Increasing Women`s Participation in the ICT Sector in Bangladesh	Training	Download
11	Steps taken by Bangladesh Bank for Women Entrepreneurs	List of Steps taken by Bangladesh Bank for Women Entrepreneurs	Report	Download
12	Sources of business financing and easy financing processing for women entrepreneurs / entrepreneurs	Presentation on the sources of business financing and easy financing processing for women entrepreneurs / entrepreneurs in Bangladesh	Presentaion	Download
13	Introduction of Women Entrepreneurship Development in Bangladesh	Women‘s economic empowerment is an inevitable part of development discourse. Institutionalization of sustainable development process excluding women from the mainstream development program is inconceivable and will not support sustainable economic growth. Nevertheless, sustainable growth in trade and development would always be a far-reaching goal without active and meaningful participation of the country‘s women folks.	Report	Download