Women and Youth Entrepreneurs Leading Change – OBADER

"Women and Youth Entrepreneurs Leading Change - OBADER " project is implemented by CARE International during 2018-2022, in partnership with the Business Women Forum, the Center for Continuing Education at Birzeit University, Save Youth Future Society and Small Enterprises Center in the Gaza Strip. 

OBADER aims to enhance and increase the low-income of women and male youth’s economic empowerment, and enable them to become entrepreneurs and employees in central (including Nablus) and south of the West Bank and Gaza (WBG).

OBADER is designed to strengthen the ecosystem through working to reduce gender-specific barriers (structural and social) that women and youth entrepreneurship face, enhance their agency, and to offer them business opportunities for establishing, sustaining, or growing businesses. 

OBADER provides targeted support to women and youth’s start-ups and micro, small medium enterprises (MSMEs) from the traditional and non-traditional sectors, in addition to entrepreneurs who have creative business ideas. The project helps the targeted groups to grow their ideas and enterprises upon market opportunities, and then equip them to establish or build financially and environmentally sustainable, profitable, and growing enterprises. 

OBADER project provides different service packages for selected women and youth’s enterprises. The services are designed and implemented by the project’s partners based on the needs assessment of the selected entrepreneurs. The packages include:

1. Raising awareness on entrepreneurship concepts among youth and women, and enhancing their entrepreneurial skills.
2. Building the capacities of women and youth entrepreneurs in a wide range of areas including, but not limited to, market research, business planning, business management, financial management and access to information.
3. Improving the agency, capacities and opportunities of women and youth entrepreneurs to reach an environment that helps them build and develop their businesses.
4. Enhancing their access to financial resources.
5. Enhancing their access to relevant technical services.
6. Enhancing their access to domestic and foreign markets. 

Please note the following when Applying for OBADER project:

• Applications can be submitted only in an electronic form through the links available below based on the location and target group
• Make sure to choose the right/ most suitable target group that you better fit in
• Read the application criteria of each target group, which is available on the relevant application form page 
• By applying, you agree that you will submit any supporting document that might be needed later to cross-check your application information 
• Make sure to apply only once, through one link. 
• Submitting an application successfully does not guarantee your selection for the program
• If you have any questions or need any support in filling-in the application, please contact the relevant partner who is assigned for your location and target group