Onnessa, business advisory platform for women, launched
Onnessa, a new one-stop business advisory platform for Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs, was launched today to expand economic opportunities for women in the country.
The SME Foundation and The Asia Foundation jointly launched the platform at a programme at Pan Pacific Sonargaon in Dhaka.
The platform will mainly provide relevant information to women entrepreneurs about loan projects of financial institutions, scope of consultation and advisory services and it will facilitate 1,500 women SMEs a year.
Md Masudur Rahman, chairperson of SME Foundation, said this platform will definitely help the country's women entrepreneurs to boost up their business activities.
Managing the finance is a major problem for women entrepreneurs and here the platform will extend non-stop services on all kinds of advisory policy to get support on bankability and bank loan products, he said.
Among others, Kazi Faisal Bin Seraj, country representative of the Asia Foundation in Bangladesh, and Md Mafizur Rahman, managing director of SME Foundation, were also present.
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