Progressive business women, transformers of future Bangladesh

Bangladesh is a land of smiles and opportunities where women are almost half of the total population. Everyday, more and more women are coming out of their conservative periphery and making bold steps in the business arena. These women entrepreneurs are energetic, innovative, willing to learn, hard working, and have the ability to take risks. Just a little handholding takes them a long way and enables them to graduate from micro to sustainable small and medium size entrepreneurs. And this is where Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) come in. Recognizing the potential of women entrepreneurs and their need to be fulfilled to play a more effective role in private sector development of the country, Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) was formed in 2001. Its aim is to encourage and strengthen women’s participation in the private sector as entrepreneurs through promoting a women friendly business environment. This organization acts as a nucleus to assist, activate, inform, organize and assimilate Bangladesh’s women entrepreneurs.
  

WNBA Launching ceremony

Starting with only 24 women entrepreneurs, BWCCI has come a long way and still working effectively with more than 2500 members for the advancement of the courageous women entrepreneurs of our country. The members of BWCCI are individual entrepreneurs of micro, small and medium enterprises from the entire range of socio-economic spectrum. The rapid increases in its membership from diversified sectors every year and expansion of its working areas and services across the country may be mentioned here as one of the indicators of its successful and dynamic journey towards its enlightened vision. BWCCI has endorsed Women’s National Business Agenda (WNBA) in Bangladesh which is the first ever national document for women entrepreneurship development.

The day has gone when Bangladeshi women were only recognized for being just a daughter or wife or a mother. Now, they are making their identities as business women, contributors to the national economy. So for all the women entrepreneurs out there, this is what BWCCI wants to say-“Let us carry ourselves with the honor and dignity of a proud woman, knowing that we are part of a great group. Let us walk, talk, today and everyday - let the whole world see us shine”.