KARACHI:Growth for Rural Advancement and Sustainable Progress (GRASP), a project funded by the European Union (EU), which is implemented by the International Trade Centre (ITC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Research and Development Foundation (RDF) to uplift the rural women Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
Sindh Minister for Women Development Syeda Shehla Raza was the chief guest on the occasion.
While supporting GRASP’s initiative for linking the rural women entrepreneurs to the male-populated markets, Shehla Raza appreciated the distribution of digital devices among the women entrepreneurs to sell their products, said a communique.
ITC’s Chief of the Sector and Enterprise Competitiveness Robert Skidmore speaking on the occasion shed the light on how to improve competitiveness among Small and Medium companies for broad based socio-economic impact.
GRASP-ITC’s Shabnam Baloch shared her views on removing obstacles in the way of women in agri-business.
Economist and Policy expert Dr. Kaiser Bengali, Vice Chancellor of Sindh Agriculture University Tando Jam Dr. Fateh Marree, RDF’s head Ashfaq Soomro and others also spoke on the occasion.