VISION

A pioneer in introducing innovation and entrepreneurship to the Iranian women in achieving a balanced and sustainable development

  NAWE’s aims are to:
1. Assist in promoting entrepreneurship;
2. Contribute towards the improvement and reform of policies in support of female entrepreneurship;
3. Promote a suitable platform for fostering innovation;
4. Offer support to the formalization of training, research, and advisory services;
5. Endorse establishing a sustainable and appropriate liaison among entrepreneurs, the Government, banks and other stakeholders; and
6. Create networking solutions among women entrepreneurs both domestically and internationally.

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.The Organization has a board of directors elected for two years by the shareholders' assembly. The inspector also attends different meetings and is responsible for oversight of the financial decisions of the board of directors. The board of directors is responsible for major decisions regarding the activities of the organization. However, the daily operation of NAWE is run by the CEO and the different committees either reporting to the CEO or the board of directors directly. These committees include the audit committee, executive committee, branches and rep. offices committee, membership committee, international committee, training, research and advisory committee, communications and public relations committee, specialized working committees involved in agriculture, environment, trade, IT, tourism, and social entrepreneurship.

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.Since the main emphasis of the United Nations is to advance the three dimensions of sustainable development – economic, social and environmental, the following is a brief discussion on how NAWE has attempted to follow some of the same goals on a national level. Having the same goals and striving towards achieving these in Iran is the basis of creating synergy with ECOSOC. Among the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, NAWE has been active in the following: 1. Poverty Eradication (Goal No.1): NAWE constantly lobbies the Iranian Government and Parliament to help create sound policy frameworks at the national level, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions, including those stricken by natural disasters. In addition, NAWE strives to assist women after the natural disasters in Kermanshah, Bam, Golestan and Lorestan provinces to ensure they can meet their daily needs. 2. Gender Equality (Goal No. 5): a) Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life. - By engaging with public and private decision makers, NAWE has ensured that some of its members are now board members at influential Government and non-Government agencies and corporations. - Trips to different provinces helped identify various female entrepreneurs to assist with any grievances they have against the Government in terms of their operations as well as promoting their products or services at the highest levels. b) Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women.
NAWE has been active in designing and developing a national database identifying rural and urban female entrepreneurs to create synergy and establish an online network to help foster cooperation among them. - Assistance with digital presence of female entrepreneurs and design and develop online sales and marketing strategies. 3. Decent Work and Economic Growth (Goal No. 8): a) Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services. NAWE together with other NGOs strives towards revising Government policies by emphasizing on the active participation of women in different economic spheres including lobbying for female founders equal access to financial resources as well as Government incentives. One of NAWE's mandates is to engage with different stakeholders including office of the women affairs at various Ministries to promote the rights of female startup founders, exporters, importers as well as different Ministers to demand better access to financial and economic resources for rural and tribal women active in economic activities regardless of their size of enterprise. This is evident from the numerous MOUs NAWE has with different Ministries regarding different topics including spanning from industry to agriculture..

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