The membership directory contains easy-to-use listings on women entrepreneurs associations based in different parts of the country with practical information on more than 4,500 women entrepreneurs.

According to the UN agency, the directory aims to supply key market information to women entrepreneurs and create connection amongst them.

The directory also reflects the majority of them engaged in almost all business sectors, creates an effective research tool highlighting the diversity of women's businesses.

Admiring the launching of Ethiopia's first directory of women entrepreneurs associations, Vice President of National Women's Entrepreneurs Association of Ethiopia (NWEAE), Engedaye Eshete said the membership directory will boost the capacity of Ethiopian entrepreneurs.

"Apart from connecting the women entrepreneurs' to the business community, it makes us to use our resources in a better way by creating a channel for sharing information with each other's products in particular and their business in general," she observed.

"Besides, the directory will give a chance to our business to be known to our foreign counterparts entrepreneurs through the key market information in the directory", she added.

ILO developed the directory in collaboration with Irish Aid Partnership Program and under the framework of "Developing Women Entrepreneur Associations Membership Bases" (WEAMB Project) signed between the Irish Aid and the ILO in October 2006.

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