Women Entrepreneurship Development Programme (WEDP)

WEDP helps women start and grow a business built around their own skills and interests. It mixes live training with group and one-to-one mentoring, experiential tasks including fieldwork for market research, and feedback on how the venture is progressing. It is delivered by entrepreneurs, investors and expert professionals. At least two batches have run, named Aruna and Ashlesha.

What you get

• Live online training sessions
• Group and one-to-one mentoring
• Fieldwork tasks for market research, with feedback on your venture's progress
• Support from SCEI's Women Entrepreneurship Wing, which adds incubation, one-to-one mentorship and introductions to market specialists
• A completion certificate, subject to ninety per cent attendance and finished assignments

Who can apply

• Women who want to establish a business with ideas that match their talents, interests and skills
• Both aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs

How to apply: No application route is published on the programme page. Write to office@scei.org.in to ask about the next batch.