Fighting poverty and striving for women empowerment

The Japan ASEAN Women Empowerment Fund “JAWEF” is the first fund investing with female micro entrepreneurs in the South East Asia frontier and emerging markets.

Still today women are not given equal opportunity and in some countries remain excluded from the work force and entrepreneurship. Equality means business. Empowering women economically and socially is proven to lead to:

– Stronger economies

– Better achievement of internationally set goals for development as well as sustainability

– Improvement of quality of life not only for women, but entire families, communities and ultimately society at large

SDGs addressed by the Fund