Over 30 women entrepreneurs trained on business skills

Speaking in an interview with ‘The Guardian’ yesterday Linking African Market and Partnerships (LAMP)’s senior partner Sukanja Borgmann said women in Tanzania need powerful knowledge on entrepreneurship to help them improve their businesses so they compete with their foreign counterparts.

Borgmann also said that women in the country have to form a strong business network that will assist them in expanding their businesses through assisting each other.

She also urged small women entrepreneurs in the country to prepare good packages for their products capable of competing with other products in the market.

For his part, Linking African Market and Partnerships advisor Joseph Massinda admitted that accessing finance for empowering small women entrepreneurs is the biggest challenge that needs to be addressed.

Massinda added: “Accessing good technology is also a problem that many small women entrepreneurs are facing. There is a need to make sure that those small scale women entrepreneurs are supported in finance and technology to make them compete in the market”

He also said that Tanzanian entrepreneurs are supposed to produce quality products so as to cater for the growing larger markets of EAC as well as that of SADC.

Among the speakers scheduled to deliver their presentations today, include Helene Weesie, Managing Director of Serengeti Breweries who has 25 years of international experience at Unilever and Heineken International.