PARO Center for Women's Enterprise

Purpose

Through this 21-month systemic change project, PARO Centre for Women’s Enterprise will scale “Collaboration for Transformation” to advance women’s economic security and prosperity. It will scale to four (4) WAGE regions- Atlantic, Ontario, Prairies and Pacific. It will address barriers that women entrepreneurs, especially Indigenous, newcomer, and other diverse entrepreneurs with intersecting identities, disproportionately face in comparison to men when growing their business, including in growth sectors such as green ∕ clean tech, digital services, agri-food and manufacturing; To do so, the project will increase women entrepreneurs’ access to financing and markets, including to procurement and other opportunities for scaling-up their businesses; increase overall understanding of barriers that limit women’s full economic participation as entrepreneurs; and increase the network of partners, allies, and stakeholders acting as champions for women entrepreneurs.