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“Using ICT to Advance Women’s
Economic Empowerment (WEE) in
the Philippines
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Outline
• Background/Context
– MSMEs in the Philippines, distribution by type
– Issues of Women Micro/Small Enterprises
– Challenges and opportunities of ICT in the Philippines
• Results of GREAT Women Project and Partnership Approaches for 2015-2020
• ICT for Women MSMEs
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Micro enterprises
90.3% or 846,817
Small enterprises
8.9% or 86,762
Medium scale enterprises
0.4% or 3,748
Large enterprises
0.4% or 3,748
Total number of registered establishments (2013) – 941,174
99.6% or 937,327 are micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) Jobs generated by MSMEs
– 4.770 million
0.4% or 3,748 are large enterprises Jobs generated by Large Enterprises
– 2.719 million
Profile of Enterprises in the Philippines
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Wholesale/retail trade & repair
services of motor vehicles
46%
ICT, financial, education,
health & other professional
services16.3%
Accommodations and food services
13.5%
Manufacturing12.5%
Other service industries
6.4%
Distribution of MSMEs by Type
Women-owned micro enterprises dominates retail trade, food services and other services
Thousands more –home-based manufacturing activities, “informal” in nature.
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Challenges/Issues of Women MSMEs
• WMSEs concentrate at the lower end of the value chain –low value, low margins
• Difficulties in sustaining or scaling-up the business:
– Lack of understanding of markets, trends
– Lack of basic business skills
– Lack of or inability to generate additional capital
– Inability to make production more efficient with technology
– Inability to comply with registration & licensing
– Lack of access to business development programs/ services
• Choice to grow the business is sacrificed for family roles – child rearing, elderly care, other care work
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How these challenges are addressed for women MSMEs:
• National policies to support MSME development –DTI’s Go Negosyo, Magna Carta for SMEs, technology upgrade (SET-Up) of DOST,
• SME financing from commercial and development banks; start-up financing from micro finance institutions
• Business development services from academe, social enterprise organizations, industry associations
• National entrepreneurship promotion: basic education, tech-vocational, regular collegiate courses
• GREAT Women Project – convergence of public-private
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ICT Challenges in the Philippines
• Philippines rank 103 among 166 countries in ICT development; also had an index of 4.02; which is a very slight improvement from 2012 index of 3.91.
• In ASEAN, Phils. consistently trail behind Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
• Only 37% of population accessing internet (2013);
• High cost of connectivity rates; but fixed broadband subscription per 100 persons increased to 9.12 (2013) from 0.14 in 2005.
• Inadequate ICT infrastructure, which drives costs of internet high.
• TelCos refuse to work together (interconnection) and with government to address gaps.
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Opportunities in ICT: Philippines
• 2014 data showed 37.6 Million are internet users; of which, 34.0 Million were on Facebook
– means that various information can be made through social media
• Mobile phone penetration is 104:100 pop. in 2013
• High IT- literacy of young population
• Emerging e-governance facilities
• Recent enactment of a law to make the ICT a major department
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GREAT Women Project Result (2007-2013)
• Engagement of social entrepreneurs and women in bigger businesses – led to a GREAT Women Brand/Platform, now also in ASEAN.
Network of Designers, Product Development Experts, Retailers(food and non-food)
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GREAT Women Project (2015-2020)
• Target: 12,000 women in micro, small enterprises
• Objectives:
– To make the enterprises more sustainable and competitive
– To enhance the enabling environment for women’s economic empowerment
• Priority industry clusters: processed fruits and nuts, coffee, cacao, tourism support (i.e., textiles, crafts), coco coir
• Framework for action: Green and Gender-Responsive Value Chain Development
• More private sector engagement – as market &/or business service provider
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Partnerships: matching SMEs + women weavers + government
ECHOSiFoundation
& Designers’
Circle
Weaving Centers (or
selected weavers, WMEs)
DOST -PTRI
Other SME-
buyers
DOST – Dept. of Science & Technology andPhilippine Textile Research Institute
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Retailers/Restaurants/Hotel Chains + National agencies on food certifications + WMEs in food processing
Retailers, Resto/ Hotel
Groups
Dept of Agriculture
DOST –FNRI -
PCAARRD
Selected WMEs
producing food
Selected WMEs
producing food
Selected WMEs
producing food
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ICT for Women WMEs – as part of GREAT Women’s technical assistance
• Two tracks: to enhance ICT knowledge, or skills upgrade
• Implemented with relevant ICT agencies and TelCos
• ICT knowledge aims to provides access to:
– market information
– technology for production, business operations to increase efficiency & productivity,
– business mentoring, which are available locally and internationally
– network of potential suppliers, service providers, and customers
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• ICT for skills upgrade:
• improves decision making with wide range of information
• increases woman-entrepreneur’s self confidence
• ICT as a platform – enterprise promotion, order taking-selling, and doing business with anyone, anywhere
ICT for Women WMEs – becomes a part of GREAT Women’s technical assistance (cont’d)
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What can APWINC do to promote WEE?• Continue assistance to national/local public
libraries – with capacity building to assist women in sub-national/local level.
• Development of e-modules on economic empowerment themes.
• Convergence with other ICT agencies in target economies – for hardware/software and technical development assistance to target groups.
• Harmonize with UN-Asia Pacific Training Center for ICT for Development – WIFI Program (women’s initiative).
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THANK YOU.