Listening to Women-led Businesses in Afghanistan

Listening to Women Entrepreneurs in Afghanistan

Their Struggle and Resilience

This comprehensive report unveils the remarkable resilience of women-owned and -led businesses in Afghanistan, despite formidable challenges. The study by UNDP, through its Istanbul International Centre for Private Sector in Development in collaboration with REACH - a humanitarian initiative providing granular data, timely information and in-depth analysis from contexts of crisis, disaster and displacement- and the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV), is based on extensive research with women entrepreneurs including 3,100 quantitative interviews, focus group discussions with over 100 participants, and dozens of in-depth individual interviews. It is one of the largest and most comprehensive studies to date on the economic situation of women entrepreneurs in Afghanistan.