Press Release

New Resource Centre in Qusar to unleash women’s entrepreneurial potential

17 October 2019

  • The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), UN Women and Switzerland launch an official opening ceremony of a new Women’s Resource Centre in Qusar, 180 km north of Baku, to support women empowerment through entrepreneurship, self-employment and community development.

The centre in Qusar is one of three regional centres created for women in rural areas within the project “Women’s Economic Empowerment in the South Caucasus funded by Switzerland through its Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The other two centres are based in the Khazar region of Baku and in Sabirabad.

This regional initiative worth USD 637,000 is part of a three-year UN Joint Project between UN Women and UNDP, that will continue until 2021. In Azerbaijan, the project is carried out by UNDP in partnership with the State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs.

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Jeyhun Alakbarov

Jeyhun Alakbarov

UNDP
Communications Associate

UN entities involved in this initiative

UN Women
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
UNDP
United Nations Development Programme

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