- International Trade and Globalization
- Advancing the Circular Economy
- Exporting Services through Cross-Borders
- Supply Chain Challenges
- New Financial Tools for International Trade
BWE21 is a self-financed, nonprofit and independent NGO with members from a wide range of business backgrounds
We seek to achieve positive change for businesswomen and hence the Egyptian economy through our business development services, networking and international partnerships we offer to our members.
BWE21 vision to empower women economically to contribute to the growth of the Egyptian Economy. We aim to unleash the potential of women to fulfill their ambitions by creating a stimulating and enabling business environment.
- Establish an economic information bank to help develop women small and medium enterprises.
- Raise awareness about the ecosystem that supports women in business at a national level.
Since joining the Businesswomen of Egypt 21 in 2017, and attending the association’s exhibitions, conferences, and workshops, this participation has had a significant impact on the development of my business, giving me a good opportunity to build relationships and share knowledge and experiences.
Through many years of professionalism, I have never been in a community that adding to me rather than taking, a community that every member love to help others, a community that always active and doing the best for all members. Across only 4 years since I joined The Business women of Egypt Association BWE21, I had achieved many dreams not only business opportunities that I never could make them by myself.
At 2017 we participated at Intra Africa exhibition which was held in Egypt with more than 750 co. From all around Africa’s countries, and it was a very good opportunity to communicate with the African Companies and starting trading together.
Then the one of the most precious experience in my life we joined a trade mission to Kenya with BWE21, to explore the African market and from that day tell now we start export our products to Kenya.
In Nahla Soliman Designs we had the chance to be on BWE21 e-Commerce platform www.bwe21trade.com which helps our brand go global and we sell our products on it, and now we receive orders from different buyers.
Also, we have our products on www.amazon.eg and this was a great help for our brand since we started selling online.
By the wide range of networking and throw many workshops, events and even the gathering we gained good knowledge of the policies and regulations in all sectors especially in manufacturing industry, and I became a fully aware by regularly notifying us about any updates.
BWE21 offered me a wide range of Networking, opportunities, training / workshops & experienced guidance.
Through networking while attending many events with BWE21 and annual conference I had the chance to meet with many professionals in different sectors and partner in MENA region like VdU in Germany we gain a better understanding of the other culture and how it can improve the business.
BWE21 also provides the proper mentorship that are really needed for my business. One of them was really useful and I benefited from Globalization to digitalization, it was one by one mentoring and it was very useful as we were all facing new challenges on the business.
By BWE21 efforts I get the chance to get economic/funding initiative, through participating in “Win a Factory” TV program, applied on for pitching our businesses, and we were judged by experienced jury and we had a chance to win EGP 50K fund.
I would like to appreciate my gratitude for BWE21 for the support & guidance that they always provide me and all women, we are looking forward to attend next 8th annual conference 2023 to network and meet with business women from all around the world.
I have the pleasure to introduce our company Dallah Misr, it is an Egyptian SME working in manufacturing and trading vegetable oil products. I joined the Business Women of Egypt 21 Association (BWE 21) since 2015.
During all these years, we got continuous support from the association. Primarily, the association organizes education programs, workshops, coaching small and mid-size enterprise (SME) business owners on how to make their businesses grow and survive, as well as special audit programs to target high-risk areas and boost tax compliance. BWE21 helped its members to convey their viewpoints and concerns to the regulatory and respective government authorities.
Our company benefit from the workshops, in different fields:
The new normal and digitalization we understand that we are responsible for driving innovation to advance our business, we had to transfer the workshops theoretical sessions into everyday practice, by identifying the following areas:
Electronically receiving and processing purchase orders, E-invoicing (paperless workflow), Warehouse operation, Transportation supervision, E-commerce (using www.souq.com.eg / www.amazon.com/ BWE trade as a distribution channel to our product) as well as tax reporting, etc.
Dallah Misr benefit from the workshop, how to deal with Employees Challenges, which helped to explore the role of interpersonal trust and knowledge to reach our goal of total employees’ efficiency.
Last but not least, the workshops, open our eyes to the related environmental obligations in which Dallah Misr is contributing in a small part, but it has a high potential for further improvement, currently we work on the initiatives of recycling the used oil to be reused in petroleum products, in addition to recycling carton boxes, plastic containers etc.
I would like to take this occasion to express Dallah Misr appreciation to BWE21 and the board for their efforts and looking forward for further fruitful meetings.
My professional journey started about 22 years ago, but I joined BWE21 Association about 6 years ago at 2016, actually it was a beginning of a big change in my professional and social life, I made new valuable friendships and I felt that I am not alone in the challenges I am facing on daily basis, I discovered that I have around me in the association many ideas and useful experiences ready to share them together, and the great thing also that the BWE21 does not stop informing about any opportunities, whether governmental or through private institutions In order to benefit from it, in addition to hosting many experts in all fields through many workshops.
BWE21 spares no effort to open areas of commercial cooperation inside and outside Egypt, as it has organized many commercial trips to more than one country such as Italy, Kenya and Brazil.
It may be difficult to mention all the efforts, benefits and values we granted here in details, but I can say that there are great efforts behind all that. In fact, when I face any problem, I immediately go to my colleagues in the association to consult them, it’s like you entered a time machine to shorten a lot of time and find practical solution ready in front of me. I’m very proud to be a member in BWE21 and happy to be able to contribute and benefit from a classy society such as the BWE21 Association.
PAF dolls Co. is proud of being a member of Businesswomen of Egypt 21 -BWE 21 since 2017. They are our success partners.
We attended many events with BWE21 and while networking with professionals in different sectors, we had a chance to work and partner with many entities within Egypt such as Marie Louis, the Fashion & Design Center -FDC, Rofayda Health Park, VDU and many more.
Meanwhile, we gained a lot of knowledge in respect to the policies and regulations in the manufacturing industry, since Businesswomen of Egypt 21 -BWE 21 is fully aware of how much one piece of legislation can impact a profession, hence they keep their members aware by notifying them about how to prepare for any change.
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