Empower Her Journey is a virtual training program for women entrepreneurs in India, run by the incubator Villgro with UNDP India. It is delivered as four weeks of webinars and online sessions on business acceleration and digital transformation.
It is open to enterprises that women founded, co-founded, or lead in senior executive roles, registered in India and operating for under five years. Any sector qualifies, and ventures at ideation, pre-revenue and revenue-generating stages are all accepted.
Participants finish with a certification in Business Acceleration and Digital Transformation. UNDP reported 445 women entrepreneurs trained since October 2023, against a stated goal of 1,600. The program page currently shows applications closed.
Benefits & funding
- Four weeks of virtual training on digital transformation tools and business acceleration strategies.
- Curriculum covering digital marketing, digital tools and technologies, business fundamentals and models, finance and fundraising, and impact measurement.
- Technical sessions run with Amazon Web Services and Zoho, plus fireside chats with experienced women entrepreneurs.
- Thematic group mentoring sessions, peer-to-peer learning and networking with other participants.
- Certification in Business Acceleration and Digital Transformation on completion.
- No cash award, equity investment or stipend is published for this program, and no participation fee is stated.
Eligibility
- The applicant is an enterprise. A founder applies on behalf of the venture.
- The enterprise is founded or co-founded by women, or has women in senior executive roles.
- The enterprise is registered in India and has less than five years of operations.
- Any sector qualifies.
- Stage is open: ideation, pre-revenue and revenue-generating enterprises are all eligible.
- No nationality, age or degree requirement is published. The gate sits on where the enterprise is registered; nothing is stated about where a founder personally lives.
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Gender requirement
Female
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Application process
- 1Open the program page and read the status line, which currently reads applications closed.
- 2Check the enterprise against the three criteria: registered in India, under five years of operations, and women founding, co-founding or holding senior executive roles.
- 3When a cohort opens, apply through the link posted on the program page.
- 4Outside an open window, use Villgro’s Apply for Incubation portal, the incubator’s general route, which asks for country, enterprise type, sector, the beneficiaries served and whether the enterprise is based in India.
- 5Selected participants join the four-week virtual cohort and complete the sessions to receive the certification.
Program timeline
First training sessions ran; UNDP counts participants from this month.
October 2023
Current
Applications closed. Villgro publishes no deadline, cohort schedule or reopening date for this program.
Each cohort
Four weeks of virtual sessions, ending with certification.