The Center for Accelerated Women's Economic Empowerment (CAWEE) was established in 2004 as a non-profit, non- governmental organization. It mainly targets the promotion of women in business, with a special focus to working on value-chains through the provision of technical skills, marketable skills that can help them to get involved in income generating activities. Mission Promote Ethiopian women entrepreneurs, with a special focus to women exporters, both existing and potential/emerging exporters. Build the capacity of women entrepreneurs through training, advisory services/business counselling, product development, mentoring, information sharing, etc. Facilitate market linkages for women entrepreneurs by creating cooperation and collaboration with international institutions Undertake practical researches to address the challenges faced by women entrepreneurs Vision The vision of CAWEE is to create globally competitive core women entrepreneurs class in Ethiopia. The membership of CAWEE targets the following five sectors 1, Agribusiness ( coffee and honey), 2, Textiles/Garment/Hand-weaving/Hand-made Shoe, 3, Leather (with a focus to fashion accessories and give away items), 4, Gemstones and Jewelry 5, Services (Tourism, Export Management, Training, IT Services…). The Center's other focus activity targets working on value-chains through the provision of technical skills/marketable skills to grassroots women (the poorest of the poor) and connect them to markets through women owned and managed Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), existing and emerging/potential exporting companies, where in this respect the Center works on value-chains of different sectors with the ultimate purpose of empowering the supply capacity of the exporting SME companies.
