Breaking the Barriers: Strengthening WMSMES Participation in Spice and Coir Sectors of Sri Lanka

Abstract

An important avenue to promote inclusive and sustaniable development includes accelerating gainful participation of Women owned/ led Micro Small Medium Enterprises (WMSMEs) in the economy. WMSMEs have been identified as the backbone of developing economies and constitute a major source of formal and informal sector employment of women. Therefore, it is important to strenghten this sector and improve the participationof these enterprises in the domestic and international markets.