UN Women, Rang De & Manjari Foundation Team Up to Support Women Entrepreneurs in Rural India

By: WE staff | Wednesday, 2 July 2025

• UN Women, Rang De, and the Manjari Foundation have partnered to help rural ladies marketers
• The collaboration specializes in economic inclusion and promoting rural entrepreneurship
• It aims to empower ladies with the tools needed for sustainable livelihoods and financial independence

UN Women, Rang De, and the Manjari Foundation have joined forces to promote monetary inclusion and rural entrepreneurship for women throughout India. This partnership goals to offer inexpensive credit and ability-constructing assist to ladies from economically and socially marginalized communities, supporting them release and develop small corporations.

Launched underneath the UN Women Programme, the initiative helps nano and micro ladies entrepreneurs through peer-funded loans, training, and monetary literacy. Rang De manages the credit platform, while Manjari Foundation implements the program on the floor throughout states like Rajasthan, Bihar, Assam, Gujarat, Karnataka, and the Bundelkhand region.

The initiative has reached over 1,300 women, with a target of 2,500 by December 2025. It has raised more than ₹53 crore from 1,300 social investors to fund rural girls-led organizations such as kirana stores, salons, CSCs, handicrafts, animal husbandry, and sustainable farming.

The programme makes a specialty of four key pillars: mobilization, ability improvement, economic education, and credit score get right of entry to. It no longer most effective gives credit however additionally presents continuous handholding, mentoring, and comments to make certain lengthy-term success. A key effect has been the advent of formal credit score histories for women who have been previously excluded from economic systems—71 percent of beneficiaries had no prior credit score rating.

Incentives for timely reimbursement and virtual training assist build financial discipline. As the programme nears of completion, it stands out as a scalable model for inclusive development, empowering rural ladies to end up drivers of monetary transformation throughout India.