BRAC Bank and ITC SheTrades hold webinar for women entrepreneurs

BRAC Bank, in association with the ITC SheTrades Commonwealth project, arranged a webinar recently for women entrepreneurs on access to fiscal stimulus packages in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, said a statement.

The objective was to create awareness and prepare women entrepreneurs for accessing the financial packages declared by the Bangladesh government to build their resilience in overcoming the challenges caused by the global pandemic.

International Trade Centre (ITC), a joint agency of the World Trade Organisation and the United Nations, organised the webinar. The ITC SheTrades Commonwealth (STC) project - which is funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), invited the women-owned SMEs for the webinar through registration. BRAC Bank's Senior Manager of Business Transformation in the SME Division, Shajed AL Haque, and Head of TARA, Mehruba Reza, were among the resource persons of the webinar.