{"id":29564,"date":"2026-04-20T10:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=29564"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:37:08","slug":"un-supports-over-18000-women-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/04\/un-supports-over-18000-women-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"UN supports over 18,000 women entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United Nations in Afghanistan (UN Afghanistan) says it has supported 18,616 women entrepreneurs across the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"104\" data-end=\"260\">In a post on X on Monday (April 20), the organization said that support for women has strengthened their participation in economic activities, particularly through micro, small, and medium enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Afghanistan said women make up 21% of the workforce engaged in small businesses in the country. The agency emphasized the need to address challenges facing women\u2019s economic participation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"513\" data-end=\"650\">UNDP had previously reported that it supported 89,000 small businesses in Afghanistan over the past year, 91% of which are led by women.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"652\" data-end=\"830\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">It has been more than four years since a number of women and girls deprived of education turned to starting small businesses, seeking to meet their own needs and those of their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations in Afghanistan (UN Afghanistan) says it has supported 18,616 women entrepreneurs across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,179,24,6],"tags":[170,207,1802,1803,1804],"class_list":["post-29564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-economy-business","category-women","category-afghanistan","tag-undp","tag-women","tag-un-afghanistan","tag-women-entrepreneurs","tag-small-businesses"],"views":29,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29568,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29564\/revisions\/29568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}