伍凤仪宣布女性创业组织将助女创业者获得亟需的资金渠道Minister Ng announces that Women’s Enterprise Organizations of Canada will help deliver much-needed access to capital to women entrepreneurs across the country  

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加拿大政府推进性别平等及女性经济赋权  

8月15日，加拿大国际贸易、出口促进、小企业和经济发展部长伍凤仪（Mary Ng）阁下宣布：加拿大女性创业组织（Women’s Enterprise Organizations of Canada, WEOC）将在今年秋季通过“女性创业贷款基金”（Women Entrepreneurship Loan Fund）向女性创业者和企业主提供最高5万加元的贷款。一同出席伍部长新闻发布会的有温尼伯南区国会议员、环境和气候变化部长的议会秘书特里·杜吉德（Terry Duguid）、温尼伯南区中心区议员吉姆·卡尔（Jim Carr）阁下、WEOC首席执行官艾莉森·柯克兰（Alison Kirkland）和WEOC董事会主席马赛拉·曼德维尔（Marcela Mandeville）。 

伍凤仪部长强调，“女性创业贷款基金”目前已经在支持全国各地的女性开办企业并成长壮大，其中有部分接受者是来自代表性不足的群体。通过WEOC发放近3000万元的贷款，联邦政府要让更多的女性能够有渠道获得资金，帮助她们启动或壮大自己的企业。 

WEOC（加拿大女性创业组织）将通过其区域贷款基金合作伙伴提供女性创业贷款基金。他们将在申请过程的每个阶段与女创业者合作，提供高质量的综合商业支持，包括帮助申请人制定可行的商业计划，并提供咨询服务、培训和贷款后续服务。 

目前，贷款基金的合作伙伴有WeBC、阿尔伯塔省女性创业者组织、萨斯喀彻温省女创业者协会、曼尼托巴省女性创业中心、PARO女性企业中心、以及纽芬兰与拉布拉多省女性创业者组织。申请人可以与这些贷款基金伙伴接触，开始准备她们的商业计划以进入申请流程。 

关于WEOC的贷款基金计划的更多信息，请访问https://weoc.ca/loan-program/。 

“女性创业贷款基金”是 60 亿加元“女性创业战略”（Women Entrepreneurship Strategy）的关键部分，该基金可向已经拥有贷款项目的非营利组织分配资金，为女性创业者提供额外的可负担的融资渠道，特别是为融资难度较大的初创企业、代表性不足的群体或独资企业等。 

目前，“女性创业贷款基金”的选定管理机构包括诺森伯兰社区未来发展公司和Coralus(原SheEO)。 

这一里程碑的实现，是源于联邦政府自2015年以来的支持女性战略，为此作出了历史性的投资——从在政策决策和方案制定中纳入基于性别的分析，到立法规定薪酬平等以及增强加拿大儿童福利金，到在疫情大流行期间提供特别资金支持女创业者，以及与全国各省和地区签订每天10元的托儿服务协议等等。 

引述 

国际贸易、出口促进、小企业和经济发展部长伍凤仪（Mary Ng）阁下： 

“女性具有聪明才智、创造力和自我驱动力，她们已经知道如何去争取成功。她们需要的是机会、是为她们敞开门并助一臂之力。这些正是我们联邦政府通过‘女性创业贷款基金’所提供的。通过消除获得融资的系统性障碍，我们再次推动女性创业者充分发挥潜力，创造当地就业机会并推动经济增长。” 

温尼伯南区国会议员、环境和气候变化部长的议会秘书特里·杜吉德（Terry Duguid）： 

“很高兴看到温尼伯本地的一个组织将会帮助加拿大各地的女性实现她们的商业目标。赋予妇女更好的融资机会，它的连锁效应将产生可观的、惠及所有人的经济影响，并将大力促进加拿大的竞争力和繁荣。” 

加拿大女性创业组织首席执行官艾莉森·柯克兰（Alison Kirkland）： 

“女性创业贷款基金将全面支持女性创业者，向她们提供急需的资本，还提供全面配套的商业支持，我们知道这些商业支持将确保企业的长期成功。中小型企业是加拿大经济的支柱，现在正是提供资源以促进女性拥有的企业成长壮大的绝佳时机。”  

事实简要 

• “女性创业战略” (Women Entrepreneurship Strategy, WES)是一项超过60亿元的投资，包括： 
  • “女性创业贷款基金” （Women Entrepreneurship Loan Fund），让现有的以女性为重点的贷款项目能够向女企业家提供额外的易于负担的小额贷款； 
  • “包容性女性风险投资倡议” （Inclusive Women Venture Capital Initiative），旨在加强融资渠道，为加拿大女性建立更包容性的风险投资环境; 
  • “女性创业战略生态体系基金” （WES Ecosystem Fund），帮助消除支持网络的障碍，为女性企业家提供启动、扩大规模和进入新市场所需的资源； 
  • “女性创业知识中心”（Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub），汇集10个区域中心、300多个组织和成千上万名女性创业者，为促进加拿大女性创业打造更包容和支持性的环境。 
• 政府还通过黑人创业计划(Black Entrepreneurship Program)等项目，投资消除多元化创业者所面临的系统性障碍。 
• 为确保女性具有平等享有国际投资带来的利益和机会，加拿大正在采取包容性的贸易方式，将性别相关条款纳入所有自由贸易协定。政府还共同签署了《全球贸易和性别安排》，这是一个独立的倡议，开放给其他经济体加入。 

The Government of Canada is advancing gender equality and women’s economic

empowerment.

Today, the Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion,

Small Business and Economic Development, announced that Women’s Enterprise

Organizations of Canada (WEOC) will be providing loans of up to $50,000 to women

entrepreneurs and business owners this fall through the Women Entrepreneurship Loan

Fund. The Minister was joined by Terry Duguid, Member of Parliament for Winnipeg

South and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change;

the Honourable Jim Carr, Member of Parliament for Winnipeg South Centre; Alison

Kirkland, Chief Executive Officer of WEOC; and Marcela Mandeville, Chair of the Board

of WEOC.

Minister Ng highlighted that the Women Entrepreneurship Loan Fund is already

supporting women across the country in starting up and growing their businesses, with

a majority of the recipients being under-represented women. With WEOC set to

distribute nearly $30 million in loans, the Government of Canada is ensuring that even

more women can access capital to start or grow their businesses.

WEOC will deliver the Women Entrepreneurship Loan Fund through its regional loan

fund partners. They will work with women entrepreneurs at every stage of the

application process and deliver top-quality wraparound business support, including

helping applicants with the development of viable business plans and providing advisory

services, training and loan aftercare.

Currently, the loan fund partners are WeBC, Alberta Women Entrepreneurs, Women

Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan, Women’s Enterprise Centre of Manitoba, PARO

Centre for Women’s Enterprise, and Newfoundland and Labrador Organization of

Women Entrepreneurs. Applicants can engage with these loan fund partners to start

preparing their business plan for the application process.

For more information on WEOC’s Loan Fund Program, visit https://weoc.ca/loan-

program/.

The Women Entrepreneurship Loan Fund—a key part of the $6 billion Women

Entrepreneurship Strategy—is allocating funding to not-for-profit organizations with

existing loan programs to provide additional affordable financing to women

entrepreneurs, particularly for start-ups, under-represented groups or sole

proprietorships that experience more difficulty in accessing financing.

Selected administrators of the Women Entrepreneurship Loan Fund now delivering the

program include the Northumberland Community Futures Development

Corporation and Coralus (formerly SheEO).

This milestone builds on the historic investments the government has made to support

women since 2015—from integrating gender-based analysis into policy decisions and

program development, legislating pay equity and enhancing the Canada Child Benefit to

providing special funding to support women entrepreneurs during the pandemic and

establishing agreements with the provinces and territories for $10-a-day daycare.

Quotes

―Women are smart, creative and driven, and they already know how to achieve success.

What they need are opportunities, open doors and a hand up. Those are exactly what

our government is providing through the Women Entrepreneurship Loan Fund. By

removing systemic barriers in accessing financing, we are again moving the dial in

empowering women entrepreneurs to reach their full potential, create local jobs and

drive economic growth.‖

– The Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small

Business and Economic Development

―It’s great to see that a local Winnipeg organization will be helping women across

Canada reach their business goals. The knock-on effect of empowering women with

better access to financing will have a measurable economic impact that benefits us all

and will greatly contribute to Canada’s competitiveness and prosperity.‖

– Terry Duguid, Member of Parliament for Winnipeg South and Parliamentary Secretary

to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change

―The Women Entrepreneurship Loan Fund supports women entrepreneurs by providing

access to much-needed capital, as well as the wraparound business supports that we

know ensure long-term success. Small and medium-sized enterprises are the backbone

of the Canadian economy, and now is an excellent time to provide resources that

facilitate the growth of women-owned businesses.‖

– Alison Kirkland, CEO, Women’s Enterprise Organizations of Canada

Quick facts

· The Women Entrepreneurship Strategy (WES), a more than $6 billion investment,

includes:

o the Women Entrepreneurship Loan Fund, which is enabling existing

women-focused loan programs to provide additional affordable microloans

to women entrepreneurs;

o the Inclusive Women Venture Capital Initiative, which seeks to strengthen

access to funding and build a more inclusive venture capital environment

for Canadian women;

o the WES Ecosystem Fund, which is helping remove barriers to the support

networks and deliver the resources that women entrepreneurs need to

start up, scale up and access new markets; and

o the Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub, which has brought

together 10 regional hubs, over 300 organizations and thousands of

women entrepreneurs to create a more inclusive and supportive

environment to grow women’s entrepreneurship in Canada.

· The government is also investing in removing systemic barriers faced by diverse

entrepreneurs through programs like the Black Entrepreneurship Program.

· To ensure women have equal access to the benefits and opportunities arising

from international investment, Canada is taking an inclusive approach to trade by

integrating gender-related provisions in all its free trade agreements. The

government has also co-signed the Global Trade and Gender Arrangement—a

stand-alone initiative open to other economies to join.

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