Education Code Organization organized a three-day workshop in the framework of the project “Women entrepreneurs”, in the Municipality of Obiliq. The general goal of this project is the economic empowerment of Kosovo women entrepreneurs and building their capacities in the domain of business and entrepreneurship. 
            Education Code organize this workshop considering the extremely low number of women involved in business, particularly those in rural areas; based on the statistics obtained by the Gender Equality Agency in the Office of the Prime Minister, it turns out that, “Only one-ninth of businesses in Kosovo are owned by women.” Furthermore, referring to the same source, “Women in Kosovo own 11% of businesses. Therefore, 99.9% of businesses owned by women are micro-enterprises, having from 1 to 9 workers. Because of the lack of consultancy, trainings and capacity building for women in business, most of women-led businesses are forced to stop their activities after a short time.” 
            During the first day of the workshop, it was discussed about the goal of the project and what will be done during this workshop; during the second day, the topic “Establishment and development of micro-enterprises” was dealt with. 
            On the third day, the topic discussed in the workshop was “Creating a business plan”, with 14 women participating. On the third day of training, a KWN representative participated to demonstrate support to the participants and to closely monitor the progress of the project. On this day, the participants were explained in details how a business plan in prepared; what risks should be taken into account; what a business plan must contain; and that we must pay great attention to the market analysis because our demands in the business plan must be real and in compliance with the market prices. 
            The participants were very pleased with this training, because most of them deal with some kind of activity that they exercise in the form of “crafts”, such as embroidery, tailoring, and bee-keeping, and they aim at expanding their business thus making it possible to employ other women. 
                Director of Education Code Organization, Ms. Mimoza Statovci, had prepared for the participants a list containing published calls to support women with grants or various subsidies. One of the participants emphasized that she had learnt a lot from this workshop and that, “Starting from the next year, I will apply for subsidies to various donors.” She also stressed that this workshop “[…] has motivated me to work more and not quit regardless of potential rejections by donors.” 
            Women expressed their gratitude because “now we know whom to address themselves to for our ideas”. In addition, one of the women who did embroideries, but how had never participated in a fair and who had not even heard of them, was put in contact by KWN with two KWN member organizations so that she can send her works to these two organizations and participate in fairs that they organize. 
            This project was supported by the Kosovo Women’s Fund (KWF) of the Kosovo Women’s Network (KWN) and funded by the European Union Office in Kosovo.