SEHER Programme

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About SEHER Programme:

It is a comprehensive credit education program designed to enhance financial literacy and business skills among women entrepreneurs.
This initiative is expected to enable women to access the financial tools necessary for business growth and job creation.
It is an initiative of NITI Aayog’s Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) and TransUnion CIBIL.
This initiative supports WEP’s goal of improving financing access for women in India’s 63 million MSMEs.

Key facts about the Women Entrepreneurship Platform

It was incubated in NITI Aayog in 2018 as an aggregator platform that transitioned as a public-private partnership in 2022 to build a comprehensive ecosystem supporting women entrepreneurs across India.
WEP aims at empowering women entrepreneurs by overcoming information asymmetry and providing continuum of support across different pillars – Entrepreneurship promotion, Access to Finance; Market Linkages; Training and Skilling; Mentoring and Networking and Business Development Services.
For this, WEP adopts a wide array of interventions with a focus on convergence and collaboration with existing stakeholders.

Q1: What is National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog?

It was formed via a resolution of the Union Cabinet on 1 January 2015. It was constituted to replace the Planning Commission – instituted in 1950. It is the premier policy think tank of the Government of India, providing directional and policy inputs.

Source: WEP and Transunion Cibil to collaborate to enhance financial literacy and business skills of women entrepreneurs