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ASSOCIATION OF  BUSINESS WOMEN
 11000 Belgrade, Volgina 15, Serbia,
 Tel/Fax: +381 11 2776-801
 e-mail: spoffice@labtel.imp.bg.ac.yu
office@poslovnezene.org.yu

Association  of Business Women was established on July 30, 1998 in  Belgrade, by a group of liberal, mostly young women,  owners of micro and small, private businesses and  professional women.

 The  Association consists of women from various professions.  Most of our members showed a capability of running their  businesses independently. Many of them have their own  small, but successful firms; some are about to  establishing their own business; and the most important  potential of the Association are creative and ambitious  women which succeeded in a short period of time to realize some of their entrepreneurial ideas. Those were  educational programs, which our members created by  themselves, but also many other activities, such as  organization of exhibitions of women's craft and so on.  In the Association there is a treasure of very  interesting ideas, especial because women accepted the  Association as "their own" place where they can  freely and without any barriers express their potential.

Special  value of the Association represents its dispersion on  smaller cities throughout the country, so that members  are not located only in the capital. That provides easier  and efficient execution of projects, which we are  realizing in co-operation with local women's  associations.

The  Association is regionally related with similar  associations, which is more important after the democratic changes in FR Yugoslavia, and which make the  functioning of the Association as a non-government  organization much easier and enables realization of  projects with partner-organizations in the region. In the period of its nine-year existence, the Association had a number of interesting projects implemented with the support by various donors that have been supporting the economic empowerment of women in Serbia.

OUR MISSION

The  durable interest of our Association is vested in the  continuous improvement of the conditions for the private  businesses in the local communities in FR Yugoslavia,  especially by creating equal opportunities for those  companies, which are run by women through promoting  local, regional and international links among  businesswomen and other interested organizations.

The Association is regionally related with similar associations, which is more important after the democratic changes in Serbia

DONORS

 Fund for Open Society, Belgrade
 STAR Network of World Learning
 Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Belgrade
 Freedomhouse
 King Bodouin
 Partners for Democratic Changes
 USAID/OTI
 HomeNet International
 The Netherlands Embassy
 CHF
 Irish Aid
 OSCE
 Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
 Union of Tenants from Sweden
 UNDP
 UNIFEM