Training Workshop on the Project “Supporting Women’s Entrepreneurship for the Period 2017–2025” in Thong Nhat District.

On 28 July 2022, the Thong Nhat District Women’s Union organized a training workshop on the Government’s Project “Supporting Women’s Entrepreneurship for the Period 2017–2025” with the theme “Methods to Successfully Support Women’s Entrepreneurship.”

Attending and delivering the presentation for the project was:

PhD Nguyen Van Tan – Member of the National Innovative Startup Advisory Council (VSMA); Member of the Executive Committee of the Southern Startup Advisory and Support Council; Member of the Coordinating and Supporting Council for the Innovative Startup Ecosystem of Dong Nai Province; Member of the Dong Nai Women’s Entrepreneurship Club; Head of the Innovative Startup Division of LHU; Dean of FAIE at LHU; Lecturer of the Vietnam Women Entrepreneurs Council (VWEC); Startup trainer under SIYB, CEFE, ACSE, IPP, MEP, etc.

A large number of women participated in the training workshop. The sharing session included key contents to help participants understand what entrepreneurship is, traditional and lean startup models, and innovation, highlighting differences, new aspects, and operational methods. In addition, women’s participation in entrepreneurship still faces many difficulties, barriers, as well as life challenges. The numerous concerns of life, children, and family, along with the need for time and health—factors of primary importance—affect women’s decisions to start a business amid overlapping difficulties and uncertainty about whether they will succeed or have to go through failures and thousands of challenges (experience, time, finances, passion, access to information, societal needs, failure, etc.), which can quickly extinguish their thoughts and orientations toward entrepreneurship.

When do women feel happy? What causes startup failure? What are the steps of entrepreneurship, the startup ecosystem, and how do we approach entrepreneurship? How do we use the community map, recognize social needs, and identify appropriate methods and innovations suitable for the market? These questions and topics were shared specifically and in detail by PhD Nguyen Van Tan. Not only providing theoretical knowledge, the women also experienced analytical and presentation methods through drawing a map of the commune where they reside on A0 paper. They worked in groups, discussed, and then presented traffic routes, identified store locations, expressed aspirations, and proposed solutions for shortcomings in their commune, as well as directions for future development.

Through a test to determine the appropriate time to start a business, women gained clearer understanding based on their responses to the questions. The sharing session not only brought value and knowledge to women in Thong Nhat District, Dong Nai Province, but also strengthened the sustainable connection between the Startup Advisory Board of Lac Hong University and the women of the district, maintaining the relationship and serving as an important bridge for the development of entrepreneurship in Dong Nai Province.