APPENDIX G Completion Report

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Project Completion Report

Please submit through your APEC Secretariat Program Director within 2 months of project completion.

SECTION A: Project profile

Project number & title : SCE 01/2010A – APEC Women’s Entrepreneurship Summit Time period covered in APEC WES – October 1, Date January 4, report: 2010 submitted: 2011 Committee / WG / Fora: SCE, Gender Focal Point Network, and Small and Medium Enterprises Working Group Project Overseer Name: Wenchi Yu, Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues, US Organization / Economy Department of State

SECTION B: Project report and reflection

Briefly answer each of the questions below. Section B should be a maximum of 2-3 pages, inclusive of the questions and tables provided.

1. Project description: In 3-4 sentences, describe the project and its main objectives.

APEC WES aimed to galvanize the Asia-Pacific community to unleash the potential of women entrepreneurs and business leaders to boost economic growth and development in this region. In addition to official delegations to the SMEs Ministerial Meeting on October 2nd and 3rd, the WES supported women entrepreneurs from each of the 21 APEC economies, bringing together 150 international participants in Japan. Our objective was to promote and foster the growth of women entrepreneurs in the Asia-Pacific region through policy discussions, networking, advocacy, and capacity building activities. Senior government officials and private sector participants were to help inform innovative strategies to strengthen women entrepreneurs’ participation and contributions to the region’s economic growth.

2. Meeting your objectives: Describe how the project went, with reference to the objectives laid out in your project proposal. Include any major changes to your project as proposed and any problems or obstacles that you encountered and how you overcame them.

The APEC Women’s Entrepreneurship Summit (WES) effectively carried out its mission to promote the Asia Pacific region’s future prosperity through the inclusion of women at all levels in the business and economic sectors. The WES participants shared ideas, identified best practices to address obstacles to entrepreneurship, established a comprehensive WES networking portal, and pledged to meet again in the United States in 2011 under APEC auspices to assess progress and further this initiative.

The one day, high-level APEC WES focused on the following topics: engendering entrepreneurship in the Asia-Pacific region, public-private partnerships to close gender gap for economic growth, innovation for business growth and networking, and commitments and community engagement. There were also break-out sessions devoted to identifying the best practices to obtain access to markets, financial services, technologies, and skills enhancement and scaling up.

3. Project evaluation: Describe how you evaluated the project and provide some details on the results of the evaluation (e.g. participant evaluation, peer review of publication, measurement of indicators, statistics demonstrating use of outputs etc.). APP ENDI X G C O M P L E T I O N R E P O R T

With the APEC Women’s Entrepreneurship Summit, we were hoping to bring the importance of women’s economic empowerment in the Asia-Pacific region to the limelight. The APEC WES was a success, as it has created the foundation for the future high-level policy dialogue on Women and the Economy, taking place September 2011 in San Francisco, California, USA.

4. Key findings: Describe one or two examples of important findings arising from the project (e.g. results from surveys or case studies, insights provided by participants or experts, policy recommendations, roadblocks to progress on an issue etc.).

APEC WES participants exchanged ideas and developed policy recommendations for best practices, including the following:

 Create a business matching program to place women entrepreneurs in the Asia- Pacific region in key industries  Increase women’s access to financing and micro-financing  Promote public-private cooperation to train, mentor, and educate women entrepreneurs and business leaders  Publicize women’s economic successes and related best practices  Expand government initiatives aimed at women entrepreneurs.

5. Next steps: Describe any follow-up steps or projects that you recommend. Have you already planned or begun these? What role could APEC play in any follow-up?

While the US hosts the APEC meetings for 2011, the US government is working closely together to form a high-level policy dialogue on “Women and the Economy.” This dialogue will take place September of next year in San Francisco, and will be in joint succession with the annual meetings of the Women Leaders Network (WLN) and the Gender Focal Point Network (GFPN).

Participants sponsored by the Department of State and APEC were provided with a “Participant Booklet”, containing the biographies and contact information of their colleagues also sponsored by the Department of State and APEC.

6. Feedback for the Secretariat: Do you have any suggestions for more effective management of projects in the future? Any assessment of consultants, experts or participants that you would like to share? (The Secretariat collates and examines feedback to identify trends for ongoing evaluation of our project management and/or communications systems.) APP ENDI X G C O M P L E T I O N R E P O R T

7. Participant information: Please provide details, where applicable. Insert rows as needed.

Economy # male # female Details - Participants sponsored by APEC

Australia 0

Brunei 0

Canada 1 1 speaker – Andrina Lever

Chile 2 participants – Michele Boisier and Julie 2 McPherson

China 0

Chinese Taipei 0

Hong Kong 0

Indonesia 2 participants – Retno Iswari Suharto Tranggono 2 and Martha Tilaar

Malaysia 1 participant – Shamsimar Yussof 2 1 speaker – Dato’ Beatrice Nirmala Adaikalaraj

Mexico 2 participants – Rosa Martha Brown and Rosa 2 Maria Armendariz Munoz

New Zealand 1 1 speaker – Mavis Mullins

Papua New Guinea 0

Peru 1 1 participant – Anna Dannon

Philippines 2 participants – Clarisse Nasser Tangsoc and 2 Myrna Tang Yao

Republic of Korea 0

Russia 0

Singapore 0

Thailand 0

Vietnam 1 1 participant – Vu Kim Hanh

Other: United 1 speaker – Tina Tchen 1 States APP ENDI X G C O M P L E T I O N R E P O R T

8. Outputs: Please provide details, where applicable.

# planned # actual Details

# of workshops / events The one day high-level APEC Women’s 1 1 Entrepreneurship Summit on October 1st, 2010.

# of publications distributed Article in e-zine distributed by a speaker at the 0 1 APEC WES, Dato’ Beatrice Nirmala Adaikalaraj

# of CDs distributed 0 0

# of websites created URL: www.women.apec.org In Phase I of the 1 1 website, Phase II will be launching in 2011 with increased interactivity.

Other:

SECTION C: Budget

Attach a detailed breakdown of the APEC- provided project budget, including:

 Planned costs (using most recently approved budget figures)  Actual expenditures  Variance notes: An explanation of any budget line under- or over-spent by 20% or more.

SECTION D: Appendices or additions

Please attach any of the following. This information will help us better understand your project, support overseers of similar projects and plan for future projects.

 List of experts or consultants utilised, with job titles and contact details  List of participants, with job titles and contact details  Event agendas  Links to any relevant websites or online material (e.g. reports, resources created)  Results of participant feedback or other project evaluation (raw and/or analysed)  Any other relevant information or resources that would help us learn more about your project

FOR APEC SECRETARIAT USE ONLY APEC comments: Were APEC project guidelines followed? Could the project have been managed more effectively or easily by the PO?

The Project Overseer cooperated closely with the APEC Secretariat and followed APEC Project APP ENDI X G C O M P L E T I O N R E P O R T

guidelines throughout the implementation process.