The Family Affairs Council and the Social Development Bank sign a joint cooperation agreement under the patronage of His Excellency the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development Eng. Ahmed bin Sulaiman Al-Rajhi, the Family Affairs Council and the Social Development Bank signed a joint cooperation agreement to launch the “Ideathon Tala Women” initiative, to support entrepreneurs, business owners, self-employed workers, projects and ideas that serve women in the governorates and centers in various regions of the Kingdom, where the Council was represented by Dr. Hala Altwaijri, Secretary General, and Mr. Ibrahim Al-Rashed, CEO.
This agreement comes within the framework of cooperation between the Council and several governmental and private entities that support the initiatives of the Family Affairs Council, which are aimed at all family members, including the Tala Women’s Initiative, which seeks to develop and enhance the personal success skills of girls participating in the program by providing them with information, attitudes and skills that raise their personal performance level.
In line with the goals and strategy of the Council’s Women’s Committee, the Women’s Ideathon will be designed and launched to provide developmental projects that serve women in several fields and provide financial services, namely financing self-employment projects, small enterprises, and providing non-financial services to entrepreneurs and pioneers in the governorates and centers in the Kingdom’s regions. The Women’s Tala Initiative, which derives its name from the meanings of “empowerment, authenticity, meat, development”, is a national initiative that serves the largest number of women in all governorates and regions of Saudi Arabia, aims at economic empowerment, and is a business incubator for women who have pioneering economic ideas, and are assisted through technical, legal and financial support and access to loans.
On this occasion, the Secretary General of the Family Affairs Council, Dr. Hala Al-Tuwaijri, stressed the Council’s keenness to enhance the status of the family, preserve it, and encourage civil participation in caring for its issues and objectives in various regions of the Kingdom, in line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, which aims to increase the participation of women in the labor market from 20% to 30%, and increase the contribution of small and medium enterprises to the gross domestic product from 20% to 35%.
