The event, among others, will be a platform for encouraging women entrepreneurs to use Electronic Fiscal Devices (EFDs), thus contributes to national income.
The exhibition, under the programme dubbed ‘Month of Women Entrepreneurs’ (MOWE) Tanzania is scheduled to take place for six days and over 450 entrepreneurs expect to participate.
This would be 10th MOWE’s exhibition which is conducted annually in the country. National Coordinator for women entrepreneurship and economic empowerment programme of the ILO, Ms Noreen Toroka, said different from previous exhibitions, this year the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has been invited to create awareness among the entrepreneurs to use the EFDs.
"Though majority of these are still running their activities with low capital, they need to know how to use them as a way of making them be part in increasing the tax base for the country's development,” he said.
She noted that since its introduction ten years ago, the exhibition managed to enable the women grow up to the level of participating in big exhibitions. "Entrepreneurship is crucial area for creating new jobs and develop Tanzanian products,” she said.
Chairperson of the MOWE, Ms Elihaika Mrema, pointed out that major objective of the exhibition was to bring together the entrepreneurs and government's institutions dealing with providing services for developing businesses.
Apart from local participants, the event would also attract other attendants from neighbouring countries of Kenya, Uganda and Malawi. The MOWE programme is part of the Women Entrepreneurship Development and Gender Equality which is implemented by the Ministry of Industry and Trade in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
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