Bilateral / Multilateral Business Councils:

There are Bilateral / Multilateral councils with 150+ countries for global exchange and developing business connections and collaborations with women in India and abroad.

Bilateral / Multilateral Business Councils develop business opportunities for their members globally across a range of sectors. They can request to connect with any of the councils in India for building bridges of cooperation and exchange in synergy and support.

There will be counterpart councils in both countries for developing exchange. For example for a country, let’s say UK, there would be a UK-India Business Council (based in UK), as well as India – UK Business Council (based in India). They will work in close cooperation to build the bilateral/multilateral business corridor.

Each of the Bilateral / Multilateral Business Councils based in India or abroad shall comprise: President, Denim Club Partner, Vice-President, 20 or more nominated Council Members, and any Advisory Members (Denim Club).

With active engagement of a wide cross-section of women entrepreneurs, businesses and professionals in all walks of life, we:

• Empower our collective influence on policy-making and decision-making at all levels;
• Foster the much-needed momentum toward changes at all levels, enabling equitable growth, inclusive development, and sustainable approaches optimising economic growth and societal wellbeing.

Commitment

WICCI and its manifold multi-sectoral and sector-specific Councils at International, National, Regional, State and City levels, suggest from time to time concrete steps and recommendations to relevant government authorities, engage in community outreach and collaborate with a variety of institutions to:

• develop policy frameworks for incentives and concessions especially regard improved access to finance and credit, and tax benefits;
• develop areas of focus sector-wise and with diverse stakeholders to mainstream women’s voices and uphold women’s interest, voice and visibility at multiple levels.
• hold programs, webinars, conferences, and especially around how to: raise funds, structure businesses, increase market share, drive sales, improve branding, and enable B2B collaborations.
• help mitigate our many challenges and boost business prospects through networking and mentoring;
• collaborate across councils in India and abroad in mutual exchange and empowerment, boosting business-to-business interaction and economic activity.
• strengthen women’s voice and leadership in the media and across institutions;
• and other measures that empower the competitiveness of Businesswomen, Entrepreneurs and Professionals, toward enhancing our economic inclusion and business growth overall.

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Councils are flexibly structured, enabling them to work with inclusion, diversity and self-determination, within an enabling organisational framework and a guiding Code of Conduct.

Across all our platforms, we work with a spirit of sisterhood in trust and togetherness and an ethos of participatory/distributed leadership. We seek active engagement of all council members. When thousands of us give our ideas, then we will truly understand what needs to be done and implemented. These ideas and thoughts should continuously come from all strata of life and diverse backgrounds, so that one can assimilate and implement with understanding of what is truly required at grassroots for policy and mindset change. It is these diverse inputs that form the broad basis of many of the unique ideas and innovative actions/recommendations evolved by councils and presented to various government authorities.