20.500.12556/DKUM-84550-a435c728-d321-6356-448a-66b1d7899ca4 The impact of women’s economic empowerment on the rise of female entrepreneurship in Namibia Vpliv ekonomskega opolnomočenja žensk na rast ženskega podjetništva v Namibiji In this paper the authors investigate the importance of women’s economic empowerment and its impact on the rise of female entrepreneurship and human capital in Namibia. The research includes a case study analysis with four in-depth expert interviews. Data triangulation ensure the study's validity, and the case was examined through pattern matching. The results demonstrate that female entrepreneurs face challenges such as access to resources and education, socio-cultural norms, a lack of social protection, and a large and unprotected informal sector. The government and institutions shall promote women's empowerment through a direct labour market intervention, support for the informal sector, a gender-sensitive constitutional, legal, and institutional framework, the enforcement and oversight of gender-responsive laws and policies, and access to resources and education. Furthermore, women require digital inclusion, entrepreneur networks, social protection, and reformed sociocultural norms. If female entrepreneurs are empowered adequately, they will contribute to nations' human capital, economic growth, and development. V tem članku avtorji raziskujejo pomen ekonomskega opolnomočenja žensk in njegov vpliv na rast ženskega podjetništva in človeškega kapitala v Namibiji. Raziskava vključuje analizo študije primera s štirimi poglobljenimi intervjuji s strokovnjaki. Triangulacija podatkov zagotavlja veljavnost študije, primer pa je bil proučen s pomočjo ujemanja vzorcev. Rezultati kažejo, da se podjetnice soočajo z izzivi, kot so dostop do virov in izobraževanja, družbeno-kulturne norme, pomanjkanje socialne zaščite ter velik in nezaščiten neformalni sektor. Vlada in institucije spodbujajo opolnomočenje žensk z neposrednim posegom na trgu dela, podporo neformalnemu sektorju, ustavnim, pravnim in institucionalnim okvirom, ki upošteva vidik spola, izvajanjem in nadzorom zakonov in politik, ki upoštevajo vidik spola, ter dostopom do virov in izobraževanja. Poleg tega ženske potrebujejo digitalno vključenost, podjetniške mreže, socialno zaščito in spremenjene družbeno-kulturne norme. Če bodo podjetnice ustrezno opolnomočene, bodo prispevale k človeškemu kapitalu, gospodarski rasti in razvoju držav. gender equality gender-responsive policies female entrepreneurship self-employed females human capital enakost spolov politike ki upoštevajo enakost spolov žensko podjetništvo človeški kapital Namibija true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2023-06-19 16:48:47 2023-06-19 16:48:48 2025-06-07 03:06:17 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2022 0 0 str. 53-65 no. 4 Vol. 68 2022 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2022-01-05 005.1 139066371 10.2478/ngoe-2022-0023 0547-3101 https://journals.um.si/index.php/oe/article/view/2578 1 d5195360-42a6-11f0-872c-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=191879 https://journals.um.si/index.php/oe/article/view/2578 1 67dd407e-0eb0-11ee-9241-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=168166 https://journals.um.si/index.php/oe/article/view/2578 1 f6ff6224-421d-11f0-9cf0-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=191854 Ekonomsko-poslovna fakulteta Naše gospodarstvo 0 0 0