indeed improving women s access to adequate training and information is vital to increase womens participation in the labour force in quality jobs and in entrepreneurial activity for women already in the labour force and for those who have a fledgling enterprise improved access to ongoing entrepreneurship and business management training services would accelerate women s startup and business growth potential a number of institutions such as womens enterprise centres and business incubators for women have been established in mena economies to overcome this gap but few studies have identified their impact key success factors and potential for replication overall there is a need for more wide scale targeted efforts to identify gaps and conduct targeted measures to improve support provision to women entrepreneurs