for more details see escwa g p strategic objective a and paragraph a of the beijing platform for action which requires governments to promote and support womens selfemployment and the development of small enterprises and strengthen women s access to credit and capital on appropriate terms equal to those of men through the scalingup of institutions dedicated to promoting womens entrepreneurship including as appropriate nontraditional and mutual credit schemes as well as innovative linkages with financial institutions tunisia though has succeeded to reach out to rural areas which account for about percent of the total number of active borrowers