“Empowering women and girls in pursuing agriculture-related careers, train entrepreneurship skills will not only accelerate economic growth but also will mitigate the effects of financial crisis by improving life standards of poor families in rural and urban area”,  These are amazing words by Sitora Khabibova one of the online mentoring program for young women entrepreneurs program.

In line with addressing this gap, Sitora is kickstarting a project, “Save the Talent” that she is passionate about. The project is a response to the increasing lack of skills, interest, limited access to job opportunities and insufficient participation of women and youth in agriculture.

“Empowering women and girls in pursuing agriculture-related careers, train entrepreneurship skills will not only accelerate economic growth but also will mitigate the effects of financial crisis by improving life standards of poor families in rural and urban area”,  These are amazing words by Sitora Khabibova one of the online mentoring program for young women entrepreneurs program.

In line with addressing this gap, Sitora is kickstarting a project, “Save the Talent” that she is passionate about. The project is a response to the increasing lack of skills, interest, limited access to job opportunities and insufficient participation of women and youth in agriculture.

A graduate of Business and Business administration  from the Russian academy of Economics, Sitora has years of experience in the financial sector. She has previously worked for projects financed by Asian Development Bank, UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Uzbekistan among others.

Currently, she works with SOS Children`s Villages as NDA/National sponsorship coordinator. In addition, she serves as the YPARD representative for Uzbekistan as well as the Knowledge Management Officer for the team for the YPARD Asia and Pacific.

Position: YPARD Uzbekistan representative

Education: Bachelor of Business and Business administration with a major in Finance and credit, Russian academy of Economics

Country: Uzbekistan

Sitora looks forward to learn skills and develop capacity to implement her Save the Talent business idea in the future. 

“Knowledge and skills I`ll learn through online mentoring program for young women entrepreneurs will enable me to make contribution in the society and in some sense bring change for girls and women”, adds Sitora. 

Her project idea on “Save the talent” aims to :

• Develop entrepreneurship, soft and employability skills of women and girls both in urban and rural areas;
• Train edupreneurs who will support and teach women in their societies; 
• Promote agriculture among youth, educate women and girls living in rural areas to the business of cultivating soil, producing crops, raising livestock and farming;
• Inter-institutional linkages between societies of  women, youth and policymakers;

Today, there is much more reliance on the agricultural market than in the past decades. Issues of what to do to reduce poverty, increase profit   from   agricultural   production,  employment   and   widen  consumers` choice are still to be answered.  Sitora believes that her project idea will increase number of social enterprises, food production; farms led by women will result in improvement life standards of poor families in rural areas, create new workplaces, and decrease number of unemployment among youth and women in rural and urban areas.