UNDP Multi Country Office in Jamaica 104d ago

When crisis strikes, experts know that small businesses need to recover quickly, to restore, commerce, goods and services. Economic recovery depends on it. In Jamaica, 97% of all businesses are MSMEs. They are the backbone of the economy and play a significant role in job creation, tax collections and living standards. Women make up just over 50% of all small and micro enterprise owners in Jamaica, yet they face a few more challenges when crisis strikes - Family burden of care, access to capital and land tenure issues to name a few. For women with disabilities, these challenges are compounded by physical and attitudinal barriers that impede their recovery. To ensure a large constituency of the SME sector is not left behind, UNDP has dedicated some resources to the recovery of SME's owned by women, including persons with disabilities. These are their stories.