jordan s national agenda sets an objective to increase womens share of employment to egypt s sixth fiveyear plan to sets a target to increase the female labour force participation rate to qatar s national development strategy aims to raise the female labour force participation rate to by by changing public perceptions of the role of women in the workplace in trade and industry and society as a whole and encouraging women to assume leadership roles a number of ministerial strategies include provisions for increasing womens participation in entrepreneurial activity as examples the jordanian ministry of planning and international cooperation s executive development programme reinforces the role of women in the economy by including a focus on upgrading women s vocational and entrepreneurial skills and facilitating their access to finance in kuwait the undpsponsored economic empowerment of kuwait women project run through the ministry of social affairs has a component to promote entrepreneurship and to help women start their own businesses