Financial support for unemployed citizens to start their own business is provided in Belarus

One of the directions for the implementation of the State Program «Labor Market and Employment Promotion» for 2021-2025 is the provision of financial support for organizing their own business to unemployed citizens.

Over the past five years, about 7.7 thousand unemployed citizens have received such state support, 49% of whom are women. At the same time, about 80% of the total number of citizens chose entrepreneurial activities, 19% – handicraft activities, 1% – activities for the provision of services in the field of agroecotourism. Among the main types of business activities organized by the unemployed, the provision of various types of services (construction, hairdressing, transport, maintenance and repair of cars) and trading activities predominate.

Providing financial support to the unemployed citizens to start their own business makes an important contribution to the achievement by the Republic of Belarus of Sustainable Development Goals 1, 8, 10 and other SDGs.

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