Sistan and Balouchestan – The Entrepreneurship Development Foundation

EDF presentation in United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65 – 2021)

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is one of the first functional commissions of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), which itself is one of the main UN organs within the United Nations created in 1946.…

EDF in September

Local Community Development: From Khorramshahr to Zahedan Through the efforts of local NGO Bahar -e- Khorramshahr, EDF, and trained local facilitators, a group of women in Sarhanieh, peripheral settlements of Khoramshahr city, managed to initiate a collective business. These hardworking…

EDF’s Response to Coronavirus

As the world faces the COVID-19 pandemic, societies have to endure overwhelming social and economic challenges in addition to dealing with the worse public health crisis of the century. The coronavirus crisis in multiple and overlapping dimensions and levels affects…

The Women and Youth Entrepreneurship Development Foundation (EDF) is a non-governmental and non-profit organization established in 2004. Our aim is to promote business and entrepreneurship skills among women, youth, and local NGOs, and facilitate the social and economic empowerment of local communities on their path toward sustainable development. We focus on creating community-based organizations (CBOs) in various geographical regions of Iran, with priority given to underprivileged areas, especially Sistan and Balochistan, Khuzestan, and South Khorasan.