NITI Aayog's Women Entrepreneurship Platform and DP World launch 'We Rise' for women-led enterprises
NITI Aayog's Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) and DP World launched 'We Rise' on 17 October 2025 to help women-led MSMEs scale globally, starting with export readiness for 100 women entrepreneurs.
Summary
NITI Aayog's Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) and DP World announced 'We Rise – Women Entrepreneurs Reimagining Inclusive and Sustainable Enterprises' on 17 October 2025, under WEP's Award to Reward (ATR) initiative. High-growth women-led MSMEs will be identified and mentored to expand globally, and DP World will use its logistics network and trade expertise to improve the export readiness of 100 women entrepreneurs. The Statement of Intent was signed by WEP Mission Director Anna Roy in the presence of NITI Aayog CEO B.V.R. Subrahmanyam. WEP, incubated in NITI Aayog in 2018, became a public-private partnership in 2022 and has over 90,000 women entrepreneurs on its platform; the ATR initiative was launched in 2023.
Key facts
- Initiative
- We Rise — Women Entrepreneurs Reimagining Inclusive and Sustainable Enterprises
- Partners
- NITI Aayog's WEP and DP World
- Target
- Export readiness of 100 women entrepreneurs
- Framework
- WEP's Award to Reward (ATR), launched 2023
- WEP
- Incubated 2018; PPP since 2022; 90,000+ women entrepreneurs
- Signed by
- Anna Roy, Mission Director, WEP
Practice MCQs 1 questions
NITI Aayog's Women Entrepreneurship Platform launched the 'We Rise' initiative in October 2025 with which partner to boost export readiness of women entrepreneurs?
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Correct answer: B — DP World
PIB: NITI Aayog's WEP and DP World announced the joint initiative 'We Rise' to enhance the export readiness of 100 women entrepreneurs.