XERENTAS: Empoderamento da muller a través da promoción do autoemprego (Empowerment of women through the promotion of self-employment)

XERENTAS is a programme run by Fundación Ronsel in Galicia, Spain, targeting women in vulnerable situations and women from rural areas.

The programme aims to promote entrepreneurship and self-employment and to improve participants' employability through information, training and mentoring.

Participants are trained, advised and accompanied through the full entrepreneurship pathway — from developing and shaping a business idea through to its launch and consolidation in the market; where a business plan does not succeed, staff instead help participants define professional goals and support their job search.

The entry presents XERENTAS as a good practice for building women's economic and social autonomy through entrepreneurship support; no participant counts or outcome metrics are reported.