Economic growth is another pillar of the ESDF’s intervention in terms of reducing economic vulnerability of affected and marginalized women in the post war context of Sri Lanka as well as ensuring social and economic wellbeing of those women.

The ESDF has been providing skills and technical capacity development trainings on small entrepreneurship and marketing with the focus of adopting new technologies and access online market platform. At the same time, build professional skills of women and give the opportunity to access the labour market equally.

Furthermore, the ESDF provides capital assistance or investments to identified women groups and mentoring them to start up micro and small level entrepreneurship according to their ability and willingness with the focus of building executive leadership of women entrepreneurs to access, manage and control resources to be a financially independent person to meet basic needs. Through these kinds of activities, reduce economic hardship and vulnerability of women and make them to contribute to the local economy growth of the eastern province. Make each and every woman aware about their economic and social rights as a rightsholder and motivate them to defend their rights in terms of accessing and getting equal opportunities in the economic sector.