A new leaf in entrepreneurial history.

The ending of the year 1993 saw the beginning of a movement in female entrepreneurial development in Andhra Pradesh, India. ALEAP, registered under Companies Act of 1956, was established by like-minded female entrepreneurs to enhance the lives of women and empower them by helping them to establish small and marginal enterprises. 

The establishment of ALEAP is a reaction to the fact that women entrepreneurs in India continuously face a wide array of obstacles in starting, growing and sustaining their own enterprises. This initiative is a networking forum for individuals that are committed to the promotion and advancement of women as entrepreneurs. ALEAP helps women to recognise their true potential and, as a result, earn a respectable position in the world.

ALEAP’s pioneering empowerment and development of women has been instrumental in reinvigorating female economic activity in the Andhra Pradesh southern province, with a vision and mission to see women enjoy the benefits of actualising their potential. ALEAP proves itself by its strategic interventions.

ALEAP’s mission of a women’s entrepreneurial movement is achieved by a multi-pronged approach:

Facilitator and Business Development Cell (FAB): Counsels to provide input on government schemes and policy guidelines.

Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED): A training institute with four-fold interventions: training, research, design and development.

Incubator: The incubator facilities are provided for manufacturers to begin production without investing in their own infrastructure.

Vipani: To develop linkages between manufacturers and consumers.

Aleap Credit Guarantee Association (ACGA): It is a company created for the purpose of implementing a mutual credit guarantee scheme to access finance.

Industrial Estates: The first ever female entrepreneur’s industrial estate in India was established at Hyderabad with the support of state government and Government of India under the IID scheme.  It has all the required infrastructure facilities to transform women into excellent entrepreneurs. Its success encouraged the establishment of a multi-product industrial cluster at Vijayawada.

Rural Training: Skill training programs are regularly aimed at helping rural women with income generating activities, with the belief that if a woman is empowered, the whole family is empowered. ‘Skill-up gradation programs’ help improve their financial status. It helps in preventing people from migration in search of wage employment.

In a country of 1200 million people, with over 400 million engaged in economic activity, female contribution is perceived to be crucial. Female economic empowerment alone can power a growth-hungry developing nation.

Over the years ALEAP has built a strong support network with government and non-government organisations to provide the expertise and other required facilities for entrepreneurship development. ALEAP seeks to promote women’s rights and improve their quality of life, create income sources, give vocational training, develop industrial estates and work for economic and social development. Currently having 3000 members, ALEAP is affiliated to business women associations around the world.

In recognition of its services ALEAP is taken into the Task Force on MSME Chaired by the Honourable Prime Minister of India.

Today one no longer has to be big to move into a Global market.  There are a plethora of opportunities available.  However the journey from idea to implementation is not easy.  ALEAP intends to promote the culture of entrepreneurship by providing one stop service to women.

Be socially responsible
Understand the process of women entrepreneurship
Help the needy.

ALEAP is the premier female entrepreneurs association in India.