This book, based on a doctoral thesis presented at the Free University of Berlin, is concerned with the provision of appropriate management training for women entrepreneurs in the informal sector in Africa. Much attention has been paid to the informal sector in its many manifestations; less, perhaps, to women entrepreneurs operating therein. If the ambitions of male entrepreneurs in the informal sector have frequently been hamstrung by the absence of cash, credit, education and training, how much more so in the case of women. Yet informal sector business activities are frequently the only viable way open to poor women to combine family responsibilities with earning an income. But if motivated to develop and improve their performance, these women often find access to management training and entrepreneurial development programmes restricted by their position in the family and in society.