The Abu Dhabi Registration and Licensing Authority (ADRA) has issued 5,930 new financial licences to Emirati girls entrepreneurs between July 2024 and June 2025, bringing the whole variety of licences held by girls to 21,115 by the top of June 2025.
ADRA, which operates beneath the Abu Dhabi Division of Financial Growth (ADDED), stated the figures exhibit the affect of initiatives designed to empower UAE girls and improve their position in financial development and diversification.
The rise aligns with the Nationwide Technique for Empowerment of Emirati Girls (2023–2031), launched by Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, The Mom of the Nation, Chairwoman of the Common Girls’s Union, President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Household Growth Basis.
Emirati girls obtain 18% of all new financial licences in Abu Dhabi
The technique goals to empower girls to guide and contribute throughout precedence sectors of the nationwide financial system.
“The rising variety of licences issued to Emirati girls displays the energy, resilience, and vitality of our financial system in addition to the success of ADRA’s technique to help inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystem. We’re dedicated to making sure a enterprise setting that allows Emirati girls to innovate and play a pivotal position in Abu Dhabi’s socio-economic growth,” Mohamed Munif Al Mansoori, Director Common of ADRA stated.
Al Mansoori stated new licences issued to Emirati girls accounted for 18 per cent of all new financial licences within the emirate through the interval.
“Emirati girls are a basic pillar of our society’s development. Between July 2024 and June 2025, new licences issued to Emirati girls accounted for 18 per cent of all new financial licences within the emirate. This demonstrates their rising management in shaping the enterprise panorama. ADRA stays dedicated to offering a clear, efficient, and supportive licensing system that drives enterprise development whereas sustaining full regulatory compliance,” he added.
The info reveals that 2,768 licences (46.6 per cent of recent licences issued to Emirati girls) have been issued beneath the Mobdea licence scheme.
The Mobdea licence permits girls to launch companies throughout greater than 50 financial actions with out requiring a bodily workplace.
An additional 1,830 licences (30 per cent) have been issued beneath the Tajer Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi Dealer) scheme, adopted by 788 commonplace financial licences and 246 freelance licences. The freelance licences allow professionals to interact in additional than 100 financial actions at minimal price.
The authority additionally issued 39 agricultural (farm) licences and 12 industrial (Rowad) licences to Emirati girls entrepreneurs throughout the identical interval.
The licences mirror girls’s presence in precedence sectors and sign a imaginative and prescient for the emirate’s future in step with the targets of Abu Dhabi and the UAE.
