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 full variety of licences held by girls to 21,115 by the top of June 2025.
ADRA, which operates underneath the Abu Dhabi Division of Financial Improvement (ADDED), mentioned the figures reveal the impression of initiatives designed to empower UAE girls and improve their function in financial development and diversification.
The rise aligns with the Nationwide Technique for Empowerment of Emirati Ladies (2023–2031), launched by Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, The Mom of the Nation, Chairwoman of the Common Ladies’s Union, President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Household Improvement Basis.
Emirati girls obtain 18% of all new financial licences in Abu Dhabi
The technique goals to empower girls to steer and contribute throughout precedence sectors of the nationwide economic system.
“The rising variety of licences issued to Emirati girls displays the energy, resilience, and vitality of our economic system in addition to the success of ADRA’s technique to assist inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystem. We’re dedicated to making sure a enterprise atmosphere that permits Emirati girls to innovate and play a pivotal function in Abu Dhabi’s socio-economic growth,” Mohamed Munif Al Mansoori, Director Common of ADRA mentioned.
Al Mansoori mentioned new licences issued to Emirati girls accounted for 18 per cent of all new financial licences within the emirate in the course of 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 information exhibits that 2,768 licences (46.6 per cent of latest licences issued to Emirati girls) have been issued underneath 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 underneath the Tajer Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi Dealer) scheme, adopted by 788 commonplace financial licences and 246 freelance licences. The freelance licences allow professionals to have interaction in additional than 100 financial actions at minimal value.
The authority additionally issued 39 agricultural (farm) licences and 12 industrial (Rowad) licences to Emirati girls entrepreneurs throughout the identical interval.
The licences replicate girls’s presence in precedence sectors and sign a imaginative and prescient for the emirate’s future according to the goals of Abu Dhabi and the UAE.