Abstract
This study’s primary goal is to investigate how self-efficacy influences the relationship between victim support funding, training for women’s empowerment, and the growth of women’s business in Yobe State, Nigeria. Examining how victim support funding project training affects women’s business development in Yobe State is the goal. Data for the study was gathered using a standardized questionnaire. In the Fika, Gujba, Gulani, and Potiskum LGAs of Yobe State, 400 copies of the questionnaire were distributed to internally displaced women entrepreneurs who had benefited from the Victim Support Funds women economic empowerment project; 370 of these copies were returned. The study’s time frame is 2015–2018. The results indicate that women entrepreneurs’ self-efficacy has a strong mediating effect on the relationship between women entrepreneurs’ empowerment training and the development of women entrepreneurs in Yobe State, while victims support funds project women empowerment training has a significant impact on women entrepreneurs’ entrepreneurship development in Yobe state. It came to the conclusion that greater understanding of women’s economic empowerment and recognizing their unique advantages, disadvantages, and potential is critical to the growth of women’s entrepreneurship in Yobe State.