The unimpressive women enterprises performance as a result of inability to access capital from the conventional sources has remained a disquiet for both the governments and people in Southwest, Nigeria. This study examined the effect of government grants in accelerating women enterprises performance in Southwest, Nigeria. Primary data served as the main source of information for this research and based on the sample size of two hundred and sixty-seven women owned enterprises, the study employed mean, standard deviation and regression analysis at a 0.05 level of significance. The result indicated that, there is a significant positive correlation between government grants and performance of women owned enterprises in Southwest, Nigeria. Thus, government must encourage women enterprises by regularly offering grants that will accelerate the performance of their enterprises as well as leading to economic/enterprises growth and poverty reduction in the country.
Keywords: Government Grants, Nigeria, Performance, Southwest, women enterprises
