Launch of Women’s Economic Empowerment project in Somalia
08 June 2015
- UN Women and the International Labour Organization (ILO) with the support of Swedish International Cooperation Agency (SIDA) are jointly launching a new initiative to promote women’s economic empowerment through enhancing their entrepreneurial skills.
The project has identified key areas of focus in creating an enabling environment for women to acquire decent work:
1) Creating an improved enabling environment supporting women’s economic empowerment
2) Increasing capacity of women’s associations to address barriers to employment and economic empowerment
3) Increasing access to skills and financial/non-financial business development services to improve income-generating capacity, productivity and competitiveness
The initiative will be implemented within a period of twelve month. Its main objective is to enhance women’s economic advancement and to foster an enabling environment for women entrepreneurship. This will be achieved through interventions such as entrepreneurial skills training in alternative sectors, resources to compete in markets and to have fair access to economic institutions.
The initiative will also support women’s voices and representation through a consultative mechanism intended to provide a forum for business, civil society representative to provide an enabling business environment for women. his initiative is committed to the goal of women’s economic empowerment, economically empowering women as a win-win situation benefiting not only women, but society as a whole.
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