This study examines the role of women-owned small- and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in raising labour force participation, and boosting economic growth in emerging markets. It explains the barriers Women-owned SMEs face, such as: access to education and training, legal and cultural barriers an...
This document comprises examples of strategies and policies to promote gender equality and empower women on the road to sustainable development in the UNECE region. It highlights issues such as: pay gap, access to financial resources, access to education and training, right to ownership, right to...
This report provides a picture of where women stand today in the world of work and how they have progressed over the past 20 years. It examines the global and regional labour market trends and gaps, including in labour force participation rates, employment-to-population rates and unemployment rat...
This article is based on a field study in two Turkish cities: Kocaeli and Sakarya. It discusses microcredit practices, as an important tool used in gaining economic stabilization, providing social welfare, increasing per capita income and accordingly reducing poverty. It examines the role of wome...
During the last few years, the Lebanese economy has been affected negatively, both by the global economic crisis, and the civil war in neighbouring Syria.This case study focuses on the experiences of nine Lebanese microfinance institutions (MFIs) who partnered with the Lebanon Investmen...
This study points out the challenges that women in poverty pockets in Al-Mafraq (Jordan) face on the economic level. It highlights the participation of women in small enterprises and discusses the ways in which the socio-economic status of these women could be improved. Indeed, it focuses on spec...
Even with the progress achieved in closing the gender gap, especially in education, a huge gender gap in the economic activity still persists in the MENA region.The book gives an overview of approaches and measures in eighteen of the Middle East and Northern Africa´s economies to promote, s...
This article gives a gender based approach to better understand the difference between male and female entrepreneurial intentions in the Egyptian culture. It is based on a fieldwork qualitative research made of interviews with 320 Egyptian French-speaking students in Egypt.The article analyses an...
This report is a result from an experts’ meeting about rural women and access to finance in North Africa and it studies the case of Algeria.Women living in rural areas face many obstacles, mainly in their access to education and schooling, employment opportunities, land ownership, in additi...
La Fondation Cherie Blair pour les femmes se centre sur le développement et la transformation des micro, petites et moyennes entreprises féminines en des entreprises grandissantes et durables. La fondation développe des projets avec des solutions durables aux d&eacu...
This platform is part of the Axis 1 "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors" of the Priority Solidarity Fund "Women for the future in the Mediterranean" funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women's Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
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