To achieve the goals of poverty reduction and sustainable growth in the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, empowering women is essential.
The reality.... Women are a priceless economic force, yet the employment practices are deficient regarding right working conditions appropriate to their situation. According to UNIFEM eight out of ten women workers are considered to be in vulnerable employment in SSA, which represents a sad reality on their livelihoods with little emancipation.
A positive step to address the problems...
The next initiative of AFAWI is to organise a forum for the stakeholders to exchange issues related to women in the SSA and trade development; and a regional conference is planned to be held in the first quarter of 2012 in Accra, Ghana. Never before in Ghana has there been a conference that has approached this subject; and it would be the first step to formalise a result-oriented forum that
hopefully would not be the last.
Our goal is to identify innovative strategies to enhance women in business. By learning from international expertise, the conference intends to provide an opportunity to address the concrete problems that women face and their potential to bring both environmental and economic benefits in the local Ghanaian market and hence regional trade.
In particular, the conference will address the following topics:
- Access to credit
- Micro-financing
- Current working conditions
- Potential contribution of women in trade and economic development
Targeted Participants: Donors, women communities, government representatives, development agencies, NGOs, financial institutions, local media and representatives.
The future of the women empowerment path is harsh given the current global situation, if we don’t take immediate actions; these issues will only jeopardize what it might have been accomplished so far...We strongly invite you to join us.
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