How can the private sector and development partners take forward the recommendations of the UN High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment?
Business leaders and global experts joined a panel discussion in London on 6 September 2017:
- Next steps and key event take-aways – read the blog by CARE’s Nilufar Verjee
- UN High-Level Panel puts the spotlight on the private sector’s potential to advance women’s economic empowerment – read the UN HLP event report
- How should we measure 'women's economic empowerment'? – read a report on the event on Devex
- Follow the conversation at #WomensBusiness on Twitter and relive the Twitter moment
- Three key questions about women’s economic empowerment – read the poll results here
The event was organised by CARE International in partnership with the UN High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, the UK Department for International Development and Business Fights Poverty, and featured:
- Presentation and launch of High Level Panel toolkits by Purna Sen, UN Women Policy Director
- Panel discussion on implementing the High Level Panel recommendations, the need for future progress checks, and sharing of good practices on women’s economic empowerment – with a focus on efforts by and with private sector partners, including strengthening women’s role in their global value chains
- Speakers were Nana Afadzinu (WACSI), Gwen Hines (DFID), Cynthia Drakeman (DoubleXEconomy), Cathy Pieters (Mondelēz International), Nilufar Verjee (CARE). Read full speaker bios here
Join the conversation: @careintuk #WomensBusiness
Event blogs
- Empower a woman and a whole cocoa community will thrive
- Empowering women in the economy – take-aways and next steps
- How business can tackle social norms which hold back women’s economic empowerment
- Empowering women in the economy: The private sector is an essential partner
- Hester Le Roux: Translating the UN High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment into action – Business Fights Poverty blog
- Women’s Economic Empowerment: Linda Scott from DoubleXEconomy answers the big questions
- Why tackling violence at work will empower more women and help deliver the SDGs
- It’s good to talk – the business case for good communications on tea estates
- It’s not just the economy: Decent work for women means focusing on rights and equality too
- Women’s financial inclusion in West Africa: From policy to practice
- Empowering women in the economy – CARE’s aims and objectives in organising the event
Read more
Inclusive economic development is at the core of eliminating extreme poverty and injustice, says CARE chief executive Laurie Lee in a blog for Business Fights Poverty on Making DFID’s Economic Development Strategy Work for Women
What CARE will do to ensure 30 million women have greater access to and control over economic resources by 2020 – read CARE’s Women’s Economic Empowerment strategy
Dignified Work – What is it? And why is it crucial for women’s economic empowerment? – Insights blog by Gerry Boyle
