Doing Business Gender - Economic Opportunities for Women

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Private sector development is assuming increasing importance in the World Bank Group’s work.

By improving the investment climate, the reach of markets can be extended to provide greater job and income opportunities for poor women and men. Understanding women’s and men’s different needs and constraints can improve private sector development. On this page you will find information on World Bank and IFC gender work in the private sector, as well as links to information on the involvement of different private sector actors.

	Doing Business Gender Project: A joint project of the IFC and the World Bank Vital Voices Leadership & Advocacy Fund Project Profiles, Overviews & Progress Report (PDF 490KB) Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment through Supplier Diversity Ebook, "Women in Vanuatu: Analyzing Challenges to Economic Participation" Leveling the Playing Field for Women in Africa and the Middle East Increasing Economic Opportunities for Women in Asia and the Pacific GAP- Doing Business Gender Law Library WorldBank Gender Action Plan Sponsors 'Leveling the Playing Field for Women's Social Economic Progress' Doing Business Gender Webpage - Doing Business: Women in Africa Ikonjo-Iweala launches Doing Business Report on Women in Africa Doing Business Gender Two-Page Flyer ( PDF 110KB)

	The Private Sector Leaders Forum (PSLF) The Global Private Sector Leaders Forum is an initiative of the World Bank Group Gender Action Plan (GAP) to engage private sector leaders in promoting women's economic empowerment. The Forum is one of World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick's six new commitments on gender equality announced on April 11, 2008 at the World Bank Group Spring Meetings. Brochure "Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment" (PDF 550KB). Learn more about PSLF in World Economic Forum 2009, Davos.

	International Finance Corporation (IFC) Gender Program The IFC is committed to creating opportunities for women in business. IFC Women's Network(intranet) IFC Women's Network is a group of IFC female staff who have a shared interest in understanding how best to support, leverage, and retain professional women across IFC and in cultivating an organizational culture that supports individual and collective professional development.

	Partners: Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative A global initiative that will provide 10,000 underserved women, predominantly in developing and emerging markets, with a business and management education. Learn more at http://www.10000women.org/ (March 5, 2008)

	Events Leadership at a Time of Economic Crisis: The Role of women (May 4, 2009) Presentation on Making Women Entrepreneurs: AIDOS Experience in Creating Business Incubation Clusters, ( PDF 460KB) (March 2008)

RELATED LINKS IDA at Work: Microfinance (Sept. 2007) Sustainability and Gender: Private Sector Perspectives--Exploring how executive women can contribute to women's sustainable economic empowerment in the developing world (March 6, 2007) Private Sector Development and Gender Equality Briefing Notes (PDF 145 KB) (2007 PREM Note: Using Microcredit to Advance Women (1998) The Gender Entrepreneurship Markets for Middle East and North Africa Checklist of Principles of Financially Viable Lending to Poor Entrepreneurs (1993) Indicators for Enterprise Growth and Financial Services Projects for Women (1993) Economic Policy and Gender: Trade and Competitiveness

Last updated: 2009-06-09

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