The WEI Global Institute (WGI) collaborates with partners, such as the Global Women’s Entrepreneurship Policy Research Network (Global WEP), to engage academics, policy makers, private sector, and key stakeholders. The virtual roundtables aim to identify and address issues & solutions, share lessons, and advocate for changes necessary to advance gender
The WEI Global Institute (WGI) collaborates with partners, such as the Global Women’s Entrepreneurship Policy Research Network (Global WEP), to engage academics, policy makers, private sector, and key stakeholders. The virtual roundtables aim to identify and address issues & solutions, share lessons, and advocate for changes necessary to advance gender
The WEI Global Institute (WGI) collaborates with partners, such as the Global Women’s Entrepreneurship Policy Research Network (Global WEP), to engage academics, policy makers, private sector, and key stakeholders. The virtual roundtables aim to identify and address issues & solutions, share lessons, and advocate for changes necessary to advance gender
Click here to read discussion summary Click here to view the video Wednesday 21st September 2022 Recent studies highlight the importance of creating a more gender-sensitive entrepreneurship culture, including awareness raising campaigns, role models and developments in the education system (OECD 2021). Focusing on three very different cultural contexts of
The WEI Global Institute (WGI) collaborates with partners, such as the Global Women’s Entrepreneurship Policy Research Network (Global WEP), to engage academics, policy makers, private sector, and key stakeholders. The virtual roundtables aim to identify and address issues & solutions, share lessons, and advocate for changes necessary to advance gender
“Even though many daughters have legal ownership of their family-run business, meaning they have inherited the firm’s shares and voting rights, along with a first-class formal education, many of them aren’t equipped enough to be responsible owners. Most of them haven’t explored their own negotiation and financial skills and can’t
WEI 2021 International Conference on Women’s Economic Empowerment: Increasing Resilience and Building Forward Better SESSION 1. Drivers of Women’s Economic Empowerment: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Implications for Reform, Response, and Resilience READ MORE SESSION 2. Enterprise Development: Ecosystems and Opportunities for Micro, Small and Medium Women-owned enterprises
This GSS 2021 panel discussion and the related side event facilitated a discussion on the impact of the pandemic on women’s economic empowerment and recommendations for action by the G-20. Read the CALL TO ACTION Click here This panel discussion and the related side event at the 2021 Global Solutions
The side event focused on the importance of gender economic equity across the SDGs, particularly in the context of policy responses to the economic & social impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read the CALL TO ACTION Click here The goal of the side event was to focus on the importance
COVID-19 continues to disrupt and claim lives around the world, causing tragic numbers of hospitalizations and deaths. We all know that lockdowns have wrought a vast array of consequences: jobs lost, marriages destroyed, children denied precious opportunities for socialization and education. And, in the shadow of all this, there are