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Recommendation for empowerment:

For economic empowerment of women Promote womens economic advancement through
interventions at:

1. Policy level

2. Agency level

Make markets work for women

Empower women to compete in markets

And we need some action plan such as:

Action 1: Engender Operations & Technical Assistance in Economic Sectors
Action 2: implement result based initiative.
Action 3: Improve research and statics
Action 4: Undertake a targeted communications campaign

These steps need to be followed for economic empowerment of women:

Women should participate more and more in politic to establish their rights in politics.
The working field of women should be extended to increase the economic power of
women.
Social attitude towards men and women should be changed. Through social movement.
Along with political parties women organizations should come forward along for this
The govt. should be cordial and active to implement the effective steps in the rules and
regulation committee.
Women should be appointed in the higher administration with post of cabinet secretary
and in the ministry and department.
To eradicate the disparity of men- women wage reformation in wage distribution is
necessary.
Women workers cant protest against the injustice of the higher authority for lack of the
help of law.
Political and lawful rights of women should be included in the education syllabus.
All the international agreements against women persecution including extinction of all
discriminatory activities against women should be implemented fully or to take steps to
implement.
Reserve seat for women should be maintained for UP level to all sectors.
They should not be nominated for reserve seat, rather should be elected directly.

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We should behave with the female child equally in the house and outside the house and
the positive aspect of female child should be shown.
Research the macro links between gender equality and growth and the micro foundations
of such growth.
Examine the impact of policy reform on womens and mens welfare.
Design and conduct impact evaluations of Bank projects that potentially affect womens
economic empowerment, focusing on the key markets: land, labor, product, and financial.
Improve the collection and use of sex-disaggregated statisticsespecially those related to
womens economic empowerment and opportunitiesby building capacity for data
collection, reporting, and analysis in focus countries
The support of women entrepreneurship and business growth, for example, through
training, skills development and financial planning;
Provide community entry points for economic activity, especially for youth women,
through financing, access to credit and employment opportunities;
Develop fair international trade policies which deliver best practice and achieve
economic well-being for women
Increased access to educational and training opportunities, and encouragement of positive
socialization to promote self-development and enable full utilization of opportunities;
Improved access to credit and finance;
Improving access to management and marketing skills and appropriate technology;
Building and strengthening networks among female entrepreneurs, non-governmental
organizations, relevant governmental organizations, regional and international
organizations

For Empowerment of Women these Framework for Action should follow:

1. Education, Training and Socialization
(a) Recognition that education and training were essential for women's economic empowerment,
particularly for poor women, but inadequate, by themselves, to ensure that goal;
(b) The full incorporation of gender-analysis and gender sensitization in all education and
training;
(c) The provision of legal literacy training and awareness-raising for women in the labour force,
focusing on their rights as employees;
(d) Programmes for women to encourage self-confidence, advocacy and negotiation skills;
(e) Making marketable and profitable designs and prototypes available to female entrepreneurs
through international agencies;
(f) Educational and training policies should address women's needs by providing flexibility in
courses and schedules to take into account their domestic and professional responsibilities;

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(g) Full use should be made of information and communication technology, including television,
interactive video-conferencing and satellite transmissions, to deliver courses to large numbers of
women in both urban and rural locations, and to share existing satellite communication networks;
(h) Education and training should be provided to women in the places and institutions, in which
they gather for other purposes, such as markets, where courses can be delivered in a motivating
environment, in which skills and knowledge learnt can be immediately applied;
(i) Publicizing the central role of women in national economies and of "success stories" of
female entrepreneurs through a wide range of media, to assist in changing public attitudes
towards women's involvement in economic decision-making and encourage women to become
entrepreneurs; and,
(j) In the new economic environment of globalization, liberalization and increased competition;
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ii.

provision of gender-sensitive training of officials and representatives in the

governmental, non-governmental and private sectors to promote women's interests in
relevant regional and international forums; and,
Provision of training in marketing, export development and joint venture promotion to
female entrepreneurs and relevant associations.

2. Improved Access to Credit and Finance

(a) Policies to encourage existing financial institutions to extend credit to women in all sectors of
the economy;
(b) Development of mechanisms to provide collateral for loans for women without individual
resources. These may be established at the national level by associations of female entrepreneurs,
non-governmental organizations or Governments;
(c) Reform of property and land rights to guarantee women's basic economic rights; and,
(d) Promotion of microfinance schemes, including group financing without collateral and
savings/credit facilities, within the framework of experience about the need for careful planning,
well-trained scheme staff and effective monitoring to ensure success.
3. Building and Strengthening Networks
(a) Formation and strengthening of networks of female entrepreneurs in influencing all levels of
policy formulation;
(b) Advocacy and promotion to ensure inclusion of women's economic empowerment as a goal
of all major international economic agreements;
(c) Recognition of the effectiveness of modern information technologies in developing and
promoting cooperation, particularly regionally and internationally; and,
(d) Increased participation of female entrepreneurs in existing networks, such as chambers of
commerce and industry, Government structures, major regional and international trade and

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financial structures. A critical mass of women representatives of recognized umbrella NGOs

should be included in formal deliberations on trade and finance.
4. Improving Access to Management and Marketing Skills and Appropriate Technology
(a) Promotion of improvements in technologies to prepare, process and preserve food to aid
women as the primary food producers and significantly improve their economic conditions;
(b) Provision of mechanisms to assist women to use modern information technology, including
appropriate technological know-how, to access essential global information and market their
businesses internationally;
(c) The establishment of "incubator centers" as single places at which female entrepreneurs can
obtain a wide range of training, information and services and at which their businesses can be
nurtured;
(d) Mentoring of younger and less-advantaged women; and,
(e) Recognition of the need to build on women's existing technological capacity and utilize local
research and development resources (Anon., n.d.)

References
Anon., n.d. [Online]
Available at: http://www.un.org/esa/africa/womforum.html
[Accessed 26 November 2014].