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Published on 11 July 2024

Women's Economic Empowerment

Promoting gender equality and empowering women remain among the greatest challenges and a priority for all development partners. Women's economic empowerment (WEE) and their access to markets and services are widely recognised as being essential to economic growth and poverty reduction and are thus transversal to all private sector development projects and programs.

A woman in an African dress and a colorful headscarf stands behind a counter in her shop. On the counter in front of her are bottles and bags of nuts and spices.