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The Permanent Mission of the People's Republic of China to the UN, the European Union's Delegation to the UN, and UN Women will jointly host a CSW68 side-event aiming to exchange views on the importance of financial inclusion of women and girls.
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The event provides a critical opportunity to raise awareness and consider strategies for strengthening women's economic empowerment, promoting human rights and gender equality through financial inclusion. National financial inclusion strategies can play an important role in identifying and overcoming financing gaps and lifting the structural barriers to women and girls' equal access to economic resources. Digital financial technologies can further provide new ways to support women and girls in the informal sector.
View moreView lessThe side-event will bring together representatives of states, UN agencies, women's rights advocates, academics, female entrepreneurs, and civil society to discuss progress and innovative financial inclusion strategies going forward:
- How can we make existing and future financial systems and services that are more accessible and inclusive for women, and better geared to supporting their economic empowerment and the realisation of their human rights? How can men and boys be better engaged to promote women and girls' empowerment in this sector and to reduce gender biases?
- What are the barriers for women micro-entrepreneurs to access financing and to opportunities for value chain for their development and economic empowerment, in order to reduce poverty and ensure better social inclusion and equal opportunities for them? How can we support women in vulnerable situations and informal sectors to enhance their opportunities in this regard?
- How can we uphold true multilateralism, leverage the multilateral rules-based governance order and rules-based international cooperation, gather synergy to enhance financial inclusion for gender equality on the basis of wide consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits? What are the ongoing global, regional or national initiatives in this sphere that can accelerate its progress? How can we support multi-stakeholder initiatives with civil society and business organisations to foster more inclusive, coordinated and balanced development for women?