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FinDev - participants of the meeting
UN Women joins with FinDev Canada, Portland Private Equity and CARAIA to equip regional Fund Managers with knowledge of gender-smart investing
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UN Women joins with FinDev Canada, Portland Private Equity and CARAIA to equip regional Fund Managers with knowledge of gender-smart investing in a workshop funded by the Building Back Equal through Innovative Financing for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Joint Programme
Kimara Lugay of Lindo Mart Supermarket, Lennisha Leblanc of Morne Prosper Women Farmers Group, Vanessa Julien of Warner Farmers Producers Inc., and Priscilla Jean Jacques of Morne Prosper. Photo: UN Women/Dawn Francis
Cultivating change: Women farmers in Dominica find new paths to market amidst COVID-19 shutdowns
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To support the women farmers during this crisis, UN Women has re-oriented its project, which initially intended to establish a seed bank to guard against future disasters. The project will now temporarily pivot to connect farmers to new outlets and market opportunities.
UN Women Executive Director: As we move forward, we will seek opportunities to win traction for, and achieve, the deep changes in the global financial architecture
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Statement by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director, on the financing for development outcome document following the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 13-16 July 2015.
Rural Women, Their Contributions and Challenges, to Be Highlighted at UN Commission on the Status of Women, 27 February - 9 March
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The 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women will open on 27 February at United Nations headquarters, focused on the theme of empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, sustainable development and current challenges.
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