Today’s intertwined crises have brought new challenges for the health of women, children,
and adolescents, particularly those in the hardest to reach communities. The tepid post COVID-19 recovery in developing countries, along with shocks such as climate change, fragility, debt distress, food shortages and energy price increases, are constraining fiscal space and burdening already stretched health systems. This has meant stalled or even the reversal of progress.
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Global Vendor Forum for Women-Owned Businesses: Accessing Consulting Opportunities at the WBG -March 22, 2023
Are you a women-owned business interested in doing business with the WBG? Join the
World Bank Group Corporate Procurement unit for an engaging presentation on how to access corporate procurement opportunities.
EVENT DETAILS
- Registration: Registration for this event is required and participation is free.
- Language: The language of the event will be English.
- CONTACT: Corporate Procurement
- corporateprocurement@worldbank.org
Global Vendor Forum for Women-Owned Businesses: Accessing Consulting Opportunities at the WBG -March 22, 2023
Are you a women-owned business interested in doing business with the WBG? Join the World Bank Group Corporate Procurement unit for an engaging presentation on how to access corporate procurement opportunities.
EVENT DETAILS
- Registration: Registration for this event is required and participation is free.
- Language: The language of the event will be English.
- CONTACT: Corporate Procurement
- corporateprocurement@worldbank.org
Global Vendor Forum for Women-Owned Businesses: Accessing Consulting Opportunities at the WBG -March 22, 2023
Are you a women-owned business interested in doing business with the WBG? Join the World Bank Group Corporate Procurement unit for an engaging presentation on how to access corporate procurement opportunities.
EVENT DETAILS
- Registration: Registration for this event is required and participation is free.
- Language: The language of the event will be English.
- CONTACT: Corporate Procurement
- corporateprocurement@worldbank.org
Women’s Leadership and Collective Action: Driving change toward gender equality and empowerment
Empowering women helps countries overcome crises, unleash trillions of dollars in
economic potential, and improve community wellbeing. Yet, globally, the advancement in women’s education has not translated into better jobs, more assets, or stronger voice for women. How, then, to accelerate equality?
Did you say, “Women and Girls in Science”? Meet Sally, who proves that women can succeed in STEM
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Promoting women in science is a key focus of the African Higher Education Centers of Excellence (ACE) program, launched in 2014 to support higher skills development in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
- These fields tend to be male dominated, especially in Africa. Across the continent, the ACE program –supported by the World Bank – is more and more attracting female students for whom “science has no gender”.
- Mbassally “Sally” Manneh is one of those “Girls in Science” who has successfully achieved her dream to become an architect. Her story is impressive and interesting.
Women and Girls are Key to Effective Climate Action
Women, Business and the Law 2022
Women, Business and the Law 2022 is the eighth in a series of annual studies measuring
the laws and regulations that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. The project presents eight indicators structured around women’s interactions with the law as they move through their careers: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension. Amid a global pandemic that threatens progress toward gender equality, ‘Women, Business and the Law 2022’ identifies barriers to women’s economic participation and encourages reform of discriminatory laws. This year, the study also includes pilot research related to childcare and implementation of the law. By examining the economic decisions women make throughout their working lives, as well as the pace of reform over the past 50 years, Women, Business and the Law makes an important contribution to research and policy discussions about the state of women’s economic empowerment. The indicators build evidence of the critical relationship between legal gender equality and women’s employment and entrepreneurship. Data in ‘Women, Business and the Law 2022’ are current as of October 1, 2021.
eC2: Study on climate smart agriculture technologies and investment opportunities
Deadline:21-Apr-2022 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) 
The objective of this assignment is to provide a toolkit for women regarding nature based solutions that the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development’s (DCED) Green Growth Working Group. The toolkit should support the development and growing market demand for affordable, gender-responsive, nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation and biodiversity in developing countries, and that women as entrepreneurs, business owners, workers and supply-chain actors – are particularly well positioned to help address this need.
ec2: Study on rural women farmers and agri-WSMEs insurance needs in Nigeria, Zambia and Sri Lanka
Deadline: 24-May-2021 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
IFC has been actively partnering with insurers in the emerging markets to increase womens access to insurance and boost their employment opportunities in the insurance sector. In order to develop and roll out suitable solutions in partnership with the local insurance industry and strengthen market capacity for sustainability in these three target markets, the Global Index Insurance Program (GIIF) and the IFC Womens Insurance Program, are jointly conducting a diagnostic study to identify the insurance needs of rural women, the existing barriers preventing access to insurance, and potential solutions that can be designed through an IFC advisory project. The study will be conducted in Nigeria, Zambia and Sri Lanka. The diagnostic will be done through surveys and in-depth interviews with i) Rural women farmers, ii) rural agribusiness WSMEs, iii)insurance companies (review and analysis of existing gender approaches and current agricultural/ health/ life schemes).
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