Women's Economic Empowerment
Focus area 2: Women's economic empowerment and rights
Under this focus area, FEMNET will facilitate activities towards the promotion of African women's economic empowerment including increasing access to information and productive resources, and ensuring African women's effective participation in changing macroeconomic policy frameworks to be more gender responsive, engendering trade arrangements between African countries and other regions and contributing to the discourse on development cooperation and new aid modalities from a gender perspective.
The desired changes envisioned here is:
- Equal opportunities for women to access education, training and decent work
- Increased ability of African women to create wealth and improve their economic status
- Macro-economic policies and trade arrangements between countries and across regions are gender responsive
- Increased participation of women in in-country and regional economic processes including but not limited to economic planning
- African women have increased ownership and control of property including land and other productive resources
- Platforms for addressing religious and cultural barriers towards women's economic empowerment established
- Women's organizations as drivers for African women's economic empowerment