Reem BinKaram greets all women achievers on Women’s Day

This year’s IWD campaign theme, #ChooseToChallenge, is a global call to coalesce efforts for the complete removal of barriers that hinder women from contributing fully to society and economy as a way of enabling comprehensive and sustainable development across communities. Women’s full economic participation has the potential to add USD 12 trillion to the global GDP by 2025, according to a recent McKinsey Global Institute study.”

Focusing on the strategic efforts required to turn this ambition to reality, BinKaram referenced the NAMA and UN Women collaboration on a recent UAE-wide survey, which was conducted after the outbreak of Covid-19, to assess the impact of the pandemic on women-owned businesses, and identify ways in which the nation’s regulatory and legal environments can be further boosted to ensure that women in entrepreneurship and business are offered a level playing field.

“The survey is an outcome of our joint work on UN Women’s three-year Flagship Programme Initiative (FPI), ‘Stimulating Equal Opportunities for Women Owned Businesses, which seeks to train and upskill 25,000 female entrepreneurs across Africa, UAE, and the region so they can benefit from global value chains,” she added.

“Based on a sample set of over 1,000 women in the UAE, the results of the survey will be used to execute Stimulating Equal Opportunities for Women Owned Businesses in UAE program. Through this endeavour, NAMA’s goal is to fill existing gaps through the creation and mobilisation targeted programmes that will further integrate women in the UAE’s and global economies,” BinKaram continued.

She concluded by thanking the UAE’s steadfast leadership whose forward-looking vision has enabled Emirati women to contribute as dynamic leaders in the nation’s 50-year journey of progress.