This event is one of three sub-regional events in MENA to launch the Women, Business and the Law (WBL) 2018 report and raise awareness and conduct dialogue on the report’s key findings.
To leverage the findings and recommendations of the WBL 2018 report to engage policy makers and the private sector in a dialogue and mobilize actors to act and address some of these legal barriers pertaining to women’s entrepreneurship.
The event brings together some 70 participants from the private sector, policy makers, financial institutions and media. The event is a collaboration between International Finance Corporate (IFC) Country Management in Maghreb, IFC’s Gender Secretariat, IFC’s Banking on Women, World Bank Group (WBG)’s WBL team, and IBRD in Morocco and Tunisia. The local partner is CGEM: Confédération Générale des Entreprises Du Maroc.