The 2nd Webinar of our Series on Women’s Economic Empowerment and Inclusive Business

Women’s Economic Empowerment

Navigating Enablers and Constraints

Tuesday 6th February 2018

2. Women's Economic Empowerment: Navigating Enablers and Constraints

Tuesday 6th Feb 2018, 4:00-5:00 pm (GMT+3)

3. Women’s Economic Empowerment: Measuring Inclusive Businesses Impact

Tuesday 13th Feb 2018, 4:00-5:00 pm (GMT+3)

• Dr Catherine Dolan, Reader in Anthropology at SOAS, University of London, Visiting Scholar at Saïd Business School

• Diana Gutierrez, Global Programme Manager, Gender Equality Seal for Private Sector Global at UNDP

• Anuj Mehra, Managing Director at Mahindra Rural Housing Finance Limited, India

• Vava Angwenyi, Founder, Vava Coffee LTD, Kenya

Moderated by Nazila Vali, Knowledge and Partnerships Lead, Business Call to Action at UNDP

Business Call to Action Webinar Series

1. Women’s Economic Empowerment: the (Inclusive) Business Case

Tuesday 30th Jan 2018

Agenda

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• Introduction by Carmen Lopez-Clavero (6 min)

• Georgia Taylor framing our discussion on Women’s Economic Empowerment, the enablers and constraints (6 min)

• Arianna Rossi on the Better Work efforts in achieving gender equality in the garment industry(6 min)

• Mashook Mujib Chowdhury on Women Empowerment in DBL Group (6 min)

• Nicole Voillat on Bata’s initiatives around WEE both globally and locally (6 min)

• Q&A Session (30 min)

About the Presenters

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Georgia Taylor, Technical Director at WISE Development

Arianna Rossi, Research and Policy Officer, Better Work, International Labour Organization

Mashook Mujib Chowdhury, Deputy Manager, Sustainability, at DBL Group

Nicole Voillat, Group Sustainability Director at Bata Brands

Moderated by Carmen Lopez-Clavero, Programme Manager Specialist, Private Sector and Economic Development at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Carmen Lopez-Clavero

Programme Manager Specialist, private sector and economic development

Women’s Economic Empowerment

Not only sewingmachines, chicken and cows

The process which increases

women’s real power over economic

decisions that influence their lives and

priorities in society.

WEE can be achieved through equal

access to and control over critical

economic resources and

opportunities, and the elimination of

structural gender inequalities in the

labour market, including a better

sharing of unpaid care work

Key Areas

Entrepreneurship and private

sector development

Access to land and property

rights

Labour markets and decent work

Unpaid care work

Education and skills

developmentSocial Protection

Agriculture and rural

development

Georgia Taylor, Technical Director at WISE Development

Women's Economic Empowerment:

Navigating Enablers and Constraints

Women’s Economic Empowerment

A woman is economically empowered when she has both the ability to succeed and advance economically and the power to make and act on economic decisions (ICRW)

To succeed and advance economically, women need the skills and resources to compete in markets, as well as fair and equal access to economic institutions.

To have the power and agency to benefit from economic activities, women need to have the ability to make and act on decisions and control resources and profits

Agency - Personal and social power to make choices and act – to impact on the world in a way that may be contrary to social norms and structure

AgencyStructure and social norms

Companies supporting WEE

WHAT

• Supply chain – enterprises, home workers, farmers

• Employees – formalising, voice, rights

• Social norms in the workplace – leadership, culture, rules and system

• Structure and social norms in communities (e.g. GALS)

HOW

• With NGOs, informal worker associations, unions, small companies

• Influencing government policy and other companies

• Innovation

Thank you

Gender Equality in the Global Garment Industry

Webinar “Women's Economic Empowerment: Navigating Enablers and Constraints”

Arianna Rossi6 February 2018

We mobilize global brands, governments,

factory owners and workers to improve

working conditions, drive competitiveness

and create a more equitable, more

prosperous world for everyone.

Who We Are

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60+ brands across 7 countries

Reaching 1,500+ factories

2,000,000 workers (80% )

and their families

We currently engage…

Better Work works

An independent impact assessment of 15,000 workers and 2,000 managers showed:

Better Work decreased the gender pay gap by up to 17%, reducing sexual harassment concerns by up to 18%, and increasing women’s access to prenatal care by as much as 26%.

Improvements in working conditions are more significant when women are freely elected and fairly represented on worker-management committees.

Better Work works

An independent impact assessment of 15,000 workers and 2,000 managers showed:

Female supervisors trained by Better Work achieved a 22% increase in productivity on their line.A workplace free of harassment also leads to higher profitability.

Quality jobs for women have development spillovers including better health for workers and their family members and improved education for workers’ children.

Women Empowerment in DBL Group

Mashook Mujib Chowdhury

Sustainability Department

Programs for women

• Female Supervisor Leadership Program: DBL

• Women in Factories Initiative: CARE

• Women Health Program Initiative (WHPI): DBL

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights: Phulki,

Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

• Financial literacy: CARE

• Mothers@Work: UNICEF

Female Supervisors in DBL

• 10,000 female workers (49%) in garments manufacturing

• 40 Female Supervisors (250 sewing lines)

• 107% increase in salaries after promotion

• 2.98% more efficient than Male Supervisors

• Better in house-keeping

• 2020 Goal:

Tangible business impact

2%Female employee turnover(from about 6% in 2011)

ABSENTEEISM 3.6%(from about 8% in 2011)

$624,000Extra production annually

Countering the structural barriers• In workplace:

• Programs to create awareness

• In society:

• Community Knowledge Exchange Programs

• Community Ambassadors

• Within the female workers:

• Explaining increased social status

• Supervisors’ motivation

Vision for female workers

“To be the most attractive employer for the

female workers in the garments industry of

Bangladesh”

Q&A Session

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Women's Economic Empowerment:

Measuring Inclusive Businesses Impact

Tuesday 13th Feb 2018 |4:00-5:00 pm (GMT+3)

Register for our next webinar

• Dr Catherine Dolan, Reader in Anthropology at SOAS,

University of London, Visiting Scholar at Saïd Business

School

• Diana Gutierrez, Global Programme Manager, Gender

Equality Seal for Private Sector Global at UNDP

• Anuj Mehra, Managing Director at Mahindra Rural

Housing Finance Limited, India

• Vava Angwenyi, Founder, Vava Coffee LTD, Kenya

Moderated by Nazila Vali, Knowledge and Partnerships

Lead, Business Call to Action at UNDP

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