tailieunhanh - Gender Equality as Smart Economics: A World Bank Group Gender Action Plan (Fiscal years 2007–10)

Small and micro enterprises are the outlets upon which the government and many development organizations rely to curb poverty and unemployment rates, including among the youth population. These small businesses, both formal and informal, help to absorb the local workforce. However, most young entrepreneurs lack the required financial services necessary to sustain themselves and grow. Currently only of Yemen’s population has access to financial services. 3 Youth have been historically excluded from the financial sector and, as a result, face limited options for building livelihoods for themselves and their families | Gender Equality as Smart Economics A World Bank Group Gender Action Plan Fiscal years 2007-10 September 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS Objective To advance women s economic Complementarity with Existing Guiding Process and Overall Regional Focus Action Expected Monitoring and Human Resources and Next Figures Figure 1. Increasing Women s Economic Empowerment Examples of Policy and Agency Level Interventions in Key Figure 2. Four Action Areas to Address the Plan s Tables Table 1. Preliminary list of possible focus Table 2. Action Area 1 World Bank Group commitments in operations and economic and sector work ESW .10 Table 3. Action Area 2 World Bank commitments for Results-Based Table 4a. Action Area 3 World Bank Group commitments in policy research on women s economic Table 4b. Action Area 3 World Bank Group commitments in sex-disaggregated Table 5. Action Area 4 Undertake targeted communications campaign and staff Annexes Annex 1 List of individuals Annex 2 Proposed implementation arrangements for the Action i Abbreviations and Acronyms AFR ARD BBL BNPP CAS COCIN COCPO DEC DECDG DECRG DGF DHS DIME DPL DRC ECA EGCG EI ESMAP ESW EXT FAO FIAS FY GA GAD GEM GENRD GGA GICT HIV AIDS ICA ICR ICRW ICS ICT IEG IFC ILO INF LEG LEGVP LIS LSMS MAPS MDB MDG3 NGO NVP OECD DAC Africa Region Agriculture and Rural Development Brown Bag Lunch seminar Bank Netherlands Partnership Program Country assistant strategy Investment Division IFC Mining Policy Division IBRD Oil Gas and Mining Development Economics Development Economics Data Group Development Research Group Development Grant Facility Demographic and Health Survey Development Impact Evaluation Development Policy Lending Domestic Resource .