Empowering Women through Public Procurement
                        
                        
                     
                    
                        
                            
                                
                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                        
                                        
                                                                                                            
                                            Abstract
                                                   This guide provides governments, procuring entities and other stakeholders with a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by women-owned businesses to participate in public procurement markets - offers tools to address these challenges and stimulate increased entrepreneurial activity by women owned businesses; provides a brief overview of the public procurement objectives of public procurement systems; highlights common challenges faced by women-owned businesses in public procurement markets and discusses techniques to address them; reviews affirmative action policies and programmes to build the capacity of women-owned businesses and to encourage their participation in public procurement; discusses metrics, monitoring and evaluating progress towards policy objectives, as well as enforcing compliance with preferential procurement policies; includes bibliographical references
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                                                | 2019-02-02 14:30:35
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                                            كلمات المفاتيح :
                                                
                                               /Women and economic participation//Women Entrepreneurs/ /Women and business//Women and trade//Women's empowerment//MDGs//Gender equality// Developing Countries/