The Power of Procurement : How to Source from Women-Owned Businesses: Corporate Guide to Gender-Responsive Procurement / UN-WOMEN.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

UN Women.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and Gender Issues.

Local Subjects:

Women and Gender Issues.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (86 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : United Nations, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This manual provides corporations and their suppliers with a deeper understanding of the barriers and challenges preventing women-owned businesses from accessing and fully participating in local and global values chains. It provides the tools and techniques for reducing or eliminating these barriers and for leveraging the vast untapped economic potential represented by women-owned businesses. For many women, entrepreneurship offers a path to economic empowerment and it is incumbent upon corporations to help create conditions that permit this.

Contents:

List of abbreviations

Executive summary

Why gender-responsive procurement matters

Understanding and finding women-owned business enterprises

Overcoming the challenges facing women-owned business enterprises

Securing corporate commitment through data

Building corporate capacity and commitment

Conclusions

References.

ISBN:

9789210606301

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.