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The objective is to assess the progress made in gender equality and to provide recommendations to policy makers at the national and Euro-Mediterranean level.

Female university students from Albania, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia are currently receiving mentoring and training for creating their own businesses.

Over the course of 2.5 years, the project contributed to enhance women’s economic inclusion by harnessing the great potential of women entrepreneurs in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia and create the conditions for a sustainable and inclusive growth.

• UfM participates in the UNIDO Conference on Women Economic Empowerment in EXPO Milano 2015, an event aiming at establishing a political dialogue and identifying recommendations for policy makers and share good practices and business women’s experience at the international level.

• The UfM Deputy Secretary General for Social and Civil Affairs, Delphine Borione, highlighted that “it is the right time to harness the great potential of women entrepreneurs for an inclusive and sustainable growth in the Euro-Mediterranean region.”

As part of its women empowerment strategy, UfM has labelled a leadership project called WoMED “next generation of leaders” for 22 young women from the Southern Mediterranean, which aims to improve their leadership capacities and gender equality skills.

The project was launched at Sciences Po Paris on 1 June 2015 in the presence of Annick Girardin, Secretary of State for Development and Francophone Countries; Pascale Boistard, Secretary of State for Women’s Rights; Élisabeth Guigou, President of the National Assembly Committee for Foreign Affairs, President of the Anna Lindh Foundation and “godmother to the Class of 2015”; and Delphine Borione, Deputy Secretary General of the UfM.

Barcelona, 10 June 2015 The Union for the Mediterranean will be institutional partner of the TEDx Barcelona Women that will take place on 10 June 2015. TED is an annual event where some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to share what they are most passionate about. “TED” stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, threeRead more

UfM Secretariat Headquarters in Barcelona, 28 – 29 May 2015 The “Réseau Mixité et Gouvernance” network is an informal network of women senior civil servants in the Euro-Mediterranean countries, placing emphasis on the ministries where there are least women, namely the ministries of the economy, finance, justice and the interior. The members share the objective of improving professionalRead more

The project targets young women with high potential from the Southern Mediterranean countries in order to strengthen their leadership skills through an intensive training programme on issues of gender equality.

About the Conference The UfM Secretariat organises a High-level Conference on Fostering Women’s Participation in Economic Life on 19 to 21 May 2015 in Barcelona. Building on the outcomes of the first Conference on women empowerment held last 26-27 March 2014 and as renewed follow-up to the Third UfM Ministerial Conference on Strengthening the Role of WomenRead more

The UfM Secretariat (UfM) continues to support the regional agenda on women’s empowerment and gender equality with the implementation of specific projects and initiatives. Within the last weeks, and thanks to the support of the UfMS’s partners, major progress has been made in the implementation of the following UfMS regional labelled projects: Young Women asRead more