Luanda- Developing cooperation mechanisms, with a view to promote economic, social and cultural initiatives for poverty eradication and sustainable development is one of the bets of the ministers and responsible for Gender Equality of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CPLP), meeting this Friday in Luanda.
That challenge is expressed in the draft resolution on the Promotion of Female Entrepreneurship in CPLP that came out of the VII Ordinary Meeting, taking into account the promotion of economic dynamism and macroeconomic balance.
According to the document, it constitutes concern the inequalities on the basis of gender in the sharing of economic power, which limit the economic empowerment of women and exacerbate the feminization of poverty hampering the sustainable development of countries.
The ministers reaffirmed the need for the established objectives in Axis 10 of the Strategic Plan for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in CPLP (PECIGEM), on the economic empowerment of women.
The officials also highlighted the vital role that women play as development agents in the CPLP space, despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic effect on their physical, economic and social well-being.
