Young Women Entrepreneurs as Drivers of SDGS

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Young Women Entrepreneurs as Drivers of SDGs

The Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum (ICYF) held the Yung Women Entrepreneurs as Drivers of SDGs, 4-Day ONLINE Program jointly organized with the UNIDO Investment and Technology Promotion Office in Manama, the Kingdom of Bahrain, and other OIC and international institutions, on the 14-17th September 2020.

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The Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum will be holding the YOUNG WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS AS DRIVERS OF SDGS, 4-Day ONLINE PROGRAM jointly organized with the UNIDO Investment and Technology Promotion Office in Manama, the Kingdom of Bahrain, and other OIC and international institutions, on the 14-17th September 2020.
The program serves as a platform to address the vital role of young women entrepreneurs in driving growth and SDG. It also highlights the key role of institutions in enhancing opportunities and further strengthening cooperation with regards to further boosting women’s entrepreneurial opportunities.
The program entails a special focus on the role of young entrepreneurs as core benefactors, and benefactresses within sustainable development schemes. Attention to various programs and initiatives aiming to enhance cooperation on young women entrepreneurship, capacity-building, and partnership enhancement is crucial in the way of effectively impacting regional policies and programs and the overall SDG agenda.

The Idea

The program is purposed at (a) sharing good practices on infrastructures and ecosystems, (b) highlighting institutional efforts and initiatives for young women entrepreneurs, and (c) encouraging policy trends on the sustainable growth of female entrepreneurial inclusion. Online YWE as drivers of SDGS program objectives •Sharing good practices on infrastructures and ecosystems, •Highlighting institutional efforts and initiatives for young women entrepreneurs, •Encouraging policy trends on sustainable growth of female entrepreneurial inclusion. •Developing the skills, capacities, and confidence of young women entrepreneurs, •Addressing key points related to the infrastructure and echo systems for women economic empowerment for sustainable development, •Highlighting financing and microfinancing young women entrepreneurs’ initiatives, explore current conditions, problems and challenges encountering women’s roles in and contributions to sustainable development of their communities, •Promoting women’s best practices, successful experiences and policy models pertaining to the course of sustainable development.

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Speakers & Mentors

H.E Ruhsar Pekcan

Minister of Trade of Turkey

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H.E Dr. Fehmida Mirza

Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination of Pakistan

Fahmida Mirza is a Pakistani politician who is the current Federal Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination, in office since 20 August 2018. She served as the 18th and only women Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan from March 2008 to June 2013. Previously, she was a member of the Nati...

Ms. Maha Akeel

OIC General Secretariat

Maha Akeel is the Managing Editor of the quarterly magazine, OIC Journal, issued by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). OIC is the second largest inter-governmental organization after the UN with 57 member states and is the collective voice of the Muslim world. The OIC Journal refle...

Dr. Hashim Hussein

Head of UNIDO-ITPO

Dr Hashim S. Hussein is the Head of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization – Investment and Technology Promotion Office (UNIDO-ITPO) and Director of the Arab International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Investment Training (ARCEIT) in the Kingdom of Bahrain. He holds a PhD (Hono...

Mr. Taha Ayhan

ICYF President

H. E. Mr. Taha Ayhan, the President of ICYF, took office on 1st January 2019. He graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. He continued EU Master Programme about EU Relations in Vrije Universiteit in Brussels. He studied Administ...

Ms. Agatha Johnson

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Ms. Mayssa Ghawas

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Ms. Simay Dinc

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H.E. Safia Boly

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Ms. Sharia Walker

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Dr. Cem Tintin

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