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Generate more and better employment and reduce gender gaps. The IDB, Mastercard, and their partners are committed to the success of the program and are working together to define specific opportunities for collaboration. Additionally, the program is also engaging with other potential private sector partners and welcomes additional expressions of interest. “Growing Together in the Americas” seeks to support companies led by women in three main areas: the development of capabilities and productive improvements to facilitate their insertion in foreign trade and value chains; the use and adoption of information and communication technologies for the transformation and optimization of their business processes; and improving the financial management of their companies to facilitate their access to financing.
The Executive Vice President of the IDB, Reina Mejía Chacón, made the announcement this morning during the Annual Meeting of Governors of the IDB. The announcement was followed by a livestreamed seminar, in which private sector leaders discussed the value of the new program. The seminar was moderated by the Chief of Staff and Executive Advisor of the Anhui Mobile Number List Office of the President of the IDB, Jessica Bedoya. Panelists Gheidy Gallo Santos, from the Office of the President of Colombia, Alejandra Ferraro from Accenture, Kiki del Valle from Mastercard, JP Suarez from Walmart, and Susan Segal from the Council of the Americas highlighted different instruments and initiatives that promote more and better economic opportunities for women entrepreneurs, and emphasized the potential of the program.
This program is the result of a collaborative process with businesswomen who are already part of the ConnectAmericas Women network. On the other hand, the technical assistance offered will be accompanied by mentoring from successful businesswomen and industry experts. We are convinced that these mentorships will be a powerful tool to promote the vision of businesswomen, improve the competitiveness of their companies and generate a multiplier effect in their communities,” said Mejía Chacón. “At the IDB we consider that it is vital to strengthen MSMEs led or owned by women in Latin America and the Caribbean to close gender gaps, support their participation in foreign trade and strengthen their capacity to insert themselves into regional value chains. It is our responsibility to empower women entrepreneurs so that they continue to be engines of economic reactivation and job creation,” said Bedoya.
The Executive Vice President of the IDB, Reina Mejía Chacón, made the announcement this morning during the Annual Meeting of Governors of the IDB. The announcement was followed by a livestreamed seminar, in which private sector leaders discussed the value of the new program. The seminar was moderated by the Chief of Staff and Executive Advisor of the Anhui Mobile Number List Office of the President of the IDB, Jessica Bedoya. Panelists Gheidy Gallo Santos, from the Office of the President of Colombia, Alejandra Ferraro from Accenture, Kiki del Valle from Mastercard, JP Suarez from Walmart, and Susan Segal from the Council of the Americas highlighted different instruments and initiatives that promote more and better economic opportunities for women entrepreneurs, and emphasized the potential of the program.
This program is the result of a collaborative process with businesswomen who are already part of the ConnectAmericas Women network. On the other hand, the technical assistance offered will be accompanied by mentoring from successful businesswomen and industry experts. We are convinced that these mentorships will be a powerful tool to promote the vision of businesswomen, improve the competitiveness of their companies and generate a multiplier effect in their communities,” said Mejía Chacón. “At the IDB we consider that it is vital to strengthen MSMEs led or owned by women in Latin America and the Caribbean to close gender gaps, support their participation in foreign trade and strengthen their capacity to insert themselves into regional value chains. It is our responsibility to empower women entrepreneurs so that they continue to be engines of economic reactivation and job creation,” said Bedoya.