Representatives of firms that joined Ladies’s Empowerment
Ideas (WEPs), met in Tbilisi. The representatives mentioned
points associated to gender equality within the firms they work for.
The dialogue was performed in “Males Speaking to Males” format, so
solely males participated on the occasion.
Renat Humbatov, AccessBank’s Micro and SME Govt Director
who represented the financial institution on the assembly shares his reflection from
the occasion: “As AccessBank, we pay particular consideration to the
improvement of the microfinancing in Azerbaijan. Variety of girls
entrepreneurs will increase within the latest years, which additionally enhance
curiosity of latest feminine staff to hitch our nearly all-male micro
and agro-customers serving workforce on the financial institution. Though we presently
have just a few feminine staff, they’re extra energetic and superior
of their work. I hope that our girls will develop into extra energetic each
in entrepreneurship and in microfinancing and can assist to extend
the effectiveness and implementation of Ladies’s Empowerment
Ideas.”
The UN International Compact and Ladies’s Empowerment Ideas,
developed by the UN Ladies’s Company, inform firms about
worldwide labor and human rights’ requirements in addition to
encourage companies to advertise gender equality and ladies
empowerment. At the moment, 13 firms have joined the Ladies’s
Empowerment Ideas throughout the framework of the “Enhancing the
Ladies’s Financial Empowerment within the South Caucasus, Section 2” – the
mission, carried out by UNDP in Azerbaijan. AccessBank is the primary
native financial institution that helps these ideas.
As a microfinance chief in Azerbaijan, AccessBank has been
serving small and medium-sized companies since 2002. Amongst Financial institution’s
shareholders, there are worldwide organizations and
establishments such because the Asian Improvement Financial institution, the European
Funding Financial institution and the Worldwide Finance Company. Financial institution has
29 branches, 15 in Baku and 14 within the areas. You’ll be able to name Contact
Middle of the Financial institution, 151 or enter into https://www.accessbank.az
, or social media accounts of Financial institution (Fb,
Instagram,
LinkedIn)
to get info on the companies of the financial institution.