Pacific Alliance in Buenaventura: will support companies led by women - Cali - Colombia

At the Summit of Pacific alliance an action plan is approved, within a period of six months, to promote greater participation of companies led by women in production chains, in such a way as to favor their insertion in intra- and extra-regional trade, with special emphasis on rural women’s entrepreneurship.

This is one of the two proposals within the Alliance that are being discussed today at the Summit, which is being held at the Bahía Málaga Naval Base, in Buenaventura.

According to the vice president and chancellor, Martha Lucia RamirezThe economic empowerment of women is sought.

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This proposal was even discussed prior to the Summit, in the framework of the meeting of the Council of Ministers of this mechanism, made up of the foreign ministers and trade ministers of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.

The second proposal aims to carry out, in those same six months, a diagnosis of public policies at the economic level with a gender approach to identify strategic elements that increase and improve the participation of women, facing a economic growth sustainable and equitable.

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“With the endorsement of the Foreign Ministers and Trade Ministers, this proposal will become a mandate of the Pacific Alliance, which will be in charge of the Gender Technical Group,” said Ramírez.

The senior official highlighted that on December 11, 2020, within the framework of the XV Summit of the Pacific Alliance, held in Chile, the leaders of Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Peru signed the ‘Declaration of the Pacific Alliance on Equality of Gender’, together with the roadmap for the autonomy and economic empowerment of women of this regional integration mechanism.

With this, it seeks to guide the work of the Pacific Alliance in the design, implementation and evaluation of public policies and initiatives, to promote the economic and social development of women in the member countries.

The group was founded in 2011 by Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru.

In this meeting in Buenaventura, Colombia will transfer to Mexico the pro tempore Presidency of the integration group, exercised in the last year by President Iván Duque.

In this zone of the Colombian Pacific, the Presidential Declaration for the Strengthening of Creative Industries will be signed and the Business Council of the Pacific Alliance will meet.

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