1. ECONOMIC PARTICIPATION
GROUP 1

2. Solutions/recommendations
Obstacles
Opportunities
Challenges
Solutions/recommendations
Political will
Lack of implementation
National strategies that include gender
Lack of awareness & understandinf of gender issues from policy makers
Success stories from other coutries
MBG
Bureaucracy
Policy making institutions
Narrow vision in planing
Lack of financial ressources
Conditionality to include gender in institutional practrices
Gender-sensitive budgeting
Allocation budget for implemantation of gender strategies
Societal, cultural and political trends
Negative social habits and believes
Illetracy
Lack of skills and human capacities
Inequality in access to economic opportunities
Implication of migration
Diferent social view of women role in society
Diversity in economic sectors
Resistance to change in society
Lack of supprtive envirnement for women work to balance work & home responsabilities
Linking education to labor market needs
Awareness of society to support changes & social roles
Diversification in economic secorts to increase job opportunities(L& FDI) & support development&research
Develop training strategies to train & empower women
Legal framework (national/international
Lack of propre application of laws that support women’s economic participation
Laws that limit women’s employment
Slow updating of laws
Comit to the international conventions and agreement
Aplication of the constotution
Lack of women’s participation in law making
Legal illetracy by society and women
Reservation to international conventions
Participation of women in decision making
Legal litracy
Law reforms
Technical capacities
Week capcaities and skills
Lack of ressources
Lack of gender integration within technical capacities
International cooperation with IO to develop best practices
Gender related data base
Lack of coordination between acdemia, R&D, 1 civil society
Build g and make available ender desegregated data base
Assessment of needs in technical training
Institutional capacities
Institutional mechanisms and systems
Slow administrative process
Lack of controle and accountability
Lack of transparency
Analytical researches linking impact of administrative problems to gender issues
Best practices of IO
Lack of modernization of the administration
Lack of resources
Lack of gender budget
Make resources available
Reform administrative practices
Gender budget
Role/Capacity of civil society organisations, women groups and networks
Lack of linkage & coordination between civil society
Lack of communication with government
Lack of participation in developing national strategies
International trends to include civil society
International Organizations that support gender awerness
Concentration of civil society and NGO in big cities
Repetition in activities targeting gender
Duplication of efforts
lack of resources and capacities
Provide resources and training
Unification of efforts
Participation in developing national strategies
Network and learn from other women NGOs
Renforcement of transparency
Others….