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Women's Entrepreneurship Day: Yao Euphrasia and Touré Massogbê urge to action

  
  
07-12-2016

The main objective of this second edition, held over two days, according to the commission, "is to train, guide and support women in developing confidence in their abilities and communicate their performance as well their ambitions ... "
Women's Entrepreneurship Day: Euphrasia Yao and Massogbê Touré urge to action

Institutions, government officials, associations, women groups. In short! many were making the move, this Thursday, October 6, 2016, to attend the second day of women's entrepreneurship. A forum organized by the Commission's development of female entrepreneurship (CDEF) of the General Confederation of Ivorian companies (CGECI), led by Massogbê Touré.

The main objective of this second edition, held over two days, according to the commission, "is to train, guide and support women in developing confidence in their abilities and communicate their performance as well their ambitions. This is to help women to assert themselves as leaders assuming positioning of major actors of economic development able to get out of microenterprises containment and primary industries as well as services for investment and directing large companies with high added value. "

According to the Minister for the Promotion of the Family, Women and Child Protection, progress has been registered in women's leadership, even at the level of quotas for women in different sectors in Cote 'Ivory. This, thanks to the Compendium of women's skills, a platform that allows to identify all the competent and committed women to fit into an area of ​​socio-economic development. Thus, she said, it no longer speaks today of the shares of this compendium, but their results are visible.

The Minister welcomed the draft of the new Constitution, if adopted in committee and in plenary then voted by a majority in the referendum, will be beneficial for women. For in this document, she said, there is mention of equality between man and woman. However, according to Yao Euphrasia, women entrepreneurs have to practice networking and cultivate virtues like love, solidarity and courage to get a place.

According to the President of cdef, Massogbê Touré, "any company, to build, must be built equally. And a priori nothing to prevent the woman to take as much as man. " For her, time is no longer the speech but "action and you are in the action." And take action, she explains, is to take risks. It is also and above all learn lessons of perseverance, good pipelines ... Addressing the women, she argues that the fundamental question is: How to take place in the process of emergence?

For UN-Women representative, after traveling in 2014, several regions, the institution realized the dynamism and commitment of women, but also their difficulties. Which has raised funding to women's place to promote their empowerment. It commended the work done by Massogbê Touré and his team in this empowerment.

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