BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 24. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the American Chamber of Commerce in Azerbaijan (AmCham) are going to present a national business agenda for women in Azerbaijan soon, Michael Nehrbass, Mission Director for USAID in Azerbaijan, told Trend.
“USAID engages with AmCham on a regular basis to improve business environment in Azerbaijan, in particular for women entrepreneurs. We work together, because AmCham helps us as an active member of a steering committee, which is devoted to developing women’s national business agenda,” he said.
According to the head of the mission, USAID has been working with AmCham and other stakeholders for about a year and a half on the development of this business agenda, and the formal presentation to roll out the agenda will be held on November 1, 2022.
As Nehrbass pointed out, USAID’s general priority is on building a better environment for private sector growth with the emphasis on agriculture and tourism sectors, as well as the focus on devoting great resources on promoting gender equality and women’s economic empowerment. These are the priorities that the mission head for USAID determined in cooperation with Azerbaijan in coming years.
“All of these initiatives together intend to create jobs and raise living standards. We will proceed with our current projects implementation in supporting women entrepreneurs, agriculture sector, agritourism, private sector development, combating human trafficking, developing the capacity of civil capacity organization, improving the transparency and response of the public institutions, as well as promoting youth development. And I would like to stress that in all of these projects we work in close cooperation with the government agencies like the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, the Ministry on Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Economy, and many others,” he said.
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