President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed South Africa\u2019s continued commitment to fight against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and to advance the economic inclusion of women.<\/p>\n
He made these remarks on Tuesday during a virtual bilateral discussion with Her Majesty Queen M\u00e1xima of the Netherlands to deepen cooperation on advancing economic inclusion for women in Africa.<\/p>\n
Queen M\u00e1xima participated in her capacity as the United Nations Secretary-General\u2019s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA).<\/p>\n
The President highlighted four main challenges African women face in relation to financial inclusion.<\/p>\n
These include the lack of suitable and affordable financial services for women on the margins of society; the significant challenge of COVID-19, which has been a setback for both women as well as the roll-out of African Union (AU) programmes.<\/p>\n
He said GBV continues to be an impediment to women\u2019s empowerment in the region and a lack of access to technology and digital infrastructure for women on the margins.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe President conveyed some of the fundamental steps that South Africa has embarked on, including the development of the Financial Inclusion Policy as a national policy that will ensure that 40% of public procurement is in favour of women,\u201d the Presidency said.<\/p>\n
The leaders also discussed tangible actions to accelerate digital and financial inclusion for women in Africa as a cornerstone of COVID-19 response and recovery.<\/p>\n
\u201cUNSGSA Queen M\u00e1xima sought to understand what key challenges African women face in accessing financial services, and what programmes South Africa and the AU were currently implementing to address these challenges.<\/p>\n
\u201cQueen M\u00e1xima stressed her keenness to advance the agenda for women\u2019s financial and economic inclusion in her capacity as UN Special Advocate; as well as in relation to the G7 Partnership for Women\u2019s Digital Financial Inclusion in Africa,\u201d the Presidency said.<\/p>\n
The UNSGSA emphasized the importance of digital public goods to accelerate women\u2019s financial inclusion in Africa. Examples of such goods include connectivity, regulation supportive of digital financial services, digital ID, and robust financial consumer protection measures. <\/p>\n
President Ramaphosa and UNSGSA Queen M\u00e1xima agreed on the need to work together to achieve their shared goal of women economic and digital emancipation and committed to meet again to further concretise collaboration and coordination.<\/p>\n
Queen M\u00e1xima intends to work with the President and other AU leaders to champion and address key challenges to the empowerment of women in Africa. \u2013SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed South Africa\u2019s continued commitment to fight against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and to advance the economic inclusion of women. He made these remarks on Tuesday during a virtual bilateral discussion with Her Majesty Queen M\u00e1xima of the Netherlands to deepen cooperation on advancing economic inclusion for women in Africa. Queen M\u00e1xima […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-182265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-sanews","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}