Launching the Emirates Gender Balance Center for Excellence and Knowledge Exchange

• Mona Al-Marri and Issam Abu Suleiman during the signing of the agreement.

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The Emirates Council for Gender Balance, in cooperation with the World Bank, launched the "Emirates Gender Balance Center for Excellence and Knowledge Exchange", a regional center that aims to promote gender balance in the Middle East and North Africa region, by providing consultations, organizing workshops, and exporting best practices in the file Gender balance.

The wife of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court, Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of the Emirates Council for Gender Balance, stressed that this new regional center is a fruit of the achievements made by the UAE in the file of balance. Gender balance at the global and regional levels, and comes as a translation of one of the axes of the UAE’s gender balance strategy 2022-2026, which aims to achieve the state’s leadership in this file, and move from the stage of bridging the gaps and reviewing best practices to the stage of exporting practices. Supporting women and gender balance is universally recognized and praised, and a regional role model.

Her Highness added that "this center, through which knowledge will be disseminated and the necessary consultations will be provided to the countries of the region, translates the vision of the wise leadership of all state institutions by transferring the Emirati experience to brotherly and friendly countries, and enhancing global efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals that the UAE was one of the leading countries in adopting and committing to. including the fifth goal on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.

Cooperation Agreement

The Emirates Council for Gender Balance signed a cooperation agreement with the World Bank to enhance partnership between the two sides, activate knowledge exchange in the field of gender balance, contribute to providing technical advice related to the best gender-supportive policies at the global level, and cooperate with each other to promote gender balance in countries Middle East and North Africa.

The agreement was signed by the Vice-President of the Emirates Council for Gender Balance, Mona Ghanem Al-Marri, and the Regional Director of the World Bank for the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, Issam Abu Sulaiman, in the presence of Shamsa Saleh, Secretary-General of the Council, Hanan Ahli, Director of the Federal Center for Competitiveness and Statistics, representatives of the World Bank and representatives from Federal and local authorities, the private sector and the media.

Mona Al Marri said: “The agreement provides for the organization of joint workshops between the Emirates Council for Gender Balance and the World Bank, to enhance efforts to promote gender balance at the regional level, conduct studies, and provide consultations in the field of gender balance for countries in the region and at the global level. To facilitate the dissemination of knowledge and the results of studies in the field of gender, and to introduce distinctive global experiences and their economic and social returns, and ways to benefit from these experiences.

Issam Abu Sulaiman said: “The Emirates Center for Gender Balance’s initiative for excellence and knowledge exchange is timely for the benefit of the Middle East and North Africa region, where the gender balance gap is the second largest in the world.

We are pleased to partner with the UAE, the leading country in bridging the gender balance gap in this region.

We are certain that this center will be an effective platform to determine the development path in terms of gender balance in the region, and to share the successful experience in the UAE.”

 Manal bint Muhammad:

■ «The Center is a translation of the vision and directives of the leadership, with the participation of successful Emirati experiences with brothers and friends.

■ It is a fruit of the achievements made by the UAE in the field of gender balance at the global and regional levels.

Mona Al Marri:

"The agreement provides for the organization of joint workshops to enhance efforts to advance gender balance at the regional level."

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