From the Doha forum ... Ivanka Trump calls for empowering women and supporting their leadership in developing countries

Mohammed Al-Shayazami-Doha

"Efforts to empower women and make them central to economic development and entrepreneurship must be supported, and laws restricting their activity and distinction within society must be amended," said Ivanka Trump, the special adviser to the President of the United States, speaking at a Doha forum session.

In the context of her initiative which toured the world under the name of the "Global Development and Prosperity of Women" initiative, Ivanka called for the necessity of integrating women into the economic programs of countries and making them assume leadership positions in institutions, and promoting their rights to establish companies and their management, without the need for anyone's approval, and to overcome obstacles Obstructing the implementation of the relevant laws.

World women and inheritance
Ivanka Trump said in her speech that about 2.7 billion women around the world cannot access male-dominated positions and businesses, and that 75% of the world's women are denied their inheritance rights, run their property and run their own businesses.

Ivanka is spearheading her initiative as part of a US government program in February 2018 to empower women and boost their participation in the workplace, and aims to help 50 million women in developing countries advance economically by 2025.

To fund this initiative, an amount of $ 50 million was allocated as an initial budget to finance its projects in the areas of training, education, and inclusion in programs targeting women, and to support the countries involved in this vision to change laws that prevent women from owning property, using transportation, accessing legal structures, and obtaining credit .

Ivanka Trump asked: How can society achieve success without the participation of women, who represent half of society? As she witnessed in most countries where different forms of discrimination against women floated, all of which prevented the effective empowerment of women.

Entrepreneurial programs launched by women
She also pointed out that the initiative seeks to achieve security and stability in many countries of the world, supports women and provides many pioneering programs launched by local women in many societies, and contributes to promoting them through various networks with the aim of connecting them to the largest number possible.

And at a time when Ivanka Trump expressed her happiness at the successes of this initiative in a short time, she called for more coordination and coordination between the various efforts, in order for the initiative's objectives to reach its desired goals, and the partnership with countries be strengthened.

She praised the role that the US government has played in supporting initiatives to support businesswomen in many countries to the positions women deserve, which has translated that idea into practice.

Ivanka was not satisfied with this ambition. Rather, she called on American diplomacy to stress the countries that benefit from American aid in order to review their efforts in the areas of women's empowerment and participation in society, and to dissolve all forms of discrimination against them.

Trips to remote and remote communities
She also reviewed her various trips undertaken as part of her initiatives, saying that she had witnessed the extent of what women suffer, especially in remote and remote societies.

Morocco was the last stop of Ivanka Trump's tour of her initiative, her third after her second tour that included Argentina, Colombia and Paraguay in September 2018, and her first trip to Ethiopia and Ivory Coast in April of the same year.

Ivanka did not hide her interest in the role of the private sector in supporting the efforts of this initiative, and said that he plays an important role through his contributions, as she praised the support provided by the "Citibank" bank for its initiative, which amounted to $ 400 million.

It is noteworthy that this is not the first initiative that Ivanka Trump launched for the economic empowerment of women in developing countries, as in 2017 she launched a fund to finance women's projects with the World Bank and 13 other countries.