RAWALPINDI
Women’s economic involvement is critical in achieving sustained economic growth and stability in Pakistan. No country can achieve its full economic potential without the participation of its entire workforce.
This was stated by President Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI), Raja Amer Iqbal while addressing the two-day seminar on Women Leadership Development Program (WLDP) being organized by RCCI in collaboration with USAID and Pakistan Regional Economic Integration Activity (PREIA) here on Tuesday.
Raja Amer Iqbal said the main objective of this program was to build the capacity of the entrepreneurs in understanding and analyzing trade and economic policies from a gender perspective. Generate discussion to highlight gender-specific challenges and their solutions with respect to Pakistan’s trade policy, he added.
Earlier, PREIA’s chief of party, Donal Cotter, lauded the RCCI’s efforts in providing traders, especially women with better assistance which, he said, had helped boost their performance.
He vowed that USAID-PREIA will provide maximum support and assistance to increase trade between the countries of the region and that there was a need to make more efforts to increase public-private partnership. He added that RCCI can play an important role in making that happen.
Senior Vice President Rashid Wyne, Vice President Asim Malik, members of the executive committee, PIDE Director Ms Rubina Taufiq Shah, Human Resource and Institutional Capacity Development Expert Asima Awan, Chairperson Women Entrepreneurship Mahvish Afridi, among others, attended the session.
