The National Chamber of Women Entrepreneurs (French: CNFCE), in partnership with the “Decent Work for Women in Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco” project in its third phase, organised, on February 6-7, a training session for members of the Chamber’s Executive Board on gender and climate change.
The training is part of an awareness-raising effort to achieve climate justice, which is a real challenge, notably for Tunisia, which is one of the countries most affected by climate change in the North African region, according to the Global Climate Risk Index published in 2020, the chamber says in a press release on Thursday.
The training session aims to improve the businesswomen’s knowledge of the local and international legal framework in this field, and of the material capacities available to them, in order to provide women entrepreneurs with the technical and material resources they need to adapt to these changes and support them in achieving the energy transition by 2026.
The Decent Work for Women project runs for t
hree years and aims to enhance women’s participation in the labour market and their contribution to the green economy by creating decent jobs, developing economic initiatives in Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco, and supporting programmes to raise women’s awareness of climate policies.
At the end of the training session, the need to draw up an action plan for the Chamber’s communication strategy incorporating the issue of climate change was underlined, notably by stimulating contributions to legislative proposals and by raising international investment funds aimed at promoting the green economy.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse