1. WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
PRINCIPLES
The Women Empowerment Principles which
offer guidance to companies on how to
empower women in the workplace,
marketplace and community, were developed
by a collaboration between the the United
Nations Global Compact and the United
Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the
Empowerment of Women (UN Women) under
the consultancy of different stakeholders
including BPW International.
2. In June 2011, International President Freda
Mirikles has been called out all business and
professional women in order to increase
number of women in workplaces, market
places and communities worldwide with the
catch phrase of this trinneum: Empowered
Women Leading Business - from the top, at
all levels and in the communities in which
we serve and live.
3. Promoting gender equality through
the partnerships among different
organisations is very important to
accelerate the efforts that are
given in order to secure gender
equality all over the World.
4. In this triennium, there is a
tremendous efforts to bring more
women into the business environment
through the important partnerships
with different organisations and
institutions such as UNGC, ILO, IOE,
ITC, APEC and many others.
5. THE CENTER OF WOMEN
LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESS IN
SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE
BPWI
&
UNESCO CENTER FOR PEACE AND WOMEN
6. WHY WOMEN
ENTRPRENEURSHIP?
• Self-employed women strengthen their
position in the household and so they
serve for achieving gender equality from
the top, at all levels and in the
communities in which we serve and live.
• Women who are socio-economically
strengthened play a serious role in
reducing inter-regional differences and so
they serve sustainable development and
peace more than men.
7. CHALLENGES for WOMEN
ENTRPRENEURSHIP
• Even though female entrepreneurship and
the formation of women business
networks are steadily rising, there are a
number of challenges and obstacles that
female entrepreneurs face.
8. Entrepreneurship is still considered as
a male-dominated field, and it may be
difficult to surpass these conventional
views.
Women entrepreneurs often have a
difficult time to assemble external
resources.
9. MoU has been signed among the President
of BPWI Freda Mirikles and the President of
Hellenic Unesco and President of UNESCO
Peace and Women Center in Balkan Region
Ketty Tzitzikosta in Athens for to establish
Center of Women Leadership in Business in
the Southeastern Europe.
10. UNESCO Peace and Women
Center in Balkan Region
• The Center is a non-governmental, non-
profit organization acting for the benefit of
women and disseminating actively the
United Nations resolutions aiming at
promoting peace, the respect of human
rights, women's advancement and their
increased participation in development.
11. The Center encourages the respect of
biological and cultural diversity,
promotes the intercultural dialogue, and
helps disseminating the values of the
culture of peace through the projects
that are promoting the respect of human
life, of women's dignity, of liberty,
justice, solidarity, tolerance and
democracy.
12.
13. THE MISSION OF THE CENTER
• By motivating women of the region
through the strong cooperation between
«Unesco Center for Women and Peace»
and «BPWI» in order to baffle squeezing
of national cultures within a broader
popular culture; to create links between
the countries in South Eastern Europe to
Global Economy and to erase the bloody
history.
14. PRIORITIES of the CENTER
• To empower the women who are living in
the south Eastern Europe
• To meet them relevant target markets
• To provide technical supports in order to
reach available funds.
15. • To make researches in order to enable
implementations of the gender policies
at grass root levels,
• To become Gender Research Center
and/or Women Incubator by time.
16. • To run common projects within these
countries,
• To baffle squeezing of national
cultures within a broader popular
culture and create intercultural
understanding,
17. • To strength the role of women in
business life by the way of creating
links between the target countries to
Global Economy.
19. The 1st International Event of the
Center, 2012
International Conference for WEP’s in
May 2011, we have many speakers
from BPWI; President of BPWI Liz
Benham; 1st President of BPWI Freda
Miriklis; Past President of BPWI
Antoinette Ruegg; Past President of
BPWI Tuulikki Jusela
20. SPEAKERS
• Freda Miriklis / President of
International Federation of Business and
Professional Women
21. Lauren Gula from UNGC
Vanessa Eogbogbo from ITC
Ketty Tzitzikosta from Hellenic
Unesco
22. And many guests from different
BPW Clubs and other
organisations all over the World
23. In the 2nd Day of the 2nd
International Conference, there were
workshops to increase capacities of
women vendors in tourism,
construction, health, textile sectors in
the framework of
WEPs Principle 5…
24. The second 2-days long international event
to discuss the «Women Empowerment
Principles» with the valuable participation of
relevant stakeholders such as NGO Leaders,
academicians, member of parliaments and
bureaucrats from different countries in April
2012 in Ankara.
25. The Colloboration of two BPW
Initiatives
In 14 - 16 November 2013, In 8th BPW
Danube Net Businesswomen
Forum in Sofia/Bulgaria, we have reached
a mutual understanding for to collaborate in
order to follow through
26. WHAT IS DANUBE NET?
BPW Danube Net is the network for business
women in the Danube countries which was
established in order to promote intensive
networking among business women who are
active in the Danube countries.
27. 2nd International Event of the Center,
2014: The joint effort for women
entrpreneurship
“B to B” is co-organized by the Center of
Women Leadership of Business and BPW-
Danube Net under the high patronage of
BPW International and UNESCO Center for
Women and Peace in the Balkan Countries
in 4th of April,2014 in İstanbul.
29. The GOAL of the EVENT
• Encouraging “business to business
relations” among women
entrepreneurships and increasing the
number of women entrepreneurs in the
“supply chains” of buyers.
30. WHY MORE WOMEN IN SUPPLY
CHAINS?
• According to the 5th Principle, the main
goal is expanding business relationships
with women-owned enterprises including
small businesses and women
entrepreneurs.
31. Since the supply chain consists of
many businesses operating
together, including woman vendors
to the supply chain management is
very important for the women to be
able to cooperate with different
businesses and increase their
business capacities.
32. In the first part of the Conference,
there were three important panels. In
the 1st and 2nd panels, the importance
of international networks was
discussed.
33. Thank you for the representatives of
International Trade Center (ITC), World
Bank International Finance Center,
European Union Strategy Development
Center for Danube Region, Istanbul
Chamber of Industry, TR Small and
Medium Enterprises Development
Organization, Turkish Enterprise and
Business Confederation and Özyeğin
University.
34. And many thanks for the representatives
of our co-organisers BPW Danube Net,
the Center of Women Leadership in
Business for South Eastern Europe and
the UNESCO Center for Peace and
Women in Balkan Region as well for
your very valuable contributions.
35. In the 3rd Panel, we had a chance to listen
experiences of successful women
entrepreneurs, Consul General of
Romania, Consul General of France….
36. In the 2nd part of the Conference; Croatian,
Serbians, Turkish and Italian women
entrepreneurs from the sectors of textile,
food, construction and tourism sectors
made meetings under the coordination of
professional facilitators.
