This issue brief, prepared by UN Women and the ILO, discusses ways to broaden the scope of gender-responsive procurement. Starting from the “buy from women-owned” approach, which seeks to offer equal opportunities for women’s enterprises to access markets, it considers the potential to leverage gender-responsive procurement for expanded benefits to all women in value chains as a means to address gender inequality. This culminates in an expanded approach to gender-responsive procurement that favors gender-responsive enterprises regardless of ownership, thereby potentially allowing all women and men to benefit from decent business and employment opportunities.
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Rethinking Gender Responsive Procurement: Enabling an Ecosystem for Women’s Economic Empowerment (2021)
This issue brief, prepared by UN Women and the ILO, discusses ways to broaden the scope of gender-responsive procurement. Starting from the “buy from women-owned” approach, which seeks to offer equal opportunities for women’s enterprises to access markets, it considers the potential to leverage gender-responsive procurement for expanded benefits to all women in value chains as a means to address gender inequality. This culminates in an expanded approach to gender-responsive procurement that favors gender-responsive enterprises regardless of ownership, thereby potentially allowing all women and men to benefit from decent business and employment opportunities.