Government Canada It promotes a comprehensive approach to women in international trade.
Through this policy, Canada pursues the goal of reducing poverty, empowering women and girls, and promoting gender equality as the most effective approach to achieving this goal, according to a report issued by the World Trade Organization (WTO).
To ensure that Canadian international assistance meets the best possible conditions to achieve these goals, the state focuses its efforts in six areas of work, which are:
- Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
- human dignity.
- Win-win growth.
- Initiatives targeting the environment and climate.
- Comprehensive judgment.
- Peace and security.
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The area of win-win growth, where Canada promotes women’s economic rights and leadership, promotes inclusive markets and entrepreneurship, and strengthens resilience and financial security, is the area most directly relevant to Aid-for-Trade considerations.
Other policy elements help to foster an environment conducive to trade, such as activities carried out in the context of the environment, combating climate change and overall governance.
Canada’s Feminist International Policy also establishes a series of measures aimed at ensuring more equitable access for women to capital markets, technology, business development services, leadership and training opportunities, so that they can fully benefit from development financing.
Alongside this policy, Canada’s holistic approach to trade seeks to ensure that all segments of society can seize the opportunities generated by trade and investment and that trade policies contribute to broader economic, social and environmental priorities.
Trade agreements
In this context, Canadian trade agreements include provisions on labor rights, the environment, small and medium enterprises, gender equality, and indigenous peoples.
In addition, Canada prioritizes the participation of various groups in the economy, including women, indigenous-owned companies and small and medium enterprises, and helps them connect with global value chains and markets.
Canada will continue to pursue this holistic approach to trade and support a rules-based trading system by strengthening bilateral and multilateral cooperation and participating in international economic forums such as the World Trade Organization, the Group of Twenty, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development(And the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum)Your father).
Thus, this approach enables the benefits of trade to be extended to emerging economies and developing countries, and contributes to economic diversification, inclusive growth, and an environment in which the gains from trade are more sustainable and shared. More broadly, recognizing the importance of innovative partnerships with the private sector to mobilize expertise and resources.
In 2017-2018, Canada invested $ 639 million in win-win growth initiatives.
Among other things, these contributions increased women’s participation in the economy, increased income, strengthened women-owned businesses, and built the capacity of women in leadership positions.
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