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The State Should Announce at the Policy Level That the Economic Empowerment of Women is Its PriorityThe state should declare at the policy level that the political priority is the economic empowerment of women the component of which is access to financial resources and then determine the tools for the effective implementation of this policy and the appropriate responsible agency said Ana Natsvilishvili a member of the Permanent Parliamentary Council for Gender Equality.Today the Standing Parliamentary Council for Gender Equality discussed the findings and recommendations developed within the framework of the thematic research - Womens access to financial resourcesAccording to Ana Natsvlishvili a member of the council and the main speaker of the thematic research group after meetings with dozens of women entrepreneurs community leaders and community organizations in different regions of Georgia getting acquainted with the practices of more than one international organization and state special programs listening to state agencies and municipalities key findings and recommendations were identified. which are divided into two groups.One group of findings concerns the barriers that women unlike male entrepreneurs face when it comes to obtaining financial resources to start a business or expanding their business as well as entering new markets and hiring more people. The second group of conclusions is of a general nature which is a problem for all citizens of Georgia. For example public transport in many municipalities does not work properly and this is a problem for everyone but it is especially difficult for women as statistics show the majority of women do not own a private vehicle and are highly dependent on public transport. The findings also apply to care services and the unequal distribution of domestic labor because one of the main resources for starting and growing a business along with finance- noted Ana NatsvilishviliAccording to him the thematic research group worked with the same methodology regarding the recommendationsThere are recommendations aimed at improving the general environment and there are recommendations that will increase womens direct access to financial resources and these recommendations are aimed at agencies including the National Bank as a regulator of private banks as well as state agencies starting from the parliament and continuing through the executive branch. There are relatively short-term and also long-term recommendations that cannot be systematically eliminated in one or two years but the work to start today is to transform the relevant systems step by step so that they take into account the needs of citizens Ana Natsvilishvili said.
