If we are ever to break the cycle of inequality, the contributions of women and girls must be recognised with equal opportunities to learn, earn and lead.
When you count a woman in, everyone wins.
#CountHerIn#IWD2024
Barriers to women fully participating in the workforce are costing the 🇦🇺 economy $128 billion. New report from women’s economic equality taskforce calls for investment in childcare, pay equity & support for older women in the workforce. @sammostyn
https://t.co/1h6jE38HOX
Female entrepreneurs are missing out on critical funding and opportunities to scale. It’s because we’re often perceived as “side hustlers”. @WomensAgenda
https://t.co/1IZNb9NClD
The pandemic increased #DigitalFinance in the short term, but unequal access to technology—like lack of phone ownership & ID—will continue to drive financial exclusion for women.📲
Read our top #GlobalFindex insights here ➡️ https://t.co/ZY7Hl8F7pe
ACFID welcomes the ALP’s plan to establish a blueprint for the not-for-profit sector to help boost operational capabilities. The sector is 8% of Aus economy, 10% of the workforce & the first line of support for many Australians. It needs support, planning & strategic investment.
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For the past 6 months of 2019 I've been working with DBSI interim board to restart DBSI again 15 years after it was closed. Our people in rural communities who were denied access to finance can borrow to finance small projects to contribute to our economy from start Q2 2020.
#PACIFIC: It might surprise Australians who have spent dreamy holidays in Fiji or the Cook Islands, but the Pacific has the world’s highest rates of family violence. https://t.co/RsxUWzuczc
Aid groups say the Morrison government’s revamp of the foreign aid program must focus on the needs of the world’s most vulnerable people while also deepening Australia’s relationships in the Indo-Pacific. @ACFID@micahaustralia@PlanAustralia https://t.co/8UDagIWGlz
"The focus on the Pacific is a welcome focus but we can't afford to forget the situation in many Asian countries...Australia has a very important role to play...It's not an either or."
@ACFIDCEO Marc Purcell speaks with @Suzieraines & @CatherineGraue
https://t.co/7jfGCjERFD
We are proud to be part of the new Asia-Pacific development, diplomacy and defence dialogue aimed at helping to address the unprecedented international relations environment Australia faces.
Read the statement of the inaugural meeting in full:
https://t.co/DO6G8sJjI4
“The opportunity to review aid isn’t simply about the Pacific or about dollars and figures, it’s also about soft diplomacy and deepening our relationships in the Indo-Pacific."
See comments from @TimCostello welcoming Aid policy review:
https://t.co/zfdYW7GHkP
"we cannot engage with the world on fear....Australia should get on the front foot and start a greater, more positive engagement with the world, assisting our neighbours in Asia and the Pacific" -
Marc Purcell, ACFID CEO
Read more in today's @TheAge https://t.co/l4Kpgm8147
We are deeply saddened to learn of the tragic deaths of 44 garment workers in a New Delhi factory. These workers were underpaid, working excess overtime & sleeping in a factory with unsafe electrical wires and no vehicle access for firefighters https://t.co/16VgyoPU6h 1/2