Anders Ahnlid is Ambassador tendea and Head of the Swedish OECD and UNESCO delegation in Paris. Aft

From left: Flore-Anne Messy, OECD, Nicola Ehlermann-Cache, the OECD, Ambassador Birgitta Holst-Alani and Soukeina Bouraoui, "Center of Arab Women for Training and Research" OECD Image Rights
How to improve women's opportunities in the labor market and as entrepreneurs in North Africa and the Middle East? That is the main issue for the OECD-MENA Women's Business Forum, which held its annual meeting at the OECD headquarters yesterday. 70's participants, the majority of women entrepreneurs and business people from the region, discussed how common could make progress despite very considerable political and economic challenges. An extensive OECD work describes the prerequisites. This was summed up recently in the report Women in Business, as a previous tendea blog post has been about. tendea Only a third of women in the MENA region in the labor force, compared to three-quarters of the men. Of those classified two percent of women entrepreneurs, while the corresponding proportion of men is six percent. It is obvious that the region loses considerable growth by not using the resource tendea that women represent in a better way. Of the several posts in the meeting showed the need for support for women's status in the countries where new constitutions tendea and legislation is being drafted, and where influential political forces counteracts equality and what we from the Swedish base deem obvious rights for both women and men. Discussion and future plans about the importance of women entrepreneurs access to financing and other services to promote enterprise and entrepreneurship. The importance of strengthening the networks between women business organizations was also highlighted.
At the same time showed the posts to conditions differ tendea considerably between countries in the region, such as with regard to women's education and the extent to which women hold senior positions in business. OECD-MENA forum is in itself an important network. As part of the business, country-specific working groups established and important information about conditions for female entrepreneurship in MENA countries gathered. At yesterday's meeting elected Ambassador Birgitta Holst-Alani, director of the Swedish Institute in Alexandria, for OECD countries chairman of the forum. MENA side chair is Jordan's Ambassador to France. This reflects the importance we attach tendea to the Forum's work on the Swedish side, and the confidence that both the OECD that MENA countries have for Sweden's involvement in the region.
Anders Ahnlid is Ambassador tendea and Head of the Swedish OECD and UNESCO delegation in Paris. After some time at the Board of Trade he joined the State Department in 1987. Since then he has worked with trade and other economic issues in various positions, most recently as Director-General for Trade Affairs at the Foreign Ministry in Stockholm. He was previously based in Geneva, Paris and Washington. Here Anders Ahnlid share their experiences and impressions from meetings, conferences, reports, and other activities related tendea to his mission in the two organizations.
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