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Visible Women 2020 - Investing in Women is Simply Smart Economics - Department of Foreign Affairs


Investing in Women is Simply Smart Economics
Publication
21 December 2020
By Hilary Barry, Founder & Secretary General of LadyAgri
My name is Hilary Barry and I am founder and Secretary General of the LadyAgri Impact Investment Hub, a non-profit association focused on supporting women in agriculture in Africa and Small Island Developing States. Originally from Cork and living in Brussels for fifteen years, I am an Irish-European but I have an African heart.
Why? Ever since my first experiences in Ghana, West Africa in 1993-1994, I decided to dedicate my career to the design and implementation of social impact programmes, a career that began the same year of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, the anniversaries of which we celebrate this year. This was the first International UN Summit where a real focus was put on the systemic inequalities between women and men and their uneven access to resources. ....

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