Committee set up for women empowerment

abu dhabi —The Department of Economic Development has issued a decision to form an internal committee to empower women in the economy, with the aim of achieving its role to support women’s entrepreneurship in Abu Dhabi, in co-operation and co-ordination with relevant local authorities, most notably the Family Development Foundation, the Abu Dhabi Business Women Council and others.

Based on this decision, the committee will be tasked with many roles and responsibilities, which aim to achieve the Department’s role to support and empower women in the private sector, especially female entrepreneurs in Abu Dhabi.

The committee will work to facilitate communication with government and quasi-government authorities and the private sector in Abu Dhabi, to support women in the business sector. Khalifa bin Salem Al Mansouri, Acting Under-Secretary of the Department of Economic Development in Abu Dhabi, stated that women in the Abu Dhabi community have become a major and important foundation of the local economic system, and an effective element of local entrepreneurship, through their noticeable successes in the business world during previous years.