[Recording] 2025 WEPs Deep-dive series: #16 Creating Employment for Women Living in Poverty

The private sector plays a crucial role in reducing poverty by creating employment opportunities for women living in poverty. By actively recruiting women from low-income communities, providing skills training, paying living wage, and ensuring safe workplaces and more. 

The webinar highlighted the role of the private sector to reduce poverty through exploring how WEPs signatories are leading the efforts to reduce poverty in their local community through creating employment for women living in poverty.

Speakers:

• Nim Deshpande, Managing Director, Good Business Lab
• Nicholas Spencer & Kim Heang Chhun, IBIS Rice
• Alp Aksoy, Vice President Corporate accounts & enterprise solutions, Diversey, a Solenis company
• Izabela Ersahin, Executive director, Sustainable Journey
• Lais Fernanda Souza, Diversity Equity and Inclusion Manager, Accor