The WBG commits to exploring opportunities to focus more deliberately on the economic empowerment of women and girls with disabilities.
Timeframe and/or implementation plan
The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi), housed at the World Bank, creates a unique opportunity to tackle, comprehensively, the full range of barriers facing women entrepreneurs across developing countries. Future rounds of We-Fi funding provide opportunities to focus more deliberately on the economic empowerment of women and girls with disabilities, by addressing the policy and regulatory frameworks; designing projects, for example, in the transport and ICT sectors, with a gender disability lens; and developing and rolling out new products, for example, disability insurance. The next round of the Women, Business and Law survey, feeding into a dataset on the laws and regulations that restrict women's economic opportunities, will include questions on legislation and protections for women with disabilities.