We actively promote women’s empowerment and advancement through a number of key measures and actions working sometimes individually and sometimes collectively with Government departments, public sector bodies, small and corporate businesses and other social economy organisations.
Our empowerment and advancement work includes:
- Strategy research and development on economic and educational empowerment
- Empowering women economically and improving their livelihood security through development and implementation of gender sensitive enterprise, education and employment measures
- Expanding appropriate financial services, products and access for women
- Developing women as leaders in civil society, business and employment
- Actively working with the press and broadcast media to achieve greater gender equality and representation and promoting relevant and positive female roles models
- Contributing to and participating in empirically based research
- Influencing policy locally, nationally and on a EU wide basis
Working collaboratively with SMEs and the private sector:
We have a long track record of collaborative working with the business and corporate community and we value and place emphasis on cross-sector partnering in order to achieve mutual social and business objectives.
Having developed a number of highly successful strategic and mission-focused cross-sector partnerships, we have helped to achieve a number of key outcomes including:
- Researching, developing and supporting the implementation of innovative empowerment and advancement strategies
- Facilitating business and organisational transformation through social and entrepreneurial innovation
- Researching, developing and implementing sustainable corporate community investment models
- Promoting and achieving workforce diversity
- Enabling supply chain diversity
- Promoting and enabling small business start- up and social enterprise in deprived communities and with disadvantaged groups
- Developing the financial literacy capacity of women living in deprived circumstances
- Building capacity within micro enterprises
- Enabling effective stakeholder engagement
- Recognising Social Value and Measuring Social Impact
- Enhancing brand reputation through social value marketing
- Developing fit for purpose collaboration
- Achieving greater community credibility
- Creating and promoting new networks that deliver social and economic value
Working collaboratively with public and social economy sector organisations:
The Women’s Organisation works collaboratively with a variety of public sector bodies and Government departments including Local Enterprise Partnerships, Local Authorities, Health Trusts, and Higher Education Institutions on a local, national and international basis.
These partnerships have helped to achieve a number of key outcomes including:
- Researching, developing and supporting the implementation of innovative gender sensitive economic development strategies
- Developing, testing and implementing Public Sector Entrepreneurship models
- Testing and piloting innovative measures and models including Cross Sector Joint Ventures, Social Enterprise, Mutuals and Cooperatives
- Facilitating business organisational transformation through social and entrepreneurial innovation
- Providing Prime Contracting, Accountable Body Status and Programme Management, Monitoring and Evaluation
- Promoting and achieving workforce diversity
- Enabling supply chain diversity
- Developing financial literacy capacity of women living in deprived circumstances
- Building capacity within micro and social enterprises
- Enabling effective stakeholder engagement
- Recognising and achieving Social Value and Measuring Social Impact
- Enhancing brand reputation through social value marketing