The EBRD’s Strategic Gender Initiative sets out how the Bank will continue to work to prevent gender discrimination and mitigate the negative effects of lack of equality of opportunity. It also sets out how the Bank can best play a role in addressing the gender gaps identified in certain countries at country level and facilitate and promote women’s socio-economic empowerment, equality of opportunity and participation in the labour market.
These aims will be achieved through the design and implementation of the Bank’s investments and projects, the development of new products, policy dialogue, and through engagement in the international debate on the promotion of gender equality such as via the MDB Working Group on Gender, which it currently chairs.