The Somali Stock Exchange in partnership with UN Women hosts it’s 3rd annual ‘Ring the Bell for Gender Equality’. This year’s event was participated by over 50 people, including keynote speakers such as Dr. Sadiq Sayed, Head of UN Women Somalia. Hassan Dudde, CEO of Somali Stock Exchange. Zahra Ahmed, Chairwomen of African Woman Leadership Network, Somalia. Asha Siyad, Executive Director of Somali Women in Leadership Initiative. Representatives from of Ministry of Women and Human Rights Development. Government officials, banking executives and university students/academicians.
The ‘Ring the Bell for Gender Equality’ initiative is a partnership of the SSE Initiative, the UN Global Compact, IFC, UN Women and the WFE, and has been held for 10 consecutive years.
The ‘Ring the Bell’ events are held around International Women’s Day. The objective of the Somali Stock Exchange and UN Women’s ‘Ring the Bell for Gender Equality’ event was for market opening bells ringing to raise awareness of the importance of economic empowerment for women in the area of business growth and development, as well as to highlight the role the private sector can play in creating opportunities for women in the workplace, marketplace and community, with the focus of investing in women. Encourage financial institutions to finance in female led enterprises. As well as encouraging Somali corporations to continue to enhance the capacity and knowledge of their female clients by partaking in the National Financial Literacy Initiative across the country.
As this year’s International Women’s Day 2024 theme is “Invest in women: Accelerate progress”. A panel discussion was held during the event, where the following five topics where debated.
Dr. Syed Sadiq Osman, Director of SSE, said,
“It has been a proud moment for us to see Somalia participating in such great global effort and show our support in gender equality and women’s economic empowerment.”
