The Department on the Status of Women has a Strategic Planner/Grantwriter contract opportunity.
Filing deadline is Monday, February 13, 2012 at 4 pm. Click here for the RFQ.
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**NEWS**
SECRETARY Hillary Clinton's Women In the Economy Summit
The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Women and the Economy Summit (WES) was a premier event bringing together senior private and public sector players for a dialogue on fostering women’s economic empowerment among the 21 APEC economies.
These historic meetings took place September 13 -16, 2011 in San Francisco, California, and the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women sponsored a number of policy events during the summit culminating on September 21, 2011, with the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women adoption of the following recommendations for APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting, scheduled for November 12-13, 2011 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
These recommendations encourage APEC economies to take concrete actions to realize the full potential of women, integrate them more fully into APEC economies, harness their talents, remove barriers that restrict women’s full economic participation, and maximize their contributions towards economic growth.
Recommendations
-09/16/11 San Francisco Women’s Economic Summit Declaration
-09/16/11 Secretary Clinton's Remarks at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Women and the Economy Summit
-09/16/11 Fact Sheet on Secretary Clinton's Remarks to the APEC Women and the Economy Summit