ISSUES OF GENDER SUBJECT MATTER DISCUSSED AT «AGROINVESTBANK»
The gender network of the OJSC «Agroinvestbank» conducted on 20 July 2010 at 9:30 at the Head Office of the Bank, informational session on the subject: «Agricultural credits, given by «Agroinvestbank» in 2009 in gender section». At the session there were specialists and heads of bank’s departments, representatives of ministries and departments: Committee of women and family under the GoT, Committee of land management, and Institute of capacity building for civil servants and representatives of UNIFEM. This session was devoted to the Gender policy in the Republic of Tajikistan «Key directions and problems», as well as to given agriculture loans in banks in gender section. The participants of the session discussed a range of gender issues in agriculture sphere, in particular in the field of funding, which are headed by women-entrepreneurs, by bank loans. By the results of the discussion, useful and beneficial proposals for expanding and improving entrepreneurial activity in this field were given. It should be noted, that participants of the session appreciated the bank’s practice in the field of funding and supporting entrepreneurs as well as women – entrepreneurs that are involved in cultivating agricultural crops and other fields of national economy. Discussing this topic, participants of the seminar suggested that it is necessary relying on international experience, promote this kind of practice in other funding institutions of the republic.