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LOCATION:Online\, 
SUMMARY:How can NTFCs become promoters of gender equality in trade facilita
 tion policies? 
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Women exporters and importers and female informal cross-border 
 traders face significant gender-based challenges\, which include time cons
 traints\, compliance costs of burdensome procedures\, legal discrimination
 \, and harassment at the border. Despite multilateral calls to address tho
 se issues and to make trade and development policies more gender responsiv
 e\, including at the 2017 Buenos Aires WTO Ministerial Conference\, limite
 d progress has been made on gender equality in international trade.\n\nAt 
 the national level\, very few NTFCs have taken decisions or actions to mai
 nstream gender into trade facilitation policies. Their membership and chai
 rmanship remain male dominated\, with limited awareness on gender issues. 
 How can NTFCs effectively address gender-based challenges faced by women t
 raders and better integrate a gender perspective into trade facilitation r
 eforms?\n&lt\;p&gt\;Women exporters and importers and female informal cros
 s-border traders face significant gender-based challenges\, which include 
 time constraints\, compliance costs of burdensome procedures\, legal discr
 imination\, and harassment at the border. Despite multilateral calls to ad
 dress those issues and to make trade and development policies more gender 
 responsive\, including at the 2017 Buenos Aires WTO Ministerial Conference
 \, limited progress has been made on gender equality in international trad
 e.&lt\;/p&gt\;\n\n&lt\;p&gt\;At the national level\, very few NTFCs have t
 aken decisions or actions to mainstream gender into trade facilitation pol
 icies. Their membership and chairmanship remain male dominated\, with limi
 ted awareness on gender issues. How can NTFCs effectively address gender-b
 ased challenges faced by women traders and better integrate a gender persp
 ective into trade facilitation reforms?&lt\;/p&gt\;\n\n\nView meeting on u
 nctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/node/36085
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