Deep Dive Advisory for Advancing the Employment of Women in Bangladesh

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The project will provide deep dive gender advisory services to at least two private sector businesses across IFC's priority industries in Bangladesh to help build their capacity to better recruit, retain, and promote women employees in their workplaces. Each deep dive gender advisory will include conducting a diagnostic to identify gender gaps, highlighting the business case for closing those gaps, proposing solutions through recommendations and action planning, and implementation support to help firms put recommendations into action. Priority industries include consumer goods, financial institutions, heavy manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, textile and apparels, and infrastructure. IFC will document the project, its outcomes and impact and capture lessons learnt. In order to encourage a demonstration effect of gender inclusive employment practices, these resources will be disseminated through innovative communication to catalyze the private sector in Bangladesh to improve gender diversity and inclusion in the formal workforce.