She said that business is the engine of the country’s economic development and a driving force in increase of well-being.

UNFPA Albania, with the support of the Austrian Development Agency, in the framework of the project “More Choices-Gender Responsive Family Policies for the Private Sector in the Western Balkans and Moldova, is working through gender responsive policies and family-friendly work environments”, to offer more choices for Albanian employees”, she said.

Ibrahimaj stressed that, “the memoranda of understanding signed between UNFPA Albania and 6 of the Albanian companies are positive examples for businesses,” adding that” these projects are in line with the Albanian govt.’s policies and programs of economic growth, which are comprehensive, sustainable and gender sensitive, paying more attention to competitiveness, decent work and guarantee of fundamental human rights and freedoms ”.

“The memoranda of understanding signed between UNFPA Albania and 6 of the Albanian companies are positive examples of how businesses show social responsibility, through concrete initiatives, to support the family, the empowerment of women and the improvement of community life. In this way we will have more valued, safe and satisfied employees, fewer layoffs, more family investment and why not less emigration “, stressed Ibrahimaj.
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