We support promoting the economic empowerment and advancement of women and gender equality in the Asia-Pacific region, increasing efforts to provide women and girls of diverse backgrounds with equal opportunities for education and inclusive economic growth with particular attention to women facing socio-economic challenges, including Indigenous women as appropriate, women in poverty, women with di. [...] This includes the provision of training and education with a focus on capacity building and increasing their digital skills, financial literacy, and addressing structural barriers that limit women’s participation in the economy and impede gender equality, such as the unequal distribution of paid and unpaid care and domestic work. [...] The digitalization of financial services when deployed in a safe and secure framework contributes to facilitate and accelerate women's access to financial products and services at low costs, in real time, overcoming existing inequalities and barriers in the access and use of financial services. [...] We emphasize the importance of adapting financial policies and strategies, creating inclusive financial products and services in order to respond to women's financing, savings and investment needs, including women working in the informal sector to promote their transition to the formal economy and those living in rural and remote areas of the Asia-Pacific. [...] In this regard, we support the promotion of discussions on integration of timely and effective technological solutions to address gender-based violence, as well as the development of innovative and effective policies and practices in the public and private sector within the relevant APEC fora, with a view to contribute to an environment based on respect and safety for women and girls of diverse ba.
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