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Edwin Batshu Quotes

b. 1947

Edwin Batshu ( born in June 21 1947 at Maitengwe ).He is a Botswana politician who served in the government of Botswana as Minister of Labour and Home Affairs from 2011.

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There has been good progress in highlighting and advancing the role of women in sustainable development, yet much remains to be done.

Batswana women need to be actively and more effectively engaged in economic, social and political life.

Closing the gender gap would generate significant gains for the different sectors and for society as a whole.

Whoever is listed, is listed because they are a security threat.

These income generatingprojects promote better familyeconomic status and alleviatepoverty by ensuring sustainablelivelihoods and improved standardsof living.

The Botswana Council of Women was established when the country was still reeling in abject poverty and now I am proud to say that the organization is thriving and it is clear that it is on the right track.

I call upon you to seriously consider this situation in a bid to address and arrest it before it is too late. We have to be always conscious of the fact that we live in a globalized world where we compete with other nations for foreign direct investment and tourism inflows.

With the same decisiveness, it is possible to achieve a higher level of women’s economic participation and therefore, improved aggregate in the national economic participation scoreboard.

This strategy should lead to the creation of sustainable employment, visibility of women in national economies as well as their contribution to GDP growth, and acknowledgeable relevance to the global market.

It is therefore selfevident that supporting womenwho have good business ideasthat can be developed into viablebusiness ventures should serve toprevent poverty and vulnerabilityto exploitation as well as to createa hitherto untapped contributionto national economic growth.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edwin Batshu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.