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were  discussed  in  detail.  The   With  increasing  participation  of   amendments  in  “Protection  of
           participants highly appreciated the   women  in  financial  intermediation   Women   against   Workplace
           efforts made by NIBAF for capacity   in  the  wake  of  SBP’s  Banking  on   Harassment  Act  2010  (Amended
           building of banking professionals in   Equality (BoE) Policy and the target   2022)”. Accordingly, all banks have
           the  far-flung  areas  of  the  country   to ensure 20% female participation   been mandated by SBP and GoP to
           through    targeted   training     by  2024,  it  is  imperative  to  have   provide trainings related to gender
           interventions.                     greater   focus   on   Gender       &  protection  against  workplace
                                              Sensitization.  This  becomes  even   harassment  etc.  in  order  to
             Gender Sensitization &           more  critical  in  rural/remote  areas   eliminate  implicit  gender  biases
                                                                                  and improve their understanding of
                                              where females seem to be hesitant
                Protection against            to work in banking sector. Similarly,   the   legal   and   regulatory
            Harassment of Women at            dedicated  and  trained  women      requirements.
                  the Workplace               champions are to be placed at 75%
             (Amendment) Act 2022             of  all  bank  to  help  guide  female   In this backdrop, NIBAF conducted
                                              customers by June 2024. Likewise,
                                                                                  an  online  VILT  program  during
                                              Govt.  of  Pakistan  (GoP)  has     October 24-25, 2022. The main
                                              recently   announced    major
           objectives for the program were to   environment,  recognize  gender   workforce. Ms. Sabahat K. Bukhari,
           enable  the  participants  to  identify   biases  and  ways  to  mitigate  such   a corporate trainer and consultant
           the  factors  that  play  major  role  in   biases,  understand  legal  and   along with Mr. Shahid Iqbal jointly
           enhancing  women’s  participation   regulatory   requirements   with   conducted  the  training  program
           in  financial  sector  workforce,   reference to workplace harassment   sessions  and  for  around  62
           understand the cultural context and   and gender mainstreaming and the   participants from SBP, SBP-BSC &
           ways   to   improve   workplace    changing  role  of  women  in  the   commercial banks.
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