Strong legal and regulatory frameworks aim to promote transparent, predictable and non-discriminatory processes. Digitalization can make it easier for women entrepreneurs to meet the legal and regulatory requirements of companies. For example, electronic transactions to obtain identification, register a business, or obtain a business license – areas where women tend to be disadvantaged due to social norms and mobility restrictions (World Bank Group 2015) – can contribute to access and transparency. Used effectively, technology can contribute to less discriminatory and more standardized processes and provide viable approaches to overcome some of the limitations women face. EGovernment services such as digital money transfers or public-private electronic dialogues (ePPDs) offer the opportunity to improve the online user experience for citizens, greater public participation, improved internal efficiency and productivity and better access to information, such as data contained in electronic security registries (United Nations, 2012). Governments begin to actively promote stakeholder participation in the evaluation of laws and regulations related to digitalization. Digitalisation can also help ensure that women`s voices are heard in the formulation and implementation of laws and regulations. For example, public-private dialogues using digital tools (World Bank Group, 2015) offer women the opportunity to have direct conversations on issues critical to business, share ideas, and develop more informed policies. Legislative and regulatory reviews, as well as public budget proposals for business improvements, can be posted online for public review, with feedback from sought contractors to support more comprehensive feedback.
The United Nations Principles on Older Persons (1991) do not have the legal status of a convention, but deal directly with the labour rights of older persons. [33] For example, the Principles state that older persons: Indicators of the legal and regulatory framework largely follow the results published in the annual report “Women, Economy and Law” and are intended to collect information on women`s legal rights in a country. The indicators examine national laws regarding conditions inside and outside the home, including a woman`s ability to inherit and hold assets, access credit and sign contracts, and obtain legal protection against sexual harassment and other forms of discrimination. Taken together, legal and regulatory indicators provide information on the value and visibility of women in a society in relation to men and on the progress made by women in terms of gender equality. This information may indicate where further legal and policy measures are needed. Legislation can be reformed to include the fundamental elements of sanitation and water management and to support the policy objectives of a national, regional or local government. The legal framework should focus on principles supporting the elements of sustainable sanitation and water management. The role of sanitation and water management laws is to implement and enforce policies and provide effective management and regulatory mechanisms at appropriate levels. Therefore, the regulatory framework is an effective and crucial tool to support sanitation and water management at the local level, necessarily accompanied by the formulation or modification of the policy described above. The creation of modern legislation to support sanitation and water management should follow an integrated and coherent local policy.
The matrix is organized according to the four main categories of constraints in the toolbox (legal and regulatory factors; access to finance; education, skills and information; Market access). For each category, the barriers faced by women entrepreneurs are listed. These obstacles are economic and social factors that can affect the population in general, the business world or women as a group and, as such, represent obstacles that stagnate the growth of WMSME, such as pressure on the processes of creation and formalization of companies, obstruction of access to the resources necessary to promote growth, and/or restrict the flow of information and communication between stakeholders. It is important that project teams use diagnostic information to determine which barriers should be most critically considered in project planning. Other laws and regulations interact with the anti-discrimination and labor laws mentioned above. This includes regulatory frameworks around: The national legal framework consists of anti-discrimination laws at the Commonwealth and state/territory level, as well as Commonwealth labour relations laws, which prohibit any discrimination based on age in relation to employment. Sanitation and water management policies at the local level should be linked to general national economic policies and related national sectoral policies. Sanitation and water management also mean that relevant issues must be taken into account in all economic and social areas. Changes to existing policies, legal frameworks and institutions – or their further development – may be necessary for the successful implementation of sustainable sanitation and water management measures (see also Building an institutional framework or creating policies and legal frameworks). The overall objective of Côte d`Ivoire`s NAP 1325 is “to integrate the gender approach into peace policy in order to significantly reduce inequalities and discrimination”.