ensuring equal access to finance for female and male entrepreneurs through actions that influence both the supply of and demand for finance by easing access to finance for viable businesses owned by men and women taking steps to improve the knowledge and attitudes of financial institutions increasing the awareness of finance sources and tools among women entrepreneurs and encouraging more women to join business angel networks or venture capital firms specific examples of good practices ensuring gender equality and nondiscrimination in mena constitutions cont these examples provide references for mainstreaming the principle of equality between men and women while protecting the family motherhood and childhood in respect of their culture and social values they also comply with the universal declaration of human rights article of the international covenants of and article a of the cedaw