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    Pfizer’s Adele Gulfo on the benefits of working with women-owned businesses

    Pfizer recently joined others in expanding its commitment to working with women-owned businesses and supporting WEConnects efforts to help train those businesses to work with big multinational corporations. See what Adele Gulfo, president of Pfizer Latin America, has to said about women in the supply chain in an exclusive video interview with Devex Impact.

    By Adva Saldinger // 08 October 2013

    As women’s empowerment gains more visibility as a part of the global development agenda, companies are realizing that working with women-owned businesses pays off.

    Pfizer has discovered that working with women-owned businesses both benefits its business and helps achieve its goals of empowering women, said Adele Gulfo, president of Pfizer Latin America.

    Since being a founding member of WEConnect in 2009 Pfizer has diversified its supply chain and now works with more than 175 women-owned businesses, she said. WEConnect International is a corporate-led non-profit that certifies women-owned businesses around the world.

    “When women are financially empowered they use that money to enhance communities,” Gulfo said, adding that eventually their efforts translate into helping whole countries.

    Gulfo said that WEConnect helps give women the skills to compete and work with global multinational companies, like Pfizer.

    Last month Pfizer joined WEConnect, Vital Voices and a group of other partners to commit to increasing corporate member spending on women-owned businesses outside the U.S. by at least $1.5 billion by 2018 to and others committed to working through WEConnect to put in place metrics to help ensure a good standard among women-owned businesses.

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    • Multinationals announce $1.5 billion commitment to source globally from women-owned business

    • Why bringing women-owned business into the supply chain makes business sense

    • Bringing a culture of measurement to women’s economic empowerment

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      Adva Saldinger is a Senior Reporter at Devex where she covers development finance, as well as U.S. foreign aid policy. Adva explores the role the private sector and private capital play in development and authors the weekly Devex Invested newsletter bringing the latest news on the role of business and finance in addressing global challenges. A journalist with more than 10 years of experience, she has worked at several newspapers in the U.S. and lived in both Ghana and South Africa.

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