ABU DHABI, twenty sixth August, 2022 (WAM) — H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the Basic Ladies’s Union (GWU), President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Household Growth Basis (FDF), at present, expressed her satisfaction within the achievements of Emirati girls and their contribution to the UAE’s progress and growth, based mostly on information and honest work. H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak praised the contribution of Emirati girls in reaching the imaginative and prescient of the UAE’s sensible management and highlighted their keenness to actively take part in the private and non-private sectors.
In a speech delivered on her behalf by Dr. Maitha bint Salem Al Shamsi, Minister of State, at an occasion organised by Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm (ADNOC) to mark the UAE’s eighth annual Emirati Ladies’s Day, H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak praised the dedication of ADNOC’s senior administration to implement the directives of the sensible management and recommended the progress made by ADNOC’s feminine staff, stating that ladies now occupy a few of the highest management positions within the firm.
H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak famous that ADNOC’s feminine staff are a transparent instance of the nice contribution Emirati girls are making to the UAE and their progress and growth.
Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak stated, “Yearly I witness the regular progress you make in growing your share at work, advancing professionally, and creating your efficiency by way of coaching, apply and expertise. This has enhanced your expertise and skills and enabled you to make efficient and distinguished contribution to your nation.
“I used to be happy to notice that you’re working throughout all ADNOC websites and benefiting from the alternatives made obtainable in response to the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and with the dedication of ADNOC and Dr. Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, who steadfastly applied the management’s directives for ladies empowerment. Ladies now occupy the very best management positions in ADNOC and are now not a numerical share of ADNOC’s workforce, however robust and influential human capital, instrumental within the firm’s progress.”
To mark Emirati Ladies’s Day, ADNOC signed the United Nation’s (UN) Ladies’s Empowerment Ideas, the first car for company supply on the gender equality dimensions of the UN Sustainable Growth Targets. The ideas embody commitments to excessive degree company feminine management; schooling and coaching for profession development; equal pay for work of equal worth; gender-responsive provide chain practices. This underlines ADNOC’s dedication to gender range and to enabling girls to construct fulfilling careers and play key roles because it future-proofs its enterprise.
Dr. Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Business and Superior Expertise and Managing Director and Group CEO of the Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm (ADNOC), stated the participation of H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, in ADNOC’s annual celebration of Emirati Ladies’s Day is the largest proof of the vital position of girls in ADNOC and in serving the nation. He described Her Highness’ speech as motivating and provoking to all feminine staff in ADNOC who’re pivotal in making certain ADNOC stays a dependable provider of power to the world and a key catalyst for the UAE’s progress and diversification.
“Empowering Emirati girls has at all times been a constant method laid down by the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and at present, our sensible Management are eager to offer alternatives for them to unlock their full potential to allow them to take part absolutely within the financial and social progress of the nation,” Dr. Al Jaber stated.
Dr. Al Jaber added that ADNOC is pleased with the optimistic contribution of its feminine staff who’re additionally serving to to vary notion about girls working within the power sector.
He harassed that the corporate will proceed to draw and combine feminine expertise in all areas of its enterprise, with profession development based mostly on qualification, advantage, and efficiency. He cited ADNOC’s progress in growing the proportion of Emirati girls working throughout the organisation and in its oil and gasoline fields.
At present, over 1,000 girls work throughout ADNOC’s onshore and offshore websites, together with the oil and gasoline trade’s first all-female management crew of engineers on a website, at ADNOC’s Rumaitha subject in Abu Dhabi in addition to ADNOC’s first set of feminine drilling supervisors.
“ADNOC continues to empower girls by offering every part essential to encourage feminine staff to construct profitable careers within the power sector. ADNOC has put in place insurance policies and initiatives that encourage girls’s participation and promote a stability between work and household life and we’ve got supplied all the required amenities to fulfill the wants of feminine staff in our places of work, crops, and onshore and offshore fields,” Dr. Al Jaber stated.
Dr. Al Jaber famous girls occupy 20 p.c of administration positions in ADNOC, together with three CEOs, and ladies are represented on the boards of administrators of 16 out of 18 ADNOC Group firms. As well as, ADNOC’s In-Nation Worth programme has enabled the employment of over 1,500 Emirati girls within the UAE’s non-public sector because the inception of the programme in 2018.
Dr. Al Jaber urged ADNOC staff to redouble their efforts and embrace the spirit of collaboration, improve ADNOC’s contribution to the sustainable progress of the UAE and capitalise on the alternatives that lie forward within the fast-evolving power panorama.
ADNOC’s Emirati Ladies’s Day occasion was held at ADNOC Enterprise Centre and broadcasted stay to 1000’s of staff throughout the corporate’s operations. The occasion included TED model talks, throughout which ADNOC females staff shared their private experiences of the UAE and ADNOC. The celebration concluded with the presentation of the annual ADNOC Gender Steadiness Awards.
ADNOC continues to nurture an inclusive pipeline of expertise. 34 p.c of the full variety of UAE Nationals employed throughout the ADNOC Group from 2020 to 2021 are feminine. As well as, females comprise 48 p.c of scholars impacted by ADNOC’s science expertise engineering and mathemetics (STEM) schooling programmes, 50 p.c of ADNOC’s Information Bridge STEM college students and 48 p.c of scholars supported by ADNOC’s scholarship programme.