During an event with Ivanka Trump, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates pledged $100million to the First Daughter's proposed Women Entrepreneurs Fund - on the same weekend her father signed a record arms deal with the Saudis.

The fund, which Ivanka first proposed during her trip to Berlin, Germany, will be run by the World Bank to help female entrepreneurs with the capital and networking resources necessary to kickstart their businesses.

But Saudi Arabia is known as the world's most gender-segregated nation and women, who are famously barred from driving, live under the supervision of a male guardian.

News of the $100million pledge came on the heels of a report claiming Ivanka's husband Jared Kushner intervened during a $110-billion arms deal to get Saudi Arabian officials a better price.

Kushner paused a meeting with the Saudis in the White House and called the CEO of Lockheed Martin, which makes a military weapon that was on offer, the New York Times reported.

During an event with Ivanka Trump, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates pledged a total of $100million to the First Daughter's proposed Women Entrepreneurs Fund

Ivanka pitched the idea to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim in April. He praised Ivanka's 'incredible' leadership on Sunday

During a roundtable on women's economic empowerment, Ivanka (pictured) praised Saudi Arabia's progress but said 'there's still a lot of work to be done'

She is joining her father on his first international trip. News of the $100million pledge drew inevitable comparisons to President Trump's criticisms of the Clinton Foundation

He allegedly asked Marilyn Hewson, 63, to cut the price of a radar system designed to shoot down missiles, to which she responded saying she would 'look into it.'

Ivanka, who is accompanying her father on his first international trip as president, said: 'As a female leader within the Trump administration, my focus is to help empower women in the United States and around the globe.'

News of Ivanka's fund broke in April, when she took up German Chancellor Angela Merkel's invitation to attend the Women's 20 Summit and pitched the idea to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim.

On Sunday, Kim said: 'We thought it was a fantastic idea. But we had no idea how quickly this would build. This is really a stunning achievement.

'I've never seen anything come together so quickly, and I really have to say that Ivanka's leadership has been tremendous.'

The $100million will be geared specifically towards women in the Middle East, and Kim said the money would be counted towards a $1billion women's empowerment fund the World Bank hopes to announce at July’s G-20 Summit.

While the money will be controlled by World Bank and not Ivanka, critics were quick to raise President Trump's repeated attacks on the Clinton Foundation during the presidential campaign.

Saudi Arabia donated between $10 to $25 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to its website - which Donald Trump called 'pay for play donations' during the campaign. None of the donations were made while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.

In a June 2016 posting on Facebook, Trump said, 'Saudi Arabia and many of the countries that gave vast amounts of money to the Clinton Foundation want women as slaves and to kill gays. Hillary must return all money from such countries!'

In a June 2016 posting on Facebook, Trump said Hillary Clinton should return money donated to the Clinton Foundation from Saudi Arabia

News of the $100million pledge came on the heels of a report claiming Ivanka's husband Jared Kushner intervened during a $110-billion arms deal to get Saudi Arabian officials a better price

On Sunday, Ivanka spoke at a roundtable on women's economic empowerment, and credited Saudi Arabia's progress before adding: 'There's still a lot of work to be done and freedoms and opportunities to continue to fight for.'