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To confront the lack of women’s rights to personal reproductive autonomy and collective gender equality worldwide, the Generation Equality Forum convened by UN Women will launch a series of transformative actions to achieve immediate and irreversible progress towards gender equality.
Women’s meaningful participation in peace processes: Modalities and strategies across tracks Format EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Global peace has been in decline for four consecutive years, with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region having numerous high-intensity armed conflicts and regarded as the world’s least peaceful region. Despite significant efforts by the UN and others, including civil society and regional organizations, high-level peace processes in the region remain largely stalled and women’s meaningful participation limited, hampering the likelihood of reaching a durable agree...
Gender in Local Government Zambia Date: October 15, 2013 SHARE: This report concerns the Gender Justice and Local Government programme for Gender Links Zambia from August 2012 to March 2013. The work focuses on cascading and strengthening in Zambia of pioneering work on Centres of Excellence (COE’s) on Gender Mainstreaming for Local Government across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region by Gender Links (GL) and local government associations. The report incorporates the analysis of council institutional profiles and projects obtained through the Centres of Excellence (COE...
BACKGROUND The Indigenous Peoples Alliance for Rights and Development (IPARD IF) is a five-year United States Agency of International Development (USAID) Global Development Alliance (GDA) with a grant that runs from July August 12, 2020, through August 11, 2025. The IPARD IF will be implemented through Indigenous National Development (IND) Programs aimed to secure rights, enhance capabilities, and create self-determined economic opportunities for Indigenous Peoples in targeted countries worldwide. With an award of $6,500,000 with a Private Sector match of $6,500,000, the FSC Indigenous Founda...
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 [As delivered] I want to start by acknowledging and thanking Canada for helping to organize us today and also for the enormous support that they have given to this initiative. This year, in March, we hosted the Generation Equality Forum in Mexico, which is a forum that is supporting the acceleration of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action; accelerating the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals; accelerating the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda; as well as responding now to the pandemic. One of the...