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Coding for girls: a glimmer of hope in a coding boot-camp By Mwarumba Mwavita Listen to article Every so often, amid the depressing data on hospitalization and deaths from COVID-19, a story breaks out that offers a glimpse of hope. In early December 2020, a 10-day coding boot camp , organized by the UN Economic Commission for Africa and the International Telecommunication Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, brought together over 2,000 young girls from around Africa. The girls, drawn from various socio-economic backgrounds, learned computer programming, Internet of Things, Turtle Stitch, AI, web...

Marcia Ross, Girl Rising CEO Christina Lowery, feminist activist Azadeh (Azi) Khalili, and two young human rights activists who are inspired by NASRIN’s story. NASRIN, an award-winning documentary narrated by Academy Award winner Olivia Coleman and with music by Tony Award-winning composers Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo, tells the story of Nasrin Sotoudeh, the Iranian human rights lawyer who has bravely led ongoing battles for the rights of women, children and minorities. Filmed in secret, NASRIN inspires with the courageous and pers...

Developing investment cases for transformative results Format INTRODUCTION This toolkit is designed to support UNFPA regional and country offices to develop country investment cases in support of one or more of the transformative results. It provides a concise and practical guide on how to develop a national investment case, including a step-by-step guide on: How to prepare for the investment case How to estimate the cost of the investment using standardized tools How to develop investment scenarios to determine the scale of the impact that can be attributed to the investment How to frame the...

Latin America and the Caribbean's Foreign Trade Marks its Worst Performance since the Global Financial Crisis Due to the Pandemic 01/22/2021 | 03:16pm EDT Send by mail : Message : Required fields Latin America and the Caribbean's foreign trade in 2020 had its worst performance since the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, above all because of the economic crisis prompted by the global COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions imposed by governments to stop its spread. According to new projections by ECLAC, it is estimated that the value of regional exports dropped -13% in 2020 while im...

Friday, 22 January 2021, 6:00 pm Fiji launched a ground-breaking Gender Transformative Institutional Capacity Development (ICD) initiative on Wednesday to promote and improve gender equality. The overall goal of the initiative is to create an enabling environment to ensure integration of all women and girls' needs, interests, concerns, contributions and perspectives into policies, strategies, programmes and budgets and with the establishment of effective coordination mechanisms as well as enhancing technical knowledge, competence and resources on transformative gender mainstreaming across go...