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The objective of the present study is to present an overview of the adjusted gender pay gap and labour-market inequalities in Malawi. This is part of a larger 2023 UN Women study titled “Why Women Earn Less: Gender Pay Gap and Labour-Market Inequalities in East and Southern Africa.”
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The objective of the present study is to present an overview of the adjusted gender pay gap and labour-market inequalities in Rwanda. This is part of a larger 2023 UN Women study titled “Why Women Earn Less: Gender Pay Gap and Labour-Market Inequalities in East and Southern Africa.”
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The objective of the present study is to present an overview of the adjusted gender pay gap and labour-market inequalities in The United Republic of Tanzania. This is part of a larger 2023 UN Women study titled “Why Women Earn Less: Gender Pay Gap and Labour-Market Inequalities in East and Southern Africa.”
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The objective of the present study is to present an overview of the adjusted gender pay gap and labour-market inequalities in South Africa. This is part of a larger 2023 UN Women study titled “Why Women Earn Less: Gender Pay Gap and Labour-Market Inequalities in East and Southern Africa.”
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The objective of the present study is to present an overview of the adjusted gender pay gap and labour-market inequalities in Uganda. This is part of a larger 2023 UN Women study titled “Why Women Earn Less: Gender Pay Gap and Labour-Market Inequalities in East and Southern Africa.”
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The objective of the present study is to present an overview of the adjusted gender pay gap and labour-market inequalities in Namibia. This is part of a larger 2023 UN Women study titled “Why Women Earn Less: Gender Pay Gap and Labour-Market Inequalities in East and Southern Africa.”
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The objective of the present study is to present an overview of the adjusted gender pay gap and labour-market inequalities in Ethiopia. This is part of a larger 2023 UN Women study titled “Why Women Earn Less: Gender Pay Gap and Labour-Market Inequalities in East and Southern Africa.”
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The objective of the present study is to present an overview of the adjusted gender pay gap and labour-market inequalities in Mauritius. This is part of a larger 2023 UN Women study titled “Why Women Earn Less: Gender Pay Gap and Labour-Market Inequalities in East and Southern Africa.”
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The objective of the present study is to present an overview of the adjusted gender pay gap and labour-market inequalities in Mozambique. This is part of a larger 2023 UN Women study titled “Why Women Earn Less: Gender Pay Gap and Labour-Market Inequalities in East and Southern Africa.”
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The objective of the present study is to present an overview of the adjusted gender pay gap and labour-market inequalities in Kenya. This is part of a larger 2023 UN Women study titled “Why Women Earn Less: Gender Pay Gap and Labour-Market Inequalities in East and Southern Africa.”
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UN Women East and Southern Africa regional office organised a high-level United Nations Inter-Agency Partnership meeting on Gender Normative Work in February 2024. The overall objective of the meeting was to develop & improve regional partnerships for a more effective implementation of the United Nations' Normative commitments on Gender Equality in Africa.
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This advocacy notes outlines the most recent data on women's access to finance in Africa and indicates what policymakers, civil soiety organisation and financial institutions can do to improve women entrepreneurs' situation in accessing green finance.
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This Regional Coordination Strategy articulates how UN Women will leverage its unique triple mandate—encompassing normative support, UN system coordination, and operational activities—to mobilize urgent and sustained action to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and support the achievement of the 2030 Agenda. To ensure this document becomes a living text, individual units of UN Women will customize or localize it to their respective situations and contexts, and the contribution of units to the strategy will be included in their work plans for implementation, monitoring and fundraising purposes.
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Under the Joint UN-EU Spotlight initiative, the Second Chance Education center for Women and Girls, Sokoto, was established to ensure GBV survivors in Sokoto get a second chance at economic empowerment and basic education. This document highlights some of the human impact stories made by the Joint UN-EU Spotlight initiative in Sokoto
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The newsletter highlights efforts in Nigeria to promote gender equality and women's empowerment, emphasizing advocacy during the 2023 General Elections. It features initiatives such as assessing UN Women's Strategic Note, launching a strategic framework for development partners, and showcasing technological innovations by young Nigerians. Economic empowerment through affirmative procurement and human-interest stories are also included, as well as partners' contributions.
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This document gives an overview of the activities carried out during the 16 Days of activism 2023 Campaign in Nigeria.
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Women and girls shoulder a disproportionately high responsibility for the unpaid and paid care work that sustains all societies. The bulk of women’s care time, often unaccounted for, occurs at the expense of time for paid work. In Ethiopia, the limited availability of good-quality and affordable ECCE has led to high demand for women’s unpaid care work, causing gender disparities in the labour market. The present assessment is aimed at estimating the ECCE coverage deficit, the costs, and employment returns from investing to eliminate the deficit by applying the UN Women/ILO Policy Tool on Care. In relation to these, the assessment is conducted under two scenarios, with Scenario 1 (LG) constructed based on 50% and 74% target enrolment for daycare and preprimary, respectively, whereas Scenario 2 (HG) is based on 50% and 100% target enrolment for daycare and preprimary, respectively.
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Evidence suggests that investment in the care economy has significant economic returns (in addition to social dividends) in terms of job creation, domestic revenue and economic growth, as well as reducing gender inequality in the labor market. In Ethiopia, an estimated 53% of women work in the informal sector. Further, the overwhelming majority (92%) of pre-primary teachers are female. This indicates the potential in policy making. The unequal sharing of unpaid care work results in many women working in low-paid, part-time or precarious jobs, or not being able to participate in the labour market altogether. This policy brief presents key findings and policy recommendations from an assessment of the costs and social and economic returns of investing in ECCE in Ethiopia. The assessment was undertaken through the application of the UN Women/ILO Policy Tool, A guide to public invest-ments in the care economy.
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This report highlights the existing social care infrastructure, and the most needed and cost-effective solutions that can contribute to the reduction and redistribution of unpaid care work in Rwanda.
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The assessment utilized the gender inequality framework used in humanitarian settings. The framework considered how the gender inequalities prevalent in pre-conflict contexts are exacerbated by conflict dynamics and how the impact differs with different gender roles. The framework indicates that the humanitarian responses should consider the basic livelihood needs and investigate and address some strategic issues that promote