This report provides recommendations to ensure future elections are conducted in a gender responsive environment. Some of the recommendations include alignment of the Electoral Act to the Constitution, amendment of the Political Parties Finance Act to provide a framework that encourages participation of women through financial support to female candidates, reduction of nomination fees, as well as the need to provide proper sanitation and living conditions of electoral staff among others.

Women have the right to equal and inclusive representation in all decision-making systems on equal terms with men. Despite important progress by States parties, to date, this right is still not respected. This General Recommendation (GR) outlines a roadmap towards women’s right to equal and inclusive representation. It provides comprehensive guidance for States parties on achieving equal and inclusive representation of women in all decision-making systems across all sectors, aiming for a systemic change.

Generation Equality is a global initiative that aims to drive change through a multigenerational and multi-stakeholder approach, focusing on key issues like equal pay, fair distribution of unpaid care work, eradicating gender-based violence, healthcare access, and increasing women’s political participation.

In alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2024-2028, UN Women’s Global Strategic Plan, and stemming from the Government of Malawi’s Vision 2063, the Country Office Strategic Note articulates the strategic outcomes and corresponding outputs required to deliver results for women and girls in Malawi.

This toolkit is aimed at providing an easily accessible compendium of resources available for the production and use of gender data in humanitarian settings. It is tailored to build capacity and provide guidance to governments, civil society organizations (CSO), humanitarians working with data, information managers, managers, decision makers, statisticians, and users of gender statistics. The contained tools can be used in support of key humanitarian planning and operational processes, including advocacy, strategy and policy formulation, planning, resource allocation, monitoring, and evaluation.

The UN Women Kenya Annual Report highlights key achievements in advancing women’s empowerment and gender equality. This report showcases progress in increasing women’s leadership and political participation, strengthening economic empowerment, eliminating violence against women and girls, engaging women in peace and security efforts, and enhancing planning and coordination. UN Women Kenya remains dedicated to building a future where women are at the heart of developing resilient and sustainable communities.

The United Nations Women Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (UN Women ESARO) was tasked with reviewing and proposing ways to enhance the integration of gender considerations in Africa’s implementation strategies for the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

This analysis of laws from a gender perspective was undertaken to provide an in-depth understanding of the current legal framework in both Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar, and to identify gaps and discriminatory provisions with the long-term vision of advocating for legal reform. This brief provides a summary of the analysis exploring the gender responsiveness of laws and recommendations on discriminatory provisions and gaps that require repeal, amendment or enactment. 

This Care Framework highlights the context and challenges of women's unpaid care work in the West and Central Africa region. It also describes UN Women's approach to the care economy to address unpaid care within the context of the SDGs and the polycrisis in the region, and enabling gender equality and economic justice for rural and poor women.

This analysis of laws from a gender perspective was undertaken to provide an in-depth understanding of the current legal framework in both Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar, and to identify gaps and discriminatory provisions with the long-term vision of advocating for legal reform. The analysis explores the vast spectrum of laws to assess their gender responsiveness, and highlights discriminatory provisions and gaps that require repeal, amendment or enactment. 

Ethiopia has demonstrated thought leadership in the use of gender data to meet national priorities and address gaps to achieve these as well as SDG targets on gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) and others. Gender data has notably been used to improve and safeguard education opportunities for girls, boost agriculture and productivity, particularly for female-headed households including through addressing land ownership, and to address issues of gender-biased violence.

Workshops and events organized by the UN and its partners at the SVRI Forum will provide invaluable spaces for knowledge exchange, from addressing the intersection of violence against women and children, to exploring digital solutions, and enhancing research methods.

UN Women Ethiopia has undertaken various activities during the quarter in collaboration with its partners. Among the notable activities is the launching of its WomenEconomic Empowerment Strategy. The strategy encapsulates UN Women’s vision of empowering women to thrive and economies to prosper. It aims to dismantle the systemic barriers that prevent women from fully participating in the economy. Another important work done during the quarter is the continuation of our effort to ensure the participation of Civil Society organizations in the transitional justice processes. To this end, a two-day national workshop on creating space for the CSOs to participate in the implementation process of transitional justice policy in Ethiopia was held in June 2024. The workshop targets women leaders from non-governmental and CSOs and representatives of grassroots community groups aimed to assess gender sensitivity of the Transitional Justice (TJ) Policy recently adopted by Ethiopia’s Council of Ministers.

The WEE-CSA Storybook showcases the success stories of over 2,400 women from Kitui, Laikipia, and West Pokot who have transformed their lives through climate-smart agriculture. Funded by KOICA and implemented by UN Women Kenya, it highlights the project's impact on livelihoods and gender equality while sharing valuable lessons learned. This collection celebrates resilience and aims to inspire further community upliftment for sustainable development in Kenya.

This analysis aims to gain insights into the unique challenges, needs, and priorities of women, girls, men, and boys. It seeks to guide humanitarian, development, and peace actors in tailoring their responses to effectively meet the diverse needs of returnees, refugees, displaced populations, and host communities.

This analysis aimed to assess the impact of the conflict in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA), including key protection risks and needs, and to identify triggers of the conflict.

Women’s economic empowerment, financial independence, power and agency are facilitated through financial inclusion, using financial services and managing their own incomes. Empowering women economically drives social progress and mobility as women tend to invest their money in education and health. Financial inclusion also plays a pivotal role in achieving Agenda 2030.

This is a condensed version of the manual titled “Gender- Responsive Unpaid Care and Domestic Work Advocacy Guideline,” developed by UN Women in partnership with the Ministry of Women and Social Affairs, Ethiopia Country Office. The primary aim of this advocacy guideline is to promote gender-transformative actions addressing unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW). It emphasizes the need for increased investment in the gender-responsive care economy to advance the social, economic, and political empowerment of women and girls, thereby contributing to sustainable development.

This is an abridged version of the manual “Gender Mainstreaming in Agriculture: Training of Trainers Manual,” emerging from UN Women Ethiopia’s Women Economic Empowerment Program, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture. It is funded by UN Women’s Strategic Note (2021-2025) donors: the Government of the Netherlands, the Government of Norway, and the Government of Sweden. This manual attempts to address this gap by formulating modules and sessions on relevant topics. Creating gender awareness and building agricultural gender analysis skills among agricultural, land, gender, and other related professionals and planners can contribute to gender mainstreaming in the sector, consequently leading to the equitable participation, contribution, and benefit of female farmers in the Ethiopian agriculture sector.

This is an abridged version of the manual titled ‘Unpaid Care and Domestic Work Training of Trainers’ Manual developed by UN Women in collaboration with the Ministry of Women and Social Affairs, Ethiopia Country Office. The objective of the manual is to introduce and investigate the concept of unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW). It makes a significant contribution to the contemporary discussion and debate on UCDW issues and how they affect women’s social lives and economic empowerment. Through training, it is hoped to build a pool of partnerships to influence the national government, communities, and other stakeholders to better recognize the role of care work in the economy, to empower stakeholders to advocate for a more equitable distribution of care responsibilities and greater support for caregivers by addressing the gender gap that results from a lack of awareness and appreciation of unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW).