GENDER EQUALITY PROFILE-MOZAMBIQUE

The Gender Equality National Profiles are a key tool for monitoring the progress of the commitments/resolutions defined by the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and other policies at the level of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The profiles also help to verify the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals. In Mozambique, the first Gender Profile was prepared and published in the year 2016 with the support of the European Union. Its objectives were to "provide a snapshot of the gender equality situation in Mozambique at macro, medium and micro levels, identify constraints and opportunities for the promotion of gender equality in the country, and propose practical and operational recommendations". As this is the second exercise of this nature, this one takes the first as the starting point of its analysis while discussing the country's progress with regard to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in the different spheres considering the commitments assumed by the Government of Mozambique.