Discover the key insights and milestones of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) as we approach its 30th anniversary in 2025. This publication explores progress made, persistent challenges, and Kenya’s contributions to gender equality. Highlighting actionable steps for individuals and organizations, it connects the BPfA to the Sustainable Development Goals, emphasizing its continued relevance in driving transformative change for women and girls globally. More
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This publication provides a detailed analysis of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Sudan, focusing on its disproportionate impact on women and girls. As the country faces the largest internal displacement since the Syrian civil war, millions of Sudanese, particularly women and children, are grappling with severe challenges.
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Kenya has demonstrated thought leadership in the use of administrative and citizen data for statistical purposes and harnessing official data to meet national priorities and SDG targets including on gender equality and women’s empowerment. This product highlights tangible achievements and lessons in improving access to and use of this data to influence policy and decision-making and improve the lives of women and girls in Kenya.
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Following the tragic landslides in Gofa Zone (21-22 July 2024), an estimated 14,000 people are affected, including those displaced and those living in at-risk areas requiring evacuation. An emergency response has been launched by the Federal Government in partnership with local communities and humanitarian actors. Women and girls are particularly vulnerable and disproportionately affected by the crisis. They may face gender-related barriers in accessing assistance and their needs may be overlooked if gender is not mainstreamed in the response. In consultation with the national Gender in Humanitarian Action WG chairs and cochairs, the PSEA IA Coordinator, the AAP Coordinator, this document seeks to highlight actionable gender-related recommendations for humanitarian stakeholders/actors involved in the response to the landslides.
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The Publication is a detailed strategic plan for the period 2023-2-27. It highlights previous achievements, lessons and emerging issues that define the policy direction of the gender sector achieving a society free from gender discrimination and violence
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This Toolkit is designed to support the enhanced use of existing gender data and statistics in policy, advocacy, planning, and accountability in East and Southern Africa. The production and use of gender statistics is a complex process that requires deliberate efforts to connect, incentivize, and influence.The strategies outlined provide guidance and user-friendly tips on how to influence, direct, and monitor the pace of progress towards achieving gender equality and women’s economic empowerment and using gender data and statistics.
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This product is related to the Be Like Tanzania series and part of an ongoing regional study. The study aims to showcase developments, achievements and lessons in the uptake and use of gender data and statistics in East and Southern Africa as part of experience-sharing and particularly south-south learning towards promoting the communication and use of gender data and statistics for policy- and decision-making to improve the lives of women and girls.
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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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 publication aims to understand the current landscape of microbusiness in terms of the opportunities, barriers and challenges that women in displacement settings face in accessing economic opportunities in the cities of Kismayo, Dollow and Baidoa