Prospects for Ending Child Marriage in Africa - Executive Brief
This executive brief is a synthesis of key findings and recommendations from a multi country analytical study by UN Women on child marriage in Africa covering ten countries selected due to their comparatively higher prevalence of child marriage in the continent and globally. More
- Innovation and technology (6)
- Economic empowerment (4)
- Gender equality and women’s empowerment (4)
- Ending violence against women and girls (2)
- Markets (1)
- Leadership and political participation (1)
- Information and communications technology (ICT) (1)
- Local development (1)
- Peace and security (1)
- Science and technology for development (1)
- Governance and national planning (1)
Friday, August 9, 2019
over 70 student leaders from 30 universities from across Kenya convened to dialogue on their role in ending technology assisted violence against women and girls in Kenya and Africa. UN Women East and Southern Africa Regional Office organized the Knowledge Seminar in collaboration with the University of Maseno’s Institute of Gender Studies
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Monday, May 8, 2017
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Brief: UN Women Executive Director's dialogue with African youth
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Dr. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the Executive Director of UN Women met with 33 inspirational young African leaders in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The dialogue focused on young women’s leadership and economic empowerment and rights, particularly young women’s entrepreneurship.
Catalogue of Innovations and Good Practices on Gender and Resilience
Friday, November 18, 2016
This booklet is a collation of innovations and good practices by diverse organizations/ agencies demonstrating promising and good practices in operationalizing the gender and resilience agenda within their interventions at Country and/ or Regional level. The initiatives documented are evidence and constitute innovative and cutting edge examples of interventions/ programmes that could be replicated elsewhere and scaled up for impact to increase the resilience for women and girls in Africa. The catalogue has been compiled from submissions from a call for innovations and has also leveraged on existing innovative models documented by various UN agencies including the Food and Agriculture Organization- FAO and UN Women. The catalogue calls for a culture of innovative business and/ or programme models and initiatives that guarantee resilience for women while implementing ideas that create transformation in the resilience agenda in the lives of women and girls in Africa.
Technologies for Rural Women in Africa
Thursday, April 21, 2016
The highlights of this issue : Summary of Critical Interventions Needed: An Agenda For Action for Governments and Partners - Inspiring Agricultural Change: Sharefair on Rural Women's Technologies - Transforming Into a Green Sustainable Village With the Help of Women's Technologies - Remove the Time Burdens of Women Farmers for a More Productive, Improved Lifestyle - Both Women and Men to be Considered in Scaling up the Use of Agricultural Innovations - Close the National Policy Gap First to Narrow the Gender Technology Gap - Food and Nutrition Security Sarts With Agricultural production for Women - She Who Learns, Teaches: Using Social Networks for Technology Adoption - What Do We Still Need to Learn About Technology Adoption by Women Family Farmers, as Highlighted in the ESA Sharefair?
Monday, February 29, 2016
UN Women in collaboration with Timeless Conference organized a Market Place at the Timeless Conference 2016. This booklet is a collation of case studies, good practices and innovations by diverse organizations/ agencies demonstrating good practices in operationalizing normative framework on Women’s Socio-Economic Empowerment. The initiatives documented form part of the Market Place at the Timeless Conference and are innovative and cutting edge examples of interventions/ programmes that...