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In August 2024, the United Nations (UN) in Tanzania presented the results of its second comprehensive assessment on gender equality and women’s empowerment, demonstrating significant strides made in mainstreaming gender within the UN system. Eighty per cent of indicators now meet or exceed performance standards.
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The UN Somalia Gender Theme Group (GTG) Retreat, held in July 2023, was a remarkable blend of insightful discussions, team building, and strategizing for promoting gender equality in Somalia.
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Hanitra Njatonirina is a Gender Specialist working with UNDP Madagascar. Hanitra and 50 other colleagues drawn from UN agencies across East and Southern Africa took part in a UNCT-SWAP Scorecard and UNCT GEM training that was recently held in Maputo, Mozambique, organized by the UN Women Regional Office for East and Southern Africa. The training aimed at bolstering the UN’s efforts to mainstream gender and promote gender equality in our work in the region.
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The 2023 edition of the UNCT-SWAP Gender Equality Scorecard and the UNCT Gender Equality Marker training, held in Maputo, Mozambique from 19th to 23rd June 2023 presented an opportunity to track and leverage the UN System’s performance on gender equality in the region.
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A baseline survey conducted by UN Women Rwanda on unpaid care work status among women and men within 8 districts of Rwanda, revealed that a rural woman spent seven hours per day doing unpaid care work, while the urban woman spent six hours and nine minutes as opposed to the man who only spent two hours per day.
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UN Women and UNFPA regional offices in East and Southern Africa are collaborating toward growing a movement for positive masculinity and meaningful engagement of men and boys in advancing gender equality and women’s rights.
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Nairobi, 10 December 2021 – representatives from national governments, regional bodies, international development agencies, and civil society organizations today convened at a high-level forum on the use of gender data and statistics to address violence against women in East and Southern Africa (ESA).
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In collaboration with the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management (MHADM), UN Women and other Ministry partners conducted a one-day validation workshop for the gender analysis of the impact of conflict in South Sudan for an upcoming report. The data from the report will benefit the humanitarian sector and communities it supports.
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Nairobi, Kenya – 04 August 2020 – A recent study using a first-of-its-kind measure of women’s empowerment, the Kenya Women’s Empowerment Index (WEI), shows that only 29 percent of Kenyan women can participate equally and effectively in political, economic, and cultural life — and that their involvement is largely dependent on household circumstances.
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On 7 th March 2018, ahead of the International Women’s day, the United Nations agencies operating in Nairobi launched the Nairobi chapter of the UN International Gender Champions. This is a leadership network that brings together female and male decision-makers to break down gender barriers and make gender equality a working reality in their spheres of influence. The launch was attended by UN staff members, the diplomatic community among other dignitaries. Senior UN offers present...
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The meeting emphasized the need to do everything possible to ensure gender parity within our work as the UN and within the UN and its affiliated agencies which have not yet met the gender parity especially in senior positions.
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[As delivered] Madame President, Members of the Executive Board, Distinguished delegates, Colleagues and friends, Thank you so much, Madame President, for a very inspiring and encouraging presentation. It is hard to believe that this is the last Executive Board session presided over by yourself. It has been an intense but very fast year. Thank you so much for all your support and your dedication as President of the Executive Board; for your constructive and open...