The OECD Development Centre is a special body of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation of Development (OECD) linking OECD members with developing and emerging economies. The Development Centre produces high-quality analysis and fosters dialogue to identify creative policy solutions to emerging global issues and development challenges.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated trainee to join the Centre’s gender team, based in Paris. The trainee will assist the team on its two flagship initiatives, the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) and the Wikigender Platform:
- The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is a cross-country measure of formal and informal laws, social norms and practices that restrict women and girls’ empowerment opportunities. A first edition was launched in 2009. Then the SIGI was updated in 2012, 2014 and 2018. Since 2014, the gender team has published SIGI Regional Reports and finalised two SIGI country studies in Uganda and Burkina Faso. The Development Centre is now producing new regional reports, based on the SIGI 2019 data, and conducting a SIGI country study in Tanzania in partnership with UN Women.
- Wikigender is a global online collaborative platform linking policymakers and experts from both developed and developing countries to find solutions to advance gender equality. It provides a centralised space for knowledge exchange on key emerging issues, with a strong focus on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and in particular on SDG 5. English, French and Spanish speakers worldwide can discuss current issues, relevant research and emerging trends on gender equality.
The trainee will be expected to:
- Contribute to the production of the SIGI regional reports, including production of analytical and thematic chapters, graphs, sub-regional overviews, annexes, references and management of the formatting and editing;
- Contribute to the preparation of the launch of the SIGI 2019 regional reports, including drafting communication materials and liaising with relevant stakeholders;
- Contribute to the research of the gender team on discriminatory social institutions through the Social Institutions and Gender Index;
- Contribute to the editorial development of the Wikigender platform in English.
- Contribute to the production of the team’s other publications and papers on gender and development, including research, drafting and liaison with key stakeholders;
- Assist in the preparation of public presentations, reports other external communication material;
- Assist in the coordination of the gender team’s public events and workshops;
Other tasks
- Maintain a strong commitment to continuous professional development and effective teamwork.
Education and experience
- Currently undertaking post-graduate studies in development economics, gender, social science, international development and a related field;
- Be a registered student in an academic institution that has or is willing to sign an OECD Memorandum of Agreement relating to traineeships.
Core Competencies
- Strong interest in gender and development issues, demonstrated through previous experience in the field (courses, thesis, internships, etc.).
- Excellent communication and writing skills in English. Working knowledge of French and/or Spanish would be considered an asset.
- Proven ability to carry out quantitative analysis using standard statistical software packages (Excel).
- Fluency in the use of standard software applications (MS Office).
Ideally, the trainee would start by Monday 13 January 2020 for a duration of six months full-time with the possibility of renewal. The Organisation provides a contribution to living expenses of EUR 709 per month (rate applicable at the time of this publication). The trainee will need to make independent arrangements for travel and accommodation and must provide their own health and social insurance.
Interested candidates should send a CV and cover letter to Hyeshin Park at hyeshin.park@oecd.org by 15 November 2019.
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About the GPE
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) is a partnership and funding platform that galvanizes global and national support for education in developing countries, focusing on the poorest and most vulnerable children and youth. It is the only global partnership entirely focused on education in developing countries.
Established in 2002, GPE brings together 60+ developing country governments, 20+ donors, international organizations, civil society, teacher organizations, the private sector and philanthropy to improve the lives of children and youth through quality education. Since 2003, GPE has allocated more than US$4.6 billion to partner developing countries to strengthen education systems— improving access to schools, the quality of education, equity in learning and data collection.
A key function of GPE is to support governments to develop good quality education sector plans and to encourage donors to align their support with these plans, hence reducing aid fragmentation and transaction costs.
GPE leverages the aid it provides by incentivizing developing countries to gradually allocate up to 20% of national budgets to quality education. GPE facilitates budgetary and policy transparency and supports civil society organizations to hold governments accountable for implementing national education plans.
GPE supports the ambition and vision of the new Global Goal for education calling for inclusive, equitable quality education for all by 2030. GPE 2020, GPE’s new strategic plan for the next five years, aligns GPE’s work in support of the new global education goal.
How GPE advances gender equality in and through education
GPE’s operational model works to advance gender equality in education. it does this by locking together three core strategies:
Stronger planning
GPE helps partner developing countries to strengthen their sector planning through grants that support education sector analysis and plan development, as well as through technical support.. For example, grants through the Global and Regional Activities program have helped to fund the Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children and a project on addressing school-related gender-based violence.
GPE, together with the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) will soon be releasing a Guidance for Developing Gender-Responsive Education Sector Plans, which provides case studies and recommendations to help policymakers understand and apply the core principles of gender equality to education sector planning.
Mutual accountability and inclusive policy dialogue
Through inclusive policy dialogue, GPE encourages policies that are be rooted in local concerns and address locally relevant issues regarding the most disadvantaged children.
Civil society organizations can be powerful advocates for girls’ education, and including them is particularly important for strong mutual accountability. With this in mind, GPE has allocated US$29 million to the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF), which is managed by our partner, the Global Campaign for Education.
The CSEF gives grants to 62 national civil society coalitions to support their advocacy activities, including for gender equality, build their capacity to strengthen planning, implementation and impact, and promote cross-country learning and networking.
Effective financing for implementation of sector plans
GPE partner developing countries can receive grants of up to US$100 million to finance a program that supports the implementation of their education sector plan. GPE’s results-based funding model incentivizes governments to improve equity, efficiency, and learning in their education sectors.
Activities currently funded by GPE grants include:
- School construction and upgrading in areas where there are not enough schools that girls can attend
- Recruitment of female teachers, particularly in countries where cultural norms require female-only school environments for girls
- In-service teacher training in gender-responsiveness
- Encouragement of women in administrative leadership
- Separate latrines and/or sanitary kits for girls
- Uniforms and school kits to reduce direct costs of schooling
- Cash transfers incentivizing girls to attend and remain in school, and/or rewarding high achievers
- Awareness-raising campaigns and community discussion groups to address sociocultural factors
- National studies to help develop targeted gender strategies.
Priorities moving forward
Achieving gender equality is one of GPE’s eight principles guiding its current strategic plan. Our Gender Equality Policy and Strategy 2016-2020 lays out key priorities for action, including a focus on building capacity throughout the partnership to advance gender equality, and investigating opportunities for more collaboration with other sectors, such as health, water, sanitation, and hygiene.
]]>The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is a cross-country measure of the discriminatory social institutions that drive and underpin gender inequality. Discriminatory social institutions are the formal and informal laws, attitudes and practices that shape and determine equality between women and men in all spheres of public and private life, such as education, health and employment. Its five dimensions assess gender equality in the law and in practice in the following five areas: the family, physical autonomy (including violence against women), son bias, access to land and productive resources, and civil liberties. This life course approach to development aims to capture how discrimination against women and girls adversely impacts their development pathways and ability to benefit from empowerment opportunities.
The Development Centre is now in the process of updating the SIGI for 2018. This includes the preparation of 193 country profiles. The overall objective of this consultancy will be to contribute to the revision of SIGI by updating the country analysis on discriminatory laws, social norms and practices related to gender inequality, following an established template and questionnaire prepared by the Development Centre. The revised country profiles will be published on the SIGI website (www.genderindex.org). Each country profile author will be fully acknowledged on the website and any related publication.
We are looking for enthusiastic consultants with a background in gender, law, women’s rights and development who meets the following criteria:
Excellent research and writing skills in English.
- Ability to absorb and synthesize complex information quickly.
- Expert knowledge of key sources and literature on women’s rights and gender equality. Specialist knowledge of the African and/or the Asia-Pacific region would be an asset.
- Proven experience in writing articles, papers or reports on women’s rights and gender equality in developing countries.
- Ability to work independently and meet deadlines.
Key tasks
The key tasks of the consultant in relation to this assignment will be:
- Draft country profiles according to the template provided by the Development Centre. Each country profile will be verified by the OECD Development Centre as part of a two-step quality control check. The consultant will be expected to address any comments from the Development Centre. Full acknowledgment of each profile author will be to reflect recent legal reforms, policy changes, political developments and other changes related to social institutions.
- Compile references and full sources for all requested information points in each country note
Expected deliverables
- Updated and verified qualitative analysis and references contained within country profiles designated by the OECD Development Centre. The consultant will prepare two drafts of each country profile, responding to one round of comments from the Development Centre. These profiles will be delivered according to a schedule agreed between the consultant and the OECD Development Centre at the beginning of the contract.
Working mode
The consultant will carry out this work in close collaboration with the OECD Development Centre. Regular communication by email and phone, to update and feedback on the progress made on the assignment will be expected from the consultant. Each country profile is expected to take at least 4 full time days.
Payment
The consultant will be paid a lump sum based on the number of country profiles undertaken. To apply, please submit a resume and cover letter to Keiko.Nowacka@oecd.org .
]]>We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated trainee to join the Centre’s gender team, based in Paris. The trainee will assist the team on the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) and the SIGI country study in Burkina Faso. Please note that an internship in the Organisation shall be open only to a person who is currently enrolled as a student in an educational or research institution recognised as such by the Organisation.
The trainee will be expected to:
- Produce literature reviews and provide other quantitative research, such as data collection and analysis. Provide support to the revision of the SIGI methodological and conceptual frameworks.
- Contribute to the research and analysis of the SIGI Burkina Faso country study.
- Assist in the preparation of public presentations.
- Contribute to the team’s other tasks, including drafting reports, and assisting in the co-ordination of events.
- Support activities, when appropriate, of the Wikigender platform.
Education and experience
- Be a registered student in an academic institution that has signed or is willing to sign an OECD Memorandum of Agreement relating to traineeships.
- Currently be undertaking post-graduate studies in economics and/or statistics.
- Having a good understanding of development issues and current debates on gender and development is desirable.
Core Competencies
- Strong quantitative skills and a proven ability to carry out quantitative analysis.
- Strong interest in gender and/or development issues, demonstrated through previous experience in the field (courses, thesis, internships, etc.).
- Proficiency in the use of statistical software applications (Stata and Excel) and standard software applications (MS Office).
- Fluency in English with a commitment to reaching a good working level. Knowledge of French and Spanish would be an asset.
The traineeship is for six months full time. The Organisation provides a contribution to living expenses of EUR 608.40 per month (rate applicable at the time of this publication). The trainee will need to make independent arrangements for travel and accommodation, and must provide their own health and social insurance.
To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to Gaëlle Ferrant, Gender Project Economist, at Gaelle.Ferrant@oecd.org by Monday 23 January 2017, 18:00 (Paris time).
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International Women’s Day 2016
This year, we prepared two special pages on Wikigender to give more visibility to the work done by the OECD and Wikigender partners on gender equality.
In addition, the gender team at the OECD Development Centre organised a high-level event on 9 March on “2030 Agenda: Gender Equality, Social Norms and Inclusive Growth“. See the photos of the event below:
A side event was also organised on 15 March on “Tracking social norm change in the SDGs at the country level: data for evidence-based policymaking in favour of gender equality in Uganda” during the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
Wikigender highlights
The UNESCO eAtlas of Gender Inequality in Education
To mark International Women’s Day 2016, UNESCO released the eAtlas of Gender Inequality in Education, prepared by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. The report provides new evidence of gender gaps in education despite significant progress made over the past 20 years. 16 million girls between the ages 6 and 11 will never start school compared to 8 million boys.
Making sense of Land, Statistics and Gender
A new infographic by the Gender and Land Rights database (GLRD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) explores the correct use of land ownership statistics (ownership understood in a broad sense beyond individual property rights) and highlights how gender can influence land rights.
Learn more about recent developments in FAO’s Gender and Land Rights Database
News from the Land Portal
Blog: Women’s Land Rights Can Help Grow Food Security
This blog post by Jolyne Sanjak, Chief Program Officer of Landesa, focuses on the interlinkages between land rights, and women’s land rights in particular, and food security.
Video: interview with Bettie Fortuin
Watch the interview with Bettie Fortuin, farm worker in South Africa representing the Women on Farms Project at the World Forum on Access to Land 2016 in Valencia, Spain.
IPS articles on gender
- Women Benefit From Simple Economic Ventures (01.04.2016)
- Debunking Stereotypes: Which Women Matter in the Fight Against Extremism? (06.04.2016)
FAO updates
Selected recent publications
- Understanding the Role of Social Protection in Advancing Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment: Towards Sustainable Poverty Reduction
- Enhancing the potential of family farming for poverty reduction and food security through gender-sensitive rural advisory services
See all recent publications from the FAO on gender here.
Featured Articles on FAO’s Gender website
- International agencies in Rome together commemorate Women’s Day
- Stories, successes, and results for rural women’s economic empowerment: joint UN programme gathers speed
- Empowering Koinadugu women farmers in Sierra Leone
See all the latest featured articles from the FAO here
Updates from the FAO’s Dimitra Project
Learn more about the FAO’s Dimitra project a participatory information and communication project which contributes to improving the visibility of rural populations, women in particular. Read the most recent newsletter and watch a video on how the Dimitra project in Niger is helping women access water and land to increase food security and decrease rural poverty.
Recent articles
See the latest articles published on Wikigender:
- Women on corporate boards
- Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
- Maternity leave, paternity leave and parental leave
- UN Security Council Resolution 1325
- Sustainable Development Goal 5
- The Millennium Development Goals
- Social norms
Featured video
Access to water and land: Dimitra clubs in Niger
This short video shows how the FAO Dimitra Clubs in Niger have been crucial in ensuring women’s access to land and water, while contributing to nutrition, food security, gender equality and reducing rural poverty at the same time. The transformative approach of the Dimitra Clubs induces behavioural changes in various aspects of daily life for individuals, households and communities in rural areas. Dimitra Clubs are groups of rural women and men who voluntarily decide to get organized to discuss their development challenges, find solutions and take collective action in an effort to improve their livelihoods and take control of their own lives.
Stay tuned via the Community Portal!
The Community Portal is where you can access the latest information on gender equality, and where you can contribute by sharing your news and data!
- Read the daily media review
- See past and upcoming events
- Access a list of relevant publications
- Participate and exchange in the forum!
- Sign up on Wikigender and become an active member of the community! Find out more.
Welcome to your new Wikigender!
A new version of Wikigender was launched and presented on 16 December at the OECD, with the kind support of International Organisation of La Francophonie, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, the French Development Agency, and in collaboration with Genre en Action. For the first time, the platform is available in French and includes a new user-friendly interface. The new French platform will ensure that the Francophone communities can participate, engage and access new data and research on gender and development. Wikigender will also place the spotlight on the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular on SDG 5, looking at key issues such as the role of social norms in development, gender statistics, and tracking progress on SDG gender targets.
Find out more about the launch event and all you need to know about the new platform and how you can participate here.
Explore the new themes covered by Wikigender and contact us at contact@wikigender.org if you would like to submit a new article or for any other question!
Wikigender highlights
Men out-earn women by $27,000 a year: new data from the WGEA
The second year of data collected by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency covers 12,229 employers and represents over 40% of employees in Australia. This world-leading data reveals there has been some progress towards workplace gender equality but stubborn pay gaps persist across industries, occupations and management levels. While the data confirms stubborn gender pay gaps and under-representation of women in management and leadership roles, it also reveals measurable progress on employer action in support of workplace gender equality.
The Women, Business and the Law 2016: Getting to Equal
The Women, Business and the Law report measures legal and regulatory barriers to women’s entrepreneurship and employment in seven areas. The 4th edition of the Women, Business and the Law report covers 173 economies, including 30 economies that were not previously covered. The report finds that the majority of economies have legal gender differences, with 155 economies out of 173 impeding women’s economic opportunities with at least one law.
This edition builds on the growing body of research and empirical evidence that stresses the importance of legal and institutional frameworks in shaping women’s economic rights and opportunities and improving gender equality. For the first time, it explores laws in areas such as gender discrimination in access to credit, financial support for parents, care leave for sick relatives, child marriage, marital rape and protection orders for victims of domestic violence., with data current as of April 2015.
UN Women Empower Women in Spanish
The UN Women Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean, along with the Global Compact Network in Panama, Sumarse, recently held a business forum to officially launch the Knowledge Gateway on Women’s Economic Empowerment: EmpowerWomen.org, as well as the Women’s Economic Principles. Read more (also in Spanish)
The International Development Cooperation Meeting on Gender and Media
Wikigender was present at the meeting on 7 December, in advance of the launch of the redesigned platform. Find out more!
Wikigender University 2016
- The United Nations University (UNU-GEST) have joined the Wikigender University Programme, with 15 fellows who will write articles on a wide range of gender equality issues.
- Northumbria University also joined the Wikigender University Programme in January, with students following the “Gender, Media and Society” module to write articles under the theme “Gender in the Media”.
Stay tuned for their upcoming articles!
Featured videos
“Six Days: Three Activists, Three Wars, One Dream” (trailer)
“This inspiring documentary, which follows three brave human rights defenders in Liberia, Abkhazia, Georgia and Iraq over six days, gives insight into the everyday struggle to improve the situation of women worldwide. SIX DAYS shines a necessary light on some of the most urgent and important human rights issues facing women today: girls education, honor killings, bride kidnappings and women’s health issues.” More information.
Taking the Lead: Sexual Violence Survivors Forging Hope in Colombia
This mini-documentary was produced by the Nobel Women’s Initiative and MADRE, as part of the International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence. The documentary follows the stories of sexual violence survivors and women human rights defenders dedicated to breaking the silence around sexual violence in Colombia. These survivors and defenders mobilize by using art therapy, community gatherings and the media to speak out about sexual violence and urge justice for perpetrators. Their work is gaining momentum across the country, with survivors calling loudly for a world where women’s bodies are not used as battlefields.
Key links from our partners
- UN Women: see their “year in review” of gender equality in 2015
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics data:
- FAO’s featured articles and publications
Stay tuned via the Community Portal!
The Community Portal is where you can access the latest information on gender equality, and where you can contribute by sharing your news and data!
- Read the daily media review
- See past and upcoming events
- Access a list of relevant publications
- Participate and exchange in the forum!
- Sign up on Wikigender and become an active member of the community! Find out more.
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UN Women
Findings of the HeForShe Parity Report were revealed during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos at an IMPACT 10x10x10 event. Ten of the world’s leading companies have released new workforce gender diversity figures. The ten companies are: AccorHotels, Barclays, Koc Holding, McKinsey & Company, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Schneider Electric, Tupperware Brands, Twitter, Unilever, and Vodafone.
Results
Main results show that women’s representation overall averaged 39.7% across the ten companies, however senior leadership roles held by women ranged from 11% to 33%. The benefits of increasing women’s representation in senior roles in the private sector and more largely in the global economy are immense. However, while progress is being made, a lot more needs to be done to reach parity. Dennis Nally, CEO of PwC said at the annual meeting “teams that are diverse statistically make better decisions”; while recent research by McKinsey has projected that getting to parity would add $28 trillion to the global economy.
About IMPACT 10x10x10
The IMPACT 10x10x10 initiative was launched in January 2015 at Davos to engage key decision makers in governments, corporations, and universities around the world to drive change from the top. One year later, 10 Corporate “IMPACT Champions” are committed to make gender equality an institutional priority by implementing the HeForShe IMPACT framework.
See also
References
- The male business leaders at Davos who committed to gender equality (Quartz 22.01.2016)
- How advancing women’s equality can add $12 trillion to global growth (McKinsey Global Institute, 2015)
External Links
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There has been a lot of media coverage of the World Economic Forum 2016 annual meeting in Davos, in particular on gender equality at Davos. Here’s a selection of articles on the topic:
Lack of women still a hot topic at Davos (CNBC 25.01.2016)
What It’s Like Being One Of The Lone Women In Davos (Fortune 23.01.2016)
Davos: Mind the gap (CNN 23.01.2016)
Welcome to Davos, Where Even a Push for Gender Equity Mostly Involves Lots of Men (Slate 22.01.2016)
UN announces first-ever High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment (UN Women 21.01.2016)
UN launches initiative for women’s economic empowerment at Davos (The Guardian 21.01.2016)
A Push for Gender Equality at the Davos World Economic Forum, and Beyond (The NY Times 19.01.2016)
Davos: how can an event that’s 82% male solve the digital gender divide? (The Guardian 19.01.2016)
A woman’s place is in the boardroom: Here’s why (NBC 19.01.2016)
Who are the women of Davos 2016? (WEF 15.01.2016)
See also
- Community Portal
- Community Portal - Reports and Publications
- Gender in the Media
- Gender in the Media - Archive
Wikigender/Wikichild Online Discussion
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