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Virtual High-Level Policy Dialogue on Gender Equality in Southern Africa

From Data to Policy Action: Tackling Gender-Based Discrimination in Social Institutions in Southern Africa    Virtual High-Level Policy Dialogue    15 September 2021   2:00 – 4:30 PM (South Africa Time)      Please kindly register here   Interpretation in English, Portuguese and French will be provided.   The OECD Development Centre, in partnership with the African Development Bank Group and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, invites you to a virtual high-level policy dialogue on gender equality in Southern Africa on 15 September 2021 at 2:00 PM South Africa Time for […]

Grassroots Workshop on Gender Equality in East Africa | 22 June 2021

From Data to Policy Action:  Tackling Gender-Based Discrimination in Social Institutions in East Africa    Virtual Grassroots Workshop      22 June 2021 | 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM (GMT+3)    Registration now open  The OECD Development Centre, in partnerships with the African Development Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, invites you to a virtual workshop with grassroots organisations working on gender equality and women’s rights in East Africa on 22 June 2021 at 10:00 am GMT+3 (9:00 am GMT+2) for an interactive […]

Virtual workshop with grassroots organisations on tackling gender-based discrimination in West Africa

From Data to Policy Action: Tackling Gender-Based Discrimination in Social Institutions      Virtual Workshop in West Africa        27 April 2021    10:00 AM – 1:00 PM (CET)    Please kindly register here    The OECD Development Centre, in partnership with the Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat (SWAC), invites you to a virtual workshop with grassroots organisations working on gender equality in West Africa on 27 April 2021 at 10:00 Paris time for an interactive policy discussion.     Building on the OECD’s Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), the virtual workshop aims to track […]

Launch of SIGI 2021 Regional Report for Southeast Asia

The OECD Development Centre is co-organising, with Korea, the launch of the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) 2021 Regional Report for Southeast Asia on 30 March 2021. The virtual launch aims to: Monitor and identify remaining challenges in addressing discriminatory social institutions – formal and informal laws, norms and practices—which continue to hinder women’s empowerment […]

UN CSW65 Side event “Shifting Masculine Norms to Promote Women’s Economic Empowerment”

The OECD Development Centre is co-organising, with Austria, a Side-event on 22 March 2021 as part of the upcoming Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on Shifting Masculine Norms to Promote Women’s Economic Empowerment to: Make the case that restrictive masculinities hinder women’s economic empowerment while also harming the well-being of men and boys Underscore […]

Launch of Masculinities Report, Man Enough? Measuring Masculine Norms to Promote Women’s Empowerment

The OECD Development Centre is organising a virtual launch event on 12 March 2021 for the Masculinities Report, Man Enough? Measuring Masculine Norms to Promote Women’s Empowerment to: Present the findings of the report Shed light on the ways masculine norms can either hinder or promote women’s empowerment and gender equality Present the indicators that […]

May 12, World Women in Mathematics Day

At the 2018 World Meeting for Mathematics in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), the Iranian Mathematical Society suggested to celebrate and honor women in mathematics on Maryam Mirzakhani’s birthday. M. Mirzakhani was born on May 12 in 1977 in Theran, earned a PhD from Harvard University in 2004 and later became a professor of mathematics at […]

International Girls in ICT Day

The fourth Thursday of April, this year April 23, marks the International Girls in ICT Day, an initiative by ITU Member States in Plenipotentiary Resolution 70 to generate a global environment that encourages girls and women to pursue careers in information and communication technologies (ICT). To celebrate the Day in 2020, ITU will host an […]

OECD High-Level Conference on Ending Violence Against Women

Violence against women remains a global pandemic. Worldwide, more than one out of three women have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. OECD Ministers increasingly recognize that violence against women is a crisis in their countries. The OECD Gender Equality Questionnaire illustrated that governments prioritise this issue […]

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