Sustainable Development Goals

Discussion Recap: Towards a Gender Responsive Approach to Food &Nutrition Security in the Sahel and West Africa

CONTEXT Women play a pivotal role in a wide range of activities supporting food and nutrition security. They are the powerhouses of the Sahel and West African food economy. Two-thirds of all employed women work across the food system, accounting for half of the labour force. They dominate off-farm segments of food value chains including […]

COVID-19’s Impact on Gender Equality & the SDGs

Table of Contents: Introduction Implications for the SDGs with a focus on women and girls Implications for SDG 5 specifically Additional Resources from OECD on COVID-19 References Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic poses a severe threat to the achievement of gender-related SDGs and jeopardises some of the improvements observed since 2015 related to gender equality and […]

Climate Change and Tunisia’s Tozeur Oases: An opportunity to boost women’s leadership and economic activity

Article proposed and written by Euro – Mediterranean Women’s Foundation’s Secretary Publication date: 28 October 2019   [toc] Introduction  In its latest report ‘’The Global Climate in 2015–2019’’, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned that global warming is accelerating, so are the associated features such as the sea level rise, the shrinking sea ice, glacier […]

SDG 5.1.1 Side Event Monitoring legal frameworks that address non-discrimination on the basis of sex.

On the occasion of the 61st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61), UN Women, World Bank Group, and OECD Development Centre are pleased to invite you to a side event Monitoring legal frameworks that address non-discrimination on the basis of sex SDG indicator 5.1.1: Whether or not legal frameworks are in […]

The Birdsall House Conference on Women: Beyond-Aid Approaches to Promoting Gender Equality

Follow the conference online here. What The Birdsall House Conference Series on Women seeks to identify and bring attention to leading research and scholarly findings on women’s empowerment in the fields of development economics, behavioral economics, and political economy. On November 2nd, academics, private sector representatives, and policymakers will discuss the potential of ‘beyond-aid’ approaches […]

IPS workshops: Decoding the Future

Never before has humankind faced as many tough challenges as it does now: from harsh climate change causing droughts and flooding to violence; rights abuses, refugees; child trafficking and modern-day slavery; human and social inequalities continue to grow. In a concerted effort to alleviate such unprecedented human suffering, the international community has adopted 17 key […]

Speech: The economic cost of violence against women

Council of Women World Leaders high-level discussion at UN General Assembly Remarks by Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD New York, 21 September 2016 (As prepared for delivery)     Your Excellency Dalia Grybauskaite, Excellencies, Ministers, dear colleagues,   It is a great privilege to be here alongside world leaders who are working to end violence against […]

Rearticulating our feminist struggles: strategising for change in the 2030 agenda world

 What Join feminists from across the region to discuss how we can work towards a #Feminist2030 The 2030 Agenda, the SDGs, and their accompanying targets and indicators will set the tone and drive international and national development policies and programmes for the next 15 years. The next five years will be especially formative for governments, […]

The Millennium Development Goals

 Overview In 2000, global leaders gathered at the United Nations launched a plan of action intended to fight poverty in all its forms. To this end, they set eight goals known as “the Millennium Development Goals “(MDGs) to be achieved by 2015: The MDGs were complemented by a series of 18 quantifiable targets measured by […]

New study looks at progress made in the status of women in 22 countries of the Middle East and North Africa

Twenty years after the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action on gender equality and women’s empowerment, this review of its implementation could not be more timely. Although much has been achieved in recent years to advance the rights of women and girls in the Arab region, inequalities persist at many levels, often […]

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