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This results snapshot of UN Women’s engagements with the private sector emphasizes the private sector’s role in creating jobs, innovating products, and fostering inclusive economies. The document outlines strategies like supporting governments, implementing strategic programs, and coordinating with UN entities. It also highlights the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) and showcases successful initiatives and partnerships driving progress in gender equality and women’s empowerment worldwide.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) can advance gender equality but may also perpetuate inequalities if not managed properly. This UN Women publication emphasizes the need for inclusive, safe, and equitable AI systems. It highlights the private sector's role in achieving this and calls for partnerships to support women in AI leadership, foster opportunities for women entrepreneurs, bridge the gender digital divide, and ensure AI policies integrate gender dimensions.
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Gender equality is a fundamental human right. Despite global efforts, no country has achieved full equality. The private sector plays a key role through job creation and innovation. The document outlines 12 critical areas from the Beijing Declaration and provides strategies for the private sector, including achieving gender parity in leadership, safeguarding women and girls, investing in skills development, closing the digital gender gap, and creating supportive workplace cultures.
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This paper aims to help governments, policymakers, multilateral organizations, the private sector, and civil society to integrate women’s economic empowerment priorities into the process of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development and the subsequent implementation of its outcome, by offering substantive analysis and targeted recommendations introducing a gender lens to key financial policy solutions.
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This report marks the sixth and final monitoring cycle of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s (IASC) 2017 “Policy on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in humanitarian action”. It provides a snapshot of the IASC’s output in 2023 and allows for cross comparison with the baseline established with the 2018 GAF report and the subsequent 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 reports.
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Widespread gender-based violence, including conflict-related sexual violence, has been a defining feature of the violent conflict in Sudan.
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This guidance equips banks to prioritize women’s empowerment across their value chain. It provides a holistic framework for action, practical indicators, checklists, and case studies to support banks to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment in the workplace, marketplace, and community.
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Paving the way for a more equitable society, this publication illustrates gender-transformative approaches and recommendations for future programming. As UN Women presents insights from the pilot phase of the 3R Programme in Rwanda, Senegal, and South Africa, readers are invited to explore how evidence-based policy dialogues, local development plans, and climate change mitigation efforts can help recognize, reduce, and redistribute unpaid care and domestic work.
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Offering a counterpoint to the behaviour change strategies increasingly proposed in international development, this paper discusses a community-led approach to transforming social norms on child labour, education, and gender. It shows how the Mamidipudi Venkatarangaiya Foundation’s adolescent girls’ programme in Telangana State, India, which uses multi-layered strategies to address the obstacles that keep girls out of school, has led to sustainable norms change and concrete improvements in girls’ lives.
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This discussion paper reviews seven key examples of how social norms are being measured in efforts to achieve gender equality. Through this analysis, several cross-cutting shortcomings become evident, limiting the effectiveness of norms-based work in improving gender equality outcomes. The paper concludes by outlining components of a future framework for measuring social norms and gender equality, suggesting what should be measured, why, how, and by whom.
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Concerted, urgent action is needed to improve the knowledge base and strengthen responses to gender-related killings (femicides/feminicides) and other forms of gender-based violence against women and girls. This report presents global and regional estimates in 2023, available time trends and country data, and selected practices for preventing femicides.
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The work of supreme audit institutions becomes increasingly relevant and impactful when it highlights disparities in access to public services, particularly among marginalized groups that have historically been underserved. This publication is a practical guide designed to help auditors understand the “Leave no one behind” (LNOB) principle and evaluate its implementation. It offers sample audit questions and guidance for scoping LNOB audits, including sources of audit criteria, methods, and tools.
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This publication provides a summary of the 2024 Annual Global Meeting of UN Gender Focal Points. It highlights key discussions on achieving gender parity, addressing sexual harassment, and promoting diversity within the UN system. The report also outlines the tools and resources available to Gender Focal Points, emphasizing their role in fostering change.
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This report presents key results achieved by UN Women’s Humanitarian Action Section in close collaboration with partners, including local women’s organizations, across crisis and displacement contexts in 2023. Against the backdrop of increasing conflicts, violence, and climate-related disasters, the report captures UN Women’s efforts and impacts at the global, regional, and country levels in advancing gender equality and the empowerment of crisis-affected women and girls.
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Women and girls are taking action worldwide to realize human rights and the rights of nature. Women environmental human rights defenders are defending land, water, natural resources, territories, and communities from environmental harms and climate impacts, often at great personal risk, facing criminalization, threats, violence, and even death. This brief outlines key actions for defending the women who defend our planet and for respecting, protecting, and fulfilling their human rights.
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This working paper highlights the urgency of addressing gender inequalities across the Rio conventions—UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD), UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It provides examples of where progress has been made and identifies thematic entry points for implementing gender equality considerations across the conventions. It makes recommendations for actions to accelerate the synergistic implementation of the conventions.
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A comprehensive independent evaluation commissioned by UN Women delves into the impact and effectiveness of the first phase of the 3R programme: “Transformative Approaches to Recognise, Reduce, and Redistribute Unpaid Care Work in Women’s Economic Empowerment Programming” in Rwanda, Senegal, and South Africa. This summary illustrates the achievements, strategies, and challenges faced during its implementation to inform decisions about the programme’s continuity, enhancement, and replication in other contexts.
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The Dialogue, Reflection, Insight, Learning & Sharing (DRILS) initiative, launched in 2023, engaged selected UN Women country offices to reflect on and learn from their work with men and boys, aligning with Transforming Patriarchal Masculinities priorities. This report presents the results of the DRILS process with a set of practice-based lessons for each thematic priority.
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In 2023, the world faced unprecedented challenges. Despite these difficult circumstances, UN Women supported UN Member States, local civil society partners, and the UN system to advance peace and stability through our work on the women, peace, and security and disaster risk reduction agendas. This report provides insights into the critical and high-impact work that UN Women is doing on the ground in countries, and at the regional and global levels.
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This repository presents resources and publications developed by UN Women on technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TF GBV).