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In an exclusive interview with Karen News, the Secretary of the Karen Women’s Organization (KWO)—an NGO which represents female refugees on the Thai-Burma border—slammed the recent cuts in humanitarian aid and other forms of assistance to refugees on the border. The KWO Secretary’s comments follow a host of similar statements by other NGO’s condemning the funding cuts by international donors. “Our refugee community feels it is under pressure to return to Burma. If there is not enough food, not enough health services and not enough shelter [then] sensible people will feel the need to move and go to another place where they find these things. That is just common sense,” KWO Secretary Naw K’nyaw Paw told Karen News. The KWO is a community-based organization of Karen women who facilitate development and provide relief services in refugee camps on the border. The organization also provides similar services to internally displaced persons inside Burma. In total, KWO says it has a membership base of over 49,000 Karen women
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When Christine Lagarde says Hong Kong should adopt social and economic policies to enrich a broader swathe of society and empower more women, she says it with a passion that one does not expect from the leader of a dry financial body such as the International Monetary Fund. The tall, charismatic Frenchwoman stresses her economic prescription is based on hard technical research by IMF economists rather than her own idealism or personal views, but she is plainly more fired up by this topic than
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APEC Ministers concluded the APEC Women and the Economy Forum on Friday in Beijing by issuing a statement on advancing gender equality and greater economic empowerment for women in the Asia-Pacific. The statement outlines a course of action for the region in the following areas: Women and green developmentWomen and regional trade and economic cooperationPolicy support and women’s economic empowerment.“We are focused on supporting the five pillars of women’s economic empowerment,” said Song Xiuyan, Chair of the 2014 APEC Women and Economy Forum and Vice Chairperson of the National Working Committee on Children and Women under the State Council, China and Vice President of the All-China Women’s Federation. “This means improving access to markets and capital as well as promoting skills development and capacity building, women’s leadership, and more effective use of innovation and technology,” added Song. Training women to use information technologies and e-commerce to start their own businesses as well as encouraging girls to study science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields and the development of a regional women’s entrepreneurial network are among some of the initiatives. “APEC will also work on integrating gender responsive programs and policies as a cross-cutting issue across all other APEC initiatives including our work in human resource development, small and medium enterprises, e-commerce and transportation,” said Dr Alan Bollard, Executive Director at the APEC Secretariat.
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We’ve heard from you, the women and men in our community, that there are still overwhelming barriers holding women back online: from power outages to physical safety threats; from steep prices at Internet cafes to lack of women-friendly spaces; from government censorship to family or community attitudes toward women online.
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What tools, resources, and trainings would you like to have access to in order to feel more comfortable using the Internet?
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Education for women = economic development. Watch as BBC talks to Saadia Zahidi (@davos) about Africa’s emergency
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This series of portraits spotlights women and girls who have made it in their respective fields — often in uncharted territories — by overcoming barriers and beating the odds to reach their goals. Although far from the limelight, their struggle, passion and work inspires all who know them and they are role models for many. - See more at: http://beijing20.unwomen.org/en/voices-and-profiles/women-of-achievement#sthash.fOvtbxOX.dpufThis series of portraits spotlights women and girls who have made it in their respective fields — often in uncharted territories — by overcoming barriers and beating the odds to reach their goals. Although far from the limelight, their struggle, passion and work inspires all who know them and they are role models for many. - See more at: http://beijing20.unwomen.org/en/voices-and-profiles/women-of-achievement#sthash.fOvtbxOX.dpuf
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This series of portraits spotlights women and girls who have made it in their respective fields — often in uncharted territories — by overcoming barriers and beating the odds to reach their goals. Although far from the limelight, their struggle, passion and work inspires all who know them and they are role models for many. - See more at: http://beijing20.unwomen.org/en/voices-and-profiles/women-of-achievement#sthash.fOvtbxOX.dpufThis series of portraits spotlights women and girls who have made it in their respective fields — often in uncharted territories — by overcoming barriers and beating the odds to reach their goals. Although far from the limelight, their struggle, passion and work inspires all who know them and they are role models for many. - See more at: http://beijing20.unwomen.org/en/voices-and-profiles/women-of-achievement#sthash.fOvtbxOX.dpuf
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The starting week of the module brought me clarification on what exactly is the academic aim and it gave me a well-founded introduction to politics in development. Firstly, I got to know the differ...
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Firstly, I got to know the difference between development politics and political development. Development politics refers to the local, national or international political approach to development, what governments and agencies, at national and international level, have set as “the correct politics” in line with the development approach to be followed by developing countries to reach a more developed state. By political development, it is understood the process in which politics have evolved in terms of time. For the case of this module, the focus will be development politics (showing a good relation to the name of the module itself), but as learnt in this first module, the political development has a strong impact as it sets the political systems within countries. But, why is politics so important for development? In summarised words, politics are the “rules of the game” and the “game within the rules” in a country. Before starting this module, I would have thought: because politics is the way in which a systems and relations in a country relate and interact, and development is much influenced by interactions between actors: agencies, governments, financial institutions, donors, et cetera. After the first week, my initial assumptions were indeed widened, as politics additionally shape socio-economic relationships at the local, regional and international level. Going even a bit further, and as suggested by Leftwich (2005), it is in politics where some of the answers regarding developmental successes or failures may be found – why are some countries more developed than others and moreover, why development has been successfully implemented in some countries (i.e. some south eastern countries), whilst they have failed in others (i.e. some African countries).
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Summary: 19 May 2014, Brussels - Council of the European Union Foreign Affairs (Development) Council meeting conclusions on the 2013 Report on the Implementation of the EU Plan of Action on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Development 2010-2015
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The Council adopted the following conclusions: Recalling its Conclusions on "Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Development Cooperation 1," the Council reaffirms its strong commitment to gender equality and the empowerment of women as a fundamental human right and as a core value of the EU and a basic principle of its development policy. It underlines that the promotion of gender equality, women's empowerment and the enjoyment of human rights by women and girls are instrumental to achieving internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and key to the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, the Cairo Programme of Action, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. In addition, the Council emphasises the need to adopt an ambitious approach to gender equality, women's empowerment and the enjoyment of human rights by women and girls in the post-2015 framework. The Council also reiterates the importance of full implementation of the EU guidelines on violence against women and girls and combating all forms of discrimination against them. 2....
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While much progress has been made in the past two decades, no country can claim to have achieved equality between men and women
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Nearly 20 years ago, the world came together in Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women. There, 189 governments adopted a visionary roadmap for gender equality: the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. More than 17,000 delegates and 30,000 activists pictured a world where women and girls had equal rights, freedom and opportunity in every sphere of life. While much progress has been made in the past two decades, no country can claim to have achieved equality between men and women. It is time for the world to come together again for women and girls and complete this journey. UN Women is launching a year-long campaign to re-energize the vision laid out at the Beijing Women’s Conference. Our goal is straightforward: renewed commitment, strengthened action and increased resources to realize gender equality, women’s empowerment and human rights. We call it: Empowering Women, Empowering Humanity: Picture It! The Beijing Declaration laid out actions to address 12 critical areas of concern for women and girls across the globe. Governments, the private sector and other partners were urged to reduce women and girls’ poverty, ensure their right to access education and training, safeguard their health – including their sexual and reproductive health, protect women and girls from violence and discrimination, to ensure that technological advances benefit all, and to promote their full and equal participation in society, politics, and the economy. The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action remains the most comprehensive global agreement on women’s empowerment and gender equality. If only it had been implemented! Notwithstanding, today we can celebrate progress. More girls are going to school. More women are working, getting elected, and assuming leadership positions. But in all regions of the world, and in all countries, women continue to face discrimination because they are female. We see it every day. In pay inequity and unequal opportunities at work… in stubbornly low representation of women leaders in the public and private sectors… in the continuing scourge of child marriage, and in the pandemic of violence experienced by one in three women globally – a number greater than the population of Europe. Perhaps even more startling is the fact that if the Beijing negotiations occurred today, they would likely result in a weaker agreement. We all have a responsibility to keep pushing ahead for full implementation, because every time a woman or girl is held back by discrimination or violence, humanity loses. Since the Beijing Conference, irrefutable evidence has accumulated showing that empowering women empowers humanity. Picture it!...
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This report by the World Bank Group sheds new light on constraints facing women and girls worldwide, from gender-based violence to biased laws and
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This report by the World Bank Group sheds new light on constraints facing women and girls worldwide, from gender-based violence to biased laws and norms that prevent them from owning property, working, and making decisions about their own lives. It builds on the 2012 World Development Report and focuses on several areas key to women’s empowerment: freedom from violence, control over sexual and reproductive health and rights, ownership and control of land and housing, and voice and collective action. Furthermore, it explores the power of social norms in dictating how men and women can and cannot behave. -
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The Redesigning Development Finance Initiative aims to expand the pool of capital available for economic development....
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The World Economic Forum and the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development have announced the launch of an initiative to help developing countries accelerate their economic growth and progress. The Redesigning Development Finance Initiative will bring together governments, development finance institutions, development assistance providers, and private-sector investors to expand the pool of capital available for economic development in key sectors, including infrastructure, agriculture, and energy. With an initial focus on investment in Africa, the partnership will work to boost cooperation among stakeholders and enhance the delivery of development finance through the deployment of risk mitigation and concessional finance tools; increase understanding of the existing landscape of blended finance models; build consensus around the value and opportunities that different actors bring to the table; determine which models have the highest potential to unlock other forms of capital; and define capabilities and partnerships that can mobilize and scale high-value development models.
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In our interdependent world of satellite news channels, smartphones and the Internet, there is no such thing as local or national news. With so many communications technologies at the disposal of ordinary people, any news story, video clip or image can go viral, spreading around the world.
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However, despite recent rapid technological advances, some important ideas have yet to be disseminated in many parts of the world. This is especially true when it comes to the notion of human rights. During her days as first lady, Hillary Clinton represented the United States at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women hosted by Beijing. In a stirring speech to international delegates from 189 countries, she declared to thunderous applause, “Women’s rights are human rights!” “I ended the speech with a call to action to return to our countries and renew our efforts to improve educational, health, legal and political opportunities for women,” Clinton writes in her 2003 book, Living History. To her credit, Clinton, former U.S. secretary of state and the undeclared frontrunner for the presidency in 2016, forced women’s rights onto the international agenda. Unfortunately, Clinton’s ideas have yet to take root in many places. According to the International Labour Organization, approximately 865 million women around the globe endure sexist discrimination at school and in the workplace. Similarly, the World Bank contends that sexism remains a significant problem. “Trends suggest that gains in women’s labour force participation worldwide over the last three decades have been small and slow, hovering around 51% globally, but as low as 21% in the Middle East and North Africa,” states a World Bank primer entitled, Gender at Work: A companion report to the World Development Report on Jobs. The World Bank reports that women commonly face legal barriers in the work world. Of the 143 economies studied, the Bretton Woods institution found that “128 had at least one legal sex differentiation in 2013.” Legal barriers to women included restricted access to identity cards, prohibitions on property ownership or the borrowing of money. And incredibly, in no less than 15 countries, women must get their husbands’ permission to enter the labour force.
Inclusive growth Thanks to the work of the Bretton Woods institutions — the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) — the international system has benefited from “unprecedented economic and financial stability over the past seven decades,” Christine Lagarde stated last month in London, England, where she delivered the Richard Dimbleby Lecture. Lagarde is the managing director of the IMF, the first woman to hold that exalted job. However, she believes that policymakers and economists need to change their way of thinking about economics. The IMF boss contends that they should “make sure that inclusion is given as much weight as growth in the design of policies.” In short, the world economy needs “inclusive growth.” “If we talk about inclusion in economic life, we must surely talk about gender,” Lagarde declared. “As we know too well, girls and women are still not allowed to fulfil their potential — not just in the developing world, but in rich countries, too.” When world leaders came together at the UN in 1999 to establish the Millennium Development Goals, a clear set of international development benchmarks to be achieved by 2015, they understood that development and gender equality are inextricably linked. That’s why they made the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women one of the top MDGs. According to Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada’s website, the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment is “essential to the achievement of all the other Millennium Development Goals.” Consequently, the promotion of gender equality is integral to Canada’s international development programs....
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As Christine Lagarde prepares to take the reins at the International Monetary Fund, her cool head in a crisis and capability in negotiating consensus will stand her in good stead.
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As Christine Lagarde prepares to take the reins at the International Monetary Fund, her cool head in a crisis and capability in negotiating consensus will stand her in good stead. I first met Madame Lagarde in 2007, shortly after she was appointed France’s Finance Minister – the first woman to hold such a role among the world’s eight most industrialized nations. I remember being transfixed by two things: her imposing stature (standing six-feet tall versus my five-foot nothing) and considerable self assurance. Yet Lagarde’s “Iron Lady” ego and Thatcheresque looks belie a more deadly weapon to those who stand in her way. For Ms Lagarde is, above all, charming. At a meeting of EU finance chiefs in the South of France a year later, I watched Lagarde’s male counterparts both cower and drool as she delivered a powerful pre-dinner speech in the garden of a Riviera villa. She was wearing a suit that meant business and satin stilettos that said cocktail time. The evening was warm, the champagne flowed and with Lagarde on the stage, the credit crunch seemed a distant memory even though Europe was already lurching into a recession.
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A newly released ranking of the world’s most powerful women not only includes politicians, celebrities and CEOs. Global development leaders, human rights activists and philanthropists also earned a coveted spot on Forbes’ annual list. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, again tops the list, which also includes Hillary Clinton (6), the former U.S. secretary of state, and U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama (8). The list also includes: • Melinda Gates (3), philanthropist and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. • Christine Lagarde (5), managing director of the International Monetary Fund. • Helen Clark (23), administrator of the United Nations Development Program. • Margaret Chan (30), director-general of the World Health Organization. • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (44), Nigeria’s finance minister and coordinating minister for the • Ertharin Cousin (45), executive director of the U.N. World Food Program. • Samantha Power (63), U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. • Helene Gayle, CEO of Care USA, a nongovernmental organization focused on poverty Do you agree with the ranking? Who do you think should’ve made the list? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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The 2013 APEC High Level Policy Dialogue on Women and the Economy issued a statement on Sunday, concluding a four-day meeting focused on ensuring women realize their full potential as economic drivers.
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Issued By the 2013 High Level Policy Dialogue on Women and the Economy Bali, 9 September 2013 - The 2013 APEC High Level Policy Dialogue on Women and the Economy issued a statement on Sunday, concluding a four-day meeting focused on ensuring women realize their full potential as economic drivers. “We are working on removing obstacles that currently restrict women from realizing their full economic potential,” said Ms Linda Gumelar, Indonesian Minister of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection, who chaired the meeting that included Ministers, officials and private sector leaders. “This can be achieved through concrete actions to implement gender-responsive policies and programs as well as by implementing laws and regulations to expand economic opportunities and leadership roles for women in APEC economies,” added Minister Linda Gumelar. The United Nations estimates that the Asia-Pacific economy would grow by an additional $89 billion annually if women were able to achieve their full economic potential. The World Bank estimates that output per worker would increase 7-18% if female entrepreneurs and employees in the East Asia Pacific region worked in the same types of jobs, sectors and activities as men with similar level of productive resources. However, according to the World Bank, the average female-owned and run enterprise is smaller than male-run enterprises in terms of total employees, sales and profits. In addition, these female-owned enterprises tend to be based in the informal sector or run out of their homes. “For example, women-owned enterprises face a host of institutional constraints that limit the ability of their business to thrive,” explained Minister Linda Gumelar. “Our goal is reduce these obstacles through a number of priorities such as ensuring women have access to information technology and by removing legal and regulatory barriers to women’s property, asset ownership and ability to sign contracts,” said Minister Linda Gumelar.
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Beijing, China, 23 May 2014 - The development of innovative, trade-boosting technologies are opening the door to greater empowerment of women in the economy and the focus of a joint gathering of APEC Ministers and private sector leaders in Beijing to promote ...
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Beijing, China, 23 May 2014 - The development of innovative, trade-boosting technologies are opening the door to greater empowerment of women in the economy and the focus of a joint gathering of APEC Ministers and private sector leaders in Beijing to promote more inclusive and robust growth in the Asia-Pacific. Opportunities for greater women’s entrepreneurship and involvement in trade through mobile-based smart technology and electronic commerce, and steps to advance this process are being addressed by delegates at the two-day APEC Women and the Economy Forum that concludes on Friday. “Women are important producers of both material and cultural wealth, and are also key drivers of development,” said Shen Yueyue, Vice Chairperson of China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and President of the All-China Women’s Federation. “More efforts are needed to facilitate achievement of women’s full potential, particularly through skills and capacity building, inclusive growth and cooperation network building.” Around 600 million women currently participate in the labor force across the 21 APEC member economies. But just over 60 per cent of women in the region work in formal economic sectors and productivity within this demographic is still largely untapped. In China, women constitute 46 per cent of the workforce and only 21 per cent of businesses there were women-owned in 2012. “Actions are being taken in China to help women realize their full potential and enhance their economic empowerment,” said Song Xiuyan, Chair of the 2014 APEC Women and Economy Forum and Vice Chairperson of China’s National Working Committee on Children and Women under the State Council. “We'd like to share experiences with and learn from other APEC economies.” Mobile technology and e-commerce platforms offer new ways for women to start their own businesses while balancing family life, delegates noted. Mobile app development and online stores are among the range of new and attractive options. “Today women have a better environment for growth,” said Diane Wang, representative from the APEC Business Advisory Council, China, and Founder and CEO of DHgate.com, a leading online marketplace for goods manufactured in China. “We have seen many women in China start their own businesses on an e-commerce platform to access international markets and micro-finance,” Wang explained. “APEC can help women better leverage these new e-commerce and mobile technologies.”
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In 1987, women’s rights activists declared May 28 as the International Day of Action for Women’s Health, as a means to speak out on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) issues faced by women1 and girls all over the world. Nearly 30 years on, while the challenges obstructing the full realization of all women’s health and wellbeing remain varied and often unaddressed, a disturbing paradigm has persisted: namely, an often limited, narrow and imposed understanding of women’s health, as well as the actual needs of all women and girls in all their diversities. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),2 a set of eight development goals that UN member states and development institutions committed to in 2000, perpetuated this limited understanding by focusing almost exclusively on maternal health, itself defined narrowly by survival numbers and the presence of skilled birth attendants, as opposed to a comprehensive definition which includes women and girls’ autonomy, privacy and dignity rights. By narrowly focusing on maternal health, the MDGs effectively omitted and ignored the commitments governments made at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), which placed gender equality, women’s empowerment, and sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights at the heart of sustainable development.3 As we all know, women are not just mothers – we are women and girls of all ages and diverse sexualities; we are women with or without children; women who are single, married or unmarried; women who are living with or are affected by HIV; women with different abilities and disabilities. We are cis-women,4 trans-women, and gender-non-conforming women; we are indigenous women, migrant women, sex workers, and women who work in formal and informal sectors. We are women of different socioeconomic statuses, and women belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities; women, in effect, of multiple and intersecting identities, with diverse health needs over the course of our lives.
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The GSMA mWomen Global Development Alliance brings Visa, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID),the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and GSMA Foundation in a partnership to close the gender gap in access to mobile phones and the life-enhancing services they can provide.
The partnership’s goals include reducing the mobile phone gender gap by 50% and enabling an additional 150 million underserved women in developing countries to own and effectively use mobile phones and their services, including mobile financial services.
This will serve to accelerate women’s leadership potential and empower them to improve their quality of life and that of their families and communities.
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It seems that everyone is talking about inequality these days, and I, for one, am happy to see this issue at the forefront in the development discussion. We can look at inequality in a number of ways, which are not unrelated. One of the most visible types of inequality on the radar is inequality of outcomes — things like differences in academic achievements, career progression, earnings, etc. — which, in and of themselves, are not necessarily bad. Rewarding an individual’s effort, innate talents and superior life choices can provide incentives for innovation and entrepreneurship, and can help drive growth. However, not all inequalities are “good.” When inequality perpetuates itself because those born poor consistently do not have access to the same opportunities as those born rich, what emerges is a deep structural inequality that is bad for poverty reduction, bad for economic growth, and bad for social cohesion. How pervasive are these deep inequalities? Much more than we would like. Indeed, when we examine what is happening in many countries around the world today, we find large and persistent, even growing, gaps in earnings between rich and poor. And we find that those who start out in poverty or are part of a disadvantaged group tend to remain there, with little opportunity to work their way out. How do we explain this, and what can we do to tackle it? We need to take a step back and look at where this inequality originates, and that is where the concept of equality of opportunity comes in to play. This concept broadly refers to access to a basic set of services that are necessary, at the minimum, for a child to attain his or her human potential, regardless of the circumstances — such as gender, geographic region, ethnicity, and family background — into which he or she is born. Too often, access to such basic services like electricity, clean water, sanitation, health care and education is much lower among children born into circumstances that place them at a disadvantage. Children from disadvantaged groups thus set off on an unequal path from day one, which curbs their opportunities and potential into adulthood.
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awid.org offers the latest news, in-depth analysis, practical tools, announcements and jobs on women's rights and gender and development from around the world.
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Ce document présente la vision des ONG membres de Coordination SUD, coordonnées par sa commission « genre ». En préambule, Coordination SUD rappelle qu’il est crucial que la société civile continue d’être consultée jusqu’à la fin du processus. Ayant conscience des impératifs de calendrier, nous soulignons néanmoins l’importance de prendre en compte les contributions issues de la société civile afin d’obtenir un Document d’Orientation Stratégique plus performant, dans la pratique, que son prédécesseur de 2007.
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GENDERNET works on economic empowerment, the capacity of women and men to participate in, contribute to and benefit from growth processes in ways that recognise the value of their contributions, respect their dignity and make it possible to negotiate a fairer distribution of the benefits of growth.
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Economic empowerment is the capacity of women and men to participate in, contribute to and benefit from growth processes in ways that recognise the value of their contributions, respect their dignity and make it possible to negotiate a fairer distribution of the benefits of growth. Economic empowerment increases women’s access to economic resources and opportunities including jobs, financial services, property and other productive assets, skills development and market information.
Women's economic empowerment is a prerequisite for sustainable development and for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. And economic empowerment is also a right. There is no quick fix: women's economic empowerment takes sound public policies, a holistic approach and long-term commitment from all development actors. Donors can also increase their investment.
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The practice notes, prepared by members of the DAC Network on Gender Equality (GENDERNET), provide guidance on how to address gender equality and women’s empowerment in development co-operation.
The full implementation of internationally agreed commitments to gender equality, such as Millennium Development Goal 3 and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), are essential to achieving sustainable development outcomes.
New practice notes will be added to the collection as they are published by GENDERNET members. Note that although several of the practice notes are agency-specific, they are included here where their approach is likely to be of interest and relevance to others.
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By Janet Fleischman, Special to CNN
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he international outrage over Boko Haram’s abduction of schoolgirlsin Nigeria has grown since the story first hit the news; mothers in Nigeria took action and celebrities from Angelina Jolie to First Lady Michelle Obama have made their voices heard on the issue. With mainstream attention finally focused on why the education, health, and empowerment of women and girls matters to Americans, it is time for the Obama administration to reinforce its commitment to these issues and elevate them as central to U.S. foreign policy. President Obama’s first term got off to a promising start for global women’s issues. Within months of taking office, the administration launched unprecedented initiatives focused on women, girls, and gender equality. This was reflected in important and concrete ways: policies designed to prevent gender-based violence were promulgated across U.S. government agencies; U.S. development projects were required to undertake gender analyses as part of the initial program design; and women’s engagement and protection during crisis situations were made part of peace and security deliberations. These actions were based on a growing body of evidence demonstrating that investments focused on women and girls – maternal health services, voluntary family planning, access to HIV services, education for girls, economic empowerment, preventing and responding to gender-based violence – not only are critical to improving health outcomes, but also produce substantial positive returns in poverty reduction, development, and economic growth. That is why, even in a difficult budgetary environment, as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has often said: “Investing in women and girls is not only the right thing to do – it’s the smart thing to do.” Yet the administration’s early momentum has begun to slow. Clinton’s departure from the State Department meant that the personal passion she brought to issues related to women and girls was no longer present in Obama’s second term. Added to this was the challenge of implementation – it was always going to be difficult to move these bold ideas into practice – and without a champion to push for progress, it is even harder. The polarized political climate in Washington made bipartisan consensus increasingly elusive and undermined the administration’s enthusiasm to push this agenda. Meanwhile, foreign crises in Syria and Ukraine, as well as in the Central African Republic and South Sudan, sapped the administration’s focus from its earlier principles and goals for women and girls....
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The ordination of women bishops has moved a step closer as all the Church of England’s 44 dioceses voted to allow the change.
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The ordination of women bishops has moved a step closer as all the Church of England’s 44 dioceses voted to allow the change. It leaves only one hurdle left to change centuries of church practice – a final vote at the General Synod in July. The body previously approved welcoming women bishops by a huge 378 to eight majority last year, starting the process. It would allow women to become bishops and archbishops and create a “declaration” by the Church of England setting out guidance for parishes which reject female ministry on traditionalist, ideological grounds. James Langstaff, the Bishop of Rochester and chairman of the committee on women bishops, said the dioceses expressed their approval "very clearly". He added: "I pray that the Synod will continue to approach this decision in a prayerful and generous way as we move towards voting on the proposal that women may be bishops in the Church of England.” In 2011 both London and Chichester diocesan synods voted against the legislation. The latest seal of approval will be welcome to campaigners, who were devastated in 2012 when legislation for women bishops was rejected at the final hurdle by just six votes in the House of Laity. That decision was described by the Women and the Church campaign group as “a devastating blow for the Church of England and the people of this country”. While those proposals included a strict and complex “code of practice” for dissenting parishes, the new package lays out plans for an ombudsman, or independent reviewer, that would rule on disputes at a local level. Anglican churches in Australia, New Zealand and the United States already have women serving as bishops.
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This is FORBES’ definitive annual guide to the extraordinary icons and leaders, groundbreakers and ceiling crashers who command the world stage.
In this snapshot of the 100 women with the most impact we showcase the top politicians, finance and business leaders, activist billionaires and celebrities who matter. In roughly equal measure you’ll find entrepreneurs and media mavens, technologists and philanthropists — all ranked by money, media momentum, spheres of influence and impact (see full methodology here).
Full Coverage: The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women
Power is a charged word that means more than political and economic might. Consider that less than 5% of the top companies have women CEOs. Slightly more than 10% of the 1,645 FORBES’ Worlds Billionaires 2014 are women. There are 14 incumbent female heads of state. We think differently. In addition to hammers-and-nails, we look to leaders whose tools are their global impact and influence....