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Financing for gender equality: reframing and prioritising public expenditures to promote gender equality
UN Women, 2013This policy briefing makes the case for macroeconomic policy frameworks that invest in public services and build economies, rather than those that constrain public budgets. The author argues that investing in growth contributes to gender equality and can also help reduce other inequalities.DocumentTowards gender equality with care-sensitive social protection
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014This policy briefing argues that unpaid care work and social protection are intrinsically linked. Women and girls' uptake of social protection provisions is affected by their unpaid care work responsibilities. Conversely these essential provisions can help alleviate the drudgery and burden that unpaid care work places upon them.DocumentThe Millennium Development Goals Report 2014
UN, 2014Fourteen years ago, the Millennium Declaration articulated a bold vision and established concrete targets for improving the existence of many and for saving the lives of those threatened by disease and hunger. There has been important progress across all goals, with some targets already having been met well ahead of the 2015 deadline.DocumentWorld survey on the role of women in development 2014: Gender equality and sustainable development
UN Women, 2014This flagship UN study, part of the World Survey series which is issued every five years, highlights the links between the causes of gender inequality and unsustainability, and makes the case for the importance of recognising and building on the synergies between sustainable development and gender equality.DocumentThe World Survey on the Role of Women in Development 2014: Gender Equality and Sustainable Development
UN Women, 2014This flagship UN study, part of the World Survey series which is issued every five years, highlights the links between the causes of gender inequality and unsustainability, and makes the case for the importance of recognising and building on the synergies between sustainable development and gender equality.DocumentMDGs progress and post-MDGs priorities in the Commonwealth
Commonwealth Secretariat, 2013The Commonwealth Secretariat commissioned a review of the status of MDGs achievement in Commonwealth member countries. The objectives of this review were to assess existing evidence on achievements in social progress and to identify key issues and linkages on the three critical social development sectors - health, education, and gender.DocumentPodcast: Tackling Youth Unemployment in Africa
International Monetary Fund, 2014In this IMF-produced podcast, Nigerian Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi gives his perspectives on youth unemployment across Africa, including his recommendations on how to solve this growing issue.DocumentWomen’s participation in green growth – a potential fully realised?
2012Environmental degradation and climate change are not gender neutral. They disproportionately affect the poor; and women, in turn, constitute the majority of the world’s poor.DocumentThe epistemology of womanhood: ignored contentions among Igbo women of eastern Nigeria
African Journals Online - AJOL, 2013Can gender consciousness influence behaviour patterns? This publication aims to extrapolate that sometimes the discrimination that women suffer are not inspired by masculine outlooks, but by the feminist mind-set, that is, the epistemology of womanhood.DocumentGrowth and economic opportunities for women: literature review to inform the DFID-IDRC-Hewlett Foundation research program on women's economic empowerment, gender equality and growth in low income countries
International Development Research Centre, 2013This is a background paper for a new research programme on women’s economic empowerment. It is a comprehensive literature review on the state of the field. Section 1 briefly discusses the global evidence on existing gender disparities in employment, wages, business opportunities, and the care economy.Pages