Women's Empowerment

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Gender Dimensions of the Least Developed Countries Fund and Special Climate Change Fund

In 2001, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established the first multilateral adaptation finance instruments: the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF). The LDCF focuses on the “urgent and immediate adaptation needs” of the more

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Gender Equality Strategy 2008-2011

 UNDP Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Gender equality and women’s empowerment are human rights that lie at the heart of development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, and they are an integrating dimension of all of UNDP's areas of work in poverty reduction, more

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Gender Equality and Taxation

This Issues Brief series explores gender issues in taxation. It is based on the findings from a research project that examined how direct and indirect taxation policies affected women and men in Argentina, Ghana, India, Mexico, Morocco, South Africa, Uganda and the United Kingdom. more

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Gender Guidelines for Mine Action Programmes

The United Nations Gender Guidelines for Mine Action Programmes are intended to help United Nations mine action policy makers and field personnel to incorporate gender perspectives in all relevant mine action initiatives and operations. The development of the guidelines has been informed by the more

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Gender and Climate Change - Africa

One of the pressing challenges in addressing the gender dimensions of climate change in developing countries is the need for greater national expertise on gender and climate change and on broader issues of sustainable development. In response to this challenge, UNDP has developed a series of policy more

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Gender Equality and UNDP

Despite progress in recent years, women and girls account for six out of 10 of the worlds poorest and two-thirds of the world's illiterate people.UNDP addresses these crucial issues by integrating gender equality and women’s empowerment into its four focus areas.

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The Sustainable Future We Want

UNDP has decades of concrete development experience in countries ranging from fragile States to middle-income countries like Brazil and Indonesia. This, combined with our four focus areas, make us uniquely situated and qualified to answer the UN’s call for a better and more sustainable future.

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Teamworks is UNDP's knowledge sharing exchange that allows development professionals to gain and share knowledge

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Human Development Index (HDI) figures are available as part of the Google Public Data Explorer tool.

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