Women's Empowerment

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Measuring Democratic Governance

 By presenting methods for generating pro-poor gender sensitive indicators, this framework assists policy-makers monitor and evaluate democratic governance at the country level. more

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Policy Brief: Employment Guarantee Policies

The recent financial and economic crisis has called into question many of the beliefs about market economics that held sway for more than two decades, with a new consensus emerging that markets alone cannot deliver economic stability. Governments and their partners, including international more

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Policy Brief: Gender Equality and Employment Guarantee Policies

This Policy Brief discusses the importance of addressing issues of gender equality and employment guarantee policies, targeting UNDP country offices and their national partners (e.g., national, regional and local governments and parliaments, academia, media, civil society and the private sector). more

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Policy Brief: Unpaid Care Work

This Policy Brief provides insight into to the importance of addressing issues of gender equality and unpaid carework in national development policies and strategies. It targets UNDP country offices and their national counterparts (e.g., national, regional and local governments and 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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Knowledge Exchange
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Teamworks is UNDP's knowledge sharing exchange that allows development professionals to gain and share knowledge

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

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