Women's Empowerment

Publications

Gender, Climate Change and Community-based Adaptation
[30/07/10] This guidebook seeks to ensure that Community-based Adaptation (CBA) projects contribute to the achievement of gender equality and women’s empowerment by integrating a gendered perspective into programming and project design. By providing simple tools and practical advice on how to take a gender-sensitive approach to planning and implementing adaptation projects and programmes it is a useful reference for any development practitioners or policymakers working in this field. Gender mainstreaming in CBA projects supports the vigorous and sustained participation of both women and men in all project aspects because successful projects require the participation, knowledge, and skills of all community members. more...

Policy Brief: Gender Equality and Employment Guarantee Policies
[26/07/10] 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). It aims to stimulate and inform country-level discussions with a view towards developing locally-adapted gender-responsive job creation initiatives, and, as an advocacy tool with a view towards increasing awareness of how gender equality can be promoted within government employment initiatives from the local to international levels. more...

Gender Thematic Trust Fund: 2008 Annual Report
[25/05/10] The Gender Thematic Trust Fund (GTTF) is a funding modality helping the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), specifically MDG3: promote gender equality and empower women. It enables donors to provide contributions towards achieving gender equality results in any thematic area of the UNDP Gender Equality Strategy 2008–2011 (which is alignedwith the UNDP Strategic Plan 2008–2011): poverty reduction and achieving the MDGs; democratic governance; crisis prevention and recovery; environment and sustainable development. more...

Issues Brief: Gender Equality and Taxation
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Policy Brief: Gender Equality and Unpaid Care Work
[01/03/10] This Policy Brief provides insight into to the importance of addressing issues of gender equality and unpaid carework in national development policies and strategies. more...

The Current Economic and Financial Crisis: A Gender Perspective
[01/03/10] What began as a subprime mortgage debacle in the United States has by now become the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression. more...

Guidance note: Gender Equality and the Financial and Economic Crisis
[01/03/10] The global economic and financial crisis, which began in the United States and then spread to Europe, Asia and the rest of the world, is setting back delivery on the global commitmentmade in the 2000MillenniumDeclaration. more...

Primers in Gender and Democratic Governance #1
[15/01/07] Quick Entry Points to Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality in Democratic Governance Clusters. Available in: English| French

Primers in Gender and Democratic Governance #2
[10/08/09] Gender Equality and Justice Programming: Equitable Access to Justice for Women. Available in: Arabic| English| French

Primers in Gender and Democratic Governance #3
[10/08/09] Electoral Financing to Advance Women’s Political Participation: A Guide for UNDP Support.Available in: Arabic| English| French

Primers in Gender and Democratic Governance #4
[10/08/09] Gender Responsive E-governance:Exploring the Transformative Potential. Available in: Arabic| English| French

Resource Guide on Gender and Climate Change
[06/05/09] Poor women's limited access to resources, restricted rights, limited mobility and muted voices in shaping decisions make them highly vulnerable to climate change. This resource guide aims to inform practitioners and policy makers of the linkages between gender equality and climate change. more...

Innovative Approaches to Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment
[01/10/08] Written for the High-level Event Partnership Meeting on the MDG3 Global Call to Action, this publication addresses the lack of progress on women's economic empowerment, and highlights promising and innovative approaches from all regions of the world. more...

Seeds of Change: Gender Thematic Trust Fund Report
[01/01/07] UNDP has taken significant steps towards championing gender equality thanks to the Gender Thematic Trust Fund, which received a contribution of $5.5 million from the Government of the Netherlands. more...

Taking Gender Equality Seriously (2006)
[01/01/06] There are many success stories throughout UNDP where gender mainstreaming has yielded positive results. The examples in this booklet show that mainstreaming achieves results when resources, capacity, commitment and management support all converge in a strategic area. more...

Human Development Reports - Gender
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Resource Guide for Gender Theme Groups (2005)
[01/01/05] Gender equality and women's empowerment are Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in their own right and central to all other development efforts. This resource guide has been developed to strengthen coordinated action in the UN system to support countries to achieve these goals. more...

En Route to Equality: A Gender Review of National MDG Reports (2005)
[01/01/05] This gender review of 78 national MDG reports provides key insights and practical suggestions for effective mainstreaming of gender concerns and tracking of progress under each Goal.For more information or to order copies, please e-mail mariko.saito@undp.org. more...

Transforming the Mainstream: Gender in UNDP
[01/09/03] This publication sets out key issues in gender mainstreaming, learning from the efforts of UNDP and its partners ingovernment and civil society organizations, bilateral and multilateral agencies. more...