4 06, 2019

Kenya: gender assessment

By | 2023-03-13T08:35:49+00:00 June 4th, 2019|Advocacy, Gender Assessments, Gender equality, News|0 Comments

Globally, women earn an average of 23 per cent less than men for the same work, and women take home one tenth of the global income, while accounting for two thirds of global working hours. Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment are not merely socially desirable: they are critical to the accomplishment of the Sustainable Development [...]

26 04, 2019

Statement: feminist activists at Tunis Forum for Gender Equality outraged!

By | 2023-03-13T08:35:49+00:00 April 26th, 2019|Advocacy, Events, Gender equality, News, Press release, WECF|1 Comment

For immidiate release Tunis 26 April 2019   Mary (South Sudan) - We, the participants of the Tunis Forum for Gender Equality taking place in Tunis from April 24th to 26th 2019, have gathered to review the progress of the UN Security Council resolution1325 and the Beijing Platform for Action. A day before this Forum started, the [...]

31 01, 2019

The gender impact assessment and monitoring tool

By | 2023-03-13T08:35:49+00:00 January 31st, 2019|Gender Assessments, Gender equality, News, Online courses & tools, Trainings (ToT), WECF|0 Comments

This gender impact assessment and monitoring tool (GIM tool) has been developed in the framework of the Women2030 project, with the explicit objective of helping women and gender civil society organisations to implement the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with a particular focus on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5. The 2030 Agenda was built [...]

14 12, 2018

Meet the Winners of the Gender Just Climate Solutions Award at COP24

By | 2023-03-13T08:36:03+00:00 December 14th, 2018|Advocacy, Climate, Events, Gender equality, News, Outreach, Press release, WECF, WMG|0 Comments

On the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we awarded Gender Just Climate Solutions Winners at the climate negotiations in Katowice, Poland Yesterday, on the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we held our inagural Gender Just Climate Solutions Award and publication launch at the climate negotiations in Katowice, [...]

9 11, 2018

Powerpoints of data collected for the gender assessments

By | 2023-03-13T08:36:03+00:00 November 9th, 2018|Advocacy, External news, Gender Assessments, Gender equality, News, Reports & studies|0 Comments

Women2030’s partners are monitoring the implementation of the SDGs and collect primary data thanks to questionnaires delivered and focus group discussions organized with community groups. The documents provide an overview of the community-based data collected by our partners as part of their gender assessment Summary of the data for W2030 Kyrgystan W2030 GA données collectées [...]

9 11, 2018

Kyrgyzstan: gender assessment

By | 2023-03-13T08:36:03+00:00 November 9th, 2018|Advocacy, Gender Assessments, Gender equality, News|0 Comments

The Kyrgyz Republic has undergone significant political and economic changes since 2000, and these changes have undoubtedly had an effect on gender equality outcomes. In 2010, Rosa Otunbayeva was appointed interim president, thereby becoming first female head of state of a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The number of women representatives in the [...]

7 11, 2018

Tajikistan

By | 2023-03-13T08:36:03+00:00 November 7th, 2018|Advocacy, Gender equality, Shadow reports, Shadow reports 2017, WECF|0 Comments

The level of gender inequality in Tajikistan remains high, despite the minor improvements from the previous year. The country’s performance and global ranking as regards economic participation and active involvement of women in policy-making also suffered a blow. Public trade unions acknowledge the work that the Tajik government has been doing to tackle gender inequality, [...]

18 10, 2018

Guahory women fight for the earth

By | 2023-03-13T08:36:03+00:00 October 18th, 2018|Biodiversity, Gender equality, GFC, News, Outreach|0 Comments

By Fernando Franceschelli and Ines Franceschelli, Henoi and Global Forest Coalition A World Food Sovereignty Day photo-essay about the impacts of toxic agribusiness in Paraguay and the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement On World Food Day, we bring you this photo-essay, which tells the story of rural women from the community of Guahory, in Paraguay, and [...]

15 10, 2018

#Ruralwomen: join our Women2030 campaign!

By | 2023-03-13T08:36:03+00:00 October 15th, 2018|Gender equality, GFC, News, Outreach, WECF|0 Comments

It is the International Day of Rural Women on Monday today. Every year, October 15th commemorates the crucial role of rural women and girls, including Indigenous women and girls in contributing to sustainable development, rural livelihoods, food, climate resilience and wellbeing. This year, #Women2030 is highlighting the harsh impacts of unsustainable industries and development on [...]

10 10, 2018

Congratulations Sascha! Named thirty-third most influential sustainability fighter in the Netherlands

By | 2023-03-13T08:36:04+00:00 October 10th, 2018|Climate, Gender equality, News, WECF|0 Comments

We are greatly honoured to receive the news that our project partner WECF's Executive Director Sascha Gabizon have been named the thirty-third (out of 100) most influential persons in the fight for sustainability in the Netherlands by Trouw Green. Trouw Green is a Dutch daily newspaper and this is the tenth year they are running [...]