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result of long-term unemployment due to unpaid family care responsibilities. Closing the digital gender divide must also be a focus of gender- responsive lifelong learning initiatives. An enabling environment [...] of women managers have an advanced university degree compared with 38.3 per cent of men managers, showing that women managers are more likely to have a higher level of education than men managers. Across [...] twice as high for both genders. “Globally, 44.3 per cent of women managers have an advanced university degree compared with 38.3 per cent of men managers, showing that women managers are more likely to have …

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a Watershed Manage- ment Project on the Obudu plateau in 1999, and encouraged women to get involved in the project’s decision- making process. Women leaders were elected on the management committee, which [...] Poku Sam, 2006. Ghana: Gender Integration in a Rural Water Project in the Samari-Nkwanta Community. In: Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, Gender, water and sanitation: [...] Empowered Community - Applying a Gender Mainstreaming Approach to a Sanitation Project. In: Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, Gender, water and sanitation case studies …

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4. Gains from closing the gender gap SIGI group: 1st = least gender inequality to 10th = greatest gender inequality FIGURE 16 Cereal yield and gender inequality Notes: Gender inequality is a measure used [...] opportunities for women. Gender-aware policy support and well- designed development projects can help close the gender gap. Given existing inequities, it is not enough that policies be gender-neutral; overcoming [...] and service delivery should be gender- sensitive. Bringing men into projects and groups can have positive effects on gender relations and improve the success of the project, but also risks losing the focus …

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incorporate gender considerations in studies, reviews or research commissioned to progress sector goals. Mainstreaming gender in operations Support gender sensitive participatory processes for project identification [...] organisation has ade- quate gender competence to be able to mainstream gender in project implementation. Promote the allocation of sufficient resources to im- plement gender-sensitive strategies (e.g. access [...] Cap-Net: Why gender matters Gendered Innovations Stanford University: Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering and Environment IASC, Inter-agency Standing Committee: Gender Handbook …

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communities, activities tend to be sharply segregated by gender (Kevane, 2004; Roberts, 1998, and; Schroeder, 1996). Women are typically responsible for cooking, childcare, laundry, cleaning and the collection [...] and evaluated in a gender-sensitive way. Recommendations include: Local- and national-level interventions to address current discrimination and level the playing field for women • Gender-sensitize staff of [...] of all related institutions. Implement efforts to train, raise the gender awareness and develop the skills needed to integrate gender in policy-making, as well as in the planning and delivery of services …

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and usage of responsible digital financial services (DFS) can help build women’s economic power, thereby contributing to gender equality and poverty reduction more generally. Responsible DFSiii 16can also [...] are typically responsible for earning household income and managing large investments in assets such as land and housing. By contrast, women often handle daily expenses and risk management (which can include [...] to analyze these data, finding that: the gender gaps in credit and cash flow management products have narrowed substantially since 1998 but still exist; the gender gap in access to savings accounts has closed; …

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academic debate around issues involving law and technology, especially internet policy. • GenderIT.org provides gender and ICT analysis informed by African feminists from 18 countries. • EQUALS Digital Skills [...] com/she-transforms-tech https://www.facebook.com/groups/healthymanhood https://tacticaltech.org/#/projects/gender-technology https://onlineharassmentfieldmanual.pen.org/ https://www.internetlab.org.br/en/ h [...] and 34%, respectively. OECD (2018). Bridging the digital gender divide. Available at http://www.oecd.org/internet/bridging- the-digital-gender-divide.pdf 14 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/video- …

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potential from achieving gender parity and to map gender inequality. Using 15 indicators of gender equality in 95 countries, we have identified ten “impact zones”—concentrations of gender inequality that account [...] bridge gender gaps in work equality. Three elements are essential for achieving the full potential of gender parity: gender equality in society, economic development, and a shift in attitudes. Gender inequality [...] affected by the gender gap—that we hope will help prioritize action. In addition, MGI has developed a Gender Parity Score, or GPS, that gives a view of what will help to close the gender gap. Our hope is …

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central role here. UN Women and UNDP's COVID-19 Global GenderResponse Tracker demonstrates that engagement is heading in the right direction: most gender -sensitive interventions are aimed at tackling violence [...] Bulid­ing Back Bet­ter What can be done? Considering the strong, gender -specific impact of the pandemic, it is essential that response plans to the COVID-19 pandemic specifically address the experiences [...] t cooperation’s work on gender equality and Covid-19 recovery. More on "Vi­ol­ence against Wo­men and Girls" In­tim­ate part­ner vi­ol­ence FGM /HP Hu­man traf­fick­ing Gender -based vi­ol­ence on the …