Gender

Gender inequality and poverty are closely related. It is not just that women have lower incomes and are less wealthy; poverty in the narrow financial sense is compounded by women's lack of political power and unequal access to basic human rights; employment; information; social services; infrastructure; natural resources. The European Commission has a longstanding commitment to promoting gender equality in development cooperation.

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Gender budgeting - Gender equality - women's rights - Gender mainstreaming - Gender policy - Gender-based violence - Women's empowerment - Women's organisations

"Changing Women's Lives in the rural World" - joint EU, Germany, Finland and Netherlands panel at the 2018 EDDs to discuss gender tranformative approaches in rural areas

Maria Ketting DEVCO-C1 updated the Information | 8 June 2018

A dynamic line-up of speakers were to be found on the panel Changing women’s lives in a rural world that was hosted by DEVCO’s C1 at the EU DevDays this year . Opened by Anne Meskanen, Finland’s Ambassador-at-Large for Gender Equality, the panel represented a rich array of voices from around the...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Putting women and girls at the heart of conservation and climate action

Alexa Froger posted Information | 8 June 2018

Gender equality and women’s empowerment is a prerequisite to effective conservation, climate action and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). International agreements on biodiversity (CBD), sustainable development (Agenda 2030) and—most recently—climate change (the Paris Agreement)...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Technical brief "Because Women's Land Rights Matter! How the EU development cooperation can help close the gender gap in land tenure"

Maria Ketting DEVCO-C1 updated the Information | 7 June 2018

The EU Commission remains dedicated to implement the objectives of the Gender Action Plan 2016-2020 and, in September 2017, DEVCO Unit C1 published a guidance note - “ Because women matter: Designing interventions in food, nutrition and agriculture that allow women to change their lives ” - in...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
GIZ & ODI Lab Debate - European Development Day 2018 - Does shock-sensitive social protection promote gender equality?

Zena Mouawad updated the event | 4 June 2018

06 Jun

From 6 June 2018
in (Belgium)

Organised by GIZ and ODI

The role of social protection in responding to emergencies has rapidly grown over the last few years, with increasingly innovative and adaptive responses to large-scale emergencies. At the same time, there has also been increased attention to the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment...

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Group: Social protection across the humanitarian-development nexus
Histoire d’une piroguière du Rwanda

Dorothee Fischer posted Information | 3 June 2018

La Plateforme des A utorités Locales des Pays des Grands Lacs réunissant des Maires de villes proches du lac Kivu, a organisé, dans le cadre de son programme « Vivre ensemble » une course des pirogues rassemblant les pêcheurs du Rwanda et de la R. D. Congo à Bukavu, le 16 décembre 2017. Les équipes...

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Group: Policy Forum on Development (PFD)
Leila Ben Gacem: "Il existe une économie du partage, dont tout le monde peut tirer profit"

Dorothee Fischer posted Information | 30 May 2018

Changer la manière de fair e des affaires. L’ambition de Leila Ben Gacem est à la hauteur de son engagement. Cette tunisienne de 48 ans, ancienne ingénieure biomédicale diplômée de l’université de Boston, a travaillé pendant plus de dix ans pour de grandes multinationales, hors de son pays d’...

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Group: Policy Forum on Development (PFD)
Conferência "Mulheres Fortes para uma Nação Forte"

Blerina Vila created a new event | 30 May 2018

08 Jun

From 8 June 2018 to 9 June 2018
in Dili (Timor-Leste)

Organised by Delegação da União Europeia em Timor-Leste

A Delegação da União Europeia em Timor-Leste promove a conferência "Mulheres Fortes para uma Nação Forte" no Auditório do Ministério do Plano e Finanças, em Dili, no dia 8 de Junho de 2018. O evento, que reúne importantes personalidades femininas dos setores público e privado, bem como de...

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Group: Public Group on Gender
Sustainability in the Garment Sector: Events at the European Development Days

Eoin Kelly created a new event | 29 May 2018

05 Jun

From 5 June 2018 to 6 June 2018
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by European Commission

We hope you are as excited about the European Development Days as we are! Under the main thread of ‘Women and Girls at the Forefront of Sustainable Development: Protect, Empower, Invest’, we have organised several events related to sustainability in the garment sector, including a high level panel...

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Group: Platform on Responsible Management of the Supply Chain in the Garment Sector
UN Environment participation in European Development Days 2018

Alexa Froger updated the event | 28 May 2018

05 Jun

From 5 June 2018 to 6 June 2018
in (Belgium)

High Level session: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - 16:00 to 17:30 Putting Women and Girls at the Heart of Conservation and Climate Action From Risks to Rights: Enhancing Environmental and Gender Equality Outcomes with Gender-responsive Development Strategies Gender equality and women’s empowerment is a...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Lab Debate during the European Development Days

Dorothee Fischer created a new event | 28 May 2018

05 Jun

From 5 June 2018
in Bruxelles (Belgium)

Organised by Policy Forum on Development

We are organising a lab session on Female leadership in the Maghreb together with our member organisation Association internationale des maires francophones and the Réseau des Femmes Leaders du Maghreb .

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Group: Policy Forum on Development (PFD)

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