Champion for Gender Development Issues and Financial Institutions, is leading efforts to advance gender equality in Africa, ...

Esuna Dugarova is Gender Specialist at the United Nations Development Programme in New York, where she leads research and analysis on the Gender Team. She is originally from the Republic of Buryatia, ...

In 1997 ECOSOC adopted agreed conclusions on mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system. Gender mainstreaming was clearly defined by ECOSOC: ...

Research provides evidence that cisgender children, i.e. children who identify as a boy or a girl according to their assigned sex at birth, show clear patterns of gender development. By age 3, they ...

Efforts to achieve gender equality will not only help sub-Saharan Africa revive its inclusive growth engine but also will ensure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and help address the ...

This paper assesses the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on gender development and gender inequality. In fact, FDI through increased labor demand, technological spillovers but mostly through ...

Women face multiple barriers during their entire life, resulting in gender gaps in education, skills, labor force participation, wages, wealth, and agency. Aligned with SDG 5's objective of achieving ...

By Iddi Yire, GNA Accra, Feb. 13, GNA – President John Dramani Mahama, the Africa Union (AU) Champion for Gender Development ...

Did you know that 2022 marks 10 years since the publication of the World Bank Group’s World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development? Over the last decade, progress has been achieved ...