The short Comic by Jan Grebe and Bourahima Zongo tells the Story of Ama who is raped by a soldier, getting pregnant and therefore is expelled from her Family home. The aim of the Comic is to indicate legal failures prosecuting…
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Yearly Archives: 2017
Gender Sensitive Initiatives to Reduce Malnutrition: A Joint Action to Improve Dietary Diversity among Women and Children in Madhya Pradesh (India)
“It has been the tradition for women and girls to eat last. This is how it has always been. No one dares question the tradition”. (Pregnant woman, District Chhatarpur) Sheopur and Chhatarpur are among the most backward and remote districts…
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Global Platform on Gender Equality and Religion launched
Building on the growing recognition that the role of faith-based organizations in addressing the needs of women and girls is critical, a global Platform on “Gender Equality and Religion” was launched on 15 March at the on-going UN Commission on…
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INTERACTIVE CINEMA ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS – Gender Group GIZ Tunisia
In the scope of GIZ Gender Week 2017, GIZ Tunisia’s Gender Group members invited their colleagues to be “theatrical”. Our event “Interactive Cinema” started rather conventionally with a warm welcoming by our group members Sarah Chaar and Feriel Habel and…
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The Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) opens a Child Care Room for Staff Members
With the assistance of the GIZ Support, the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) has developed a comprehensive Gender Policy. The Policy seeks to enable KAIPTC staff who are either nursing mothers or parents of young children to balance…
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MY WORLD Mentoring Toolkit available now
The MY WORLD Mentoring Toolkit explaining the Young Women Mentoring Program in Uganda presented at GIZ Eschborn during GIZ Gender Week 2017 is now available on DMS for GIZ colleagues. Hopefully the toolkit will be useful to all those interested in setting up a similar program…
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Community-led value chain development for gender justice and pro-poor wealth creation
The Oxfam Novib programme “Community-led value chain development for gender justice and pro-poor wealth creation” supported by an IFAD grant, contributed to sustainable pro-poor wealth creation and value chain upgrading in Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda through empowerment of women and men from…
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An application to prevent and fight violence against women…? / ¿Una App para prevenir y combatir la violencia contra las mujeres…?
…Yes, of course! / ¡…claro que sí! The National Corporation for Telecommunication of Ecuador (CNT-EP) presented the new design and functions of its application “Junt@s” (Together) this 8th of March 2017 on the occasion of the International Women’s Day, especially for…
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Celebrated Debate: Gender-Week Mozambique
About 50 colleagues participated in the Gender Week Event of GIZ Mozambique, including some representatives from NGOs and EU delegation. Based on a participative approach and on pictures of Mozambican women – fruit sellers, waste collectors and accountants from the Mozambican…
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Engendering the electoral process ahead of the 2017 general elections in Kenya
Kenya has made strides in achieving gender equality and equity in the last years. Article 27 of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 espouses the rights of women as being equal to men’s and accords them equal protection and benefit before…
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GIZ Philippines: Pacific Newsletter features interview on LGBTI issues
An interview with Michael Vemuri, one of the coordinators of the GIZ Rainbow Network for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) staff was featured in the most recent edition of the GIZ Newsletter for the Philippines and Pacific. The…
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Panel: Be Bold for Change. Sustainable Development Goals: Ensuring no one is left behind.
On Thursday, 9 March 2017, more than 55 participants followed the Invitation of the GIZ Gender Working Group Indonesia, Timor-Leste and ASEAN to join the GIZ Indonesia Gender Event 2017. The resource persons and participants have experienced an exciting event…
Communicating Gender Award 2017 – Indonesia, Timor-Leste and ASEAN
The GIZ Communicating Gender Award 2017 took place to appreciate the hard work put in by projects in gender mainstreaming. On Thursday, 9 March 2017, more than 55 participants followed the Invitation of the GIZ Gender Working Group Indonesia, Timor-Leste…
Competition „Empowerment of women through digital solutions“ – 3 winners announced!
At the end of 2016, the sectoral program „Promoting Gender equality and women’s rights” launched the GIZ-wide competition “Empowerment of women through digital solutions“ calling for proposals of measures that use an innovative “digital solution” which specifically strengthens women and…
Multilingual glossary on gender issues
This multilingual glossary developed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) provides you a harmonized vocabulary in Arabic, English, French and Spanish. It contains a multilingual listing of around 130 relevant terms and definitions. Terms and definitions are accompanied by details…
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GIZ India : Gender Cafe and more..
At GIZ India, we began the GIZ Gender Week with an action punch self-defense session! The Risk and Security Desk of the GIZ Office organized separate sessions related to safety and self-defense techniques for both men and women. Both men…
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Female leadership in the Cashew Value chain
Women form more than 80% of the labour force involved in collecting raw cashews from the farm. Yet female ownership of the farm is estimated at less than 10%. Likewise, women form more than 80% of workforce in any cashew…
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Women’s Economic Empowerment: A Development Challenge
Women’s economic empowerment is widely recognised as one of the most effective means of catalysing positive social transformation in favour of gender equality with wide-ranging positive impacts for women and their communities as well as national economies. Recent studies corroborated…
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Advancing Women’s Financial Inclusion in the Arab World at the Regional Policy Forum in Jordan
The Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ), the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) and GIZ hosted the high-level regional policy forum held under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah to provide an opportunity to deliberate further policy actions for…
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Mentoring manual- an innovative approach for women’s political empowerment
The participation of women has a long history in Azerbaijan, the first Muslim country to give women the right to vote in 1918. However, in modern Azerbaijan, women are barely represented in leading positions at both national and local level. As…
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Power With Purpose is recognising female leadership in global development
Devex and McKinsey & Company are honoring five female leaders that are tackling some of the biggest challenges ahead of the global development community. Social Entrepreneurs, heads of foundations and aid agencies, corporate sustainability pioneers, public figures and elected officials;…
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Call for contributions for CSW61 CoAction: Women Determined to Win Equality!
The International Millennia2025 Women and Innovation Foundation proposes a hashtag campaign on the occasion of the sixty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women. Learn about their motivation here. For information on how to participate check out the instructions below and…
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OECD issues new DAC gender equality policy marker
The OECD DAC has launched new minimum criteria for the DAC gender equality policy marker. As from January 2017 a gender analysis and a ‘do no harm’ approach is compulsory for all aid activities to ensure at minimum that the…
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The soundtrack to gender equality – listen to Les Amazones d’Afrique
Article retrieved from the Guardian, 20 February 2017 ‘The Album is a love letter to men’ ‘We are sick of seeing women suffer because of violence,” says Pamela Badjogo, Afro-jazz and blues singer. “In the family, in the war zones. We…
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African women unite to fight for equality – listen to this podcast
“Less than a third of all agricultural land in Africa is operated by women, nearly one in five of whom do not have access to contraception. In addition, almost a quarter of African women are likely to experience violence from…
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What is the W+ Standard? – inform yourself
The W+TM Standard is a unique certification label developed by WOCAN that endorses projects that create increased social and economic benefits for women participating in economic development or environment projects, including those that provide renewable energy technologies, time and labor…
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“Beauty of Taxation” – an innovative approach to female empowerment
Women Empowerment by Educating Beauty Salons Entrepreneurs At first, few would dare to associate taxation with beauty. But the two can be combined as evidenced by the collaboration of Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), in the…
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Women and the New Humanitarian Agenda – attend the event
Last year’s World Humanitarian Summit was a first step towards recognising the central role of women in humanitarian crises. Women are not only disproportionally affected by humanitarian disasters, with over 75 percent of the 125 million people in need of…
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Creating an economy that works for women – an opportunity to learn
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) invites to participate in a Webinar on “Creating an Economy that works for Women” on 21 February 2017, 14:00 – 15:00 GMT. The session is chaired by Abigail Hunt – Senior Research Officer and gender lead, Growth,…
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Gender in Conflict-Affected Areas- an opportunity to learn
Webinar “Applying a Gender Lens to Responsible Business Practices in Conflict-Affected Areas” According to the World Bank, 2 billion people live in countries where development outcomes are affected by fragility, conflict and violence. Sustainable development comes under threat in conflict-affected…
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