After a long work week, on Friday afternoon my friends and I decide to go to a café located right by Meskel Square. We live in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a beautiful country known for its rich culture, delicious coffee, gorgeous…
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A new generation running up the stairs by Véronique Sprenger, Sport for Development in Africa (S4DA) Team Ethiopia
Posted in Gender Week Blog Tagged with: Africa, Equality & Inclusion, Sport for development, Women\'s Empowerment
Its Women’s Turn, in the People’s Game by Frank Olukohe, S4DA Team Ghana/Kenya
Habiba’s efforts to increase participation of girls in football and use sport to address socialchallenges in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya Football, the world’s most popular sport, played by millions and followed by even more. Like their counterparts across the…
Posted in Gender Week Blog Tagged with: Africa, Sport for development, Violence against women, Women\'s Empowerment
LEADERSHIP HAS NO GENDER!
“What makes a true leader? Does gender matter?”. This question is often raised in every discussion whenever we talk about leadership. In order to find the answer, it would be better to hear the voice of insiders. On the occasion…
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#womenmobilize – Showing diversity in the mobility sector
Mobility is a fundamental part of urban life. As long as we live in cities, people and goods will need to move from A to B for various reasons. In the past, cities have been designed for car use so…
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GIZ Bangladesh observes 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence
On 10 December 2020, the Gender Working Group of GIZ Bangladesh hosted “Voices against Violence”, marking the conclusion of this year’s 16 Days of Activism campaign. The international campaign began on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of…
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Multimedia exhibition: Meet the seven “Game Changers – Women in Agriculture”!
Women in rural areas bring about great changes every day despite many obstacles. As part of the special initiative ONE WORLD – No Hunger, seven women from Africa and Asia have been awarded for their commitment to agriculture. From now…
Posted in Gender Week Blog Tagged with: Agriculture, femaleleadership, Rural development, SDG2, SDG5, Women\'s Empowerment, WomensRights
Women Success Stories from South East Europe
To promote economic empowerment of rural women through the support of women entrepreneurship, it is crucial that women are informed about property rights, in particular in relation to agriculture businesses. This collection of success stories from women from South East…
Posted in Gender Week Blog Tagged with: GenderBasedViolence, GenderEquality, Rural development, Women Economic Empowerment
More than 100 GIZ colleagues fight against period stigma and for good menstrual health and hygiene
As a contribution to this year’s Menstrual Hygiene (MH) Day, celebrated every year on 28 May, more than 100 GIZ colleagues from interns to the Director General have joined the Menstruation Bracelet campaign by posting selfies on social media wearing…
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Menstrual Hygiene Day is happening. Period
Approximately 1.9 billion women and girls menstruate between two and seven days a month on average. The recurring process of menstruation has a decisive influence on the lives of women and girls worldwide. Oftentimes, they are poorly informed, or menstruation is a taboo…
Entrepreneurship support in the rural electrification sector: Women and Men as actors of change !
Clean Energy Mini-grids (CEMG) are increasingly emerging as a very sustainable solution to energy challenges. The role of developers, operators and entrepreneurs of mini Grids is therefore crucial and their expertise and skills fundamental to the successful of the operating/management…
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GIZ Bangladesh celebrates International Women’s Day 2020 – Breaking Gender Stereotypes
The Gender Working Group of GIZ Bangladesh hosted the International Women’s Day 2020 event at Long Beach Hotel in Dhaka on 8 March 2020 on the theme of Breaking Gender Stereotypes to discuss about Champions in Bangladesh who are already…
Economy Wins When Women Work – “E4W” : PAKISTAN
Pakistan is an enormously diverse, multiethnic and multicultural society characterized by uneven development and distribution of resources. There are massive inequalities along social strata, regions, religions, gender and urban-rural manifestations. By international comparison, Pakistan is one of the countries with…
Activism against Gender- Based Violence
Dear All First of all, I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2020. In 2019, many of you have made distinguished and successful steps in reaching all of our goals as a…
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Gender-Transformative Change in Agricultural Skills Development
Women are the backbone of Africa’s agricultural sector. How many times have you heard this phrase? Over and over, experts have highlighted the importance of women in the agricultural workforce and in rural development. Too often, words have failed to…
Let’s talk Gender – from local to national, on and offline!
GIZ Colombia and APC (Presidential Office for int. Cooperation) launched their gender publication and participated in an international campaign for Women in Rural areas of Latin America From the fifteen stories that brought to life the publication Junt*s transformamos Colombia…
Posted in Gender Week Blog Tagged with: Displacement, GIZ Colombia, Indigenous communities, Peace building, Rural development
GIZ a TOP-Performer – Global Health 50/50 Report 2019
The independent Global Health 50/50 Initiative is associated to the Centre for Gender and Global Health at the University College London. It promotes, tracks and regularly reports on initiatives and global efforts to improve health worldwide. Its 2019 report entitled…
Posted in Gender Week Blog, Year 2019 Tagged with: GenderAtGIZ, GenderAward, GenderEquality, GenderMainstreaming
All things Gender: interactive mapping tool
Looking for Gender-related documents and strategies? Our mapping tool might help! As the only GG2 project in agriculture and skills development (TVET), we are always trying to keep up with Gender news and developments. Our project supports the African Union…
Posted in Gender Week Blog, Year 2019 Tagged with: Agriculture, Agriculture & Farming, gender, genderweek, mapping, Youth
Dialoge zu Empowerment am Weltfrauentag: Wie können Migrantinnen und geflüchtete Frauen in der Türkei und Deutschland besser gestärkt werden?
Geflüchtete Frauen und Migrantinnen bergen enormes Potenzial für aufnehmende Gemeinden – in der Türkei wie auch in Deutschland. Das ist das zentrale Thema der Konferenz “Unlocking Migrant Women’s Potential: International Perspectives“, die anlässlich des internationalen Frauentages heute in Ankara stattfindet.…
Posted in Gender Week Blog, Year 2019 Tagged with: iwd2019, Migration, Networking, Refugees, weltfrauentag, Women's Empowerment, Women\'s Empowerment
“Empowerment goes Digital” auf dem Digital Gateway
Empowerment goes Digital! Digital technologies open up undreamt-of possibilities and at the same time harbour the risk of reproducing or even exacerbating existing inequalities. Our new Trend-Topic provides suggestions on how this can be avoided, shows what kind of gender-specific differences…
Laos: Inspirational Presentation on Female Leadership and Career Development
In November 2018, the European Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Lao PDR (ECCIL), together with Austcham, Austaid and the Lao Business Women’s Association, invited 180 female students to an inspirational presentation on female leadership and career development in Vientiane.…
#RealGroundbreakers – Get involved in the social media challenge!
Dear Colleagues, We are not alone. IFAD invites all IFAD Partners to join the celebration of International Women’s Day 2019 showing solidarity with rural women, the #realgroundbreakers! The #RealGroundbreakers is a global campaign for the economic and social empowerment of…
Posted in Gender Week Blog, Year 2019 Tagged with: Agriculture, Economic Empowerment, Rural developemnt
Tanzanian women entrepreneurs bring powerfoods from Africa to Europe
Freshly prepared, dried, as powder or oil, as food supplements or cosmetics – Baobab and Moringa can be used to make a wide variety of products. So far, however, African plants can hardly be found in local and European shops because…
Posted in Gender Week Blog, Year 2019 Tagged with: Agriculture & Farming, Economic Empowerment, entrepreneurship, Food Groups, Networking
DUFUNA-FEM Code Camp: Software development training programme preparing female students for tech careers in Nigeria
There are many obstacles for women who want to build tech careers in Nigeria. However, programmes particularly focusing on female trainees encourage women who might otherwise not have considered joining. It is also noticeable that employers are particularly keen on…
Women for the energy sector: let’s inspire our young generation!
Experienced women are inspirational role models for young girls! Known as a male-dominated sector, the energy sector requires high skills, consistency and hard work. More women have been working in this sector for years now and have gained many years…
The way forward: dual training for young women in the hotel industry in Bolivia
Bringing together economic and development interests never has been more concrete and exciting. Within the ExperTS network and as part of a pilot project, a three-month training programme for the hotel industry was developed and implemented. The training was oriented…
Posted in Gender Week Blog, Year 2019 Tagged with: Economic Empowerment, tourism industry, vocational training
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