Women’s Economic Empowerment: A Development Challenge

To mark this year’s International Women’s Day, the OECD is launching a Policy Dialogue on Women’s Economic Empowerment in developing countries. The new dialogue will create practical guidance to improve policies and development co-operation towards achieving SDG 5. This special News Alert brings you: new evidence on gender discrimination in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America; the latest findings on the global economic and social cost of gender inequalities; and fresh analysis on how development aid targets women’s economic empowerment.

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Why empowering women can make women and men happier (OECD Development Matters)	Girls robbed of their childhood in the Sahel (French - Le Monde Afrique)	Gender equality in West Africa: Actions speak louder than words (OECD Insights)

 

Events

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March on Gender 8 March Achieving women’s economic empowerment by 2030: From Global Commitment to Policy Solutions - OECD Conference Centre, Paris Opening remarks by Gabriela Ramos OECD Chief of Staff, G20 Sherpa and Special Counsellor to the Secretary-General 17 March Policy Dialogue on Women’s Economic Empowerment  High Level Launch Event – One UN Hotel, New York 20 March SDG 5.1.1 Side Event Monitoring legal frameworks that address non-discrimination on the basis of sex - Conference Room A, UN Headquarters, New York. 21 March JICA – OECD side event: Overcoming the barriers to women’s economic empowerment for 2030: lessons learned from new data, policies and initiatives - Conference Room A, UN Headquarters, New York.

 

Share of aid targeting gender equality 

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Maps & Facts from West Africa

 

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West African girls are being married off too young	Women in parliament: Senegal ranks 7th worldwide but West African women remain under-represented	Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)

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Regional Reports and Working Papers

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East Asia and the Pacific	Latin America and Caribbean	Sub-Saharan Africa
Europe and Central Asia	Tracking the money for women’s economic empowerment: still a drop in the ocean	The pursuit of happiness: Does gender parity in social institutions matter?

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