Discussions
Gender mainstreaming manual developed to tackle inequalities in Uganda’s forest sector
Women’s participation in the forest sector is an important pathway out of poverty and is a powerful tool to improve livelihoods, protect biodiversity and promote sustainable forest management. Recognizing this, the FAO-EU Forest...
[3rd KEN Workshop] Celebrating Women’s Day: Views from Korea and the EU on past achievements, present challenges and future held on 8 March, 2021
Theme Celebrating Women’s Day: Views from Korea and the EU on past achievements, present challenges and future Time / Date March 8, 2021 / 9am - 11am Brussels Time, CET / 5pm - 7pm KST, 120 mins Venue: Online via Zoom, prior RSVP...
Women join village leadership at an important moment in the evolution of Thai forestry policies
Ensuring policy reforms are gender-sensitive is made more difficult because gender-disaggregated data is missing 67 percent of the time in the decision-making processes in Southeast Asia. This is why RECOFTC prioritizes research...
Improving women’s participation in good forest governance in Uganda
Despite the inclusion of gender aspects in Uganda’s Forestry Policy, effective participation of women in decision-making processes remains scarce. Currently, women have no access by right and no control over productive resources...
Education reform in Myanmar: launch of the EU's first budget support programme in the country
The European Union will contribute to equal access to better quality education for all students, and assist the implementation of education reforms in Myanmar between 2019 and 2022. The EU will provide EUR 175 million, through...
How to promote gender equality with shock-responsive social protection programmes?
We caught up with Rebecca Holmes, Senior Research Fellow for Social Protection, Gender and Livelihoods at Overseas Development Institute (ODI), to find out more: What, in your opinion, is the biggest challenge in designing and...
Gender mainstreaming: The new norm for development agencies
Thanks in part to awareness campaigns like She is We, gender equality has become a key issue for the development community. This is particularly evident among the national development agencies, as many of them have adopted new...
#VACANCY #EXPERTISE - We're looking for an evaluator profile who can assist Ecuador in the evaluation they are carrying out to their national public policy to combat violence against women & girls (see below the ToR's in Spanish! Deadline: June 13! )
#Vacante #Expertise Buscamos Asesor/a para apoyar la realización de la Evaluación del Plan Nacional para la Erradicación de la Violencia de Género hacia la Niñez, Adolescencia y Mujeres de #Ecuador ! Aquí los TdR: http://www...
Technical brief "Because Women's Land Rights Matter! How the EU development cooperation can help close the gender gap in land tenure"
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...