Women, MDGs & Africa - A Resource Guide

Select Resources on Goal 3: Women's Empowerment

Publications:

Equality now 'Words and deeds: Holding governments accountable in the Beijing +15 review process' (2010)

UNDG MDG Thematic Paper on MDG 3 ‘Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women’ (2010)

UNECA ‘African Women’s Report’ (2009)

UNIFEM ‘Making the MDGs work for all. Gender-responsive rights-based approaches to the MDGs’ (2008)

UNIFEM ‘Progress of the World’s Women 2010/2011 – Gender Justice: Key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals’ (forthcoming 2010)

UNIFEM ‘Progress on the World’s Women 2008/2009: Who answers to women? Gender & Accountability’ (2008)

UNIFEM and UNDP ‘Making the MDGs work better for women. Implementing gender-responsive national development plans and programmes’ (2010)

UN Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality ‘Taking action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women’ (2005) 

World Bank and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development 'Gender disparities in Africa's labour market' (2010)

World Economic Forum 'The Global Gender Gap Report 2010'

 

Organizations:

Action for Development

African Gender Institute

AWID Association for Women's Rights in Development

Equality Now

Femmes Africa Solidarité

Global Fund for Women

I Know Politics – International Knowledge Network for Women in Politics

International Labour Organization (ILO)

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

UN Women

United Nations Women Watch

Women in Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF)

 

Best practices:

UNDG MDG Good Practices (2010) Chapter 2 MDG 2 and MDG 3 – Education and Gender equality

 

Outreach material:

Gender Is My Agenda Campaign

 IPU Women in Politics Map 2010

MDG3fund.nl

The Girl Effect

The World Bank 'Morocco: Women's cactus cooperative'

UNIFEM ‘Gender Equality Now. Accelerating the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals’  (2008)

UNIFEM ‘Making change happen: Actions necessary to accelerate the achievement of all Millennium Development Goals’  

UNIFEM ‘What does it cost? Putting a price on gender equality’

 

Statistics and other resources:

Global Gender Gap Index 2009

Human Development Report 2009 Table K: Gender empowerment measure and its components

ILO Decent Work for Women Fact sheet (2008)

The World Bank Gender Stats

UN Statistics Division 'The world's women 2010: Trends and statistics'

Women Stats Project