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Evaluation of UN Women’s Work on the Care Economy in East and Southern Africa
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Evaluation of UN Women's work on the Care Economy in East and Southern Africa - Evaluation Report
- Evaluation of UN Women's work on the Care Economy in East and Southern Africa - IN BRIEF
- Evaluation of UN Women's work on the Care Economy in East and Southern Africa - Annexes
A regional study of gender equality observatories in West and Central Africa, carried out by Claudy Vouhé for UN Women
Sources: UN Women
This regional study offers an inventory and analysis of the legal framework of gender observatories, their attributions, functions and missions. It is based on exchanges with 21 countries, in particular the eleven countries that have created observatories. It compares the internal organisation and budgets of the observatories between countries, looks at operational practices, in particular the degree of involvement in the collection and use of data, and identifies obstacles and good practices in terms of influencing pro-gender equality public policies. Finally, the study draws up a list of strategic recommendations intended for observatories, supervisory bodies and technical and financial partners.
MSSRF Publication - November 2025 - Shared by Rajalakshmi
Ritu Dewan - EPW editorial comment on Labour Codes
Eniola Adeyemi Articles on Medium Journal, 2025
An analysis of the “soft life” conversation as it emerges on social media, unpacking how aspirations for ease and rest intersect with broader socio-economic structures, gendered labour expectations, and notions of dignity and justice
Tara Prasad Gnyawali Article - 2025
This article focused on the story of community living in a wildlife corridor that links India and Nepal, namely the Khata Corridor, which bridges Bardiya National Park of Nepal and Katarnia Wildlife Sanctuary of Uttar Pradesh, India.
This article revealed how the wildlife mobility in the corridor affects community livelihoods, mobility, and social inclusion, with a sense of differential impacts on farming and marginalised communities.
Lesedi Senamele Matlala - Recent Article in Evaluation Journal, 2025
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Rigid Gender Gaps and Missing SDG Targets and Indicators
The Global Gender Gap Report 2016 draws attention to the widening of gender gap in health and economic sphere. Two indicators are used in this report with respect to gender gap gap in health: gap in healthy life expectancy and sex ratio at birth (after adjusting for the fact that more males are born). Sex ratio at birth (female-over-male) amongst the countries studied has declined from 0.94 to 0.92 (1 being equality) between 2006 and 2015, while gender gap in healthy life expectancy has remained the same. Sex selection has spread to new countries (apart from China, India) like Azerbaijan, Georgia, Albania, Vietnam etc. More than half the world lives with skewed sex ratio at birth, yet it is not a SDG target. Let us hope equitable sex ratio gets added as an indicator of the target of elimination of gender discrimination discrimination.
Yet another realm in which gender gaps have widened is the economic sphere. In particular, gender gap in professional and technical workers has increased from 0.79 to 0.64, in senior officials and managers has increased from 0.37 to 0.27, in labour force participation has increased from 0.37 to 0.41, wage equality for similar work has declined from 0.64 to 0.60. On the other hand gaps in education have reduced
On International Women's Day we need to ask are females till born not valuable? Is women's health (healthy life expectancy) and education valued because they can be good mothers and wives? If they tread into the economic realm the benefits to men and family is less than the benefit if they stay at home as mothers and wives? Or the work place and public space is structured around 'men as norm' with no provision for shorter working hours, creches, leave if children are sick, flexible work spaces, dealing with sexual harassment, public transport etc. A combination of both these set of factors explain growth in countries like India accompanied by decline in labour force participation rate. We need SDG indicators like 'favourable attitudes of men/in laws to their wives/daughter in law working after children arrive' and 'proportion of 30 major companies with rules which are friendly to women staff'
Cross posted https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rigid-gender-gaps-missing-targets-ra...
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