UN Women Centre of Excellence for Gender Equality in the Republic of Korea
The new UN Women office in the Republic of Korea convened its partners today to advance gender equality in the Asia-Pacific region. Photo: UN Women/Jaeki Kim
The Centre is a ‘knowledge hub’ to facilitate research, education & training, sharing of innovations and lessons learned, networking, and development of multi-stakeholder partnerships. The UN Women Centre of Excellence for Gender Equality is the first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region.
Leveraging UN Women’s technical and operational capacities as well as existing networks and platforms, the Centre:
- Provides specialized training programmes to diverse stakeholders from government entities, academia, civil society organizations and the private sector;
- Conducts research and promotes gender statistics; and
- Facilitates multi-stakeholder partnerships at national and regional levels.
Through the three pillars of work under the leadership of the Centre’s Director, the Centre aims to contribute to operationalizing normative frameworks on gender equality and the empowerment of women, informing innovative approaches to achieving Sustainable Development Goals, transforming harmful social norms in fast-changing and unique social landscape of Asia and the Pacific, and forging partnerships across sectors.
The Centre will also capitalize on the Republic of Korea’s rich experience in accelerating gender equality, and share Korea’s inspiring stories as well as lessons learned with other countries through UN Women’s regional and global networks.
About the centre
Through the three pillars of work under the leadership of the Centre’s Director, the Centre aims to contribute to operationalizing normative frameworks on gender equality and the empowerment of women, informing innovative approaches to achieving Sustainable Development Goals, transforming harmful social norms in the fast-changing and unique social landscape of Asia and the Pacific, and forging partnerships across sectors.
The Centre will also capitalize on the Republic of Korea’s rich experience in accelerating gender equality, and share Korea’s inspiring stories as well as lessons learned with other countries through UN Women’s regional and global networks.
The Centre is already delivering trainings for over 200 people from various groups and institutions within the Asia-Pacific region on three main themes for 2022:
- Ending violence against women
- Climate change, environment & disaster risk reduction in alignment with the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66)
- Gender data and statistics
In 2023, the Centre looks forward to scaling up its research, policy dialogue, and gender training activities with a thematic focus on women and technology. The Centre will leverage Korea’s expertise in non-conventional data sources and the use of technology for data production, including big data. Innovation will be used to generate new knowledge on the various links between women and technology.
With the UN Women Centre of Excellence in the Republic of Korea, UN Women today is better positioned to help advance gender equality and women’s empowerment in the region.
Established in 2010, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (“UN Women”) is the global champion for women and girls ...
Jeongshim Lee was appointed Director of the UN Women Centre of Excellence for Gender Equality in Seoul, the Republic of Korea in September 2022 ...
The Centre is a ‘knowledge hub’ to facilitate research, education & training, sharing of innovations and lessons learned, networking, and ...
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For more information contact:
UN Women Centre of Excellence for Gender Equality
12F, Seoul Global Center, 38, Jong-ro, Jongno-gu,
Seoul, Korea, 03188, Republic of Korea
Tel: +82 2 720 7220
Email: coe.korea@unwomen.org | https://rok.unwomen.org