The pandemic highlighted the immense challenges that women face in their health, safety and livelihoods. Many women, especially those in vulnerable communities, have lost a generation’s worth of economic gains. With the increase in gender-based violence and the reversal of decades of advancement for women in the workplace, we have reached an inflection point for gender equality. More
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Supported by photos, data, infographics, and individual impact stories, the annual report highlights key achievements of the 18 active projects in 2019. It offers a snapshot of the impact the global pandemic caused by COVID-19 on grantees and the populations they serve, and the ways they are responding to it. Finally, it presents the results from its latest efforts to accelerate progress by fostering innovation and peer learning.
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The 2018–2019 annual report highlights the past year’s achievements and key results in 2008, which directly reached more than 90,000 women at local, national, and regional levels. Some key results from 2018 include: [*] 25 women-led civil society organizations’ capacities strengthened [*] 256,000 beneficiaries sensitized on women’s rights [*] 23,700 women gained technical leadership, literacy, and vocational skills [*] 4,000 men engaged as allies [*] 20,740 women with increased incomes [*] 255 women trained who were appointed or elected into leadership positions.
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As in previous years, the report is supported by photos, data, info-graphics and individual stories of impact capturing the diversity, breadth and importance of the 26 active projects managed by the women-led civil society organizations that the FGE supports. It also presents the main findings and recommendations of the first FGE independent evaluation and introduces its fourth grant-making cycle 2018-2019, a scaling and innovation initiative. You will find information relevant to the current...
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With less than 13 years to achieve the high ambitions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, we must move quickly, coming together to realize a more peaceful, prosperous, equal and sustainable world. By 2030, the effects could be transformative, particularly for women and girls. This will depend, above all, on realizing our responsibility to reach the most marginalized communities and address the multiple layers of discrimination and inequality they face. They must not fall through...
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‘LEAVING NO ONE BEHIND’ IN ACTION Observations from FGE’s seven-year experience working with civil society Gender equality is at the forefront of the 2030 Development Agenda. The Sustainable Development Goals include a stand-alone goal to advance equality and gender-related targets mainstreamed across the Global Goals. But if something has opened a door for drastic progress in the lives of women and girls worldwide, it is the principle of leaving no one behind. ...
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In 2015, UN Women's Fund for Gender Equality (FGE) supported 53 active programmes in 48 countries and reached over 218,000 direct beneficiaries. The Fund's programmes, led by civil society organizations, work to advance women's political and economic empowerment at local, national and regional levels across the globe. Supported by photos, data, info-graphics and individual stories of impact, this report highlights key aggregated results of 2015 active programmes as well as lessons learned...
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Taking a gender equality approach to support rural women in advancing their social, economic and political rights. The GEP emerged from the grassroots experience of PRADAN professionals. Responding to genderbased violence, discrimination and inequality in the areas where they worked, individual teams began pursuing gender equality approaches and were responding to cases of violence against women as early as 2000. Individual teams had already reached out for assistance from gender and legal...
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UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality is bringing about real changes in lives and communities all around the world. It is one of the world’s leading grant-making funds for women’s equality.
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This joint UN Women and OHCHR publication is intended as a tool to guide and support the adoption and effective implementation of laws, policies and programmes to ensure women's access, use and control over land and other productive resources.
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This report highlights the gender gaps which persist to barricade women in agricultural productivity and developments.
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The study shared at a workshop on ‘Gender and Land Tenure Security: Challenges and Barriers to Women’s Entitlement to Land in India’ organized by UN Women and the Rural Development Institute explores challenges which prevent rural women from owning and controlling land.
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A study based on women’s voices in rural Haryana draws attention to women’s ownership of land, and how economic independence can help reduce violence against women.