Tag: Women in Trade
EAC gender equality Bill to address gaps in trade
18 Jan 17 NewsEast African Community (EAC) partner states will be legally obliged to collectively promote participation of women and men in regional trade and sustainable economic growth, while ...
Agriculture and commodities
04 Jan 17 Themestralac’s work in this area examines Africa’s trade in agriculture and commodities and the emerging challenges and opportunities for sustainability resulting from changes in glo...
African trade and integration
04 Jan 17 Themestralac’s primary aim is to help build capacity for government officials, policymakers, and regional organisations to more adequately address the most pressing trade matters facin...
Priority trade policy actions to support the 2030 Agenda, transform African livelihoods and contribute to gender equality
06 Oct 16 News
Priority Trade Policy Actions to Support the 2030 Agenda and Transform African Livelihoods
In September 2015, world leaders adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developm...
The gender dimensions of services and global value chains
05 Oct 16 NewsThe Gender Dimensions of Services
The service sector makes a substantial contribution to GDP, providing jobs, crucial inputs and public services. In 2014 the service sector accoun...
First report by High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment outlines drivers to advance gender equality
23 Sep 16 NewsThe High-Level Panel (HLP) for Women’s Economic Empowerment on 22 September 2016 presented its first findings to the UN Secretary-General at an event in New York, held in the con...
Women’s trousers and shorts top list of Kenyan exports to the US
19 Sep 16 NewsWomen’s trousers and shorts topped the list of items ordered by Americans from Nairobi under the duty-and-quota free deal in the first half of the year.
Official data shows th...
Gender gap costs sub-Saharan Africa $US95 billion a year: new UNDP report
29 Aug 16 NewsIf development is not engendered, it is endangered
Gender inequality is costing sub-Saharan Africa on average $US95 billion a year, peaking at US$105 billion in 2014 – or six pe...
2015 African Gender Scorecard
15 Aug 16 NewsAfrica has made remarkable progress in implementing global and regional gender equality and women’s empowerment commitments.
Gender equality and women’s empowerment have been ...
Women entrepreneurs urged to deepen regional integration
01 Aug 16 NewsWomen entrepreneurs in the East African Community (EAC) have been encouraged to play a central role in deepening of the regional integration. They have been urged to this through t...
Women’s economic empowerment takes centre stage at UNCTAD expert meeting
30 May 16 NewsAn expert meeting on Trade as a Tool for the Economic Empowerment of Women was held by the Trade, Gender and Development Unit on 23 and 24 May 2016 to promote a better understandin...
Trade as a tool for the economic empowerment of women
18 May 16 NewsThe Expert Meeting on Trade as a Tool for the Economic Empowerment of Women is taking place from 23-24 May 2016 in Geneva.
Women are important players in trade: they manufacture p...
Trade and Global Value Chains: how to address the gender dimension
24 Mar 16 NewsGlobal value chains have become a dominant feature of world trade and investment, but what opportunities and risks do they provide to women? This question was addressed at a side e...
Report of the first session of the Committee on Gender and Social Development
18 Mar 16 NewsReport prepared for the Ninth Joint AUC-ECA Annual Meetings of the AU Conference of Ministers of the Economy and Finance and ECA Conference of African Ministers of Financ...
Business leaders, UN Member States and civil society agree: Gender equality critical to economic development
17 Mar 16 NewsThe UN Global Compact and UN Women organize the Women’s Empowerment Principles Annual Event
Recognizing gender equality as a fundamental human right, central to driving the glob...
AfDB releases new report on the impact of Ebola on women
08 Mar 16 NewsOn the occasion of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2016, the Office of the African Development Bank’s Special Envoy on Gender, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, has launched a rep...
Addressing gender gaps in Africa’s labour market
08 Mar 16 NewsSustainable development will depend on better gender equality. Yet, African women continue to face persistent challenges to get decent jobs. This requires a continental effort and ...
ILO: Large gender gaps remain across broad spectrum of global labour market
08 Mar 16 NewsNew ILO report highlights the enormous challenges women continue to face in finding and keeping decent jobs around the world.
Despite some modest gains in some regions in the worl...
8th African Union Gender Pre-Summit on the margins of the 26th AU Summit: Communiqué
04 Mar 16 NewsWe, Ministers of the African Union (AU) in charge of Gender and Women’s Affairs, representatives of Regional Economic Communities (RECs), intergovernmental conferences, members o...
Breaking the gender earnings gap
22 Feb 16 News
Women in typically male sectors earn as much as their male peers and three times more than other women, according to a study in Uganda.
Betty Ajio has made a living for the pa...