Regional event of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Women’s Economic Empowerment (Montevideo, 27-28 November 2018)
The OECD Policy Dialogue on Women’s Economic Empowerment meeting in Montevideo was jointly organised with UN Women and the Government of Uruguay. This regional meeting was framed around the 3Rs approach to address unpaid care work: recognise, reduce and redistribute. Ministers, researchers, CSOs and the private sector in the region presented and discussed their efforts to address “care” from the local to the national level, rooted in the gender equality agenda.
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Joint biennial workshop of the GENDERNET and the UN Inter‑Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) (Paris, 31 October 2018)
The GENDERNET and the United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) and the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee Network on Gender Equality (GENDERNET) organised a joint workshop on “Making social protection, public services and infrastructure work for women and girls” on 31 October 2018 at the OECD Headquarters in Paris.
The workshop connected to the specific targets of SDG 5.4, which recognizes the value of unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies, as well as the promotion of shared responsibility within the household. The policy areas of social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality are also the focus of the priority theme for the 63rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) in March 2019.
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Sixteenth annual meeting of the OECD-DAC Network on Gender Equality (Paris, 29-30 October 2018)
The 16th annual meeting of the DAC Network on Gender Equality (GENDERNET) was chance for members of the network to meet and discuss priority issues relating to gender equality and women’s rights. The core function of the Network is to provide a space for peer learning, policy guidance and common influencing on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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Global Forum on Development: The power of 4 billion - Inclusive Agendas for Women and Youth (Paris, 5 April 2018)
Of the world’s 7.6 billion people, more than 4 billion are at a disadvantage in terms of health, education or economic opportunities only because they are young, a woman or both. The 2018 Global Forum on Development took stock of the progress to date, and debate how policies can keep the promise of unleashing the power of women and youth as critical agents of change. During the Forum, high-level representatives from governments, businesses, foundations and international organisations, met and shared ideas on concrete ways to achieve greater prosperity for all. We specifically discussed solutions to the challenges of including youth in development processes, creating decent jobs for rural youth, recognising and reducing women’s unpaid care and domestic work, and understanding the links between gender inequality and conflict or fragile contexts.
Read the information on this forum for more details.
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Joint side-event to the 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) (New York, 14 March 2018)
Jointly organized side-event on Gender equality and women’s empowerment in fragile and conflict affected situations by the Government of Sweden, the OECD DAC Network on Gender Equality (GENDERNET), the International Network on Conflict and Fragility (INCAF) and the Government of Switzerland. The side-event was hosted by the International Peace Institute.
The event aimed to generate ideas on concrete steps that development partners, governments and civil society can take to strengthen the quality of support to women in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. The discussions brought together civil society, governments and international actors representing and/or working to support women’s contributions to peace processes and conflict resolution in order to draw on the specific experiences, needs and interests of women in different fragile, conflict and post-conflict contexts.
See invitation to the side-event for more details.
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OECD Policy Dialogue on Women’s Economic Empowerment (Paris, 7 March 2018)
OECD organised an event in honour of International Women’s Day 2018 on Transforming negative gender roles in the household: Innovative approaches. The OECD Policy Dialogue on Women’s Economic Empowerment presented two pioneering initiatives from the Population Foundation of India and Promundo to tackle discriminatory intra-household gender norms and improve attitudes and behaviours towards gender equality in addressing women’s unpaid care and domestic work to promote women's economic empowerment.
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Joint side-event to CSW62 on National Care Systems (New York, 14 March 2018)
During the CSW62, the Policy Dialogue organised the joint side event National care systems: main challenges to overcoming the structural reproduction of women's inequality together with UN Women and the National Institute of Women of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay in New York in March 2018.
Read the concept note of the side-event for more details.
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OECD Policy Dialogue on Women’s Economic Empowerment (Paris, 25 January 2018)
The OECD welcomed representatives from around the globe to address women’s unpaid care and domestic work and promote women's economic empowerment. Participants explored ways to recognise, reduce and redistribute unpaid care work through these four key policy domains: public services, infrastructure, social protection and promotion of shared responsibility within the household. The objective of the Policy Dialogue was to generate data, evidence and policy guidance on “what works” to promote women’s economic empowerment and well-being in low- and middle-income countries.
See the summary report of the policy dialogue for more details.
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Fifthteenth annual meeting of the OECD-DAC Network on Gender Equality (Paris, 2-3 November 2017)
The annual meeting of the DAC Network on Gender Equality (GENDERNET) enabled members of the network to meet and discuss priority issues relating to gender equality and women’s rights. The core function of the Network is to provide a space for peer learning, policy guidance and common influencing on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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Side-event at the 71st session of the UN General Assembly (New York, 22 September 2016)
The side-event New coalitions for SDG 5: philanthropic support for realising women’s and girls’ rights identifyed innovative ways to maximise philanthropic and public actors’ contributions to the financing, measurement and policy implementation of SDG 5 and the other gender equality targets of the SDGs. Philanthropic foundations’ flexibility, capacity for innovation and connections with grassroots women’s organisations make them a valuable ally for governments of the South and North. Multi-stakeholder coalitions that involve foundations can help move beyond traditional advocacy between donors and recipients, by exploring innovative tools and coalitions to address the challenges of implementing the SDG’s gender equality commitments. Establishing “what works” for effective implementation of the SDGs will be at the heart of a new policy dialogue to be launched by the OECD’s gender and development cluster.
Read the information on the event for more info.
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Fourteenth annual meeting of the OECD-DAC Network on Gender Equality (Paris, 5-7 October 2016)
The annual meeting of the DAC Network on Gender Equality (GENDERNET) enabled members of the network to meet and discuss priority issues relating to gender equality and women’s rights. The core function of the Network is to provide a space for peer learning, policy guidance and common influencing on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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High-level side-event at the 60th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (New York, Monday 14 March 2016)
The high-level side-event From Paris to Marrakech: translating political commitments into effective gender-responsive climate solutions on gender and climate change built on the successful event organised at COP21 by the OECD-DAC Network on Gender Equality (GENDERNET) and the governments of France, Switzerland, Morocco and Peru. By bringing together a wide coalition of partners, this follow-up event provided an opportunity to reflect on the implications of the SDGs and the Paris Agreement for gender and climate change; listen to actors who are at the forefront of efforts to implement gender-responsive climate solutions; identify concrete actions to improve the gender-responsiveness of climate change responses at all levels; and maintain the momentum in support of gender-responsive climate action in the lead up to the COP22 in Marrakech.
See the concept note to the side-event for more details.
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Joint biennial workshop of the GENDERNET and the UN Inter‑Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) (Kampala, 12-14 January 2016)
The joint biennial workshop Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: A game changer for gender equality, women's empowerment and women's human rights organized by the GENDERNET and the UN Inter‑agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) took place from 12-14 January 2016 in Kampala, Uganda. The workshop focused on the implementation of the commitments of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on gender equality and women’s rights.
See the summary record of the workshop for more details.
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