UNIFEM Materials

UNIFEM knowledge products related to the themes of the 52nd Session of the CSW:

Priority Theme: Financing for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

Financing Gender Equality Is Financing Development (Discussion Paper). Gender equality is recognized as being essential to human development, making it critical to ensure that all aspects of development financing, domestic and international, fully recognize women’s economic contributions, and support their economic security and rights. Hence, macroeconomic policies, which influence the volume and distribution of resources for development, must promote both employment generation and productive growth, reduce income and asset disparities, moderate vulnerabilities related to changes in the global economy, protect against environmental and social risks, and explore innovative sources of financing. This paper is a contribution to the discussion on Financing for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment at this year’s session of the Commission on the Status of Women. It is in the process of review; comments are welcome. more »

Gender Equality and Aid Effectiveness Discussion Papers. These discussion papers draw on multi-stakeholder consultations on gender equality and aid effectiveness led by UNIFEM since November 2005. The consultations have brought together representatives from government, donor agencies and civil society to explore strategies to ensure that aid effectively delivers for gender equality in the context of nationally determined development planning and programming processes. more »

Gender Responsive Budgeting in Practice: A Training Manual.This training manual is intended to build capacity in the application of gender budget analysis. It seeks to build understanding of gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) as a tool for promoting gender equity, accountability to women's rights, and efficiency and transparency in budget policies and processes. more »

Gender Responsive Budgeting and Women’s Reproductive Rights: A Resource Pack. This resource pack provides relevant knowledge to facilitate mainstreaming gender-responsive approaches into reproductive health programmes, and the inclusion of specific aspects of gender inequality and disadvantage into national policy frameworks. It focuses primarily on health, particularly reproductive health; on HIV/AIDS; and on violence against women as it relates to health services. more »

Gender-Responsive Budgeting Portal. This online resource centre aims to facilitate the exchange of information between academics, practitioners, researchers, and activists working on gender budget initiatives. It features new and current articles, research papers, training tools and kits, and links to other quality websites on gender and budgets. visit the portal »

Review Theme: Women’s Equal Participation in Conflict Prevention, Management and Conflict Resolution and in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Policy Briefing Paper: Gender Sensitive Police Reform in Post Conflict Societies. This briefing paper reviews UNIFEM and UNDP experiences in building the capacity of police services to respond to women’s security needs. The paper stresses the importance of women’s engagement in accountability mechanisms to review police performance and support efforts to correct for poor practice. more »

CEDAW and Security Council Resolution 1325: A Quick Guide. This guide provides a basic introduction to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, and reviews their commonalities, synergies, and potential strategic uses, particularly in the context of conflict and post-conflict reconstruction. more »

WomenWarPeace.org. Because of the central importance of women's participation in peace building and post-conflict reconstruction, UNIFEM has created a rich repository of information on this issue. The web portal on women, peace and security offers summaries of UNIFEM programming in conflict zones, gender profiles of countries in conflict, and briefs on issues that affect women and girls just before, during and after conflict. visit the portal »

Violence against Women

Report of the United Nations Development Fund for Women on the Elimination of Violence Against Women: Note by the Secretary-General (2007). This report documents the activities undertaken by UNIFEM in 2007 as administrator of the UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women, as well as its other programming on violence against women. more » et aussi » lea más »

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