The aim of this Issues Paper is to review progress so far made since the Beijing Platform for Action (BPA). 1995 in the production and use of gender-dis-aggregated data (ODD) to address key issues in policy making towards ...

The areas specifically identified in this draft proposal concerning the activities to be Integrated in the North Africa MULPOC program of work reflect the general requests made by the women of various countries as expressed ...

This paper presents a brief review of recent activities of the ECA African Training and Research Centre for Women (ATRCW). It also examines the current work programme of priorities of the MULPOC of North Africa and proposes ...

In spite of concerted efforts over the past three decades, to increase girls’ and boys’ access to schooling and to reduce the disparities between them, there still exists a considerable degree of bias against girls in the ...

Report deals on expert session on the eight Africa regional conference on women (Beijing + 15).

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in collaboration with the Government of Tunisia organized an Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting preparatory to the Fifth Regional Conference on Women from 27 to 29 July ...

Report deals the fifth African regional conference on women (1994) preparatory to the Fourth World Conference on Women.

Like any developing country of African, Asia, and Latin America, the economic participation of women in Ethiopia has for centuries been undermined by socio cultural, political and economic factors. Additionally, the lack ...

This research project is based on the United Nations University's mec' since 1979 in Tokyo, Oslo, Dartmouth and Rome on the role of gender and age in the development process. It is linked to all five themes of the UNU's ...

This paper is a synthesis of three case studies undertaken in Kenya, Sierraleone and Swaziland on "Women and the Scientific Professions in Africa". The objective of the paper is to review and assess the level of women’s ...