This paper on gender and cartography attempts to accomplish a number of goals - it explores the UN's rote in promoting gender equality ; touches on social cartography ; attempts to explain what gender issues are and why ...

This proposal is about enhancing the effectiveness of ECA work on one of its key cross-cutting foci: promotion of women in development in Africa through: (a) direct programmes and (b) mainstreaming of gender concerns in ...

The situation of women in the informal sector was brought to international attention in the Nairobi Forward-looking strategies for the Advancement of Women. These Strategies called for governments to recognize the ...

La structure politique et idéologique de la société érige des barrières que les femmes doivent affronter et franchir. L'idéologie qui fait de la politique la chasse gardée des hommes stroke lentement et les femmes du monde ...

This paper focuses on the prefeasibility study on women’s integration in development food loss prevention project case study: Togo. Objective of the project To identify and assess traditional techniques used by women; ...

Dans ce document visent essentiellement trois pays d'Afrique du nord – la République du Soudan, la République Arabe Unie (Egypte) et la République démocratique et populaire d'Algérie - qui, a notre avis sont actuellement ...

The documents that emerged from the decade review of implementing the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA), such as the country reports, reports of the Sub-regional Decade Review meetings, the Outcome and Way Forward of the ...

The global concern on the status of women dates as far back as 1946 when the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women was established to monitor the situation of women and to promote women’s status. Since then, a ...

Programme of action for the least developed countries, one year after Brussels, that took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 16-18 October 2002.

This paper reviews progress made on the African continent in the theme Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women since the adoption of the Dakar and Beijing Declarations. It incorporates assessments from various ...