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Women and income- generating economic activities
(1997-10)
It is really not easy to speak on the economic activities of women for most adult women (that is, women over 18) are married and therefore qualified housewives, and according to INS1 these are inactive persons or dependants, ...
Situation of women in the east African sub-region : with specific focus on: participation of women in decision making economic empowerment of women for poverty reduction women's legal and human rights, a synthesis paper
(1997-06)
The East African sub-region, like the rest of Africa, has severely affected by the economic decline and recession which characterised most of the 1980s and 1990s. Of the 12 countries which make up the East African sub-region ...
A manual on gender and gender mainstreaming
(1997-01)
A recent study carried out to assess the gender -responsiveness/ sensitivity in ECA programs and among its staff, included a needs assessment. One of the needs identified was that of gender training within the commission. ...
Gender mainstreaming at ECA: Review of the past, present and future
(1997-01)
The seventh meeting of the Coordinating Committee on African Statistical Development (CASD) took place at the Headquarters of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) on 21 and 22 May 1997.The meeting was attended by the ...
Modalities for economic empowerment of women
(1997-10)
Through continuous and sustained combination of several approaches over time we will no doubt be able to put together a number of preconditions for the economic empowerment of women. In view of the foregoing, the issue of ...
An assessment of the structure, role and function of ARCC and how it may be strengthened
(1997-04)
The Economic Commission for Africa has four technical subsidiary bodies as part of its Intergovernmental machinery, namely: United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Africa, which is convened every three years; ...
The problem of integrating Congolese women in the development process of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(1997-10)
The initiators of this seminar, including the Government which pioneered it have had the opportunity to explain the reasons for the organization of this gathering whose central theme is "Equity and Economic Empowerment of ...
Coordination of the policies and activities of the specialized agencies and other bodies of the United Nation system : mainstreaming the gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system
(1997-06)
The present report responds to Economic and Social Council decision
1996/310, in which the Council decided to devote the coordination segment of
its substantive session of 1997 to consideration of the cross-sectoral ...
Promotion of women entrepreneurship in Southern Africa
(1997-02)
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 ...
Synthesis of the outcome of the gender networking meeting
(1997-06)
The Expert Group Meeting on Gender Networking was convened by the African Centre for Women of the Economic Commission for Africa, with the objective of developing strategies for networking among diverse actors on three ...