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 ...

This paper presents an overview of gender initiatives taking place in Eastern Africa and implementations with regard to the Regional and Global Platforms for Action. In response to commitments made at the Fourth World ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

As African countries liberated themselves from the yoke of colonialism, its people were buoyed by the hope that they could now turn their attention to the urgent issues of development. All too quickly, their hopes were ...

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 ...

This paper focuses on the gender training needs assessment mission. African Centre for Women has in this context identified two new strategic areas, the economic Empowerment of Women and Gender Mainstreaming across all ...

This report is a study of the strategies that Women's groups and organizations have adopted to empower Women about their rights. The overall objective of the strategies is provide literacy omen s icizai nunts through simnie ...

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 ...