Task brief : African women's report 2002/2003

Abstract

The African Women's Report (A WR) is one ofECA's four flagship publications and the only publication dedicated to gender issues at the continental level. The AWR is a strategic information and communication tool that provides for Gender analysis of national, sub-regional and regional policy frameworks and also follows up and records progress, best practices and new priorities on the status of women in Africa. The African Women's Report (AWR) for 2002/2003 will for the first time introduce an index to measure the progress in addressing the inequalities that exist between men and women and therefore allow for a more objective way to measure the achievements and limitations of the progress. The production of the AWR therefore, will include the definition of a gender index, the testing of this index in the field and then the production of the AWR comprising of the AGDI.