Tag: Women in Trade

Global value chains have become a dominant feature of world trade and investment, but what opportunities and risks do they provide to women? This question was addressed at a side e...

Report prepared for the Ninth Joint AUC-ECA Annual Meetings of the AU Conference of Ministers of the Economy and Finance and ECA Conference of African Ministers of Financ...

The UN Global Compact and UN Women organize the Women’s Empowerment Principles Annual Event Recognizing gender equality as a fundamental human right, central to driving the glob...

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2016, the Office of the African Development Bank’s Special Envoy on Gender, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, has launched a rep...

Sustainable development will depend on better gender equality. Yet, African women continue to face persistent challenges to get decent jobs. This requires a continental effort and ...

New ILO report highlights the enormous challenges women continue to face in finding and keeping decent jobs around the world. Despite some modest gains in some regions in the worl...

We, Ministers of the African Union (AU) in charge of Gender and Women’s Affairs, representatives of Regional Economic Communities (RECs), intergovernmental conferences, members o...

Women in typically male sectors earn as much as their male peers and three times more than other women, according to a study in Uganda. Betty Ajio has made a living for the pa...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday announced the first-ever High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment to provide leadership and mobilize co...

Reducing inequalities and the creation of work are critical for human development in the region, says the 2015 Human Development Report. Significant gains have been made in human ...

Marking the Africa Industrialization Day, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is calling for job creation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for women and youth to era...

Marking the International Day of Rural Women, the United Nations today affirmed the role of women as significant and crucial for the progress of rural households, local and nationa...

Highlights from the Fifth African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), 29 September-2 October 2015, Lusaka, Zambia More than 600 men, women and youth attended the AGRF 2015. Over 200 ca...

Leaders target investments and polices for African farmers and enterprises to meet rising food demand in an urbanizing Africa The rapid rise of urban food markets across sub-Sahar...

Sub-Saharan Africa is a study in contrasts when it comes to women’s economic advancement, says the World Bank Group’s Women, Business and the Law 2016 report, released on 9 Sep...

The office of the Special Envoy on Gender (SEOG) and the Department for Agriculture and Agro-industry (OSAN) of the African Development Bank (AfDB) launched a new report, “Econom...

The “Raising Voices for Women Cross Border Traders in West Africa Project” seeks to map women’s organisations in the ECOWAS sub-region and their potential to support the capa...

A new report on Women in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Africa has called for a policy overhaul in the mining sector for inclusive and active participation of women. The...

Women entrepreneurs are meeting in Nairobi to explore strategies that would see them step up their participation in business across East Africa. “This conference on women ...

Can we use the revenues generated from oil, gas and minerals to reduce the gender gap in countries with abundant natural resources? We found a statistically significant negative c...