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Gender Activities
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Providing forum for regional reviews of Beijing Platform for Action and exchange of good practices in mainstreaming gender into economic policies:
Beijing+5
;
Beijing +10
;
Regional Symposium
;
Economics of Gender at the UNECE sixty-second Anniversary Session
.
Promoting women’s entrepreneurship and gender sensitive SME policies:
Regional Forums of Women Entrepreneurs
;
capacity-building workshops
;
dissemination of good practices
in financing women’s businesses and improving their access to ICT; building synergies with CECI programme on
Enterprise Development
.
Mainstreaming gender into subregional economic cooperation through the
Working Group on Gender and Economy
within the UN Special Programme for the Economies of Central Asia (
SPECA
).
Developing methodologies, collecting gender-disaggregated data, and training on gender statistics within the
Gender Statistics programme
.
CURRENT PROJECT
Interregional Development Account Project (2009)
Past Events
High-level gender side-event at the Financing for Development Review Conference (Doha, Qatar, 29 November 2008)
Regional Conference on “The Challenges of Engendering Economics” (Tbilisi, 1 April 2008)
Meeting of the SPECA Working Group on Gender and Economy
(Berlin, 12 November 2007)
Gender at the UNECE 62
nd
Anniversary Session
(Geneva, 25-27 April 2007)
Capacity Building trainings for Women Entrepreneurs
(Haifa, Israel, 2007)
"We have a moral imperative to empower women and promoting gender equality. But doing so is also one of our most powerful tools for fighting poverty and realising the MDG. The Doha process should stress on gender issues and should have a prominent place in response to the financial crisis", said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during the opening of the
High-level side event organized at the Doha conference organized by Norway in cooperation with UNECE and other Regional Commissions.
Publications
Forthcoming: Gender Gap and Economic Policies
Access to Financing and ICT for Women Entrepreneurs in the UNECE region
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