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Promoting Women’s Political Leadership and Governance in India and South Asia
There is growing momentum among governments and civil society to foster and ensure women’s participation and leadership in the political arena, and specifically within local governance structures. Establishing quotas for women’s representation at di...
UNWOMEN, (2012)
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Implementing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
The project “Strengthening Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Nepal: Towards Implementation of National Action Plan on UNSCRs 1325 and 1820”, funded by the Government of Finland, aims to strengthen local level implementation of...
GoN, UNWOMEN, (2016)
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Empowerment of Women Migrant Workers of Nepal
Nepal has witnessed high levels of foreign labour migration since the last two decades. The remittance these migrant workers generate account for almost one quarter of the country's GDP, with 11 per cent of this total coming from women migrant worker...
GoN, UNWOMEN, (2013)
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Final Evaluation of UNIFEM’s Regional Programme for HBWs in South Asia Phase II
There are more than 100 million home based workers (HBWs) in the world,1 of which around 50 percent are in South Asia alone where they form a fast growing part of the workforce2. Of these workers, an estimated 80 percent are women. While this substan...
UNWOMEN, (2009)
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Why Macroeconomic Policy Matters for Gender Equality
Macroeconomic policy, including fiscal and monetary policy, is often thought of as gender neutral. But economic policy choices affect women and men differently because of their different positions in the economy, both market (paid) and non-market (un...
UNWOMEN, (2015)
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Enhance SGBV Survivors Access to Legal Services.
The ability of SGBV survivors to access justice is a challenge, rendered particularly difficult in conflict and post conflict contexts. Fear of retributions, sense of helplessness, feelings of shame, prevention of reporting by the family and society,...
UN WOMEN NEPAL, (2014)
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Progress of Women in Nepal (1995-2015)
SUBSTANTIVE EQUALITY : NON- NEGOTIABLE
Twenty years has passed since UN member countries and civil society activists gathered in Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women, which conducted with the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA). This year, in 201...
Gov of Nepal, UN Women Nepal, (2015)
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Accelerating Progress Towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women
Rural women constitute 43 percent of the total 83 percent population living in the rural areas of Nepal. As in many developing countries, women have played an important and often unrecognized role in the agriculture sector in Nepal that sustains near...
UNWOMEN, FAO, WFP, (2016)
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United Nations Entity For Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Created in July 2010, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) promotes gender equality not just as an inalienable human right but as a central tenet of social, economic and cultural development. It provid...
UNAIDS, UN WOMEN, (2015)
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Returning Home: challenges and opportunities for women migrant workers in the Nepali labour market
This report on returnee women migrant workers (RWMWs) draws from insights shared by 1,210 women to
understand the influences, conditions, and challenges that characterize women’s migration from and reintegration
to Nepal.
As gender roles are still...
UN WOMEN, (2019)
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