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Partnering for Gender Equality – Advanced Course in Gender Mainstreaming in the Middle East and North Africa 21.-22. september 2010

This course is a follow up on the basic gender courses held in March and June 2010. This course will focus on identifying entry points for developing strategies for advancing gender equality in MENA. On day one of the workshop participants will practice gender sensitive context analysis and consider potential opportunities and challenges for mainstreaming gender. On day two we will work with how partners from Denmark and MENA can develop a shared vision for gender equality.

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NEWS

UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

On July 2 2010 the United Nations General Assembly decided to establish a new  UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women — to be known as UN Women. UN Women is a result of years of negotiations between UN Member States and advocacy by the global women’s movement. It is part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. UN Women merges the UN entities UNIFEM, OSAGI, DAW and INSTRAW.

 

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Gendernet 2010-2011

Gendernet application for a new period was approved by NGO Forum, and the good news means that Gendernet can continue working the next two years. In the new period Gendernet will work with organizational aspects and global trends in relation to gender equality. Gendernet has chosen to link gender and equality issues with the following three themes: Gendered Governance, Gender & Fragile States and Gender & Entrepreneurship.


 

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Gendernet Newsletter

Gendernet publishes a monthly newsletter in Danish that includes a section on new and interesting resources within the field of gender and development. In order to facilitate the sharing of this section with partners abroad an english only version of the newsletter has been created and can be found at the website under newsletters.

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MDG Champion Torch to Gendernet

 

Tuesday the 9th. of September 2008 the member organisations of Gendernet received a MDG3 Champion Torch from the Minister of Development Ulla Tørnæs in return for the 26 commitments to do something extra to promote gender equality.

 

 You can read about the 26 commitments

 and download the layouted version of the commitments

 


 
About Gendernet

Gendernet is a Danish Network established in 2006 composed of a broad range of Danish non-governmental organisations, institutions and resource persons to encourage joint co-ordination and sharing on gender and rights issues in development work. Gendernet counts 41 member organisations.

 

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