Now even more than before, gender equality is a necessary ingredient in all EU development assistance, across countries and sectors. Gender-sensitive planning and management can make programmes at once more equitable and more...
Yes, another uplifting article about how we must do more on gender! Well, not quite. To be honest, this is more of a lengthy introduction to some preliminary findings from a 2015 survey (mentioned on this site here) of DEVCO/EEAS...
2.3 DIRECT ACTIONS IN COMMUNITIES 2.3.6. Vocational education/skills training Recommendation: 12) Consider including possible types of employment that are often not considered for TVET such as sales service provider, security...
Ever turned up at a party in jeans and your third-best t-shirt only to find it was supposed to be strictly formal dress? That feeling of blood draining from your body as you stand on your host's front step, emptying your pockets...
One year into the EU’s second Gender Action Plan (GAP), which stepped up ambitions to make all the EU’s external action gender-sensitive, what is happening on the ground?
The European Union and its Member States have kept their place as the world’s leading aid donor, contributing €68 billion in 2015. They have recently begun to present a united front, pulling together their combined resources and...
If women played the same role in the global economy as men, they could add $28 trillion to GDP by 2025 - increasing it by a quarter, according to McKinsey.
On International Women’s Day, Capacity4dev Ambassador Tatiana Margalitadze, Expert-Lawyer on Human Rights Protection at the Georgian Development Foundation, shares some of the actionable solutions to empower women while overcoming...
Gender marker: G2-Promotes gender equality as a primary objective Period of implementation: 2021 - 2024 Amount: EU provided EUR 8,040,000 to fund the Balochistan Basic Education Programme (BBEP, 2016-2020) and EUR 17,400,000 for...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Traditional efforts to reduce violent extremism attempt to provide men and boys with alternatives to joining extremist groups. However, these efforts often fail to consider the gendered factors that may drive men...
