Session 8 Sustainability and right-based approach in practice
8.1 A Gender Responsive Rights-Based Approach to private sector and trade development :
Overview of main principles and tools to adopt a gender-responsive right-based approach to private sector and sustainable trade
Reference documents:
- European Commission (2014) Tool-box - A Rights-based approach encompassing all human rights for EU development cooperation
- European Commission (2018), Guidance - Evaluation with Gender as a cross-cutting dimension
- European Parliament (2018), Report on gender equality in EU trade agreements, (2017/2015(INI)), Committee on International Trade and - Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (06.02.2018)
- World Bank (2013), A Study of Gender and Human Rights-Based Approaches in Development
- CONCORD & WIDE + (2018), Gender and Trade, working document, May 2018
- UNCTAD Trade, Gender and Development, new trade and gender toolbox
- UNCTAD (2017), Trade and Gender Toolbox: How will the Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the East Africa Community Affect Kenya Women.
8.2 Promoting responsible practices: women economic empowerment and fair trade :
Highlights key examples of actions to promote women economic empowerment and fair trade
Reference documents:
- Malmström, C. (2016), Supporting Fair and Ethical Trade: Next Steps for the EU, Speech at European Parliament Fair Trade Breakfast, Brussels, 12.10.2016
- https://www.thecommonwealth-ilibrary.org/commonwealth/trade/women-s-economic-empowerment-and-wto-trade-negotiations_8136ff7d-en