Gender Equality

This manual is designed to strengthen the capacity of UNDP staff to mainstream gender equality objectives into their recovery and rehabilitation activities in crisis and post-conflict situations.

This fact sheet emphasizes the importance of engendering efforts to achieve the Millienium Development Goals (MDGs) and suggests several ways to make the MDG implementation and reporting process more gender-sensitive.

This report assesses the overall performance of UNDP in gender mainstreaming and promoting gender equality.

The essays in this volume explore the multiple factors that influence the process of engendering governance in complex societies. They focus particularly on the changing roles of various actors such as women’s movements, the state and civil society.

This paper examines the case of women's participation in electoral processes in Mozambique. It investigates gender-sensitive legislation, voter registration and education, political parties, and training of women candidates.

This paper addresses the characteristics of electoral processes in post-conflict countries.

This article encompasses material that was prepared for a training workshop on eliminating violence against women (VAW). It highlights ideas, concepts, policies, approaches and strategies for a greater involvement and engagement of men to eliminate gender violence.

This training guide focuses on the human rights-based approach to development cooperation as a framework for women's empowerment and gender equality.

This research paper examines the theory of women’s empowerment, and explores the challenges faced by practitioners and policy makers in implementing this theory.