Innovations in Development : Advancing Women’s Rights in a Changing...

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Advancing Women’s Rights in a Changing...

Advancing Women’s Rights in a Changing Landscape for Development Co-operation

Advancing Women’s Rights in a Changing...

Development actors worldwide accept that advancing women’s rights and gender equality is not only a desirable goal, but a cornerstone of any successful sustainable development framework. Women and girls are in the public eye and recognised as key agents in development as never before. “Investing in women and girls” is increasingly heralded as a keystone strategy for women’s economic empowerment, and indeed, for broader development and economic growth. Variations on this discourse are coming from as diverse actors as the World Bank , Newsweek , and Walmart . Funding agencies and international NGOs have increasingly adopted the language of “investing in women” via new policies and programmes. Corporations are emphasising women...Read More

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Youth Caucus UN CSD 17

The CSD Youth Caucus is an international network of over 2,000 youth leaders from hundreds of individuals and organisations, many of which are themselves national networks, that brings together young people with a desire to build a more sustainable world. The focus of the caucus is two-fold. First, to facilitate youth input into the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, the primary international forum concerned with issues of Sustainability, and secondly to foster information sharing and communication between a diverse network of youth organisations who share a common interest in sustainability. Among the Youth Caucus is Esther Agbarakwe, representing Nigeria

Empowering Young people in Global Governance Process: The German Government

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Youth in Global Governance

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