women’s rights and gender equality un reform and norway’s development cooperation
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Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
UN Reform
and
Norway’s Development Cooperation
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Why should we do it??
• Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment = growth and sustainable development.
• Women’s rights are human rights - the CEDAW Convention
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UN gender architecture
• A new and strong gender entity in the UN is vital to achieve women’s rights and gender equality.
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UN gender architecture
• A new gender entity needs sufficient, stable and predictable funding.
• Also, overall allocations for gender equality throughout the UN system must be increased.
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One UN at country level
• The UN pilots must deliver for women on the ground. Women need a distinct voice at country level
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Norway’s new Action Plan for Women’s Rights and Gender
Equality• Gender Equality and
Women’s Rights is one of five main priority areas for Norway’s Development Cooperation.
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Thematic priority areas
• Women’s political empowerment
• Women’s economic empowerment
• Sexual and reproductive health and rights
• Violence against women
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• Norway follows a two-track strategy - Gender Mainstreaming and – Targeted Interventions
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Financing for Women and Development
• Additional new money has been allocated to targeted measures for women and gender equality.
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• Norway is ready to put resources into a new UN gender entity.
• We increased our contribution to UNIFEM by a 150% in 2007.
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• We expect the UN to deliver for women on the ground.
• Non-delivery will have consequences for our choice of partners.