Women Deliver

Focus On: People and the Planet

Why a water crisis in Cameroon is disproportionately affecting women

Focus on: Gender Data: Produced in Partnership

Opinion: Gender data — the fuel to power generational change on gender equality

Gender equality

At CSW, advocates see positive signs for US policy on gender equality

Produced in partnership: Focus on: Gender Data

Q&A: Digital toolkit set to transform gender data and tackle inequality

As UN Women launches the Counted and Visible Toolkit, Jessamyn Encarnacion explains why it’s needed and how it will help achieve gender equity.

Gender equality

The care economy costs women. It’s time to pay up, advocates say at CSW

COVID-19 has shown the economy depends on women’s unpaid work. Short-term responses should be rolled into systemic change, according to experts at the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

Gender equality

Opinion: COVID-19 threats facing women are daunting. We cannot be afraid of the challenge

Achieving and sustaining gender equality will require the same level of political commitment that's been invested in fighting the pandemic, writes the deputy CEO at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

Voices of Change: Sponsored by NDI

Q&A: How can civi-tech advance gender equality?

The tech sector has long suffered from a lack of inclusivity. How can women — from all backgrounds — feel more welcome? Devex talks to Sofía Corona of Code for All to find out.

Future of Food Systems

Lancet launches third series on child and maternal malnutrition

The third set of papers in a series of research examining the state of nutrition for young children and women outlines the steps to reach scale.

Funding insights

Tracking gender equality funding: What 2 major donors did in 2020

Devex zooms in on Global Affairs Canada and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to explore their funding for gender equality in 2020.

International Women's Day

Opinion: How do we tackle the pandemic's impact on girls? It starts with education

To remedy the disproportionate effects of COVID-19 on women and girls, look to education, Amel Karboul writes. Better-educated women are the key to driving development and lifting communities out of poverty.

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Opinion: Toward gender equality and social inclusion in the COVID-19 age

COVID-19 continues to amplify food systems gaps. Building back better must include strengthening food supply chains; doing so sustainably requires rethinking business as usual, World Vision US explains.

Voices of Change: Sponsored by NDI

Making a mark: Women transforming politics

To commemorate World Social Justice Day on Feb. 20, Devex talked to three women leaders to find out why women are still not represented equally, how they're working to change that, and what advice they have for future leaders.

Migration and displacement

The price women and girls are paying for Ethiopia's war

Following reports of alarming levels of sexual assault in the conflict in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray, Devex visits the refugee camps in eastern Sudan to document how survivors are coping with unwanted pregnancies and widespread trauma.

Women's rights

The island in Sudan that banned female genital mutilation

Despite a recent law banning FGM in Sudan, gender advocates say a shift in cultural mindset is still needed. Devex visits an island community on the Nile that has publicly and unanimously vowed to no longer cut its girls.

UK Aid

FCDO urged to formally adopt DFID gender equality strategy

The U.K. government hasn't given a direct answer on whether the strategy will be used.

Global gag rule

Watch: What will repealing the 'global gag rule' mean for communities in Kenya?

In this video op-ed, Melvine Ouyo, a reproductive health nurse and former clinic director at Family Health Options Kenya, discusses the impact of the last four years of the Global Gag Rule.

Global gag rule

Biden repeals the 'global gag rule,' but next steps will be 'huge undertaking'

U.S. President Joe Biden has repealed the Mexico City Policy as one of his first executive actions in office. The policy's lingering effects, though, will take longer to unravel.

Focus on: Gender data

Opinion: COVID-19 recovery provides a unique opportunity to close the gender gap

In light of widening gender inequalities, policymakers across the globe need to ensure an inclusive recovery — one that makes gender equality core to building back better. Here's what needs to happen.

Gender equality

Q&A: The woman tasked with bringing gender to the center of the Gates Foundation

Dr. Anita Zaidi, the first president of Gender Equality at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation tells Devex, “I’ve thought a lot about how we design systems of care that don’t work for women, and how global health actually doesn’t work for women.”

Global gag rule

Biden said he'll rescind the 'global gag rule.' What then?

The incoming Joe Biden administration is expected to rescind the "global gag rule" but experts say it will take time and work to reverse its impacts.

Focus on: Gender data

Experts call for 'deeper data' on women's realities at UN World Data Forum

Against a backdrop of uneven progress toward equality for women and girls, data and development professionals call for greater investment to ensure COVID-19 recovery includes gender in decision-making.

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