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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate and distressing effect on women and girls who have been affected across several social, economic, health and nutrition outcomes. Additionally, COVID-19 has exposed pre-existing and underlying gender inequities, which were further worsened by COVID-19 containment measures. In this study, authors conducted a theoretical gender analysis, a targeted review […]
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Cameroon is a West-Central African country with a population of approximately 27 million people. The current male to female sex ratio is close to 1:1. Between 2000 and 2019, mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among women in Cameroon increased from about 27% to the current 38%. NCDs, including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers and neurological diseases, […]
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The Philippines Magna Carta of Women, enacted in August 2009, stands as a local commitment to the provisions in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Considering the inequitable cultural norms and obstacles faced by Filipina women in social and economic advancement, the Magna Carta of Women affirms the […]
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This report and the accompanying Gender Data Solutions Inventory document innovative solutions that have emerged in the last five years. An analysis of the inventory points to priority actions that policymakers, advocates, funders, and data producers can take to increase the availability and use of gender data at the local, national, and international levels. Data […]
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The report highlights a range of activities pursued by the Gender Data Network (GDN) in Africa relating to data production and curation, as well as data communications and use. It finds that, for a network still in its comparative infancy, the GDN has had a sizeable impact in the field of gender data across Africa. […]
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The primary objective of this activity, as part of the ConVERGE project, was to improve the processes for monitoring and ensuring the quality of vital statistics in Colombia by developing a Power BI dashboard to track the quantities and frequencies of birth and death variables. In conjunction with DANE, a proposal for multi-phase strengthening was […]
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