SPECIAL EVENT ON "Engaging philanthropy to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment" -- 22 February 2010

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UN Secretariat

• Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
• Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW)
• Department of Public Information (DPI)
• UN Global Issues: Women
• The UN Works for Women
• UN News Centre: WOMEN, CHILDREN, POPULATION
• UN Radio: weekly Women's radio programme
  
• Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO)
• DPKO: Gender and peacekeeping
• DPKO and the participation of women
• Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective in Multidimensional Peace Operations
  Policy paper, July 2000
• Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
• Policy statement for the integration of a gender perspective in humanitarian assistance
  [ www.reliefweb.int ] Languages:  English 
• Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women (OSAGI)
• Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women (OSAGI)
  
• Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)
• The OHCHR Women’s Human Rights and Gender Unit (WRGU)
• United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat (UNISDR)
• Disaster reduction and gender
• Making Disaster Risk Reduction Gender-Sensitive: Policy and Practical Guidelines
  
• UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)
• Gender Perspectives on Disarmament
  
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
  • UNODC Web-site Section on Trafficking in Human Beings

UN Regional Commissions

• Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
  • The African Centre for Gender and Development (ACGD)
    
• Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)
  • ECE Gender Activities
    
• Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
  • ECLAC: Unidad Mujer y Desarrollo 
• Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
  • ESCAP: Gender and Development Section (GAD)
    
• Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
  • Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) Centre For Women

UN Specialized Agencies

• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• Gender and Development
• Gender and Food Security
  
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• IAEA Resources for Women
  
• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
• Gender and Household Food Security
• Mainstreaming a gender perspective in IFAD's operations: Plan of Action 2003-2006
  
• International Labour Organization (ILO)
• Gender equality at the heart of decent work, Campaign 2008-2009
• ILO Bureau for Gender Equality
• Guidelines for the Integration of Gender Issues into the Design, Monitoring and Evaluation of ILO Programmes and Projects
• Action Plan on Gender Equality and Gender Mainstreaming
  
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
• Gender Issues
  
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• UNESCO's Gender Mainstreaming Resource Center
• Gender Equality and Development
• Gender Mainstreaming Implementation Framework 2003
  
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
• Developing Industry: Productivity Enhancement for Social Advance
  
• World Bank Group
• Gender Equality as Smart Economics
• WB gender mainstreaming strategy
  
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• Department of Gender and Women's Health (GWH)
• WHO Gender Policy
• Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO)
  
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  • Women and Intellectual Property

UN Programmes and Funds

• United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
• UNIFEM homepage
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Women's Empowerment
• UNDP's Gender Equality Strategy
• UNDP Gender Mainstreaming Fact Sheets
  
• United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
• Series of papers on micro-finance issues, including a focus on women
  
• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
• Promoting Gender Equality
  
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• Gender, Partnerships and Participation
  
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• UNHCR Policy on Refugee Women and Guidelines on Their Protection: An Assessment of Ten Years of Implementation
  
• United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT)
• UN-HABITAT Gender Policy Unit
• UN-Habitat: Gender Mainstreaming: Publications
  
• World Food Programme (WFP)
• WFP: Focus on Women
  
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
  • The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS

 

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