Financing for Gender Equality: Placing Women at the Center of the SDGs in Africa

  • Date: 14 July 2015, 6:15pm - 7:45pm
  • Location: Capital Hotel - River Nile Room

Organised by

  • Ethiopian Ministry of Women, Children & Youth Affairs
  • Ethiopian Ministry of Finance & Economic Development
  • Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • UN Women
  • UN Economic Commission for Africa – African Centre for Gender
  • UNDP Regional Service Centre for Africa
  • Poverty Action Network Ethiopia
  • Oxfam Liaison Office to the African Union
  • EU Delegation to Ethiopia

Summary

To fully achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment in Africa, significantly enhanced, transformative, innovative and inclusive financing in scale and scope, across all sectors and levels is required.
This side event aims to interrogate the above through an interactive panel discussion involving policymakers from Ministries of Finance, Ministries of Gender as well as other development partners and UN agencies.
The evening-time event will involve high level discussions deliberating on lessons learned in financing for gender equality, sharing best practices and success stories as well as highlighting key gaps to be addressed in achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment in the Post-2015 development agenda.

Simultaneous Interpretation will be available in English – French – Amharic.

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