Public Launch of EC/UN Partnership on Gender Equality for Development and Peace
4 Sep 2007
A public launch of the EC/UN Partnership on Gender Equality for Development and Peace will take place in Brussels on 11 September 2007. The event will be hosted by the European Commission's Europe-Aid Cooperation Office, and will be held at Europe-Aid Info-Point. The European Commission and the United Nations will present the objectives and actions foreseen in the three-year initiative (2007–2009).
The EC/UN Partnership is a joint initiative of the European Commission (EC), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), and the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITC/ILO). UNIFEM and ITC/ILO will work in partnership with EC delegations in developing countries to identify practical approaches to incorporating gender equality and women's human rights into national development processes and EC cooperation programmes. Through this effort, the partners hope to strengthen implementation of gender equality commitments in national budgets and in national development strategies. Efforts will also include strengthening implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, which was adopted in 2000 to mainstream gender equality and women's empowerment in responses to conflict and post-conflict situations.
The programme will be implemented in 12 countries: Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Suriname, and the Ukraine
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Released on: 4 September 2007
Resource: www.unifem.org
