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African Women Report 2009- Measuring Gender Inequality in Africa: Experiences and Lessons from the African Gender and Development Index

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) presents one of its flagship publications, the 2009 African Women's Report. The report's theme: Measuring Gender Inequality in Africa: Experiences and Lessons From the African Gender and Development Index, is opportune as African countries are being urged to improve their statistical systems and data collection methods to respond to development concerns. This includes the need to accelerate gender equality in the social, economic and political fields. The central message of the report is that gender equality cannot be adequately implemented and monitored without appropriate data.

The African Gender and Development Index (AGDI) seeks to invigorate gender statistical data collection in Africa as a monitoring tool of progress being made in implementing global, regional and sub regional commitments on gender equality. The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979) (CEDAW) is the first ever global treaty to give full and effective expression to the economic, social and cultural rights of women in addition to their political and civil rights. The International Conference on Population and Development (1994) and the Fourth World Conference on Women (1995) in concert with their respective follow-up meetings of +5, +10 and +15, and the United Nations Millennium Declaration (2000), all constitute important global agenda-setting frameworks for the achievement of gender equality.

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AWDF.0195
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Ethiopia : .,
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English
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978-92-1-125112-8
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Statement of Responsibility
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