Gender Responsive Economic Policy Management Within The Context of Post-COVID-19 Recovery
Announcement in Brief
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Programme Rationale
Gender equality is a fundamental human right and a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. In the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and AU Agenda 2063, gender equality is recognized as an essential catalyst for progress across all development outcomes. Both frameworks that seek to achieve inclusive growth and sustainable development, present new opportunities for transformative change for women and youth in Africa. UNDP's core vision is to support countries achieve the simultaneous eradication of poverty and reduce inequalities. In that context, addressing gender equality and women’s empowerment is a key component of UNDP's approach to achieving its core vision. The UNDP Gender Equality Strategy 2022-2025 further provides a road map to elevate and integrate gender equality into all aspects of UNDP's work.
Objectives
The course on Gender-Responsive Economic Policy Management aims at providing policymakers and development practitioners with the required skills and knowledge that are needed to identify and address gender biases in the economic sectors and to analyze economic policies and budgets from a gender perspective . The course also seeks to give tools mechanisms to assist Countries to build forward better following the socio-economic shocks resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. This bilingual course (English and French) is delivered as a result of a collaboration with UNDP Regional Service Center for Africa (UNDP RSCA) and the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP).
There will be two (2) online courses : One (1)for the francophone Member States and RECs; and One (1) for the anglophone Member States and RECs. This will be followed by two (2) face-to-face (Face2- Face) courses: One (1) for the francophone Member States and RECs; and one (1) for the anglophone Member States and Recs. The Face2Face course will be held at IDEP Premises in Dakar (Senegal). Selected participants based on their performance from the two (2) online (francophone and anglophone) courses will complete the training in Dakar; the rest will complete the training online.
