Download logoFund gender data. Use gender data. This was the parting shot from Papa Seck, Chief Statistician at UN Women during a keynote address at a recent all-Africa forum on gender data. More than 120 public policy analysts and gender data practitioners from 30 African countries had convened in Nairobi, Kenya in September 2022 for the Africa Gender Statistics … [Read more...] about From Dakar to Nairobi and the length of Africa: A clarion call to increase the production and use of gender data as a key to improving the lives of women and girls
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The Milken Institute, Motsepe Foundation Announce Winners of The Milken-Motsepe Prize in Agritech
The Milken Institute (https://apo-opa.info/3NsBIy2) and the Motsepe Foundation (https://www.MotsepeFoundation.org/) today announced the winners of the Milken-Motsepe Prize in AgriTech (https://MilkenMotsepePrize.org/), the first of a series of multiyear, multimillion-dollar innovation competitions and programs to advance technological progress toward the UN Sustainable … [Read more...] about The Milken Institute, Motsepe Foundation Announce Winners of The Milken-Motsepe Prize in Agritech
Digital Farms: Tech Companies Meet Veg Growers
Download logoImporters increasingly want to trace their food suppliers back to individual farms. That’s a tall order for Ghana’s small farmers, but meeting with local tech companies opened the door to possible solutions. From labourers working under the scorching sun to the personnel at agro-processing and manufacturing companies, most farmwork in Ghana remains … [Read more...] about Digital Farms: Tech Companies Meet Veg Growers
Peace Begins with Me: A Photographic Journey Through 75 Years of United Nations Peacekeeping
Download logoUnited Nations Peacekeeping today launched a special photo exhibition at UN Headquarters in New York to honor the service and sacrifice of uniformed and civilian peacekeepers as it marks its 75th anniversary. The exhibit is part of a year-long global campaign, under the theme Peace Begins with Me, which seeks to demonstrate the powerful impact of UN Peacekeeping … [Read more...] about Peace Begins with Me: A Photographic Journey Through 75 Years of United Nations Peacekeeping
Eritrea: International Workers Day 2023 observed
Download logoInternational Workers Day was observed under the theme “Clear Vision-Concerted Work!” featuring various activities. At the event organized today, 1 May at national level at Baheti Meskerem Square in which Ministers, senior Government and PFDJ officials, members of the Diplomatic Community and head of UN offices as well as a number of workers took part, … [Read more...] about Eritrea: International Workers Day 2023 observed
