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Generation Equality: Four Ways to Accelerate Progress

By Jemimah Njuki
The global gender community will meet in New York in March to review progress on gender equality and women’s empowerment in the 25 years since the Beijing declaration. The theme for this year’s Commission on the Status of Women gathering is Generation Equality, emphasizing how the current generation must close the gender gap. 

Governments, Donors and Investors Must Put Their Money Where Their Mouths are on Gender and Climate Change

By Jemimah Njuki
Climate change has a disproportionate impact on women and girls. This is clear when it comes to water, for instance. The Global Commission on Adaptation Report launched at the United Nations General Assembly last week states that the number of people who may lack sufficient water, at least one month per year, will soar from 3.6 billion today to more than 5 billion by 2050.

The Data Revolution Should Not Leave Women and Girls Behind

By Jemimah Njuki
If there is one political principle that has been constant throughout the history of human civilization it is the fact that land is power. This is something that is particularly true, and often painfully so, for women who farm in Africa.