United Nations Sponsored Programs
© Moira Richards
The General Assembly (GA) is the central body of the United Nations and it is made up of representatives from all of the UN's member states. The GA meets regularly and discusses and votes on various issues. It establishes a whole variety of programmes, research institutes, and sub-committees to implement its decisions.
The GA has adopted the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Beijing Platform for Action and it helps to implement both of these via its Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW).
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is a tool of the UN General Assembly that gives development advice and funding to countries that need it. It is advised by the Gender in Development Programme (GIDP) to make sure that men and women benefit equally from these development programmes.
INSTRAW is the UN's International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women. UNIFEM is the special United Nations Development Fund for Women. It must support government and NGO development activities that benefit women and it focuses on three main areas;
Because this is the first step to creating for women, full and equal participation in society UNIFEM helps and advises women's organisations so they can do their work more effectively. It helps them where it can, to get financial and political support, and it also initiates its own projects to help achieve women's empowerment.
Three such projects are;
The Millennium Peace Prize for Women was awarded for the first time in March 2001. This prize is intended to acknowledge, honour, and publicise the contributions of women and women's organisations in building peace and resolving and preventing conflict. Four individual women, and three women's organisations were the recipients of the prize.
Women Watch is internet portal website devoted to the Advancement and Empowerment of Women. It is a joint project of DAW, INSTRAW and UNIFEM. Studies by UNIFEM has proved that women and girls, from all cultures and countries around the world, are the victims of countless acts of violence just because they are female. These acts range from marital rape to the condoned murder of little girls, and so UNIFEM has established the UNIFEM Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against Women.
The GA has adopted the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Beijing Platform for Action and it helps to implement both of these via its Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW).
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is a tool of the UN General Assembly that gives development advice and funding to countries that need it. It is advised by the Gender in Development Programme (GIDP) to make sure that men and women benefit equally from these development programmes.
INSTRAW is the UN's International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women. UNIFEM is the special United Nations Development Fund for Women. It must support government and NGO development activities that benefit women and it focuses on three main areas;
- strengthening women's Economic Capacity, because women are "the poorest of the world's poor"
- engendering Governance and Leadership, because women need to be in positions of power and leadership so that they can negotiate for themselves a better deal
- promoting women's Human Rights
Because this is the first step to creating for women, full and equal participation in society UNIFEM helps and advises women's organisations so they can do their work more effectively. It helps them where it can, to get financial and political support, and it also initiates its own projects to help achieve women's empowerment.
Three such projects are;
- The Millennium Peace Prize for Women
- Women Watch
- UNIFEM Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against Women.
The Millennium Peace Prize for Women was awarded for the first time in March 2001. This prize is intended to acknowledge, honour, and publicise the contributions of women and women's organisations in building peace and resolving and preventing conflict. Four individual women, and three women's organisations were the recipients of the prize.
Women Watch is internet portal website devoted to the Advancement and Empowerment of Women. It is a joint project of DAW, INSTRAW and UNIFEM. Studies by UNIFEM has proved that women and girls, from all cultures and countries around the world, are the victims of countless acts of violence just because they are female. These acts range from marital rape to the condoned murder of little girls, and so UNIFEM has established the UNIFEM Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against Women.
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