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Dr Jemimah Njuki

@jemimah_njuki

Feminist, gender equality advocate, mom, scientist, writer, foodie, Chief of Economic Empowerment

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Nairobi, KenyaJoined October 2014

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Having worked on #genderinequalities in #foodsystems over the years, I am concerned we keep building systems with inbuilt structural inequalities that leaves the hard work of dismantling these to feminists. Am reading about AI and this list is invaluable! How can we do better?

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Truly enjoyed this excellent piece by ⁦

⁩ on an extraordinary man! Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature | Ngugi wa Thiong'o | The Guardian

theguardian.com

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature

The long read: The Kenyan novelist’s life and work has intersected with many of the biggest events of the past century. At 85, he reflects on his long, uncompromising life in writing

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@sarah_hendriks

Just as women human rights defenders use their voices to defend human rights, we in the international community must use ours to defend theirs. My op-ed with

@pauline_brosch

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Defending the Women Who Defend Human Rights | by Sarah Hendriks & Pauline Brosch - Project Syndicate

Sarah Hendriks & Pauline Brosch urge the international community to protect and support the world's most at-risk activists.

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Globally, women have a more difficult time than men finding decent work.

has the latest facts & figures on widening employment inequalities, many of which have been further exacerbated by the pandemic: ilo.org/global/about-t via

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📢Save the date: Join

for the launch of the Knowledge Hub on Addressing Sexual Harassment as part of

efforts to eliminate #sexualharassment, making resources & best practices accessible to all. 📅 14 June 🕒 10:00–11:15am EDT Register: unwo.men/CIm150OJ2BL

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Meet the Five Women Ambassadors currently sitting on the Security Council. They represent 🇲🇹 🇨🇭 🇦🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 and share some views on Leadership and commitment to Women, Peace and Security. #UNSC #WPS #FabFive

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Maxime Houinato

Women in South Sudan are set to benefit from a new

@WorldBankAfrica

and

project on women's social and economic empowerment. Read: africa.unwomen.org/en/stories/new

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@sarah_hendriks

Celebrating this momentous

launch- with the World Bank, UNFPA & UNICEF, we will support establishment of the nation's first Ministry of Gender HQ, support female entrepreneurs in scaling businesses, & help survivors of GBV access services. projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-op

UN Women South Sudan and UN Women Africa

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UN Women Africa

A word 🩸#endperiodshame

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@sarah_hendriks

Generation Equality Commitment Makers around the 🌎 are advancing the rights of women and girls and accelerating gender equality. Now is the time to report on your progress and showcase how #GenerationEquality accelerates progress towards the #SDGs rd.commitments.generationequality.org/survey/en

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Cristina Duarte

What an honour to have 4 African Ambassadors, including 3 women, joining #ADS2023 today, lending their support as heads of

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@AfricanUnionUN

Thank you, my dear sisters and brother, for your perspectives LIVE now: bit.ly/ads2023-hlpd3

UN Office of the Special Adviser on Africa and 5 others

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Progress! It’s slow but it’s happening

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The Standard Digital

Married women have won a battle to inherit their father’s land after the High Court declared it is unconstitutional to deny them a portion standardmedia.co.ke/national/artic

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Due to gender discrimination and social marginalization, half a million women and girls globally are estimated to be living with fistula, with new cases developing every year. Yet fistula is almost entirely preventable. #EndFistulaDay

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State Department For Gender and Affirmative Action

pushed for a Policy that is innovative and one that will serve generations to come. Once implemented, Kenya will be a global pioneer in formulating the National Care Policy. The process is spearheaded by

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State Department For Gender and Affirmative Action

The Policy aims to recognize and value the unpaid care work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and family as nationally appropriate. 3/4

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State Department For Gender and Affirmative Action

The burden of unpaid care work falls disproportionately on women as they perform 76% of all unpaid care work which is 3 times more than men impairing gender inequalities and hindering women's participation in national development. 2/4

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State Department For Gender and Affirmative Action

Today,

officially opened the workshop that is drafting the National Care Policy also called Unpaid Care Work Policy to consolidate existing evidence on Unpaid Care Work and draft a comprehensive policy to guide on care work initiatives. 1/4

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@sarah_hendriks

Despite women’s leadership leading to more resilient societies, their voice and participation remain under-resourced and under-recognized. #ResilienceForAll is only achievable by ensuring that women’s agency, leadership, and capacities are fully integrated.

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Women’s Resilience to Disasters

@UN_Women @UNDRR, @UNFPA and panel members from the #WomenandGenderConstituency, @WorldBank, and Governments of Philippines @DENROfficial, Canada @Safety_Canada and Australia @dfat emphasized the importance of women's leadership, representation and #intersectionality in #DRR.

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Jutta Urpilainen

@JuttaUrpilainen

Yesterday, we hosted with

a seminar on women’s economic empowerment marking the mid-term evaluation of 🇪🇺 Gender Action Plan III. Read it 👉bit.ly/3nYrnQ7 🎯 We are on track to meet our targets! #GlobalGateway will continue to mainstream gender equality.

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Dr Jemimah Njuki

This morning I visited the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. We are partnering to improve the quality and volume of financing going to gender equality. Gender focused bonds account for only 2% of all listed sustainable bonds. We aim to change this!

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Women's empowerment & gender equality are key to the progress the world needs. Inspired by the support, wisdom & commitment of

's top funding partners for our triple mandate & results on the ground. Thanks to

for hosting. #FundingGenderEquality.

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NL Women's Rights

@NLWomensrights

Today marks the 12th anniversary of the #IstanbulConvention. With this black&white photo, we jointly show our support for and solidarity with all who face gender-based violence worldwide.

Karen Burbach (she/her) and 9 others

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Arrived in #Brussels for the

top donors round table. First point of call was a courtesy visit to my dear friend

at

. Thank you for the warm welcome and the great discussions on #genderequality #foodsystems and role of Kenyans in the diaspora

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Caroline Gennez

Excited and honoured to be co-hosting the

Donor Roundtable with

Sima Bahous. I look forward to welcoming inspiring women and leaders from all over the world to discuss how we can continue and strengthen the global fight for gender equality

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We are meeting with our top funding partners this week to discuss the transformative impact of regular resources for the delivery of UN Women's mandate. Thank you @BelgiumMFA

for hosting our 2023 Top Funding Partner Roundtable! @BelgiumDGD @carogennez #FundingGenderEquality

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I paid a courtesy call on the Gender Advisor to President

. Thank you for the great discussion on economic empowerment of women and potential collaboration with

including on #CSW68

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We are meeting with our top funding partners this week to discuss the transformative impact of regular resources for the delivery of UN Women's mandate. Thank you

🇧🇪 for hosting our 2023 Top Funding Partner Roundtable!

#FundingGenderEquality

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Excited for the beginning of the 2023 #FundingGenderEquality Roundtable! #Belgium encourages its partners around the table to contribute to

’s core resources to enable it to fulfil its triple mandate.

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This week I had a courtesy call and consultative meeting with

, the Chief of Economic Empowerment at

NY. Our discussions centered on the ongoing partnership and the importance of the unpaid care work policy that Kenya is spearheading in the region.

State Department For Gender and Affirmative Action and 2 others

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I had exciting discussions during a stop over in Nairobi with PS Gender

at

. We discussed the country’s progress on economic empowerment of women, the

, and the national policy on care, a first in the region with support from

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Last week in #Kenya I met with women leaders of civil society organizations. This is what they had to say about women's movements today. Full support!

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Important discussions with

colleagues in #Kenya on how we meet the collective challenges of today. As

, we will continue to bring the weight of our normative, coordination and programmatic work together, with others, to do more - and better - for women and girls.

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UN Women South Africa

Achieving #GenderEquality, economic justice & rights for all requires collective action. Day 2 of the #GenerationEquality EJR leaders retreat featured an open session w/ local commitment makers to share best practices on the localization of EJR in South Africa. Image:

UN Women and 9 others

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Koko Zuberi (she/her)

While you can work on micro level changes using capacity building & skill enhancement etc (which are important), you can’t tackle the problem at large unless you address the the system level issues which include policy changes. #womenseconomicempowerment cc:

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Koko Zuberi (she/her)

Without having an enabling environment (legal + policy) that focuses on building inclusive economies & connect folks to productive resources, women will continue to face barriers in economic participation, and entrepreneurship (irrespective of education & opportunities)

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#SouthAfrica is taking a lead in localizing and implementing their #GenerationEquality commitments incl. preferential procurement from women owned businesses. Emphasizes role of political will to deliver for #womenandgirls

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Excellent discussions in #SouthAfrica as we have our first in person #EconomicJusticeandRights #ActionCoalition leaders meeting. Thank you to

for hosting us

#GenerationEquality

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"Women are at the frontline to deliver, they are taking risks to provide for their family and thus often exposed to fighting/shelling." Listen to an update on #Sudan from

Country Representative,

@AdjaratouFatou

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UN supporting young Sudanese women, amid mounting threats

UN Women is giving financial and technical support to young Sudanese who are leveraging the power of apps to keep women and girls safe amid the continuing military showdown that’s seen more than...

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DIRCO South Africa

In attendance are various stakeholders including SA's Focal Point on #GenerationEquality, Ms Nthabiseng Malefane (photo 1); UN Women Representative in SA Multi Country Office, Ms

(photo 2) & Ms Jemima Njuki, Chief Economic Empowerment -

headquarters.

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DIRCO South Africa

#GenerationEquality | South Africa is hosting the first Generation Equality Leaders Retreat for the Action Coalition on Economic Justice and Rights at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) from 3 to 5 May 2023.

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UN Women Africa

This week

is in #Kenya where together with our partners we: 🇰🇪Support women & girls survivors of violence 🇰🇪Help women take the lead in the peace process 🇰🇪Boost women's leadership in politics 🇰🇪Build momentum for #GenerationEquality

Anna Mutavati and 4 others

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