The proposed World Bank Gender Strategy 2024-30 puts forward the bold ambition to accelerate gender equality for a sustainable, resilient, and inclusive future. Formal consultation process open through November, 2023.
The proposed World Bank Gender Strategy 2024-30 puts forward the bold ambition to accelerate gender equality for a sustainable, resilient, and inclusive future. Formal consultation process open through November, 2023.
This year’s 16 days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence (GBV) is an opportunity for us to reflect on what the World Bank has learned about preventing and responding to GBV and the opportunities to scale up our engagement in countries in eastern Africa.
The latest studies from the World Health Organization estimate that one in three women have intimate partner violence or sexual violence from a non-partner perpetrated against them in their lifetime.
In 1993, the Declaration of the Elimination of Violence Against Women recognized that violence against women violates women’s rights and fundamental freedoms, and called on states to work towards its eradication. However, thirty years on, women continue to face the risk of violence at home, on the street, on transport, in schools and in the workplace. The World Bank has increasingly engaged to prevent and respond to gender-based violence.