New public workshop to be held to provide advice on the application process. Application deadline extended to 13 July to accommodate increasing interest from social entrepreneurs. June 10th, 2019, Abu Dhabi (UAE): The Authority of Social Contribution Ma’an has extended the deadline till 13 July in response to the growing interest in its Maan...
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IN FOCUS – WD2019: Enabling 250,000 Women Workers in Global Supply Chains
United Nations Foundation convenes private sector companies to step up to support women workers and improve productivity. June 8th, 2019, Vancouver (Canada):Ten global companies today announced new and expansive commitments to improving the health and empowerment of a combined more than 250,000 women workers and community members around the globe. Commitments from Unilever, Twinings,...
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IN FOCUS WD2019: Deliver For Good
As world leaders and global advocates convene for the Women Deliver 2019 Conference, leading companies introduce the Deliver for Good Business Ally Network to strengthen collaboration between the private sector and to promote critical investments in girls and women. June 8th, 2019 Vancouver (Canada) Today, Merck and P&G joined civil society organizations in announcing the Deliver...
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IN FOCUS WD2019: Meeting Needs of Youth, Women And the Marginalized
Experts share new studies and documented best practices at global conference. June 8th, 2019, Vancouver (Canada):To help power progress, organizations at all levels have stepped up to document solutions and develop guidance for improving the health and rights of girls and women in humanitarian emergencies. Today at the Women Deliver 2019 Conference, Bill Chambers,...
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IN FOCUS – WD2019: Automation in the workplace will be a crossroads for women: McKinsey
June 5th, 2019, Vancouver (Canada):A new McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report, The future of women at work: Transitions in the age of automation, released on June 4th, 2019 at the Women Deliver 2019 Conference, explores the impact of automation on the global workforce through a gender lens. It finds that 40 million to 160 million womenas...
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IN FOCUS – WD2019: Caring Is Sharing
June 5th, 2019, Vancouver (Canada):50 minutes a day. Thats the amount of additional time men would need to contribute every day to caring for children and households to make a leap toward achieving gender equality in unpaid care, reveals the third-ever State of the Worlds Fathers report, released today by Promundo, with Unilever Dove Men+Care at the...
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IN FOCUS – WD2019: Worlds Largest Conference on Gender Equality Opens in Vancouver with a Call to Redefine Power at Every Level
June 4th, 2019, Vancouver (Canada):The Women Deliver 2019 Conference, the worlds largest conference on gender equality and the health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women, kicked off today with more than 8,000 world leaders, influencers, advocates, academics, activists, and journalists gathered in Vancouver, and more than 100,000 participating in a global dialogue around the...
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IN FOCUS WD2019: Nearly 40% of the worlds girls and women live in countries failing on gender equality, SDG Index finds
Read Report Here Vancouver, (Canada):Results for 129 countries measured by a new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Gender Index released today by Equal Measures 2030 show that the world is far from achieving gender equality, with 1.4 billion girls and women living in countries that get a very poor failing grade on gender equality. The...
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Activating She Loves Tech Pakistan 2019
CIRCLE, a social enterprise focused on womens economic empowerment and inclusion, has officially started acceptingapplications for its She Loves Tech, Pakistan competition a national event that will culminate in She Loves Tech 2019 Global Startup Competition. In its third year, Circle partners with She Loves Tech to identify, support and fund the next generation...
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Deliver to Empower
In 2007, a groundbreaking organization, Women Deliver, was founded that advocated for gender equality and health and rights of women and girls all over the world. Founded by Jill Sheffield, a staunch advocate of maternal, reproductive and sexual health and also a founder of Family Care International. Womens Delivers very first conference was held in...