Unverified non-profit organisation

UNIFEM is the women’s fund in the United Nations, providing financial and technical support and assistance to innovative programmes and strategies that promote women’s human rights, political participation and economic security. Within the UN system, UNIFEM promotes gender equality and links women’s issues and concerns to national, regional and global agendas. In the Southern Africa region, UNIFEM has worked closely with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to build gender capacity in the region’s governments via gender analysis training and the creation of a fund to support pilot projects and action research that promote women’s economic and political empowerment.

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