Creating an enabling environment for the advancement of women and girls

This publication is World Vision’s briefing paper to the 50th Commission on the Status of Women. It focuses on World Vision’s work to empower and advance the status of women and girls while assisting the entire community in realising its full potential.

The paper presents a compilation of articles from World Vision’s gender and development, relief, and advocacy experts in the Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, United Kingdom, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, and the former states of the Soviet Union. They focus on the challenges and promising practices for the advancement of women and girls in the areas of education, health, work, and those trapped in situations of violence.

In particular, the reports from the Sudan, Ethiopia and India capture the socio-economic challenges girls and women face due to the lack of education and detail how World Vision is addressing this need.

The report from Guatemala explores the stigma associated with HIV and AIDS and World Vision’s effort in working with communities to assist those suffering from the disease.

The report from the 2004 tsunami affected areas of Sri Lanka and Indonesia documents women’s resilience in coping with the trauma of the disaster and their increased leadership in the communities’ recovery. [adapted from author]

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