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South-South Cooperation: How Does Gender Equality Factor in the Emerging Multilateralism?

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Multilateral Development Cooperation in a Changing Global Order

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The global south is emerging as a large market, attracting investors globally. Better linkages among countries in the south have a gender dimension in the exchange of resources, technology, and knowledge across countries. A number of issues relating to gender need specific attention including access to education by girls and women; risks of trafficking of women and children; gender, trade, and regional integration; poverty levels among women; democracy, human rights, and gender; as well as intellectual property rights, indigenous knowledge, and the role of women. Data and analysis is critical to deal with these issues and there is a role for capacity development to ameliorate them. Organizations like the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) contribute to addressing the many facets of capacity challenges to enhance gender equality by supporting institutions, policy development and program implementation processes at local, national, regional, and continental levels. There is also opportunity to draw on the experiences of specific women-lead initiatives such as the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF)1 — based in Ghana yet operating continentally.

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Kararach, G., Léautier, F., Luhanga, T. (2013). South-South Cooperation: How Does Gender Equality Factor in the Emerging Multilateralism?. In: Besada, H., Kindornay, S. (eds) Multilateral Development Cooperation in a Changing Global Order. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137297761_11

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