Focus Area 3.6 Gender equality and women’s empowerment across food systems
Sub-focus Area 3.6.1 Empowering women
Recommendation Number: 3.6.1.a
Governments should ensure equal opportunities and promote equal participation between women and men in policy decision-making, supporting women especially in rural context, and ensuring gender equality in leadership roles in decision making bodies – parliaments, ministries and local authorities at district and community levels. Governments and stakeholders should foster strategies to engage with men and boys to support women and girls in nutrition as a joint responsibility.
The identified documents have been grouped into four categories: UN evidence-informed documents, UN normative guidance documents, UN operational/technical guidance documents and other documents that have been published by non-UN bodies.