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.b
Governments should promote an enabling environment to generate social, economic and cultural changes towards gender equality with specific gender responsive policies, programmes, institutions which should include adaptation of public services to support women, and advocacy campaigns to deal with the various forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, particularly in rural areas. This should include the active engagement of men and ensuring access to adequate support services for women.
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.