Women's Empowerment
UNDP focuses on gender equality and women’s empowerment not only as human rights, but also because they are a pathway to achieving the Millennium Development Goals and sustainable development.
Our Goals
UNDP coordinates global and national efforts to integrate gender equality and women’s empowerment into poverty reduction, democratic governance, crisis prevention and recovery, and environment and sustainable development. Through our global network, we work to ensure that women have a real voice in all governance institutions, from the judiciary to the civil service, as well as in the private sector and civil society, so they can participate equally with men in public dialogue and decision-making and influence the decisions that will determine the future of their families and countries. more
Promoting gender in development
UNDP recognizes gender as a cross cutting issue that should be mainstreamed in all programmatic areas of interventions.more
Our Stories
Empowering Single Mothers in Malaysia
Life can be challenging for single mothers anywhere in the world, more so for those who are living in poverty. In Malaysia, single mothers are inMore
Women Entrepreneurs Take Flight
"UNDP’s “Entrepreneurial Skills: Empowering Rural Women” project aims to alleviate poverty in Terengganu and Kelantan and support low-income women entrepreneurs in the cottage food industry. HereMore
Projects and Initiatives
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Towards Achieving At Least 30 Per Cent Participation of Women at Decision Making Levels in Malaysia
This project is conducted in partnership with the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development (MWFCD) to analyze the current representation of women at decision making levels in both the public and private sectors and develop a plan of action to improve women’s participation in line with the 9MP goal.more