International Women's Day (IWD) 2023 will be marked on Wednesday 8th March under the theme #EmbraceEquity
IWD is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women's equality. IWD has been an annual event since the first gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people. Today, IWD belongs to all groups collectively everywhere. IWD is not country, group or organization specific. Please read more about the History and Origins of IWD on wikipedia here and the timeline on the IWD website here. Further background information about IWD is included in this BBC article
This year's theme of Embrace Equity is explained in detail here as well as in the short video clip below:
For those planning events for IWD, there are a wealth of Resources available here and you can also register your event on the website here. Please also check the database for events already registered here.
UN Women have announced their own theme for IWD, which is "DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality" and is explained in more detail here.
You may wish to learn more about the work of UN Women here and about the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) here as well as about its 67th sitting from March 6th-17th 2023, which you can read about here.
An example of a very practical project by the World Agro-Forestry Centre (ICRAF) is featured in the video below, where they have used the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) approach to enable Gender Equity amongst rural communities in the Western part of Kenya.
Please also read more CIFOR-ICRAF's ABCD work here and learn more about the ABCD approach here.
The International Association of Facilitators (IAF) Africa Region will be holding a unique event on Wednesday 8th March called Women in Facilitation: Sharing their Stories and registration can be made here
Also in Kenya, we would like to highlight the upcoming 4th Women in HR Convention taking place from 8th-10th March in Mombasa. The organisers of the Convention, the Institute of Human Resource Management (IHRM) in Kenya have defined Equity as follows:
Equity is the acknowledgment that certain advantages and barriers exist and that these barriers have prevented certain groups from involvement and advancement in many areas. Improving equity requires acknowledgment of the inequities people face and actively working to redress that imbalance.
Bookings for the event can be made through https://zurl.co/v97Y
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