Strategies to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa.

What is it about?

The paper highlights the challenge of and persistence of gender inequality in most of Sub-Saharan countries. It highlights strategies that countries that have succeeded in closing the gender gap, for example, Norway and Iceland, have implemented to achieve that progress. Noting that context has to be taken into account, it emphasizes the importance of integrating provisions on gender equality in a country's constitution and legislation and establishment of effective institutional machineries to implement them.

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Why is it important?

The paper is based on more extensive analysis of the experiences of those countries that are ranked top in terms of bridging gender inequality and identifying the kinds of strategies which contributed to their success. We find that most gender analyses hardly adopt such an approach and we think that is the value addition of the work.

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