The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), committed to promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment globally, plays a critical role of facilitating conversations around the progress and potential of achieving gender equality. The Commission holds annual sessions that convene policy makers, non-governmental organizations, development partners, the civil society among others to discuss progress and emerging trends in gender equality and women’s empowerment.

The sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CWS67) scheduled for March 6 to 17, 2023 is organized around two themes:

Priority theme: Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls

Review theme: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls

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Recognizing that achieving gender equality and empowering rural women and girls are essential elements to achieve equitable agri-food systems, AWARD’s participation in the CSW67 is aligned with the event’s review theme.

At CSW67, AWARD will:

• Raise awareness of the importance of gender-responsive agricultural policies for achieving inclusive development
• Highlight priority policy areas for fostering gender-equitable and inclusive agricultural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa
• Explore the importance of gender-responsive agriculture and food systems policies for achieving inclusive development and food systems
• Contribute to galvanizing concrete actions toward gender-responsiveness in agricultural innovation systems