Global Compact Network Kenya (GCNK), in partnership with the Nairobi Securities Exchange, is seeking to raise awareness on the importance of gender equality to business and sustainable development.
The drive seeks to ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision making in political, economic and public life.
The United Nations-backed body’s move is part of a drive to push for the implementation of the fifth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG5) that calls for gender equality.
Global Compact Kenya will join other networks around the world to celebrate the International Women’s day on March 8, 2017.
In celebration of International Women’s Day (8 March, 2017), over 40 stock exchanges around the world will join the UN Global Compact, Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative, UN Women, the International Finance Corporation, World Federation of Exchanges, and Women in ETFs in raising awareness about the importance of gender equality to both business and sustainable development. The aim is to have exchanges across the globe ring their market opening or closing bell to draw attention to the critical role business and markets can and must play in closing the gender inequality gap.
SDG5 seeks to end all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere as well as eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres.
It seeks to recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate.
