A cluster-randomised trial of 1,357 young people in Durban's informal settlements found men in a gender-transformative livelihoods programme reported significantly less physical …
Since 2016 a Bolivian civil-society coalition has ranked all 339 municipalities on gender-equity investment, finding a 3.29% average share of budgets, and …
La Paz, Bolivia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 32%78/100
Mexico's Centros de Justicia para las Mujeres co-locate prosecutors, women's institutes and support services in 76 centres across all 32 states, serving …
Mexico City, Mexico
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 32%78/100
Piloted in 1997 at Philippine General Hospital in Manila, Women and Children Protection Units integrate medical, forensic, psychosocial, legal and police services …
A 21-session couples curriculum plus community activism reduced reported intimate partner violence in rural Rwanda: a cluster-randomised trial found women 56% less …
Rubavu, Rwanda
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 32%78/100
Since 1977, icddr,b's family planning programme in Matlab, Bangladesh has been rigorously studied, cutting fertility ~25% — but 35-year follow-up finds no …
Matlab, Bangladesh
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 32%78/100
Markets for Change: UN Women/UNDP/DFAT programme (2014–ongoing) building women's leadership, safety and infrastructure in Solomon Islands' marketplaces — Honiara, Auki, Gizo, Munda …
Since 1997, Switzerland's state pension automatically splits spouses' earnings 50/50 and credits fictitious income for child-rearing years, targeting the gender pension gap …
Bern, Switzerland
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 32%78/100
In 1995, South African civil-society organisations and women MPs launched the world's first parliamentary gender-responsive budget analysis, contributing to VAT removal on …
Cape Town, South Africa
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 32%78/100
Costa Rica's 2009 Electoral Code mandates 50% women on all candidate lists with strict vertical and horizontal alternation and electoral sanctions; women …
San José, Costa Rica
Literature / resource
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 32%78/100
Slovenia is among the countries that have long been advocating for mainstreaming the gender equality principle into the UN structure. Accordingly, it …
Ljubljana, Slovenia· Transnational
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 32%78/100
In today's fast-moving world where business models are being overturned and the pace is constantly accelerating, the methods of decision-making, governance and …
The history of female political participation is being continuously rewritten, with new names and facts entering the public discourse. Such historical highlights …