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Table of contents Acknowledgements................................................................................................................... 2 Acronyms and abbreviations.................................................................................................... 3 Section 1 • The SIGI in sub-Saharan Africa....................................................................... 5 Regional overview........................................................................................................................6 BOX 1.1: Agenda 2063 – The future we want for Africa.............................................................. 7 Key messages....................................................................................................................... 10 Key results............................................................................................................................ 11 About the SIGI...................................................................................................................... 16 Section 2 • The development cost of discriminatory social institutions....................... 21 The cost of discrimination in sub-Saharan Africa................................................................ 22 Discriminatory social institutions: The drivers of gender inequality in Africa...................... 26 BOX 2.1: The African Development Bank’s Gender Equality Index............................................... 28 BOX 2.2: The UNDP Human Development Index...................................................................... 30 Spatial disparities in social institutions and poverty exacerbate gender gaps in secondary education: The role of early marriage in Uganda........................................... 31 BOX 2.3: Uganda Social Institutions and Gender Index (Uganda-SIGI)......................................... 32 Section 3 • SIGI sub-index analysis.................................................................................... 35 Discriminatory family code................................................................................................... 36 BOX 3.1: African Union Campaign to End Child Marriage in Africa...................................................... 38 Restricted physical integrity................................................................................................. 43 BOX 3.2: Maputo Protocol.................................................................................................................. 44 BOX 3.3: UNSCR 1325........................................................................................................................ 48 Son bias................................................................................................................................ 51 Restricted resources and assets.......................................................................................... 56 BOX 3.4: IFAD: Land certificates – A tool for women’s empowerment in Ethiopia............................... 61 Restricted civil liberties........................................................................................................ 62 BOX 3.5: UN-Habitat Safer Cities Programme.................................................................................... 67 Annex........................................................................................................................................ 69 Methodology......................................................................................................................... 70 SIGI 2014 framework: Variables and coding........................................................................ 72 Sub-Saharan Africa country SIGI scores per sub-index..................................................... 75 Notes......................................................................................................................................... 76 References............................................................................................................................... 77
Acknowledgements The Sub-Saharan SIGI Regional Report was prepared by the OECD Development Centre’s Social Cohesion Unit: Alexandre Kolev, Keiko Nowacka, Gaëlle Ferrant, Annelise Thim and Estelle Loiseau. The OECD Development Centre would like to thank the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Swiss Agency for Foreign Affairs and Development, and the Austrian Development Agency for their strong support of the Development Centre’s work on gender equality and women’s empowerment. The OECD Development Centre would like to thank the following individuals and organisations for their co-operation, feedback and expertise: Leila Ben Ali, Mahawa Kaba Wheeler, AUC; Marc Koffi Kouakou, AfDB; Hilary Murphy, Angela Mwai, Juma Assiago, Rocio Armillas-Tiseyra, and Stefanie Holzworth, UN-Habitat; Harold Liversage, Elisabeth Steinmayr, Claire Bishop Sambrook, Maria Hartl, Silvia Sperandini, Elisa Mandelli, Marie-Lara Hubert Chartier, Magali Marguet, IFAD; Hodan Addou and Agnes Kisembo, UN Women Uganda; Emily Esplen, Martha Baxter, Alessandra Heinemann, Arthur Minsat and Paula Misler, OECD. Thanks to the country profile authors: Somali Cerise, Joanna Hoare, Maya Judd, Luca Pesando and Gwendolyn Beetham. Particular thanks to Stephan Klasen, University of Göttingen. © OECD, 2016 The opinions expressed and arguments employed in this document are the sole property of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the OECD, its Development Centre or of their member countries. This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area.
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The concept of “missing women”
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Levels of discrimination in the res
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Legal discrimination against women
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Annex
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Constructing indicators Some indica
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SIGI 2014 framework: Variables and
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Sub-Saharan Africa country SIGI sco
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References Abdennebi-Abderrahin S.
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OECD (2015b), Uganda Gender and Ins
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OECD Development Centre The Develop
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