Ginette Azcona

Senior Research and Data Policy Specialist, UN Women

Ginette Azcona is a Senior Research and Data Policy Specialist at UN Women. She joined UN Women in 2010 as a core member of the Research and Data team. Ginette manages the data and statistics for UN Women’s flagship reports and has authored numerous publications on human development, human rights, social justice and gender and development data, including the annual Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot. Ginette is UN Women’s leading focal point on gender, data and the SDGs.

Articles by Ginette Azcona

1. Building women’s resilience to climate-driven poverty and food insecurity

   Ginette Azcona, Antra Bhatt, Sara Duerto Valero

   Gender — Global

   Climate change means millions more women and girls risk having insufficient food and resources to meet their basic needs. As women bear the brunt of climate impacts, so they must have equity in decision-making on climate solutions

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   14 March 2024

   SDGs: 1 2 5 13 15

   

2. Poverty is not gender-neutral

   Ginette Azcona, Antra Bhatt

   Gender — Global

   As with most threats to well-being, poverty has an accentuated impact on women. Tackling this requires integrated action on several fronts to address the systemic inequalities women face across the world today

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   6 March 2023

   SDGs: 1 5 10