Useful sources about Africa

This survey published by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics contains data on participation of males and females in key decision-making positions for the 2015-2016 period.

The Global Gender Gap Report compares 144 countries in their quest towards gender parity. It is published annually by the World Economic Forum. The 2018 report used contextualised data through a collaboration with LinkedIn.

UN Women’s global database on violence against women contains African country level information such as the prevalence of data in different forms, countries’ rankings on gender equality indexes and various reports submitted by UN human rights associations.

A World Bank report that aims to reframe fallacies related to African agriculture, specifically misquoted data on women working in the agriculture sector. It uses data from the Living Standards Measurement Study (Integrated Surveys on Agriculture Initiative) (LSMS-ISA).

Constituting the fifth part of the Global Study on Homicide 2019, this booklet gives an overview of the scope of gender-related killing of women and girls. It provides in-depth analysis of killings perpetrated within the family sphere and examines forms of gender-related killings perpetrated outside the family sphere, such as the killing of women in conflict and the killing of female sex workers. The booklet explores the scale of intimate partner/family-related killings of women and girls, and describes different forms of gender-related killings of women. It also looks at the characteristics of the perpetrators of intimate partner killings, the link between lethal and non-lethal violence against women, and the criminal justice response.