UN Women has proposed to partner with Keralas Gender Park to take forward projects and campaigns aimed at securing gender parity in South Asia.
Setting the context for the tie-up, officials of the UN Women multi-country office (MCO) had a meeting with Kerala Minister for Health and Social Justice K K Shylaja at UN House in New Delhi last month, where the broad framework of the co-operation came up for discussion.
UN Women in New Delhi covers India, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka.
A Memorandum of Understanding to formalise the tie-up will be signed in the presence of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan next month, a press release said on Wednesday.
As directed by the Chief Minister, a detailed project report on the collaboration is being drawn up.
The partnership aims at making The Gender Park, a gender equity and empowerment initiative, as the South Asian hub of UN Women.
Three key areas of co-operation of the partnership will be setting up of the Gender Data Centre at The Gender Park, Kozhikode, holding events during the 64th session of Commission on Status of Women (CSW64) in March 2020 and 75th session of UN General Assembly in September 2020 and launch of a focussed campaign called 16 Days of Activism in Kerala