Yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a talk at the Gallup event in Washington, D.C. entitled "Evidence and Impact: Closing the Gender Data Gap". She issued a powerful call for more gender-sensitive data as a way to improve women's livelihoods through guiding better investments. To see the full transcription of her talk, as >> Read more
REMINDER: Application Deadline of July 31 for Dissertation Research Fellowships on Gender and Agriculture
IFPRI and its partners are pleased to announce a call for applications for Ph.D. dissertation research fellowships on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI). The first of its kind to directly capture women’s empowerment and inclusion levels in the agricultural sector, the purpose of the Index is to understand why women in developing countries >> Read more
Employment: Two postings from the United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is looking to fill two Policy Advisor positions on their Gender Team, both of which are based in New York. The first is for a Policy Advisor (Gender and Environment).The Policy Advisor is responsible for bringing solid substantive advice and technical expertise, advocacy and knowledge to the Sustainable Development, >> Read more
Gender-Based Policies and Economic Growth
The World Bank’s policy note series Economic Premise recently put out a note on “Measuring the Effect of Gender-Based Policies on Economic Growth”. The note lays out a framework for quantifying the growth effects of gender-based policies in developing economies, a powerful and practical tool for policy makers and policy researchers. This tool was developed >> Read more
Resource: Gender and Asset Toolkit
Control over and ownership of assets are a critical component for well-being of individuals and households. A crucial first step toward understanding the gender dimensions of asset ownership and control is acquiring detailed gender-disaggregated information on assets though monitoring, evaluation, and data collection. As part of GAAP we have developed a toolkit intended to help >> Read more
Resource: Gender Mapper
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) are developing a "gender map" of agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa in order to better understand how to target agricultural interventions to women and men farmers. To see the progress thus far and to full out the survey access it here The >> Read more
New Report: Gender in Climate Change in Bangladesh: The Role of Institutions in Reducing Gender Gaps in Adaptation
Are women more vulnerable to climate change then men? If so, what are the factors which contribute to these increases and what can be done to help increase the resiliency of both women and men to the negative impacts of climate change? For answers to these questions and more, please visit Genderinag.org to find a recent >> Read more
News: Children of Empowered Women Grew Taller
Care and USAID highlights dramatic drop in child malnutrition and provides an inside look at a program called SHOUHARDO that combined nutritional support with women's empowerment initiatives to reduce child stunting, a key measure of malnutrition, by 28 percent in less than four years. That's twice the rate of the average U.S. government-funded food aid >> Read more
Event: CONSULTATION ON USAID IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL ACTION PLAN ON WOMEN, PEACE, AND SECURITY
May 16, 2012 2:30pm to 4:00pm USAID Information Center, Mezzanine Level Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC For questions, please contact Amber Ussery at aussery@usaid.gov Federal Triangle Metro Stop. Paid public parking available. Please allow ample time for security check. Photo ID is required. No R.S.V.P. required
Call for participation: Manifeseto for Integrated Action on the Gender Dimension in Research and Innovation
The Manifesto for Integrated Action on the Gender Dimension in Research and Innovation that is available to read and sign at http://bit.ly/rLS7cn, which was presented to the EC Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Maire Geoghegan-Quinn on December 16th, 2011. The Manifesto is the product of an extensive public consultation and discussion conducted as part of the >> Read more
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