Source: IDLO Enhancing legal empowerment through engagement with customary justice systems, Working Paper Series Summary: Includes the elusive path to development; land rights in plural legal systems – customary land law, law reform as a mechanism for change, current challenges in using formal law to promote change, country case studies in Mozambique and Tanzania; research-based >> Read more
Multimedia: Gender and ICT
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Event (DC): Digging Deeper: Water, Women, and Conflict
Please join the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program for a discussion of Digging Deeper: Water, Women, and Conflict featuring Carla Koppell, Senior Coordinator, Office of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, USAID Sandra Ruckstuhl, Senior Social Scientist, Group W Inc. Dennis Warner, Senior Technical Advisor for Water and Sanitation, Catholic Relief Services Monday, August >> Read more
Employment: The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)
GENDER EQUALITY EXPERT: Ref: FARA/GEE/adv/2011-001 FARA is seeking to recruit a gender equality expert to provide technical support, lead and facilitate the process of gender equality mainstreaming at the FARA Secretariat and among its constituents as well as within FARA programmes. The aim is to have a clear gender equality mainstreaming strategy that shall be >> Read more
News: Rape reporting during war
Reports of sexual violence during the ongoing unrest in Libya have captured headlines across the world. Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi's forces, some have alleged, were given Viagra to facilitate their rape of hundreds, if not thousands, of victims. Recently, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary >> Read more
Funding: AU
The African Union (AU) honors outstanding African scientists through the Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Awards for fields that include agricultural sciences, environmental sciences, and energy innovation (among others). There are two awards: the Regional Scientific Awards for Women are restricted to women applicants in each of the AU's five geographical regions; the application deadline is September >> Read more
News: Women are central to feeding Africa
In developing countries, more than 60% of women are directly involved in agricultural work, but very few gain access to information, training or supplies. More action and less rhetoric on this issue could put more food on the world's table and help drive economic growth, writes Pamela Whitby. Lindiwe Majele Sibanda has agriculture in her >> Read more
Publication: Gender Issues in the Community Management of Biosecurity in Eastern Indonesia
This chapter aims to identify and discuss the role of women in collective community management of biosecurity activities. These activities are related to women’s ‘empowerment capacity’ to undertake knowledge transfer through sustainable training in the provinces of Bali, Sulawesi, and Papua. Untung (Kebijakan nasional ketahanan hayati, 2007) notes that to encourage people’s awareness of biosecurity >> Read more
Funding: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs’
The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs' development cooperation includes Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women - FLOW - as a new fund to make grants in support of rights and opportunities for women and girls in developing countries. Eligibility for grants is open to Dutch and international nonprofit civil society organizations that operate in multiple >> Read more
Publication: UN Women releases progress report
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