The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) would like to invite you to participate in an online discussion titled Linking Gender, Poverty, and Environment to Promote Sustainable Development, that will run from May 2 through June 14, 2011. The discussion will be held in three phases and each phase will focus on a particular topic outlined below. >> Read more
Publication: Latest from the World Bank’s Gender and Development Unit
It highlights recent Bank initiatives which seek to promote the economic empowerment of women and gender equality, and to encourage others to do the same. Access it here
News: USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah announced the establishment of USAID’s new Office of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment.
The Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade's (EGAT) Women in Development Office is being transformed into a new Office of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, focused on building partnerships that can deliver results. This office will also give greater support to female entrepreneurship, scale up initiatives designed to enhance women's ownership of key assets like land >> Read more
Brief: If Numbers Could Scream: Estimates and determinants of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Publication: Effects of Free Trade on Women and Immigrants CAFTA and the Rural Dominican Republic
Publication year: 2011 Source: World Development, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 6 May 2011 Mateusz, Filipski , J., Edward Taylor , Siwa, Msangi We construct a disaggregated rural economywide model with a focus on gender and immigration as well as on the allocation of time to wage work, household production activities, and housework (reproduction). >> Read more
Event (DC): Do Men and Women Accumulate Assets in Different Ways? Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
Agnes R. Quisumbing (International Food Policy Research Institute) Thursday, May 12th 2011 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Conference Room 4B - 4th Floor 2033 K Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20006 ** Brown Bag Format ** RSVP to B.Pereira@cgiar.org Abstract: This paper examines asset dynamics for husband-owned, wife-owned, and jointly owned assets, using unique longitudinal survey >> Read more
Event (DC): A Dialogue with USAID’s Leads on Gender Equality
Monday, May 16 at 2:30pm Co-sponsored by InterAction and Women Thrive Worldwide What: A Dialogue with USAID's Leads on Gender Equality: Carla Koppell, Senior Coordinator, Office of Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment Dr. Caren Grown, Senior Gender Advisor, Policy Planning and Learning Bureau When: Monday, May 16, 2:30-4:00pm Where: InterAction, 1400 >> Read more
Publication: Women and Labour Markets in Asia: Rebalancing for Gender Equality
The crisis response and recovery policies of Asian governments have been shaped by the lessons learned from the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. An important lesson emerging from the recent crisis is that the policy goal should not be to return to a "normal" pre-crisis situation but to address fundamental and not just >> Read more
Online discussion/event: Linking Gender, Poverty, and Environment to Promote Sustainable Developmen
IEG would like to invite you to participate in an online discussion titled Linking Gender, Poverty, and Environment to Promote Sustainable Development, that will run from May 2 through June 14, 2011. The discussion will be held in three phases and each phase will focus on a particular topic outlined below. The linkages between gender, poverty, >> Read more
Event (DC): Africa Rising
Presented by TransAfrica Forum Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Foreign Policy Library, Equality Now and Howard University’s African Studies Department Africa Rising Film screening with a discussion with the narrator, Efua Dorkenoo. Thursday, April 28, 2011, 6:00 to 8:00 PM Howard University, John H. Johnson School of Communications, CB Powell Building, Screening Room West, 525 Bryant >> Read more
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