The Overseas Development Institute and The Chronic Poverty Research Centre are pleased to inform you of an upcoming public event at the ODI on 7th March, 10.00am – 12.30pm, in celebration of this year’s International Women’s Day. Expanding Frontiers in Gender and Development represents the final event in a seminar series that has sought to >> Read more
Event (NY): Focus on rural women : Invitation to three events at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, 55th session, New York
Tuesday, 22 Feb 2011, 11:30 am - 12:45 pm, IFAD-FAO- World Bank Side Event “Gender, science and Technology in Agriculture” Conference Room B (NLB) Wednesday, 23 February 2011, 11:30am – 12:45 pm FAO-IFAD-WFP Side Event “Food Security, Agriculture and Rural Women: Challenges and Prospects” Conference Room A (NLB) Thursday, 24 February 2011, 1.15 – 2.45 >> Read more
PUBLICATION: Women at the Center of Climate-friendly Approaches to Agriculture and Water Use
In a new paper, Shiney Varghese of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) examines proven agricultural practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen resilience to climate change through a case study of the Tamilnadu Women’s Collective in India. The collective, a federation of village-level women’s groups with over 150,000 members—the majority of >> Read more
Funding: ILO gender training
The Gender and Non Discrimination Programme of the ILO International Training Centre is pleased to inform you that:75 partial fellowships to attend the course: "Gender in the global development agenda: tools for gender-sensitive planning and implementation" are available for nationals of qualifying developing countries. See more information in the table below. The deadline to apply >> Read more
Funding: DFID
DfID’s Research and Evidence Division wishes to establish a new Research Programme Consortium (RPC) on Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security in South Asia. This is part of a 6-year program in South Asia to maintain and further expand DFID’s commitment to increase agricultural productivity and promote sustainable management of natural resources for improved food security >> Read more
Resource: Gender and Climate Change Website and Toolkit Multilingual
GenderCC has started to provide information on its website also in Spanish and in German. Step by step, the website will be translated; and we add French sections in the future. You can identify those parts which are already translated by navigating to the respective language pages via the top right flag bar. In addition, there >> Read more
Event (DC): Child Gender and Parental Investments in India: Are Boys and Girls Treated Differently?
Silvia Helena Barcellos (Rand) Leandro Carvalho (Rand) Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA) presented by Adriana Lleras-Muney Wednesday, February 16th 2011 World Bank Room MC3-570, from 12:30 to 2:00 PM There is considerable debate in the literature as to whether boys and girls are treated differently in India. But son-biased stopping rules imply that previous estimates are likely >> Read more
Resource: Gender and Water
Water management activities gain efficiency and impact when both women and men are involved in decision-making. Equitable access to and management of water is fundamental in promoting poverty eradication and sustainable development. This applies to women’s and men’s equitable access to and management of safe and adequate water, for domestic supply, sanitation, food security and >> Read more
News: ALINe working with the World Food Programme’s Purchase for Progress initiative to further women’s economic empowerment
ALINe is supporting the World Food Programme (WFP) in the development of the Purchase for Progress (P4P) global gender strategy. Through the P4P initiative, WFP is using its purchasing power to offer smallholder farmers opportunities to access agricultural markets, become competitive players in those markets and thus improve their livelihoods. P4P provides a particularly appropriate >> Read more
Publication: Débat sur l’accaparement des terres : et l’égalité entre hommes et femmes dans tout ça ?
Les transactions foncières à grande échelle menées par les investisseurs étrangers dans les pays en développement -- aussi désignées sous le nom d’« accaparement des terres » -- ont suscité une attention considérable ; cependant on n’a pas assez prêté attention aux spécificités de genre dans ces transactions. Une approche tenant compte de l’égalité des >> Read more
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