Gender inequality in the labor market remains a pressing problem of contemporary Africa. Available evidence shows that in several countries of the region women are less likely to be in paid work, are disproportionately concentrated in informal and precarious employment, and are paid substantially less. This novel study, a collaboration between the World Bank and >> Read more
Resource: Gender, Climate Change and Community-Based Adaptation
Collaboration between the Gender Team at UNDP and the UNDP-GEF CBA Programme Team. This publication is a guidebook for designing and implementing gender-sensitive Community-based adaptation programmes and projects. It seeks to ensure that forthcoming CBA projects contribute to the achievement of gender equality and women’s empowerment by integrating a gendered perspective into CBA programming and >> Read more
News: Hilary Clinton on the new GHI, August 16th
“Second, we are focusing on the needs and contributions of women and girls, who are still frequently overlooked and underserved by health professionals who don’t notice their suffering or hear their concerns. Our commitment to promoting the health of women and girls is, of course, for their sake, but also for the sake of their >> Read more
News:Status of Female Farmers Rises During Food Crisis
The women who grow more than half the world's agricultural produce have gained international recognition and aid since the start of the global food crisis in 2007.(..)Last March in two counties in northern Liberia, the World Food Programme, known as WFP, began purchasing rice from local communities for school nutrition programs, rather than importing food >> Read more
Funding: IDRC’s Climate Change and Water program has recently launched a call for proposals for its new graduate research awards entitled “Adaptation H2O”.
Adaptation H2O aims to promote important research on the water-related impacts of climate change as well as to build the capacity of students working in this field. Adaptation H2O will provide up to 7 research awards to graduate students from developing countries (enrolled in a masters or PhD program) and 2 research awards to Canadian >> Read more
Call for comments: How best to address gender issues for increasing livestock and fish productivity for global food security?
http://agrigender.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/how-best-to-address-gender-issues-for-increasing-livestock-and-fish-productivity-for-global-food-security/ and here: http://livestockfish.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/week-3/
News: “Incomprehensible” Absence of Women in Global Environment Policy
Julio Godoy interviews WEDO activist SANDRA AKPÉNE FREITAS IPS Genderwire BONN, Aug 5, 2010 (IPS) - There is a vacuum in the various texts that currently regulate global policy against climate change: specific mention of the effects of global warming on women and of the role women can play in protecting the environment. That glaring >> Read more
News: Gender Bias Holds Back Africa Women Agricultural Researchers, Business Daily Africa, August 6
A report released in June 2010 by ActionAid International shows that small holder farmers, majority of whom are women, are responsible for 90 percent of food grown in Africa and produce about a half of the world’s food supply. Yet the women scientists are rarely involved in scientific agricultural research or leadership positions in that >> Read more
Video: The Phantom Statistic
This short video by the FAO addresses the importance of reducing the gender data gap in agricultural statistics. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI9kYn-Gnjs]
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