U.S. Agency for International Development, June 2 “In our major food security initiative, we are deeply prioritizing investing in women farmers. We are looking at several decades of history where development efforts have essential prioritized providing services to men. And we're asking our partners to hire female extension workers to collect gender-disaggregated data and to >> Read more
Event: International Workshop on Gender Training
July 19-23, 2010 Ottawa, Canada The new Gender Training Workshop seeks to provide workshop participants with a solid understanding & skills in core concepts, gender analysis frameworks and gender strategies that can improve the effectiveness of your organization’s programmes and projects in working with women and men, boys and girls. The workshop will move you >> Read more
News: Women Win by Formalising Businesses
By Aimable Twahirwa and Kudzai Makombe IPS GenderWire KIGALI and JOHANNESBURG, Jun 8, 2010 (IPS) - The vast majority of businesses in Rwanda - like elsewhere in Africa - are informal. Government expects that a drive to register an estimated 900,000 informal enterprises will both strengthen these businesses and improve tax revenues. Thirty-two year old >> Read more
Multimedia: Audio commentary on FGM at the Economist
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Resource: Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing Website
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News: New female police officers begin training for the field
07 March 2010 - More than thirty female police officers have today begun training in Gender, Child Protection and Community Policing courses before their deployment for field duty assignments in all three Darfur states. The officers, who form UNAMID’s first-ever all female police contingent, had arrived in El Fasher late last month from Namibia and >> Read more
Publication: Who Should be Interviewed in Surveys of Household Income?
Monica Fisher Jeffrey J. Reimer Edward R. Carr This IFPRI Discussion Paper tests the null hypothesis that it is sufficient to interview only the household head to obtain accurate information on household income. The results show that using a husband’s estimate of his wife’s income does not produce statistically reliable results for poverty analysis. Estimates >> Read more
News: Land investments are wholesale sell-outs for women farmers
“Uncertainty around food and fuel supply globally has sparked investor interest in the acquisition of large parcels of productive land around the world, for commercial production or long-term investment, writes Nidhi Tandon. But these developments, which effectively take land away from local farmers and in many cases perpetuate ‘environmentally damaging farming methods’, threaten to have >> Read more
Event (NY): National Council for Research on Women Annual Conference
Last Chance to Register for the NCRW 2010 Annual Conference! LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER!!! Join NCRW and the US National Committee for UNIFEM at our Annual Conference 2010, June 11-12 Hunter College, CUNY, West Building, New York City Strategic Imperatives for Ending Violence against Women: Linkages to Education, Economic Security and Health
Funding: ADI Pathways to Power Women’s Fellowship Program
ADI is pleased to announce the release of the application for the 2011 Pathways to Power Women's Fellowship Program. The Women's Fellowship Program exists to empower the next generation of women leaders to reach to the highest levels of personal and professional achievement. Each year ADI selects a distinguished group of highly accomplished women from >> Read more
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