How are women and girls reshaping the future? The first-ever TEDWomen invites men and women to explore this question in depth. From the developing world, where a single microloan to a single girl can transform a village, to the West, where generations of educated women are transforming entire industries, women are powerful change agents, intellectual >> Read more
Resource: Women’s Access to Land in Southern and Eastern Africa
Participants from over 20 IDRC-funded research projects on gender and land in 14 African countries presented their work, including ILC project partners in the “Securing Women’s Access to Land: linking research and action” project in Eastern and Southern Africa. Presentations and summaries of projects presented at the Symposium can now be found on the IDRC >> Read more
Resource: DFID launches discussion forum on women’s economic empowerment
DFID has launched an online discussion forum on women’s economic empowerment to draw together leading academics and practitioners and provide an exciting platform for discussion and debate.
Resource: New Blog from International Center for Research on Women
Access it here
Resource: Rural Women in the Developing World by Khushi Kabir
The Bangladeshi campaigner for lifting women out of poverty says village life has been wrongly idealised. It is not a harmonious whole with the elders looking after the interests of all the villagers alike, without prejudices of class or gender. Things are improving for women and girls, she says, but there is a long way >> Read more
Resource: Presentations from Inheritance and the intergenerational transmission of poverty event at ODI
Workshop hosted by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre and Overseas Development Institute. Asset ownership supports social mobility. It influences a person’s ability to move out of poverty, underpins household livelihoods and supports coping strategies and investment. Land is the most important asset in low income developing countries and most people gain access to land through >> Read more
Resource: speeches given by Ambassador Melanne Verveer and Alonzo Fulgham for the U.S. National Voluntary Presentation at the UN ECOSOC meeting.
Alonzo Fulgham: http://usun.state.gov/briefing/statements/2010/143896.htm Melanne Verveer: http://usun.state.gov/briefing/statements/2010/143895.htm
Resource: MDG +10 Summit IPS Newsletter on ‘8 Goals through a Gender Lens’
http://www.ipsnews.net/genderwire/ipsmdg3terraviva.pdf
Resource: Last call to apply for Voices of Our Future!
There are just a few more days left to apply for Voices of Our Future, the World Pulse online citizen journalism and Web 2.0 training program! To apply you must join the VOF Applicants Group by 11:59pm PST on September 14.From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, over 300 women have already signed up for this exciting training >> Read more
Resource: New from IFPRI on Gender Summer 2010
IFPRI Discussion Papers Amber Peterman, Agnes Quisumbing, Julia Behrman and Ephraim Nkonya on ‘Understanding gender differences in agricultural productivity in Uganda and Nigeria’ Neha Kumar and Agnes Quisumbing on ‘Does Social Capital Build Women’s Assets: The long-term impacts of group–based and individual dissemination of agricultural technology in Bangladesh.’ Neha Kumar and Agnes Quisumbing >> Read more
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