What is the human cost of the global economic crisis? This year’s Global Monitoring Report (GMR) examines the impact of the worst recession since the Great Depression on poverty and human development outcomes in developing countries. Although the recovery is under way, the impact of the crisis will be lasting and immeasurable. GMR provides a >> Read more
News: Despite Wide-Ranging Benefits, Girls’ Education and Empowerment Overlooked in Developing Countries
by Kata Fustos (PRB) (April 2010) Numerous studies have demonstrated the positive impact of girls' education on child and maternal mortality, health, fertility rates, poverty, and economic growth. Yet less than 2 cents of every dollar spent on international development is directed specifically toward adolescent girls, and they remain at the margins of international development >> Read more
News: Labour Market Shuts Out Women (South Africa)
Not only do women experience a higher rate of unemployment compared to men, but women also make up about two of every three discouraged work seekers. The recent economic crisis has also disproportionately affected women, with the number of females who are no longer economically active rising sharply between 2008 and 2009. South Africa's long >> Read more
News: Food or Cash? New IFPRI study assesses the effectiveness of transfer programs
What makes a more effective social safety net program: transfers of food, or cash? The question is hardly academic. Governments, international agencies, and non-governmental organizations must decide whether to provide the world’s poorest people with cash, food, or a mixture of the two. In recent years, many have begun favoring cash transfers over food aid. >> Read more
News: G CAP – As 20,000 people from all parts of the world gathered in Bolivia to attend the People’s World Summit on Climate Change, GCAP launched a Coalition of Climate Communities in a side event during the summit.
“Communities who are living with the affects of Climate Change should not be seen as victims,” said Chrisitan Mamai, a representative of the community of Yakupacha in Cochabamba, Bolivia, “We are agents of change. Our traditional knowledge, our history of living in harmony with forests and nature means we have a significant contribution to make >> Read more
News: Intl Fund for Women and Girls
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has not only been busy plotting foreign aid reform plotting foreign aid reform. The longstanding advocate for women’s rightslaunched several initiatives for women entrepreneurs in the developing world during an April 28 entrepreneurial summit in Washington. The new Secretary’s International Fund for Women and Girls will provide grants to non-governmental organizations working >> Read more
News: Gender and Global Fund Negotiations
Good blog post at Global Health Policy Blog Slender on Gender: Global Fund Round 8 and 9 Proposals
News: Maternal Health A New Study Challenges Benefits of Vitamin A for Women and Babies
Giving women vitamin A capsules did not save their lives or the lives of their new babies, according to a surprising new study from Ghana reported this week by the medical journal Lancet. The results contradicted an earlier study in Nepal that showed a huge drop in deaths among child-bearing women taking vitamin A, and disappointed >> Read more
News: Women Spreading Political Wings With Help of India’s Quota System
By MIAN RIDGE NY TIMES TENT, INDIA — As sarpanch, or chief, of this northern Indian village, Maya Yadav has fought hard for local women over the past five years. She has encouraged more parents to send their daughters to school and fewer to shell out fat dowries when their girls marry. But her proudest >> Read more
News: Farming Butterflies Puts Food on the Table
By Ntandoyenkosi Ncube (IPS Genderwire) KAKAMEGA FOREST, Kenya, Apr 24, 2010 (IPS) - For 10 years, Roselyne Shikami, sold boiled eggs at the bus station just outside the densely wooded Kakamega Forest in western Kenya, near the border with Uganda. Now she is selling butterflies. "It was very difficult for me to sell two dozen >> Read more
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