This book reveals how innovation in natural resource management can contribute to rural poverty reduction. Drawing from research throughout eastern and southern Africa, the contributing authors present a synthesis of lesson from both policy and practice. They look at various multi-stakeholder more...
Resource: IPS MDG3 Quarterly Newsletter
August issue of IPS MDG3 quarterly newsletter reporting the work done by IPS internationally and regionally, alone and with the MDG3 partners, within the project Communicating for Change: Getting Voice, Visibility and Impact for Gender Equality. Read or download the full newsletter - http://www.ips.org/mdg3/MDG3_Newsletter_5.pdf
Publication: Does Social Capital Build Women’s Assets?
Neha Kumar and Agnes Quisumbing This paper investigates the long–term impact of agricultural technologies, disseminated using different implementation modalities, on men’s and women’s asset accumulation in rural Bangladesh. Data were collected in 1996–97 to examine the effects of the adoption of new vegetable varieties and polyculture fishpond management technologies on household resource allocation, incomes, and >> Read more
Publication: Gender & Value Chains
The overall purpose of this study is to examine which gender issues are important when and where in value chains – based on findings of existing evaluations complemented by other relevant studies. The focus in this report is on development interventions that explicitly or implicitly employ a value chain approach. Coverage is not limited to >> Read more
Online Forum: Gender and Trade
Gender and trade will be the subject of a high level panel in this year's WTO Public Forum. The panel, entitled "Doing it differently: Reshaping the global economy" will be held on Thursday 16 September 10-12. As part of the organization of this event the WTO has set up an on-line forum to encourage an exchange of >> Read more
Multimedia
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Funding: Property Rights
Omidyar Network and Ashoka’s Changemakers invite you to join the movement to unleash individual opportunity through property rights. Secure rights to land can provide life-altering benefits to the poor, including economic opportunity, enhanced identity, and personal dignity. If you are a changemaker who is increasing access to property rights—for individuals or communities, in rural or >> Read more
New Resource: from ENERGIA, the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy
Gender Mainstreaming Guide for the Africa Biogas Partnership Program ENERGIA has developed a Gender Mainstreaming Guide for the Africa Biogas Partnership Programme (ABPP). The Guide targets non-gender specialists in recognizing and addressing gender issues in their work, with the intention of demystifying gender, and clarifying the concept and practice of “gender mainstreaming” within ABPP. Accompanied by a >> Read more
Publication: Who Should be Interviewed in Surveys of Household Income?
Monica Fisher, Jeffrey Reimer and Edward Carr. World Development 38.7 This study tests the null hypothesis that it is sufficient to interview only the household head to obtain accurate information on household income. Results show that using a husband’s estimate of his wife’s income does not produce statistically reliable results for poverty analysis. Estimates of >> Read more
Resource: Gender Resposive Participatory Action Blog Launch
http://grprinitiative.blogspot.com/2010/08/gender-responsive-participatory.html
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