The World Bank Group now offers free access to more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development statistics (including ones on gender) that had mostly been available only to paying subscribers. This effort will allow access to data and information from the World Bank's databases. For more information, visit the website:data.worldbank.org.
Resources: The Drum Beat – Issue 541 – Women’s Political Engagement
How can communication strategies, tools, and activities enhance women's political participation and candidacy toward enhancing gender equity and democracy and governance around the world? This issue of The Drum Beat examines this question by providing a sampling of summaries from our various knowledge sections. From the Communication Initiative Network - where communication and media are >> 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
Multimedia: Video recording of Ruth Meinzen-Dick presenting on ‘Engendering Agricultural Research’
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Fellowship: KENYAN FELLOWSHIP ON “POPULATION-ENVIRONMENT” AVAILABLE
The Green Belt Movement (GBM) and Center for Environment and Population (CEP) 2010 Fellowship Introduction: The Green Belt Movement is collaborating with the Center for Environment and Population (CEP) to host a University/graduate level paid Fellowship in Nairobi, Kenya beginning June 2010 for up to 8 months to: a) help the Green Belt Movement determine >> 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
Publication: Gender and Land Tenure
One Billion Rising: Law, Land and the Alleviation of Global Poverty (AUP - Leiden University Press) (Paperback) Roy Prosterman (Editor), Robert Mitchell (Editor), Timothy Hanstad (Editor) Chapter 5 on Gender and Land Tenure by Renee Giovarelli. To access preview via google books
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