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
Resources: (English & French) A Practical Guide to Integrating Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS into Grant Proposals to the Global Fund
Karen Hardee, Jill Gay and Elisha Dunn-Georgiou Integrating RH and HIV can greatly contribute to mitigating the AIDS pandemic by reducing unintended pregnancy; preventing perinatal transmission; expanding to more target groups; reducing gender based violence; meeting the needs of people living with HIV and providing our youth with the knowledge and services they need. Whether >> Read more
Event (DC): “Engendering Agricultural Research”
IFPRI is pleased to announce a joint seminar with the World Bank and IFAD titled "Engendering Agricultural Research” by Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Ph.D. (Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI) Thursday, April 29th 2010 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Library—4th Floor (NOTE ROOM CHANGE) 2033 K Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20006 Abstract: In this seminar Ruth Meinzen-Dick will present >> Read more
Publication: Nutritional supplementation in girls influences the growth of their children: prospective study in Guatemala
Jere R Behrman, Maria C Calderon, Samuel H Preston, John Hoddinott, Reynaldo Martorell and Aryeh D Stein Background: Better early childhood nutrition improves schooling, adult health, skills, and wages, but there is little evidence regarding its effect on the next generation. Objective: We assessed whether nutritional supplementation in children aged <7 to 15 y affected >> Read more
Funding: research on “Women’s rights and gender equality”
Norway has several RfPs available in order to strengthen Norwegian research on and for development in low- and middle-income countries as well as strengthen research capacity in these countries. There are opportunities available for research on “Women’s rights and gender equality” and “Globalisation of the environment, energy and climate research”. For more information
Event (livestream): TEDxWorldBankGroup via live webcast
This year’s event will be on the Global Challenges in the New Decade encouraging conversation and debates on critical issues such as gender, climate change, agriculture and water. We hope you join our event and share your thoughts and ideas. Click here to view event, on Friday April 23, 2010 - 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 >> Read more
Publications: Gender & Development an evaluation of World Bank support 2002-2006
In 2001 the World Bank adopted a gender equality policy as a means to help reduce poverty. This policy was outlined in Integrating Gender into the World Bank's Work: A Strategy for Action (referred as the 2001 Gender Strategy). Through this evaluation the Independent Evaluation Group finds that the World Bank made progress in gender >> Read more
Event (livestream): Meeting today for the launch of the GAFSP initiative
On Thursday morning, Secretary Geithner will meet with Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates, Canadian Finance Minister James Flaherty, Spanish Second Vice President and Minister of Finance Elena Salgado, South Korean Finance Minster Yoon Jeung-Hyun and World Bank President Robert Zoellick at Treasury to discuss a >> Read more
News: PHILIPPINES Women’s College Corrects Gender Miseducation
MANILA, Apr 16 (IPS) - Flip open a typical textbook used in many Philippine schools and you will likely find images of women illustrating verbs such as ‘cook’ or ‘clean’, but hardly appearing anywhere much in economics and history textbooks. These are examples of the gender miseducation that textbooks in this South-east Asian country often >> Read more
Publication (book): Food, diversity, vulnerability and social change Research findings from insular Southeast Asia
By: Anke Niehof (Wageningen University) Book Series: Food, diversity, vulnerability and social change 2010, 144 pages, paperback, Mansholt Series - ISSN 1871-9309, Volume 9 Food is a universal basic need. The diverse ways in which people and households try to meet this need, the constraints they are up against in doing so, and the strategies >> Read more
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