For many years Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) programs have focused on women of reproductive age (WRA) given that they and their young offspring are the primary risk groups. This choice has also been influenced by the idea that WRA act independently regarding MCHN practices. In the past few years, programs have increasingly involved men based >> Read more
How can ICTs promote gender equality in rural areas?
e-Agriculture is collecting information on the topic 'Gender and the use of ICTs for agricultural and rural development - How ICTs can promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in rural areas', to prepare a paper on the subject. ICT initiatives are often generic and fail to recognize that the introduction of ICTs in a community will >> Read more
Gender and Development: Special Issue on Inequalities
The Gender & Development Special Issue on Inequalities has been published. The articles in this issue of G&D, co-edited with Naila Kabeer, come from a wide range of voices in international development research, policy and practice, and offer a gendered perspective on inequalities. To subscribe to all content from the journal, you can also click here.
IFPRI Gender Methods Seminar, Tuesday, July 28: Aspirations in Rural Pakistan: An Empirical Analysis
Aspirations in Rural Pakistan: An Empirical Analysis Presenter: Katrina Kosec Research Fellow, IFPRI Discussant: Jessica Heckert Associate Research Fellow, IFPRI Tuesday, July 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm EST Instructions for joining virtually are offered at the end of this message. Abstract: Aspirations are goals which people set and intend to achieve; they are increasingly being recognized as an >> Read more
Report Release: Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment and M&E Guidelines
From the Women's Economic Empowerment: A Roadmap website: Design challenges are common to most program evaluations, but this is especially true for programs that measure women's economic empowerment. This is because of the interdependence between women's economic and social roles, which influences their business choices and returns to those businesses. For example, because women have >> Read more
Event: Empowering Women through Political Participation and Empowering Politics through Women’s Participation
July 30, 2015, 9:00am-2:30pm 1957 E Street NW, 6th Floor, Lindner Family Commons The Global Gender Program The Elliott School of International Affairs The George Washington University 9:00am Welcome: Barbara Miller Director, Global Gender Program 9:15am Keynote address: Homa Hoodfar Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University, Canada Professor Hoodfar’s research lies in the intersection of political >> Read more
Kenya Justice Project and AskAg Discussion on land tenure and governance
The Kenya Justice Project (KJP) focused on educating key stakeholder groups through legal literacy and skills trainings, peer sessions, community conversations, and public information activities to increase legal knowledge around constitutional rights and traditional leaders’ responsibilities related to land. Read more about the project’s accomplishments, including the election of 22 women elders, here. Additional information >> Read more
Does Uganda sufficiently address gender inequalities in climate policies? (via CCAFS)
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) together with partners International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), recently released an Info Note analyzing Uganda's climate and development policies from a gender perspective. Feel free to explore the following resources: Download Info Note: Gender and >> Read more
New UN Women online training: How to manage gender-responsive evaluation
This new UN Women eLearning course has 9 modules that aim to support those initiating, managing and/or using gender-responsive evaluations by providing direction, advice and tools for every step in the evaluation process: planning, preparation, conduct, reporting, evaluation use and follow up. The course is intended to complement the UN Women Evaluation Handbook, a practical handbook to help those initiating, >> Read more
IFPRI Gender Methods Seminar: The Impact of Microfinance on Factors Empowering Women: Regional and Delivery Mechanisms in India’s SHG Programme
Materials from the July 20, 2015 Gender Methods Seminar are now available online. Professor Ranjula Bali Swain presented at IFPRI on the impact of microfinance on women's empowerment, examining how the impact varies with respect to the location and type of group linkage of the respondent. The slides are available on the IFPRI Gender Slideshare site, >> Read more
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