ICT Boom for Economy, A Bust for Some Women By Rosebell Kagumire KAMPALA, Nov 25, 2010 (IPS) - The rapid growth of the ICT market in Uganda has been greeted with optimism over its potential to boost the country’s development. But less attention is being paid to the increase in gender based violence due to >> Read more
Publications: Women & Ag investments
Final Report from Women Leaders Dialogue on Investment in Agriculture Report from Women Leaders’ Dialogue held on October 13th, 2010, FAO (Rome) during the 36th Session of the Committee on World Food Security. It highlights the main inputs from participants and discusses the potential role of the reformed CFS. Gender Implications of Biofuels Expansion: A >> Read more
Resource: 2101 Theme– Structures of Violence: Defining the Intersections of Militarism and Violence Against Women
16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is a global initiative that seeks to: raise awareness at the local, national, and international levels regarding violence against women, strengthen local work, link local and global activism, provide a forum for dialogue and strategy-sharing, pressure governments to implement the commitments they have made in national and international >> Read more
Resource: Toolkit for Integrating Gender-Related Issues in Land Policy and Administration Projects
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Opinion: Bachelet faces uphill battle at U.N. Women
By ANDRES OPPENHEIMER Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet is a smart, highly-educated politician, and a skillful negotiator, but I wonder whether she did the right thing in agreeing to head the United Nations' new agency for women's rights, scheduled to start operating Jan. 1. She will face formidable obstacles to get things done. Her $500 >> Read more
News: KENYA– A Brand New Constitution, But Can Women Enjoy Land Rights?
Suleiman Mbatiah NAIROBI, Nov 23 - Mary Kimani wishes her husband were still alive. Holding her one-year-old son in one hand and a hoe in the other, she recounts with bitterness how she and her children lost their livelihood to her husband’s family.
Call for Proposals: ASTI
The ASTI initiative and the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) are currently calling for proposals for papers for their jointly convened conference, “Agricultural R&D: Investing in Africa’s Future: Analyzing Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities,” to be held in Accra, Ghana, 5–7 December 2011. The deadline for paper proposals is 15 January, 2011. For more >> Read more
Publication: “Supply Shocks and Gender Bias in Child Health Investments: Evidence from the ICDS Programme in India,”
Chakravarty, Abhishek (2010) The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 10 : Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 88. This paper examines whether a permanent increase in the supply of immunisations reduces or intensifies the gender bias in immunisation against female children in India. It also investigates the effect of duration of exposure to the >> Read more
Publication: Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African Countries
This report is published by the Statistics Department of the African Development Bank Group. The publication provides some information on the broad development trends relating to gender, poverty and environmental issues in the 53 African countries. Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on more...
Event: TEDx ‘Igniting Change: the Gender Match’
Over the past few decades, development researchers and practitioners have spent countless resources trying to identify the perfect recipe for development policies and programs to follow when tackling food security, malnutrition, and poverty in poor countries. In this talk, we turn to three speakers from the development research community who make the powerful argument that >> Read more
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