South Africa and Gender
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- How to measure, and identify key factors in, advancing gender equity in Africa, tested against case studies
- E. Unterhalter; E. Kioko-Echessa; R. Pattman; R. Rajagopalan; F. N’Jai / Institute of Education, University of London, 2004
- This paper presents a suggested methodology for developing a scorecard on girls' access to and retention in formal primary schooling in Commonwealth countries in Africa. While acknowledging the limitations of scorecards in capturing t...
- Patterns of social and economic distress reflect the legacies of violence during the apartheid era
- D. Bonnin / Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2004
- This working paper argues that the political and social violence of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) can trace its roots back to the region's violent political conflicts between the United Democratic Front and Inkatha during the 1980s and early 19...
- How do gender constructions influence adolescent approaches to risk-related sexual behaviour?
- D. A. van Dijk / Centre for International Development Issues, University of Nijmegen, 2002
- This paper from the Centre for International Development Issues presents the results of research conducted among young people in South Africa, aiming to gain a better understanding of the sexual context of adolescents in the country. ...
- How to secure land rights for women and enforce change
- Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003
- This document reports on a workshop held in South Africa in June 2003 to address continuing insecurity of women's land rights. It brought together a broad group of participants covering NGO, grassroots, government, UN agency staff, re...
- What is the pattern of condom use among women in South Africa?
- Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2003
- This article summarises the findings of a study which attempted to identify factors that affect condom use among women in South Africa. The study was based on data collected from more than 11,000 women aged 15-49 in the 1998 South Afr...
- Sexual violence and HIV: policy challenges in South Africa
- Human Rights Watch, 2004
- This report highlights the obstacles to effective post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) provision in South Africa and their solutions, and serves to illustrate lessons of the South African experience that may be useful for countries that ar...
- How can policy implementation of gender sensitive HIV/AIDS be strengthened?
- Voluntary Service Overseas, 2003
- This report examines how national and international policy implementation of HIV/AIDS can be strengthened. Research was carried out in South Africa, Namibia, India and Cambodia to find out, at national and international levels, the ov...
- Good programs can change gender norms to reduce health risk
- Synergy Project, USAID, 2003
- This review outlines programs in Central America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia that are designed to change social norms related to entrenched gender roles. It explains the methodologies each program employed to achie...
- Conference on social protection for the ageing population
- United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2002
- The UNRISD conference examined the opportunities, problems and challenges of effective social protection for older people, including formal public policies and more informal strategies, such as household support systems. In Ses...
- Poverty and gender: the limits of microfinance
- Helen Pankhurst / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- Credit and savings schemes are hailed as blueprints for tackling poverty but their benefits are exaggerated. They fail to address the way gender effects relations of power and inequality within families. Frequently unsustainable, they...
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