South Africa and Gender
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- The BLDS gender collection
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Search for the latest gender-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Lessons to counter gender-blind drylands management
- Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2003
- With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland m...
- How can we increase and broaden our responses to HIV/AIDS?
- M. Heywood; V. Bond; T. Barfod; H. Ullum; W. Silomba; G. Foster; A. Whiteside; M. O’Grady; M. Fuglesang; P. Dover; M. Hammarskjöld; B. Egerö; J. Collins; B. Rau / SIDA Studies, 2002
- This collection of articles produced by UNRISD and SIDA enable different authors to address various issues in relation to HIV/AIDS. It is argued that in general society’s responses to people living with HIV/AIDS and to the pandem...
- How-to kit on strengthening local government reponses to HIV/AIDS
- World Bank, 2003
- This handbook is written for local government authorities (LGA) that are interested in developing or strengthening local responses to HIV/AIDS. It provides information, examples and illustrative tools that guide users through the step...
- Gender-based violence poses life-threat to girls' education
- US Agency for International Development, 2003
- In an attempt to counter the lack of systemic information on the prevalence and consequences of violence in formal educational settings, this report reviews a number of country-specific studies on school-related gender-based violence....
- HIV infection in South Africa: the unequal gender trends
- HIV/AIDS and STD Directorate, Department of Health, South Africa, 2003
- This report is the 13th in a series of studies on HIV and syphilis prevalence conducted among pregnant women attending antenatal care in the public sector. The objectives of the 2002 survey were to: determine an estimat...
- Regulating the informal economy
- M. Alter Chen; F. Lund; R. Jhabvala / International Labour Organization, 2002
- This paper argues that the informal economy is here to stay and requires appropriate regulations, laws and policies to correct biases in the existing regulatory, legal, and policy environment that favour formal enterprises and workers...
- Gender bias and poor targeting in public works programmes in South Africa
- M. Adato; L. Haddad / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001
- This paper examines the performance of seven programs in Western Cape Province at involving community participation and at targeting the poor and women. It analyses the role of government, community-based organisations, trade unions, ...
- UNIFEM report-card on gender equality
- United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2002
- This report presents data, statistics and analysis to give a picture of women's empowerment in the new century, and illuminate what remains to be done to achieve true gender equality. Findings include: Sub-Sahara...
- Social marketing for young people's sexual health - what works?
- Population Services International, 2000
- This report, produced by Population Services International (PSI), describes a project that tested the impact of youth-oriented social marketing techniques on adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Interventions and communications ...
- Manual for AIDS service organisations in Southern Africa on mainstreaming gender
- South African AIDS Training Programme, 2001
- This manual is intended to help AIDS service organisations in the mainstreaming of gender into their activities. It is divided into five sections: a brief overview of the gender dimension of the HIV and AIDS situation i...
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