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  Measuring progress toward empowerment Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index: baseline report

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014

  This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results, summarising both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative.
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  Measuring the Economic Gain of Investing in Girls: The Girl Effect Dividend

  World Bank, 2011

  This paper estimates the costs incurred by societies as a result of the social exclusion of adolescent girls. It explores the potential increases in national income that could be gained by addressing early school dropout, teenage pregnancy and joblessness. It finds that marginal investments in girls can have a substantial impact on GDP growth.
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  Youth, Waithood, and Protest Movements in Africa

  International African Institute, 2013

  Africa is the world’s youngest continent, with the majority of its population under the age of 24. Although during the past decade the continent has experienced considerable economic growth, it has not translated into job creation and greater equity.
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  Girl Safety Toolkit: A Resource for Practitioners

  2014

  The Girl Safety Toolkit is a comprehensive guide to designing safe programmes specifically for adolescent girls. Designing safe opportunities for girls relies on understanding the experience of different groups in the context in which they are working.
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  Rethinking Social Protection Using a Gender Lens

  Overseas Development Institute, 2010

  The role of gender in social protection is complex, shaping the types of risks tackled, how they are tackled, public buy-in and programme implementation practices. However, the extent to which gender has been integrated into social protection approaches has been uneven at best.
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  Can Market-Based Approaches to Technology Development and Dissemination Benefit Women Smallholder Farmers? A Qualitative Assessment of Gender Dynamics in the Ownership, Purchase, and use of Irrigation Pumps in Kenya and Tanzania

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014

  Rural household economies dependent on rainfed agriculture are increasingly turning to irrigation technology solutions to reduce the effects of weather variability and guard against inconsistent and low crop output.
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  African Women and Girls – Their say on their world post-2015

  Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development, 2014

  The Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD), has released a landmark publication that details the voices of African women and girls in the post Millennium Development Goals discussion. African women and girls at the Grassroots – their say on their world post 2015 is a representation of African women’s voices from the grassroots.
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  WED: Measuring Change in Women Entrepreneur’s Economic Empowerment: A Literature Review

  2013

  The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) women’s entrepreneurship development (WED) working group advances a learning and knowledge sharing agenda on the promotion of women’s entrepreneurship development. Its mission is to promote equitable opportunities between women and men, as well as strengthen economic impact.
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  Empowering Women Entrepreneurs through Information and Communication Technologies - A Practical Guide

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2014

  The promotion of micro and small-scale enterprises (MSEs) has been recognised as an important strategy for advancing the economic empowerment of women, while reducing poverty and gender inequality.
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  Aid in Support of Women's Economic Empowerment

  Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2011

  Economic empowerment aims to raise the capacity of women and men to participate in, contribute to and benefit from growth processes in ways which recognise the value of their contributions, respect their dignity and make it possible to negotiate a fairer distribution of the benefits of growth.

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