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Voice and agency: Empowering women and girls for shared prosperity
World Bank, 2014Increasing women’s voice and agency is a valuable end in its own right. and it underpins the achievement of the World Bank Group’s twin goals of eliminating extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity for girls and boys, women and men, around the world.DocumentWomen and the formal economy
Australian Agency for International Development, 2011This think piece by Lorraine Corner concerns women and the formal economy. Historically, in high income countries participation in the formal economy has been the most important route to women’s empowerment and increased gender equality. The costs of gender inequality in the formal economy are high, especially in developing countries.DocumentEmpowering Women: Legal Rights and Economic Opportunities in Africa
World Bank, 2012This World Bank publication is the first study to look systematically across Sub-Saharan Africa to examine the impacts of property rights on women’s economic empowerment. The book examines family, inheritance, and land laws.DocumentGender and Rural Microfinance: Reaching and Empowering Women - A Guide for Practitioners
2009Innovations in financial services, particularly in microfinance, have enabled millions of women and men in rural areas who were formerly excluded from the financial sector to gain access to financial services on an ongoing basis.DocumentThe African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) Blog
2014Since 2001, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) has worked for women’s rights and philanthropy across the African continent. The first pan-African women’s grant maker on the continent, AWDF has provided US$17 million in grants to 800 women’s organisations in 42 African countries.DocumentExplaining gender differentials in agricultural production in Nigeria
World Bank, 2014Drawing on data from the General Household Survey Panel 2010/11, this paper analyses differences in agricultural productivity across male and female plot managers in Nigeria. Utilising the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method, the analysis is conducted separately for the North and South regions, excluding the west of the country.DocumentTracking climate change funding: learning from gender-responsive budgeting
International Budget Partnership, 2014This paper looks at what budgeting for climate change initiatives can learn from gender-responsive budgeting (GRB).DocumentGendered dimensions of land and rural livelihoods: the case of new settler farmer displacement at Nuanetsi Ranch, Mwenezi District, Zimbabwe
Land Deal Politics Initiative, 2012The biofuel boom has become a core issue in Zimbabwean land and development debates. Biofuels require large tracts of land for production; and the land acquisition programmes by the various state, non-state actors and individuals have been termed ‘land grabbing’.DocumentWomen’s Social Security and Protection in India
2013What are the real-life situations and challenges relating to Indian women’s social security and protection, and what can be done to improve them?