Search
Searching with a thematic focus on Gender empowerment, Gender
Showing 131-140 of 351 results
Pages
- Document
Seeing beyond the state: grassroots women's perspectives on corruption and anti-corruption
Huairou Commission, 2012Although corruption is a global phenomenon affecting all social classes and groups, women (particularly poor women) are among those most affected. As women are far more likely than men to be engaged in vulnerable employment, and their unpaid care work is undervalued, corruption impacts them disproportionately.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.DocumentAfrican leaders champion women’s empowerment as the key to unlocking the continent’s agricultural potential. The initiative to Empower Women in Agriculture (EWA) recognises women as the unsung heroines of African agriculture
African Capacity Building Foundation, 2012"Strengthening the role of women in agriculture has far-reaching consequences on economic and agricultural growth, food security, and better standards of living in Africa.DocumentEmpowerment of communities and individuals for greater health self-reliance
Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014Current levels of human resources are not enough to meet the health Millennium Development Goals and Universal Health Coverage. There is growing recognition that human resources beyond a trained health workforce can be considered as ‘assets’ and be utilised to achieve these goals.DocumentSubversively accommodating: feminist bureaucrats and gender mainstreaming
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010Is it possible to secure the desired policy action ‘infusing’ gender into existing ways of doing and organising things – and by so doing to incrementally secure real gains for women? Or will transformative policies for women’s empowerment only be achieved through discursive and organisational transformation? But can the two be separated so neatly?DocumentEducation and community empowerment
Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2010Are there examples of effective mobilisation of citizens/communities which have brought about improved education outcomes (quality and access) for poor men and women, and where broader forms of social change have also taken place as a result or strengthening community action and choice in education services? Do we have evidence of some of the key factorsDocumentGender equality and economic growth: Is there a win-win?
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013To what extent does gender equality contribute to economic growth? And to what extent does the reverse relationship hold true?DocumentEmpowerment of women and girls: unpaid care work in Nigeria
2014This resource is the Nigeria country profile within the Eldis Interactions 'Empowerment of Women and Girls' portal, under the theme of 'unpaid care work'.