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Turning information into empowerment: strengthening gender and energy networking in Africa
ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2008Mainstream energy policies fail to apply a gender-sensitive approach, and have largely ignored the crucial roles that rural women play in energy systems. This report follows a two and a half year-long project: Turning Information into Empowerment: Strengthening Gender and Energy Networking in Africa (TIE-ENERGIA).DocumentWomen's issues in transportation: summary of the 4th international conference.
Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 2010In 2009, over 140 researchers and practitioners came together from around to world to meet in California for The Fourth International Conference on Women’s Issues in Transportation. The aim of the conference was to stimulate thinking and research on transportation issues that are central to women’s lives.DocumentWhere energy is women's business: national and regional reports from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific
ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2007In the introduction to this publication, ENERGIA policy advisor and editor of this pubication Gail Karlsson writes, “In many developing countries, especially in the poorest areas, most energy currently comes from traditional biomass fuels such as wood, charcoal and agricultural wastes - and collection and managing these fuels is strictly ‘women’s business’.” She calls on national energy and devDocumentFor her it's the big issue: putting women at the centre of water supply, sanitation and hygiene.
Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, 2006Lack of basic sanitation and safe water is a major issue for women and girls who live in poor and overcrowded areas.DocumentGender and community mobilisation for urban water infrastructure investment in Southern Nigeria
Taylor and Francis Group, 2010In the Nigerian cities of Lagos and Benin City, the 2006 census reported that just 26% and 5% of households had access to treated piped water respectively, with a significant informal water delivery sector working alongside, or in place of, public utilities, community wells, or private bore-holes.DocumentCycles of violence: gender relations and armed conflict
Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development, 2005This book describes the ACORD research project 'Gender-Sensitive Programme Design and Planning in Conflict-Affected Situations’, which was carried out in 2000 and 2001. ACORD is an Africa-led development organisation working with poor and marginalised communities in 18 Africa countries against social injustice and exclusion.DocumentBreaking through the development silos: sexual and reproductive health and rights, Millennium Development Goals and gender equity
2012Despite the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) making a vital contribution to establishing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), ICPD goals were still excluded from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set in 2001.DocumentInnovación, conocimiento e igualdad de género para América Latina
United Nations Development Programme, 2012This project builds on two global initiatives funded by MDG Achievement Fund and led by UN Women and UNDP: “Gender as a Cross Cutting Issue” and “Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment’. Its purpose at regional level is to focus on and strengthen some of the thematic areas that are less visible, such as decent work and women’s political participation.DocumentLas feministas en la agenda post-2015
SendasAL, 2012This video was recorded during the Dialogos Consonantes, a regional meeting organised by Feminist Articulation Marcosur (AFM) where Latin American and Caribbean feminist organisations and networks and donors come together to find common ground to support and advance feminist agendas in the region.