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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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    Herstory: Our Journey Advocating for the Rights of African Women

    2012
    The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) is a membership-based pan-African Network set up in 1988 to advance African women's development, equality and other human rights.
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    Pan-Africanism & the Women's Movement

    2013
    This edition of the African Women’s Journal is devoted to Pan-Africanism, the African women’s movement, and how they interrelate. Published by the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), this selection of papers covers various aspects of the history, present-context, challenges and opportunites the two movements face.
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    Seeing beyond the state: grassroots women's perspectives on corruption and anti-corruption

    Huairou Commission, 2012
    Although 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.
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    Women and the formal economy

    Australian Agency for International Development, 2011
    This 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.
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    Gender at work: a companion to the World Development Report on Jobs

    World Bank, 2013
    This report from the World Bank’s Gender and Development group is a companion to the WDR 2013 on jobs. Globally, fewer than half of women have jobs, compared to four-fifths of men. The paper looks at constraints and promising practices.
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    Theory of Change on Child Marriage

    2014
    Girls Not Brides has developed a ‘Theory of Change on Child Marriage’, a visual diagram that demonstrates the range of approaches needed to address child marriage and how they intersect. Informed by the insights of Girls Not Brides members and other experts on child marriage, the Theory of Change articulates what an effective response to child marriage entails.
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    Empowering Women: Legal Rights and Economic Opportunities in Africa

    World Bank, 2012
    This 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.
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    African 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.
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    Subversively accommodating: feminist bureaucrats and gender mainstreaming

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
     Is 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?

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