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  Home-Based Care Alliance policy brief: debunking myths

  Home-Based Care Alliance, 2013

  The Home-Based Care Alliance (HBCA) represents more than 30,000 caregivers organised into multi-district HBCAs in twelve African countries, caring for over 200,000 neighbours and friends, and with a history of organising around HIV/AIDS and its effects.
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  Home-Based Care Alliance (HBCA)
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  Energy poverty and climate change mitigation in Ghana: An economic assessment

  Development and Mitigation Forum, 2014

  Produced for the Development and Mitigation Forum in Cape Town, January 2014, this paper presents an economic assessment of energy poverty and climate change mitigation in Ghana. The paper summarises the current state of energy use, related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy poverty, and mitigation, and estimates their likely trends and subsequent future impacts.
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  Participatory methodology: Rapid Care Analysis

  Oxfam, 2013

  Although care is at heart a public good, responsibility for unpaid care work falls predominantly on women, contributing to their extreme poverty and social exclusion.
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  Biofuels for Sustainable Rural Development and Empowerment of Women, Case Studies from Africa and Asia

  International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, 2009

  Poor communities in developing countries mainly depend on traditional biomass such as charcoal, wood and dung as other energy systems are often not accessible to them. Energy scarcity affects mainly women as they are the ones responsible for biomass collection.
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  Migration, social demands and environmental change amongst the Frafra of Northern Ghana and the Biali in Northern Benin

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2014

  This paper explores archives and narratives of African migrants in northwestern Benin and northeastern Ghana. These regions have been marked by severe ecological change and resource deterioration over the years, as well as changes in marital patterns, family relations and customary practices.
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  Migration, social demands and environmental change amongst the Frafra of Northern Ghana and the Biali in Northern Benin

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2014

  This paper explores archives and narratives of African migrants in northwestern Benin and northeastern Ghana. These regions have been marked by severe ecological change and resource deterioration over the years, as well as changes in marital patterns, family relations and customary practices.
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  Where energy is women's business: national and regional reports from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific

  ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2007

  In 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 dev
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  Contextualising the economic pathways of women’s empowerment findings from a multi-country research programme

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011

  Women’s paid work has featured in the development literature for two main reasons. The instrumental reason relates to its potential to contribute to a variety of development goals, from poverty reduction to human development to economic growth. The intrinsic reason is its potential to transform the lives of women and girls by addressing gender inequalities on a wide variety of fronts.
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  Contextualising the Economic Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Findings from a Multi-Country Research Programme

  Institute of Development Studies, Sussex [ES], 2011

  Women’s paid work has featured in the development literature for two main reasons. The instrumental reason relates to its potential to contribute to a variety of development goals, from poverty reduction to human development to economic growth. The intrinsic reason is its potential to transform the lives of women and girls by addressing gender inequalities on a wide variety of fronts.

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