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    Qualitative research on women's economic empowerment and social protection - a research guide

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2016
    The FAO's Social Protection and Rural Women's Economic Empowerment research programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of th e United Nations (FAO) falls under FAO's Strategic Objective 3 of Reducing Rural Poverty and is delivered through two flagship initiatives: the Rural Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative (RWEE) and the From Protection to Production (PtoP) programme.
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    Feminist Africa e-spaces:e-politics

    African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2013
    Feminist Africa (FA) is a continental gender studies journal that provides a platform for intellectual and activist research, dialogue and strategy. Currently based in Cape Town, South Africa, FA is guided by a profound commitment to transforming gender hierarchies in Africa, and seeks to redress injustice and inequality in its content and design.
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    How can social protection provide social justice for women?

    Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2011
    For social protection to provide social justice for women, this Pathways policy paper argues that the approach must be feminist. A feminist social protection programme recognises and enhances women’s identity as citizens and enables them to assume the roles they choose and fulfil the obligations they value.
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    Empowering rural women through social protection

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2015
    This paper reviews evidence on the most widely-used social protection schemes, assessing the extent of their current and potential impact on women’s economic empowerment and, where possible, the programme design characteristics that lead to these impacts.
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    India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act: women’s participation and impacts in Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Rajasthan

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    This research examines women's participation in NREGS (National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) in selected areas in three states: Kerala, Himachal and Rajasthan. The Indian government's NREGS has succeeded in bringing large numbers of women into paid work, many of them for the first time. 
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    Cash for women's empowerment? A mixed-methods evaluation of the government of Zambia's Child Grant Programme

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2016
    Social cash transfer programmes in developing countries are often claimed to benefit the empowerment of women, despite a lack of clear evidence supporting this outcome.
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    Cash transfer programmes, poverty reduction and empowerment of women: a comparative analysis

    International Labour Organization, 2013
    This working paper is a comparative analysis of selected cash transfer programmes (CTPs) from Brazil, Chile, India, Mexico and South Africa that aims to better understand how to increase the impact of CTPs on women’s poverty alleviation and economic empowerment.
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    Cash transfer programmes, poverty reduction and empowerment of women in South Africa

    International Labour Organization, 2015
    This country study of cash transfer programmes, poverty reduction and economic empowerment of women in South Africa forms part of a comparative analysis with Brazil, Chile, India, and Mexico. The report provides an overview of the social assistance system in South Africa, looking into the policy objectives, types and levels of social grants as well as how these are administered.
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    Social Protection Floors and gender equality: a brief overview

    International Labour Organization, 2013
    This paper examines some of the linkages between gender inequality and social protection, recognising that effective and equitable access to social protection is a key tool for reducing poverty and inequality. The paper identifies various gender-specific vulnerabilities and inequalities in relation to women’s access to social protection.
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    Women workers and the politics of claims-making in a globalizing economy

    Political and Social Economy of Care (UNRISD), 2015
    This paper draws on empirical studies to examine how the politics of claims-making by women workers in the Global South have evolved in the context of increased globalisation.

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