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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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    We should all be feminists (video)

    2013
    “I am angry. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. We should all be angry.” Though her 2013 TED Talk is infused with much light-hearted humour, the message of acclaimed Nigerian author Chinamanda Ngozi Adichie was a serious one. Anger, to Adichie, has a powerful historical legacy of bringing about change.
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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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    Interventions to enhance girls' education and gender equality: final report

    Institute of Education, University of London, 2014
    What is the evidence on the kind of interventions that lead to expansion and improvement in girls’ education? Are they shown to deepen gender equality?
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    Gender and Rural Microfinance: Reaching and Empowering Women - A Guide for Practitioners

    2009
    Innovations 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.
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    The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) Blog

    2014
    Since 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.
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    Voice, Power and Soul: Portraits of African Feminists

    2009
    In this book, 79 African feminists describe their personal evolution as feminists, their activist work, as well as their vision for an African continent, and indeed a world, framed by equality and respect for women’s rights.
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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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    Gender stereotypes and girl-child education in Nigeria

    Commonwealth of Learning, 2013
    Over the years, the Nigerian government has expressed its commitment to female education. Despite this, and efforts by international organisations and others, girl-child educational attainment in Nigeria remains low; fewer girls go to school than boys, and the gender gap is said to widen as girls move up the formal education ladder.

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