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The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index
Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, 2013The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a new survey-based index designed to measure the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agricultural sector. The WEAI was initially developed as a tool to reflect women’s empowerment that may result from the United States government’s Feed the Future Initiative, which commissioned the development of the WEAI.DocumentThe Plumbing of Adaptation Finance: Accountability, Transparency, and Accessibility at the Local Level
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2013World Resources Institute working paper examining phase one of the Adaptation Finance Accountability Initiative.DocumentMaking the law count: a five country judicial audit
Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development, 2009This document gives an overview of ACORD’s audit of the legal frameworks around sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, DRC and Burundi. In each of these countries the audit assessed: • How and where the legal frameworks locate SGBV • How judicial officers interpret the law on SGBVDocumentCycles 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.DocumentFinal report. FOKUS: External evaluation of the East African Program for the Empowerment of Grassroot Women (EAGWEN).
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2013Norwegian Women and Family Association (NWF) has a history of supporting organisations whose main focus is on vulnerable groups.DocumentFacing the resource curse: Norway's Oil for Development Program. Final report.
2013Oil for Development (OfD), begun in 2005, is a comprehensive program addressing resource, financial and environmental dimensions with a focus on capacity development in the public sector but including larger sector governance concerns.DocumentUnfinished business: transitional justice and women's rights in Africa
Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development, 2008This resource is the first issue of an occasional paper series produced by the Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development, a pan-African organisation working for social justice and development.DocumentUganda climate change vulnerability assessment report
US Agency for International Development, 2013This assessment was conducted in 2012. Field research focused on Gulu, Lira, Luweero, Mbale, Isingiro, and Kasese, USAID/Feed the Future priority districts that include important cropping systems, represent different agro-ecological zones, and are near weather stations that have collected consistent rainfall and temperature data for a long period of time.DocumentNature and dynamics of climate variability in the Uganda cattle corridor
African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2013The study was guided by two research questions: (1) How do community residents perceive climate change/variability? (2) What is the trend and nature of climate variability and how does it compare with people’s perceptions?DocumentIntroduction of β carotene-rich orange sweet potato in rural Uganda resulted in increased vitamin A intakes among children and women and improved vitamin A status among children
Journal of Nutrition, 2012Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) persists in Uganda and the consumption of β-carotene-rich orange sweet potato (OSP) may help to alleviate it. Two large-scale, 2-y intervention programs were implemented among Ugandan farmer households to promote the production and consumption of OSP.Pages