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New actors, new money, new conversations: a mapping of recent initiatives for women and girls
Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013Over the past several years, investing in women and girls as ‘smart economics’ has become a favored strategy in development and philanthropy. This has precipitated a host of campaigns and initiatives, including new private-sector involvement, dedicated to supporting women and girls.DocumentWomen moving mountains: collective impact of the Dutch MDG3 fund
Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013Through decades of collective and individual struggle, and determined, conscious design, the women’s rights movement has achieved unprecedented shifts in global perception to the notion of gender equality as a desirable goal.DocumentSustainable Energy for All: The Gender Dimensions
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, 2013In developing countries, women are the ones who are most affected by energy poverty due to their role as caretakers within the family and the community. They spend a great amount of their time on wood and fuel collection which prevents them from seeking education, employment and from getting involved in social and political interaction in the public sphere.DocumentA feminist political economy analysis of public policies related to care: a thematic review.
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013Produced as part of the IDS Evidence Report series, this thematic review summarises the literature on feminist political economy analysis of public policies related to care, specifically unpaid care work. The review frames unpaid care work as both essential for society, and neglected by public policy.DocumentGetting unpaid care onto development agendas.
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013This IDS Policy Brief from January 2013 focuses on getting unpaid care onto the development agenda.DocumentWatering the leaves, starving the roots: the status of financing for women's rights organizing and gender equality
Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013In the foreword to this report, AWID Executive Director Lydia Alpízar writes that she finds it, “truly surprising… that women’s rights organising and movements have been functioning, often with quite minimal financial support, even as their experience and effectiveness has increased.”DocumentGender and community mobilisation for urban water infrastructure investment in Southern Nigeria
Taylor and Francis Group, 2010In the Nigerian cities of Lagos and Benin City, the 2006 census reported that just 26% and 5% of households had access to treated piped water respectively, with a significant informal water delivery sector working alongside, or in place of, public utilities, community wells, or private bore-holes.DocumentSexuality and Empowerment: An Intimate Connection
Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2011What does sexuality have to do with women’s empowerment? Research from Pathways of Women’s Empowerment shows that sexuality affects women’s political and economic empowerment in a number of important ways.DocumentThe 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.DocumentBRIDGE Update: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign. Issue No. 102, November 2013.
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013In this issue:Feature on 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign including:Pages