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  The impact of gender and business training for female microfinance clients in Vietnam

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2015

  Business training leads to an increase in business knowledge, improvements in business practices, operations and sales, as well as income and assets for male microfinance clients. Moreover, business failure is lower for males who receive business training. Although business knowledge of women increases either, women do not put their knowledge into practice.
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  The SASA! study: a cluster randomised trial to assess the impact of a violence and HIV prevention programme in Kampala, Uganda

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014

  SASA! is a community mobilisation intervention that seeks to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV-risk behaviours. The SASA! study was conducted between 2008 and 2012 in two administrative divisions of Kampala (Makindye and Rubaga).
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  Expanding lessons from a randomised impact evaluation of cash and food transfers in Ecuador and Uganda

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2015

  There is now substantial evidence that periodic cash transfers to poor households as a form of social protection, particularly when conditional on complementary investments in child schooling and health, can lead to substantial and sustained improvements in household welfare, household food security and child schooling.
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  Adequately addressing the ‘gender agenda’ and links to climate change

  14 Jan 2016: What are greenhouse gas emissions to do with the persisting inequalities between men and women, and why should these two issues be discussed together?
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  Summary assessment of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals in Grenada

  United Nations Development Programme, 2010

  This assessment of progress towards the MDGs in Grenada is meant to provide information on country  progress on  MDG  achievement.  The  consultant was  required  to work  closely  with  the Ministry  of  Finance  in Grenada,  the  Millennium Development Goals National Committee (MDGNC) and the UNDP Barbados and the OECS
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  A review of progress in empowerment of women in rural water management decision-making processes

  2013

  This paper explores the links between water infrastructure, water policies, processes and protections, along with mechanisms for women's leadership and decision-making for contributing to rural well-being.
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  Vocational education in Kenya - a randomized evaluation

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2015

  Despite the importance of youth unemployment, little is known about how best to facilitate the transition of youth from school to the labor market in less developed countries, or how to provide marketable skills for youth not on the academic schooling track. Vocational education provides a promising opportunity for addressing the problem.
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  Interventions to Improve the labour market situation of adults with physical and/or sensory disabilities in low- and middle-income countries: a Systematic Review

  The Campbell Collaboration, 2015

  Disability is a development issue, with widespread poverty, inequality and violation of human rights. Recent estimates suggest that more than one billion people are living with some form of disability.
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  Virtue and vulnerability: Discourses on women, gender and climate change

  Elsevier, 2011

  In the limited literature on gender and climate change, two themes predominate – women as vulnerable or virtuous in relation to the environment. Two viewpoints become obvious: women in the South will be affected more by climate change than men in those countries and that men in the North pollute more than women.
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  Ending gender inequality in older age: Guidance for EU development policy

  HelpAge International, 2015

  There is clear recognition of the importance of achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment, including in EU and global development cooperation. However, this work frequently overlooks the rights of older people.

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