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Gendering the costs and benefits of the Arab uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt using the gallup surveys
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015The literature on gender and the Arab “Spring” has documented the role of female activists in the uprisings and analysed the implications of Islamists’ electoral successes for women. However, little is known about how ordinary women have experienced the changes that accompanied the uprisings and how this compares with men’s experiences.DocumentUNIFEM’s Work on Gender-Responsive Budgeting
United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2009Placing gender equality and women’s empowerment as central to budget reform is a strategic lever for significant change to women’s lives. This report forms the third phase of an evaluation of UNIFEM’s Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) programme and has three main purposes:DocumentFinding the Entry Points
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2008The purpose of this issues brief is to assist programme managers and thematic advisers in donor agencies to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment within the framework of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.DocumentBreaking New Frontiers for Gender Responsive Budgeting: the Kerala Model
UN Women, 2012Can technical scrutiny of budget allocations, delinked from political debates, achieve transformation of either budgetary processes or outcomes? This paper argues that a significant opportunity is lost if gender responsive budgeting (GRB) is not included in critical feminist analysis.DocumentWages and inequality in the Egyptian labor market in an era of financial crisis and revolution
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015This paper investigates the pattern of wages and wage inequality in Egypt over the period 1988-2012, a time of substantial economic and political changes, including the recent global financial crises and the January 25th 2011 revolution.DocumentInformality and socio-economic well-being of women in Egypt
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015Evidence points that informal employment in Egypt is a permanent phenomenon, rather than being in a transitory stage. It accounts for about 75% of new entrants to the labor market between 2000 and 2005. About half of the women engaged in the labor market are informally employed.DocumentChanges in the institution of marriage in Egypt from 1998 to 2012
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015Fear over the perceived breakdown of the institution of marriage plagues many Egyptian policy-makers and members of the public. This study examines the trajectory of marriage behaviours in three nationally-representative surveys spanning the period 1998 to 2012 to determine whether this fear is justified.DocumentDeterminants of unemployment duration - Egypt
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015This study uses a set of dates on unemployment, employment, mobility, marriage, and birth, from the 2006 and 2012 rounds of the Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey, to construct a cross-section of first-unemployment spells, and to measure selected individual-specific attributes (age, residency, cohort, and marital status) at the time of the spell.DocumentMenstrual Health Education Resource
2013Developed for Irise International this Menstrual Hygiene Toolkit is intended as a resource for delivering menstrual health education and is tailored to communities across East Africa. Irise International works to support the education and empowerment of women and girls in East Africa through addressing the neglected issue of menstrual hygiene management.DocumentMenstrual Hygiene: A Neglected Condition for the Achievement of Several Millennium Development Goals
Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, 2007What is the relationship between poor menstrual hygiene and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)?Pages