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  Economic crisis and women's work: exploring progressive strategies in a rapidly changing global environment

  UN Women, 2013

  This report examines the gendered impacts of on-going global financial and economic crises in the labour market.
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  Technical seminar on measuring rural women's empowerment: key issues and challenges

  2015

  Global success for policy actions on poverty reduction have been patchy over the last 15 years; East and South Asia have seen significant advances, but in other regions the story is different, in particular in Sub-Saharan Africa where poverty has actually deepened.
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  Micro-credit as a strategy for poverty alleviation among women entrepreneurs in Nasarawa State, Nigeria

  2015

  All over the world, poor people are routinely excluded from the formal finance system, ranging from full exclusion in developing countries, to partial exclusion even in developed countries. This fact contributes to making poverty a major development challenge, with one often touted solution being that of providing access to micro-loans.
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  Literacy and education for sustainable development and women’s empowerment

  UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2013

  That women comprise two-thirds of the world’s non-literate population has been a matter of concern for the development sectors for decades. Despite a number of high-profile literacy initiatives and interventions, the gender disparity is persisting in many countries, leading UNESCO to publish this report examining the ways in which literacy is approached with regard to development.
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  Strategies for managing vulnerability of women vegetable farmers in the central region of Ghana

  2015

  Women constitute an important part of food systems around the world, as evidenced by the fact that they produce an estimated 70% of subsistence crops, and the fundamental role they play in processing and distribution.
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  Inequality, poverty among Nigeria women and youth and the challenges of inclusive growth in post-2015 Millenium Development Goals

  International Journal of Development and Sustainability, 2015

  Economic growth is the primary driver of poverty reduction, yet in Nigeria, despite a decade of significant growth and bountiful natural resources, 67% of the population were estimated to live in abject poverty in 2011, while wealth inequality grew.
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  Gender-focused, community-led development in rural Africa: The Hunger Project’s Epicenter Strategy

  2015

  The Hunger Project is a global, non-profit organisation committed to the sustainable end to world hunger.
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  Seeds of adaptation: climate change, crop diversification, and the role of women farmers

  2015

  Around the world, women farmers are taking a leading role in implementing strategies aimed at crop variety conservation and diversification, with the goal of strengthening local climate change adaptation capacities. That is the message conveyed in this gender brief by the Center for International Forestry Research.
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  Sustainable food security: re-igniting Nigeria's economy via systems strengthening

  2015

  The use of ‘systems strengthening’ can help achieve food and nutrition security, contribute to growing a more sustainable economy, and better respond to inherent systemic challenges. That is the argument set forth in this topic brief, from the perspective of a Nigerian context.
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  Empowering drylands women

  Drylands Development Centre, UNDP, 2014

  The Integrated Drylands Development Programme (IDDP) is a global UNDP initiative to promote sustainable development in the drylands, and advance the implementation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. This topic brief highlights the important role that gender plays in this context of sustainable development, in particular the role of women in the Arab States and Africa.

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