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    Gender roles and opportunities for women in urban environments

    Applied Knowledge Services, 2016
    Women are becoming the majority in urban areas, and many more people now live in female-headed households, representing a significant shift in gender roles and relations. This GSDRC helpdesk research report examines the literature to tell us about different gender roles and opportunities for women in urban environments, compared to rural.
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    Infrastructure: a game-changer for women's economic empowerment

    Infrastructure and cities for economic development (ICED), 2016
    Produced by the Infrastructure and Cities for Economic Development Facility (ICED), this background paper lays out the case for infrastructure as a key tool for women’s economic empowerment (WEE). With over half of Africa’s economic growth between 1990 and 2005 attributed to improved infrastructure, the return on investment is clear.
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    Walk the talk: gender equality in the African Union

    UN Women, 2015
    As new United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) initiatives and development agendas commence in 2015, women throughout Africa are suffering from a disproportionate lack of resources, access to education, health and legal services, a
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    A woman's job: who cares about unpaid carers?

    The Guardian, UK, 2013
    Women’s health can be adversely affected by an endless cycle of cooking, clea
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    Report on cash transfer programmes (CTPs) from a human rights perspective

    United Nations General Assembly, 2009
    Non-contributory cash transfer programmes (CTPs) provide payments in the form of cash to individuals or households with the key objective of increasing their real income in order to enable a minimum level of consumption within the household.
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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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    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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    Women and girls failed: the Burundian refugee response in Tanzania

    Refugees International, 2015
    Since April 2015, political instability and violence has rocked Burundi, forcing an estimated 220,000 people to flee to neighbouring countries. Approximately half of these refugees are women, and around half of the many women who reported gender-based violence (GBV) upon reaching refugee camps in Tanzania required post-rape care.
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    EMERGE Practice Brief: Lessons in good practice from work with men and boys for gender equality

    Institute of Development Studies, Sussex [ES], 2015
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    Choice, not control: Why limiting the fertility of poor populations will not solve the climate crisis

    CARE International, 2014
    This discussion paper argues that strengthening women’s and girls’ reproductive rights is vital for equitable development and must be a priority, regardless of a country’s population growth and carbon footprint.

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