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  • Gender Focus: The Promise for Self-Reliance from a Transformed USAID

    Gender Focus: The Promise for Self-Reliance from a Transformed USAID

    The DC community of civil society organizations (CSOs) has been buzzing, often in direct engagement with USAID, about the current USAID transformation. It seems promising and the timing could not be better, but given that the majority of the world’s poor are women living in patriarchal societies, will it deliver on gender? The Agency has […]

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    November 15, 2018
  • An International Look at Women’s Rights

    An International Look at Women’s Rights

    Until recently, the human rights of half the world’s population – women – were not universally protected, nor accepted in most parts of the world. In 2014, the United Nations (UN) released a publication, “Women’s Rights are Human Rights,” to further the international understanding of women’s human rights. The framework outlines key areas of women’s rights that must be […]

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    September 29, 2016
  • Gender & Governance in rural India, Ghana, and Ethiopia

    Gender & Governance in rural India, Ghana, and Ethiopia

    In 2010, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the World Bank (WB) conducted an analysis of agricultural extension and clean water access in rural areas in India, Ghana, and Ethiopia. The surveys were conducted in approximately 1,000 households in each country. Access to agricultural extension varied across the three countries. There was reported […]

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    August 24, 2016
  • New Paper from Women Thrive Assesses USAID’s Gender Policy

    New Paper from Women Thrive Assesses USAID’s Gender Policy

    Two years ago, USAID implemented a Gender Equality and Female Empowerment policy. Women Thrive recently released a paper examining the successes and shortcomings of the policy, entitled “The Path to Inclusive Development: Assessing the First Two Years of USAID’s Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy.” The paper notes the importance of this policy, saying that it demonstrates USAID’s […]

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    June 26, 2014
  • Gender Gap and Access to Productive Assets: A Conceptual Framework

    Gender Gap and Access to Productive Assets: A Conceptual Framework

    How can agricultural development programs help improve women’s access to assets, thus reducing gender gaps and leading to more well-being? The latest report “Learning from Eight Agricultural Development Interventions in Africa and South Asia” from The Gender, Agriculture, & and Assets Project (GAAP) focuses on that question. GAAP developed a conceptual framework for the evaluation […]

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    June 17, 2014
  • Gender Gap in Education Remains High in Low and Lower Middle Income Countries

    Gender Gap in Education Remains High in Low and Lower Middle Income Countries

    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in partnership with United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI), has launched a gender summary report called  Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report 2013/14 for this year’s International Women’s Day. According to the report, gender imbalance in global education has left over 100 million young women in low […]

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    March 11, 2014

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