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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
  • Achieving Gender Equality though Economic Empowerment

    Achieving Gender Equality though Economic Empowerment

    A Call to Action In September 2016, the United Nation’s High-Level Panel for Women’s Economic Empowerment released its first report on the actions necessary to close the global gender gap in economic empowerment. The report, “Leave No One Behind”, emphasizes the unfair circumstances that disproportionately affect women in the workplace, i.e. wage gaps, job security vulnerability  associated with informal…

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    October 17, 2016
  • 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
  • Ruma: an insuperable woman against early marriage and poverty

    Ruma: an insuperable woman against early marriage and poverty

    Written by Nazrul Islam, Senior Program Coordinator for Monitoring & Evaluation, The Hunger Project – Bangladesh Ruma is the first born of a lower income peasant family, still living with her parents in Udampur Barni in Hemanagar in Gopalpur under Tangaail. After passing primary school, she qualified for admission into high school. Her days passed as they…

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    April 30, 2015
  • World Bank Releases Report on the Importance of Empowering Women

    World Bank Releases Report on the Importance of Empowering Women

    The World Bank recently released a report called Voice and Agency: Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity, compiling data and studies about the challenges that women and girls face worldwide. The report finds that education is key to advancing the role of women around the world. Girls with little education are at greater risk…

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    June 19, 2014
  • UNCoLSC Recommendations to increase access to, and use of Life-saving commodities

    UNCoLSC Recommendations to increase access to, and use of Life-saving commodities

    “Every Woman Every Child. This focus is long overdue. With the launch of the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, we have an opportunity to improve the health of hundreds of millions of women and children around the world, and in so doing, to improve the lives of all people.” — United Nations Secretary-General…

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    April 1, 2014
  • Celebrating International Woman’s Day 8 March 2014

    Celebrating International Woman’s Day 8 March 2014

    “Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments with more women enact more legislation on key social issues such as health, education, anti-discrimination and child support. The evidence is clear: equality for women means progress for all.” UN…

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    March 5, 2014

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