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Contents:
1. Call for “Practical
Notes” for a special issue of Development in Practice
2.
Women's Economic Empowerment: Meeting the Needs of Impoverished
Women
3. Rural-Urban
Linkages for Growth, Employment, and Poverty Reduction
4. Gender
activists urge leaders to bite bullet
5.
Latin
American and Caribbean Women in the Labour Market: Equal
Opportunity or Opportunities Lost?
6.
Africa: Women to Discuss Science, Tech |
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2. Women's
Economic Empowerment: Meeting the Needs of Impoverished
Women
Author: UNFPA
No. of pages: 48
Publication date: 2007
Languages: English
Many
studies have recognized the importance of improving
the status of impoverished women. This workshop report
describes a number of approaches used to date to empower
women economically, including microcredit. The report
includes a review of the literature on women's economic
empowerment and a summary of presentations from the
workshop.
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more:
http://www.unfpa.org/upload/lib_pub_file/712_filename_empowerment.pdf
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3.
Rural-Urban Linkages for Growth, Employment, and Poverty
Reduction
Traditionally,
development policy and related research have adopted a
simplified concept of rural and urban areas, with the
words rural referring to more "remote farming areas"
and urban to "crowded cities." To a large extent,
this view has facilitated the isolated treatment of issues
affecting each space, and it has as a result failed to
acknowledge the important poverty-reducing interlinkages
that exist between the two spaces and the many variants
of the spaces. In reality, farming areas (the very rural)
and the megacity (the very urban) coexist along a continuum
with multiple types of flows and interactions happening
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more:
http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/speeches/20070607jvbruralurban.asp
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4.
Gender activists urge leaders to bite bullet
A powerful consortium of gender
activists has urged their leaders to make history by adopting
the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development when they
meet in Lusaka, Zambia from 16-17 August. |
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more:
http://www.afrol.com/articles/26356 |
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5.
Latin American and Caribbean Women in the Labour
Market: Equal Opportunity or Opportunities Lost?
More women than ever are part of the job market
in Latin America and the Caribbean – 33 million
entered into the labour force between 1990 and 2004.
However, their participation is limited by their responsibilities
as mothers and caregivers, as well as the low status
of women in some Latin American and Caribbean societies.
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more:
http://www.unfpa.org/news/news.cfm?ID=1016 |
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6.
Africa: Women to Discuss Science, Tech
The African Union
(AU) is to host a conference for leading female scientists
to discuss their role in science and technology for
Africa's development.
The first AU Conference of African Women in Science
and Technology will be addressed by Deputy President
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and will take place in South
Africa from 29 to 31 August.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200708220775.html |
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©
2007 Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis
for
Technology Development and Institutional Innovation (PRGA Program)
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