*PRGA Newsletter issue No. 10 June 2006
Biotechnology: Economic Farm Income Gains from Commercialization of BT Cotton and Maize in the Comesa Region
This paper looks at the potential farm income gains that may result from introduction of GM maize and cotton within six countries considered in the Regional Approach to Biotechnology and Biosafety Policy in Eastern and Southern Africa (RABESA initiative): Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Changing Social Institutions to Improve the Status of Women in Developing Countries
This Policy Brief summarises lessons from research on how institutions influence the economic role of women in developing countries to answer three questions. First, why are social institutions so important for gender equality? Second, what obstacles impede reforms of discriminatory social institutions, and why is progress so limited? Third, what policy lessons emerge for donors?.
Innovative Approaches to Increase Access of Poor Girls to Secondary Education in Cambodia
An US$800,000 grant will help increase access to upper secondary education for poor girls in Cambodia through the provision of residential facilities with media learning centers.
Project Planned to Boost Quality Education for Poor in Tajikistan
ADB (Asian Development Bank ) will prepare a project to improve the quality and responsiveness of Tajikistan's education system to meet the needs of a modern economy and supportive of poor, disadvantaged children - particularly girls and those with special needs - with the help of a technical assistance grant of $400,000.
African Leaders Meet to Tackle Food Crisis
African leaders, farmers and international agriculture experts are meeting in Nigeria to come up with solutions to soil degradation and food shortages on the world's poorest continent.
Using Gender Research in Development, Food Security in Practice No. 2
In keeping with the purpose of International Food Policy Research Institute IFPRI's Food Security in Practice series, this practitioners' guide bridges the gap between research and practice by providing up-to-date, relevant information on why and how gender issues, when taken into account, can improve the design, implementation, and effectiveness of development projects and policies.
Building Capacities in Gender Analysis and Gender Mainstreaming in the NARS of ASARECA
Third workshop of a collaborative initiative between Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa(ASARECA) and PRGA Program was held in Nairobi from 10th to 17th June 2006 with the purpose of developing and enhancing the capacity of the selected participants from the National Agricultural Research System (NARS) in the region on how to utilize gender sensitive participatory research and mainstream such approaches in their respective organizations.
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