*PRGA Newsletter issue No. 18 February 2007
Third regional training course on gender, citizenship and participatory governance for the Middle East and North Africa Region
This course aims to provide a gender analysis of governance institutions and familiarize participants with strategies to put gender equality on the governance agenda.
Task force to address sexual abuse and exploitation
United Nations agencies and the southern Sudanese government are to establish a task force to monitor cases of sexual abuse and exploitation involving international staff, officials said.
A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
We have the opportunity in the coming decade to cut world poverty by half. Billions more people could enjoy the fruits of the global economy. Tens of millions of lives can be saved. The practical solutions exist. The political framework is established. And for the first time, the cost is utterly affordable. Whatever one’s motivation for attacking the crisis of extreme poverty—human rights, religious values, security, fiscal prudence, ideology—the solutions are the same. All that is needed is action.
Call for Papers for a special issue of SIGNS
For this special issue Signs invites international, transnational, and comparative studies that engage theoretical and historical analyses of women and agriculture; and analyses of racial, ethnic, and gendered dimensions of agriculture.
Securing Equality, Engendering Peace: A guide to policy and planning on women, peace and security
What must be done in order to transform written words into reality? One of today’s greatest development challenges is turning policy into practice. This is especially the case in the realm of women’s rights and gender equality, where the commitments made at the international and national levels remain far from the day-to-day realities of women’s lives.
World Bank Approves US$25 Million to Support Community-Based Poverty Reduction Project
The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank today approved a US$25 million International Development Association (IDA) credit* to provide additional funding for the Community Based Poverty Reduction Project (CPRP) in Nigeria.
Stimulating pro-poor innovation with the Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA) by Thomas Bernet and Andre Devaux
The Andean highlands are home to some of the poorest rural households in South America. As the forces of globalization and market integration reach these areas, they pose many challenges for farmers, but they also present new opportunities.Native Andean potatoes (landraces) and the local knowledge for their cultivation and use are unique resources possessed by farmers in the high Andes.
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