*PRGA Newsletter issue No. 24 August 2007
Call for “Practical Notes” for a special issue of Development in Practice
FROM THEORY TO THE PRACTICE: OPERATIONALIZING PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND GENDER ANALYSIS
Contributions deadline: September 30, 2007
Practical Notes
Concise accounts of up to 3000 words usually of an empirical nature concerning a particular experience or topic, but presented in a way that will interest a wide international readership.
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.
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 between those two spaces.
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.
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.
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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