*PRGA Newsletter issue No. 29 January 2008
The Power of Movements- The 11th AWID International Forum on Women's Rights and Development, November 14-17, 2008 Cape Town, South Africa
From November 14-17, 2008, up to 1,500 women's rights leaders and activists from around the world will converge on Cape Town, South Africa at the 11th AWID International Forum to discuss the power of movements.
Call for Women Entrepreneurs
The doing Business project is conducting a two year research effort to identify legal and regulatory barriers facing businesswomen in 178 economies.
YWCA calls for peace with justice and protection of women’s rights in Kenya
The World YWCA and YWCA of Kenya expresses its solidarity with Kenyan women and their families in the face of the pain and suffering as a result of Kenya’s violence and insecurity following the country’s December 27, 2007 elections.
UN Heads Petition to Curb Gender Violence
The United Nations Foundation (UNF) will donate $1 for each of the first 100 000 signatures to an online petition aimed at eliminating violence against women.
Rural Development Outcomes and Drivers: An Overview and Some Lessons
Over 3.5 billion people live in the Asia and Pacific region and some 63% of them in rural areas. Although millions of rural people have escaped poverty as a result of economic growth in many Asian countries, a large majority of rural people continue to suffer from persistent poverty. The socioeconomic disparities between rural and urban areas are also widening, creating tremendous pressure on the social and economic fabric of many developing Asian economies. These factors, among many others, tend to highlight the importance of rural development.
Advanced Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
Dates:28 January 2008-01 February 2008 Location:Oxford, UK
There are limits to the more traditional monitoring and evaluation (M&E) methods, based on cause and effect interpretations of social development. During this course we will explore how to develop a cost-effective monitoring and evaluation system. Such a system has as its objective the generation of a sufficient, but not excessive, quality of data, and enough information to provide a development agency with a reliable understanding of the outputs, effects and impacts of capacity building processes.
Use of Eritrean agro biodiversity by farmers to improve agricultural production at local level
Eritrea is among the 10 poorest countries in the world. The economy is largely based on subsistence agriculture, with over 80% of the population living in rural areas and depending on farming and livestock production. The staple crops are barley (16% of total food production) and wheat, mostly produced in the highlands, with lentil, chickpea and faba bean which provide the main portion of the daily protein requirement.
The attached file presents findings from PN2 ‘Water productivity improvement in Eritrea’, a project of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food.
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