Background The informal work sector and COVID-19 Globally, two billion people are engaged in informal work, of whom a disproportionate number - 66 percent of workers - are women. Women, facing gender...
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Kenya + 2 more
Background The informal work sector and COVID-19 Globally, two billion people are engaged in informal work, of whom a disproportionate number - 66 percent of workers - are women. Women, facing gender...
Publication Author Naome Wandera, Kirabo Suubi, Chryspin Afifu, Emily Schaub, Connor Ruth and Izugbara Chimaraoke Executive Summary Introduction The informal sector in Uganda is characterized by...
Publication Author Naome Wandera, Chryspin Afifu, Kirabo Suubi, Emily Schaub, Connor Ruth and Izugbara Chimaraoke Executive Summary Background At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kenyan...
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IMPROVING SRHR OUTCOMES AMONG YOUNG REFUGEE WOMEN AND GIRLS IN NIGERIA AND UGANDA By the end of 2021, the global population of forcibly displaced peoples was over 89 million, most of them being...
Written by Samira Damavandi In emergency settings, such as the armed conflict in Ukraine, the COVID-19 global pandemic, and climate-related natural disasters, access to sexual and reproductive health...
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is implementing a multi-country research project called REBUILD, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the International...
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is implementing a multi-country funded research project dubbed REBUILD. In this project, ICRW seeks to assess the impact of COVID-19 policies on...
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Globally, 2 billion of the world’s employed population aged 15 and older work informally, representing 61.2 percent of global employment, with the vast majority of employment in...
A REPORT CARD ON THE SECRETARY-GENERAL’S 5TH YEAR FROM THE FEMINIST U.N. CAMPAIGN Release Date: March 8, 2022 Article Subtitle: Time for Feminist Action and Implementation: A Report Card on the...
Publication Author: Sharmishtha Nanda, Kuhika Seth, Meher Suri, Radhika Uppal, Nilanjana Sengupta, Sneha Sharma One of the key questions posed in our research within the Rebuild project is to...
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted the informal women workers due to lockdowns, curfews, school closures, and all other containment measures- most of which missed the feminist lens...
Key Considerations Uganda has female labor force participation of 67 percent. While some efforts to advance social protection are being made, Uganda currently spends only about 3.5 percent of its...
1. Introduction 1.1 Context of women and land property in Tanzania The Constitution of the Republic of Tanzania (1977) upholds equality before the law and promotes women’s ownership and inheritance...
Executive Summary In 2016, the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund initiated a multiintervention project, Women’s Land Rights Social Norms, to improve women’s land tenure in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda...
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Estimados Embajadores, La agenda Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad (MPS) es, en esencia, una agenda liderada por la sociedad civil, que, en asociación con los Estados Miembros y la ONU, presionó para la...
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Chères Ambassadrices, Chers Ambassadeurs, La société civile est au cœur de la lutte pour la mise en œuvre du programme pour les Femmes, la Paix et la Sécurité et a prôné, en partenariat avec les Etat...
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2021 Joint NGO letter in advance of the annual UN Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security Dear Ambassadors, The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is, at its heart, an agenda...
1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Generation Equality is an international platform that seeks to accelerate the implementation of the gender equality commitments in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for...
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INTRODUCTION Climate change is inextricably linked with sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender equality. Any efforts to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change and...
Publication Author: Mahnaz M. Harrison, Sarah Frech, Maedeh Hassanzadegan, Paul Kuodi, Elizabeth J. Anderson, Heather Marlow, Chimaraoke Izugbara Female genital mutilation (FGM), the intentional...