Gender

Gender inequality and poverty are closely related. It is not just that women have lower incomes and are less wealthy; poverty in the narrow financial sense is compounded by women's lack of political power and unequal access to basic human rights; employment; information; social services; infrastructure; natural resources. The European Commission has a longstanding commitment to promoting gender equality in development cooperation.

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Gender budgeting - Gender equality - women's rights - Gender mainstreaming - Gender policy - Gender-based violence - Women's empowerment - Women's organisations

Putting Reproductive Rights at the Centre of Development

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 18 July 2016

“To end the cycle of poverty and ensure sustainable development, you have to make sure women are in control of their sexual and reproductive health and rights [SRHR],” said Mangala Namasivayam from the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW). In numerous developing countries, a...

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Putting Reproductive Rights at the Centre of Development

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 14 July 2016

“To end the cycle of poverty and ensure sustainable development, you have to make sure women are in control of their sexual and reproductive health and rights [SRHR],” said Mangala Namasivayam from the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW). In numerous developing countries, a...

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Combatting Violence against Women and Girls - EIDHR brochure

Capacity4dev Team updated the Document | 14 July 2016

vaw-eidhr-brochure.pdf 24.83 MB

In recent years and in many parts of the world, there have been unprecedented contestations of women’s status and rights; including the widespread use of rape as a weapon of war, and the proliferation of horrific forms of human trafficking, with women being enslaved or formally sold as goods...

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Group: Public Group on Gender
SDGs and gender justice (ES)

Caroline Garcia uploaded a new Document | 13 July 2016

6_gender_justice_presentacion_2030_con_video.pdf 2.63 MB

ODS y justicia de género Cecilia Olea Mauleón CMP “Flora Tristan” Articulación Feminista Marcosur Antigua, julio de 2016

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Group: Policy Forum on Development (PFD)
Webinar: Addressing Energy Governance: Questions of Scale and Scope

Molly Hurley-Depret created a new event | 8 July 2016

18 Jul

From 18 July 2016
in (Belgium)

Organised by Smart Villages and the Low Carbon Energy for Development Network

The next webinar in our monthly series brings together researchers working on energy governance issues from a range of projects funded under two different DFID initiatives. These initiatives are the EPSRC/DFID/DECC funded Understading Sustainable Energy Solutions (USES) programme whose 13 projects...

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Group: Public Group on Energy
6. Thematic Briefs

Pierre Berman updated the WIKI page | 8 July 2016

The RNSF published the following Thematic Briefs between July 15 2015 and July 15, 2016. Additional briefs may also be added to this list: Transition from the informal to the formal economy ( En , Es , Fr ) Micro-finance ( En , Es , Fr ) Social Inclusion of Youth ( En , Es , Fr ) Social Protection...

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Group: Informal Economy Support Facility
Handbook on Concepts And Methods For Mainstreaming Gender Equality, European Commission

Francesco Barilli uploaded a new Document | 7 July 2016

proj_design_gender_mainstream.pdf 3.63 MB

This Handbook constitutes Section 1 of the Toolkit on Mainstreaming Gender Equality in EC Development Cooperation. The Handbook gives guidelines on how to mainstream gender equality in the two main aid delivery methods, namely the project approach and the sector approach. It also recalls the...

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Group: Informal Economy Support Facility
European Development Days 2016: Gender and agricultural entrepreneurship - unlocking women's full potential through agricultural empowerment

Sarah Cummings created a new event | 2 June 2016

16 Jun

From 16 June 2016
in Brussels 1000 (Belgium)

Organised by World Food Programme, FAO, Oxfam International, CTA, UN Women

This session showcases how women in agribusiness can be the drivers of positive change in the social and economic development of their communities. Worldwide, women comprise about 40 % of the agricultural labour force and play a crucial role in food production, processing and marketing of produce...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Policy brief: How do gender approaches improve climate compatible development? Lessons from Peru

CDKN (Climate and Development Knowledge Network) uploaded a new Document | 6 May 2016

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This brief is based on a research project carried out by Practical Action Consulting with support from the Institute of Development Studies, commissioned by and supported by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), to provide evidence on the advantages and challenges of integrating a...

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Group: Public Group on Gender
Policy brief: How do gender approaches contribute to climate compatible development? Lessons from Kenya

CDKN (Climate and Development Knowledge Network) uploaded a new Document | 6 May 2016

kenya-gender-brief-final.pdf 505.8 KB

This brief is based on a research project carried out by Practical Action Consulting with support from the Institute of Development Studies, commissioned by and supported by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), to provide evidence on the advantages and challenges of integrating a...

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Group: Public Group on Gender

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