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A technical report on a gender-aware macroeconomic model for evaluating impacts of policies on poverty reduction in Africa : the case for South Africa
(2003)
There is a growing recognition that macroeconomic and adjustment policies may have quite different effects on men and women. The Beijing Platform for Action from the 1995 Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women ...
Gender net : women's economic rights in Africa-examining the challenge
(2006)
The global review of the implementation of the Beijing commitments (Beijing +10) showed that some progress towards gender equality has been made, albeit patchy and uneven in some areas. Since then, the discussion of gender ...
A Technical report on a gender-aware macroeconomic model for evaluating impacts of policies on poverty reduction in Africa: the case for South Africa: part I: building of an extended gender-aware social accounting matrix
(2003)
The African Center for Gender and Development (ACDG) of the United Nation Economic Commission for Africa (UN-ECA) in collaboration with Laval University aim to develop a macroeconomic framework that integrates both market ...
Linking HIV/AIDS to women's peace advocacy : AWCPD'S contribution to the international partnership againest HIV/AIDS in Africa
(2000)
The objectives of the Workshop were: to enable participants to address issues relating to HIV/AIDS in its work on conflict resolution and peace process;to enable participants to disseminate this knowledge in their work ...
Gender dimensions of cross border trade in the East African community : Kenya/Uganda and Rwanda/Burundi border
(2009-10)
The main finding of the study is that informal cross border women traders across the region do not use available formal systems/structures for most of their transactions. This makes it difficult for regional trade policy ...
Partnerships for gender equality : the role of multilateral and bilateral agencies in Africa
(2005-03)
The goal of this report is to highlight the efforts of multilateral and bilateral agencies to support African women in their valiant struggles. It describes projects and programmes based on
the strategic objectives of the ...
The PRSP process in Ghana
(2002-11)
Ghana is the only country in sub-Saharan Africa that has undergone fundamental economic and political transformations over the past decade and half. Although the results of the economic reform programs have been far from ...
Technical report on project implementation of the policy analysis and advocacy programme of ACGD
(2002)
To improve its services to African countries, ECA conducted in 1999 a strategic orientation assessment of its gender programme to support the implementation of Africa's development agenda. In order to increase- its ...
A conceptual and analytical framework for gender mainstreaming in national accounts and national budget : words need numbers to influence them
(2002-12)
The United Nations, through the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Declaration Goals (MDGs) has identied non-market work (NMW) as a key area of policy intervention for improving the situation of those in the ...
Gender and HIV/AIDS : discussion outcomes
(2004-11)
The Seventh African Regional Conference on Women (Beijing+10) was held in parallel with the Fourth African Development Forum (ADF IV) on Governance, 6-15 October 2004 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Beijing+10 fits within the ...