This paper on gender and cartography attempts to accomplish a number of goals - it explores the UN's rote in promoting gender equality ; touches on social cartography ; attempts to explain what gender issues are and why ...

This proposal is about enhancing the effectiveness of ECA work on one of its key cross-cutting foci: promotion of women in development in Africa through: (a) direct programmes and (b) mainstreaming of gender concerns in ...

La structure politique et idéologique de la société érige des barrières que les femmes doivent affronter et franchir. L'idéologie qui fait de la politique la chasse gardée des hommes stroke lentement et les femmes du monde ...

The global concern on the status of women dates as far back as 1946 when the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women was established to monitor the situation of women and to promote women’s status. Since then, a ...

This paper presents an overview of gender initiatives taking place in Eastern Africa and implementations with regard to the Regional and Global Platforms for Action. In response to commitments made at the Fourth World ...

It is really not easy to speak on the economic activities of women for most adult women (that is, women over 18) are married and therefore qualified housewives, and according to INS1 these are inactive persons or dependants, ...

The Economic Commission for Africa has four technical subsidiary bodies as part of its Intergovernmental machinery, namely: United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Africa, which is convened every three years; ...

The East African sub-region, like the rest of Africa, has severely affected by the economic decline and recession which characterised most of the 1980s and 1990s. Of the 12 countries which make up the East African sub-region ...

Those that desire to he hoiste do the 1adder of business activities by others and not by themselves are likely to experiences one difficu1ty in choosing the time and a1so)the speed at which this cou1d take place unless at ...

The paper shows women still suffer from the handicaps and humiliation of subsidiary partnership - specially in the rural areas and amongst the lower income bracket. It is a truism to say one can barely limp with half the ...