East & Southern Africa
Documents on East & Southern Africa (414)
Author:
G. Adenji,
Arid Lands Information Network, Jan 2011
A person’s gender often dictates whether they gain or lose in environmental disasters: where women lack basic rights, more die from natural disasters than men; where they enjoy equal rights, ...
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Author:
A. Swarup;I. Dankelman;K. Ahluwalia,
Plan International, Jan 2011
How do girls experience climate change in Ethiopia and Bangladesh? This report, based on participatory research in the two countries, argues that programmes and policies that do not recognise the ...
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Author:
D. Eade,
Oxfam, Jun 2004
How do reconstruction efforts carried out or supported by funding agencies address issues of safety and security in the lives of women and girls? This article highlights the case study ...
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Development Assistance Committee, OECD, Jan 2010
Since the Rwandan genocide in 1994, women have come to play a more important role in the formal sector, although the majority of Rwandan women still work in subsistence farming. ...
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, Jan 2009
This analysis by the East African Community Secretariat looks at gender equality and equity promotion and development community development in Rwanda. The document reviews the existing gender and community development ...
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