Analysis of Economic Opportunities for Low-Income Women and the Very Poor in Rwanda
Explains how low-income women and the very poor in Rwanda are generally excluded from the process of economic development due to lack of resources and services. This report analyzes the economic opportunities available to these groups.
<a href="http://menengage.org/resources/analysis-economic-opportunities-low-income-women-poor-rwanda/" title="http://menengage.org/resources/analysis-economic-opportunities-low-income-women-poor-rwanda/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://menengage.org/resources/analysis-economic-opportunities-low-income-women-poor-rwanda/</a>
US AID
March 2010
English
Building Effective Women’s Economic Empowerment Strategies
Report that draws on insights gathered from interviews with 10 multinational companies actively engaged in advancing women's economic empowerment, as well as a comprehensive review of the latest literature and leading company practices and programs.
Jessica Davis Pluess, Aditi Mohapatra, Katherine Fritz, Cecile Oger, Kelly Gallo, Racheal Meiers
<a href="https://www.icrw.org/publications/building-effective-womens-economic-empowerment-strategies-3/" title="https://www.icrw.org/publications/building-effective-womens-economic-empowerment-strategies-3/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.icrw.org/publications/building-effective-womens-economic-empowerment-strategies-3/</a>
ICRW
2016
English
The Business Case for Women’s Economic Empowerment
Presents findings of a study that investigated corporate-funded women’s economic empowerment programs and includes an integrated framework that the private sector can adopt to increase return on investment and enhance women's economic advancement.
ICRW, Oak Foundation, Dalberg and Witter Ventures
<a href="https://www.icrw.org/publications/the-business-case-for-womens-economic-empowerment-an-integrated-approach/" title="https://www.icrw.org/publications/the-business-case-for-womens-economic-empowerment-an-integrated-approach/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.icrw.org/publications/the-business-case-for-womens-economic-empowerment-an-integrated-approach/</a>
ICRW
2014
English
Child In Need Institute (CINI)
CINI’s overarching aim is to enable poor people, women and children to take control of their lives and have a share in sustainable development. We are active in deprived communities, both in villages and low-income urban settlements. We seek to break the vicious cycle of poverty, malnutrition, ill-health, illiteracy, abuse and violence, affecting in particular children and women.
<a href="http://www.cini-india.org/" title="http://www.cini-india.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.cini-india.org/</a>
Child In Need Institute (CINI)
English
EmpowerWomen
A dynamic platform to improve the sharing of evidence, experiences and good practices on women’s economic empowerment developed by UN Women and Canada.
<a href="https://www.empowerwomen.org/en" title="https://www.empowerwomen.org/en" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.empowerwomen.org/en</a>
Empower Women
2017
English, French, Spanish, Arabic
Fact and Fiction: Examining Microcredit/Microfinance from a Feminist Perspective
A report that provides, first, a definition of microcredit, then situates the tool both historically and within present debates on development and economics and finally discusses its impact on particular groups of women.
Soma K. Parthasarathy
<a href="https://www.awid.org/publications/fact-and-fiction-examining-microcreditmicrofinance-feminist-perspective" title="https://www.awid.org/publications/fact-and-fiction-examining-microcreditmicrofinance-feminist-perspective" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.awid.org/publications/fact-and-fiction-examining-microcreditmicrofinance-feminist-perspective</a>
AWID
February 2012
English
Feminist Perspectives Towards Transforming Economic Power: Buen Vivir
This article introduces Buen Vivir both as a concept and in its implementation in public policies in Bolivia. The notion that Buen Vivir is gender neutral is examined in light of the fact that the main challenges are dismantling patriarchal power structures, the restriction of women’s participation in decision making, and recognizing the gender inequalities within Indigenous communities.
Martha Lanza and Fundación Colectivo Cabildeo Bolivia
<a href="https://www.awid.org/publications/feminist-perspectives-towards-transforming-economic-power-buen-vivir" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.awid.org/publications/feminist-perspectives-towards-transforming-economic-power-buen-vivir</a>
AWID
2012
English
The Global Financial Crisis and Women in West Africa: Developing Impacts and the Implications of Policy Responses
This series of briefs entitled The crisis’ impact on women’s rights, published by the , includes sub-regional perspectives on the impacts seen to date of the current crisis on women and women’s rights as well as those likely to come. These sub-regional analyses are a key input from women activists and analysts to inform development debates and decisions that are being made to respond to the crisis. The series also includes a cross-regional and global analysis.
Dzodzi Tsikata
<a href="http://menengage.org/resources/global-financial-crisis-women-west-africa-developing-impacts-implications-policy-responses/" title="http://menengage.org/resources/global-financial-crisis-women-west-africa-developing-impacts-implications-policy-responses/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://menengage.org/resources/global-financial-crisis-women-west-africa-developing-impacts-implications-policy-responses/</a>
Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)
2009
English
Global Gender Gap Report
The Global Gender Gap Report ranks 145 economies according to how well they are leveraging their female talent pool, based on economic, educational, health-based and political indicators.
<a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/11/the-global-gender-gap-report-in-numbers" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/11/the-global-gender-gap-report-in-numbers</a>
World Economic Forum
2015
English
Neither heroines nor victims: Women migrant workers and changing family and community relations in Nepal
Pourakhi, an organization established by women returnees in 2003, has collected more than 1,700 case studies on returnee women migrant workers in Nepal. This paper delves into 307 of these, as well as a consultation with 14 returnee migrant women from 14 districts, to better understand the reintegration process. Rather than focusing on a (necessary) critique of labour markets and on the high human, social and financial costs of migration, this study aims at giving voice to the subjectivities of migrant women in Nepal, as less attention has been paid to this aspect. It unpacks their reasons for undertaking international migration and their struggle for capability to secure a livelihood in the context of globalization.
Giovanna Gioli, Amina Maharjan, Manju Gurung
<a href="http://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2017/10/women-migrant-workers-and-changing-family-and-community-relations-in-nepal" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2017/10/women-migrant-workers-and-changing-family-and-community-relations-in-nepal</a>
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
2017
English