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A media-focused, non-governmental organisation (NGO) with a regional outlook and a vision of a media that enhances acceptance of diversity and gender equality for sustainable development.

An open access digital library featuring critical resources on African feminism and women's rights movements in Africa.

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.

Asia Pacific’s leading feminist, membership driven network. For 25 years, APWLD has been empowering women to use law as an instrument of change for equality, justice, peace and development. They use research, training, advocacy and activism to claim…

An international, feminist, membership organisation committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women’s human rights.

A specialised gender and development research and information service based in the Gender and Sexuality Cluster at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), in the UK. As part of a global network of individuals and organisations working to advance…

A network of feminist scholars, researchers and activists from the economic South working for economic and gender justice and sustainable and democratic development.

This paper, based on the author’s detailed primary surveys in two Indian states, examines whether group farming can enable women farmers to overcome resource constraints and gain economically. Can it also empower them socially and politically?

Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries explores the detrimental impact of discriminatory gender norms on adolescent girls’ lives across very different contexts. Grounded in four years of in-depth research in Ethiopia, Nepal, Uganda and…

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.