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The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is implementing a multi-country funded research project dubbed REBUILD. In this project, ICRW seeks to assess the impact of COVID-19 policies on women in the informal economy in…
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Globally, 2 billion of the world’s employed population aged 15 and older work informally, representing 61.2 percent of global employment, with the vast majority of employment in Africa (85.8 percent) being informal (ILO, 2018). In…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted the informal women workers due to lockdowns, curfews, school closures, and all other containment measures- most of which missed the feminist lens in their formulation, enforcement, and reporting. All recovery…
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Executive Summary In 2016, the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund initiated a multiintervention project, Women’s Land Rights Social Norms, to improve women’s land tenure in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The project aimed to change the behaviors of men, women,…
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1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Generation Equality is an international platform that seeks to accelerate the implementation of the gender equality commitments in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action of 1995 to achieve transformative change. Generation Equality Forum…
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Publication Author: Mahnaz M. Harrison, Sarah Frech, Maedeh Hassanzadegan, Paul Kuodi, Elizabeth J. Anderson, Heather Marlow, Chimaraoke Izugbara Female genital mutilation (FGM), the intentional altering or injuring of the female genitals for non-medical reasons, has been performed…
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Family Care International (FCI), International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), and the KEMRI/CDC Research and Public Health Collaboration 2014 Across the developing world, a woman dies every two minutes from complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Improving…
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Introduction Agriculture is a critical driver of economic growth in Kenya, contributing nearly a fourth of the country’s gross domestic product and employing close to eighty percent of the rural population. Recognizing the importance of this sector,…
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Meet Janet Wamalwa Thu, 11/18/2010 ICRW Communications Staff Simple, diverse farming techniques help mother of five in Kenya curb hunger and earn an income. VILLAGE OF MUYAFWA, Kenya - Much of Janet Wamalwa's one-acre farm plot lay bare and difficult to cultivate. Like…
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Kenyan Women Farmers and Agricultural Experts Share Needs, Successes with ICRW Women farmers in Kenya are hungry for innovative, concrete business ideas. They need more access to credit, training, technical assistance and resources such as fertilizer and seeds. And they're eager…