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Publications are listed in alphabetical order by title.

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Advancing women's rights globally : consolidated first, second, third and fourth quarterly report, November 1, 2002-October 31, 2003 [year two]
08/25/2004 (151KB)

This document reports on activities in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda during the second year of the USAID grant "Advancing Women's Rights Globally." Under this grant, Georgetown University Law Center's International Women's Human Rights Clinic and its four partners (LAWA-Ghana, WRAPA, WLAC, and LAW-Uganda) work on various projects to advance women's rights and fight discrimination, including legislation, litigation, strengthening civil society, and public education. The women's rights issues covered include trafficking, domestic violence, marriage, divorce, polygamy, brideprice, adultery, child marriage, property, inheritance, employment, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, female genital mutilation, and political participation.



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Advancing women's rights globally : consolidated first, second, third and fourth quarterly reports, November 1, 2003-October 31, 2004 [year three]
08/19/2005 (147KB)

This document reports on activities in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda during the third year of the USAID grant "Advancing Women's Rights Globally." Under this grant, Georgetown University Law Center's International Women's Human Rights Clinic and its four partners (LAWA-Ghana, WRAPA, WLAC, and LAW-Uganda) work on various projects to advance women's rights and fight discrimination, including legislation, litigation, strengthening civil society, and public education. The women's rights issues covered include trafficking, domestic violence, marriage, divorce, polygamy, brideprice, adultery, child marriage, property, inheritance, employment, maternal health, HIV/AIDS, female genital cutting, and political participation.



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Advancing women's rights globally : consolidated first, second, third, and fourth quarterly reports, November 1, 2004-October 31, 2005 [USAID extension]
06/01/2006 (332KB)

This document reports on activities in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda during the extension period of the USAID grant "Advancing Women's Rights Globally." Under this grant, Georgetown University Law Center's International Women's Human Rights Clinic and its four partners (LAWA-Ghana, WRAPA, WLAC, and LAW-Uganda) work on various projects to advance women's rights and fight discrimination, including legislation, litigation, strengthening civil society, and public education. The women's rights issues covered include trafficking, domestic violence, marriage, divorce, polygamy, brideprice, adultery, child custody, property, inheritance, HIV/AIDS, maternal health, female genital mutilation, and political participation.



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Cross-generational and transactional sexual relations in Sub-Saharan Africa : prevalence of behavior and implications for negotiating safer sexual practices
09/01/2002 (1.8MB)

Also available with related materials on CD-ROM (PN-ACS-787) | Project title: AIDS social marketing (AIDSMark)



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Integrating Gender in Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade: Training for USAID Africa Missions: Workshop Report
05/10/2004 (247KB)

This document reports on DevTech's implementation of three gender training workshops for the USAID Missions in Africa. The workshops, held in Accra, Pretoria, and Addis Ababa in 2004, emphasized the economic growth, agriculture, and trade sectors. The document discusses the participant evaluations, shares the technical and institutional lessons learned from the trainings, and provides recommendations to help improve future trainings.



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The Importance of Addressing Gender in Economic Growth and Trade Activities: GATE East Africa Regional Workshop
12/31/2008 (7.2MB)

This document is a compilation of presentations, reference lists, case studies, and other materials from a December 2008 workshop on the importance of incorporating gender into economic growth and trade activities. The workshop focused on the East Africa region and was held in Nairobi, Kenya. The Greater Access to Trade Expansion (GATE) Project organized and led the workshop.



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The Women's Legal Rights Initiative : Final Report
01/01/2007 (1.1MB)

This is the final report of the Women's Legal Rights Initiative (WLR). The WLR worked to advance the legal, civil, property, and human rights of women in 10 developing countries:  Albania, Benin, Guatemala, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, and Swaziland.  It was implemented from 2002 to 2007 by Chemonics International in partnership with the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), MetaMetrics, Inc., and Partners of the Americas.



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USAID anti-trafficking in persons programs in Africa : a review
03/31/2007 (359KB)

Women in Development indefinite quantity contract (WID IQC)



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Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development : final report -- cooperative agreement FAO-A-00-96-00001-00 : September 26, 1996-September 30, 2000 -- African women leaders in agriculture and the environment (AWLAE program)
12/31/2000 (58KB)

This final report of the African Women Leaders in Agriculture and the Environment (AWLAE) program provides an overview of the activities implemented and results achieved under the program. The goal of the program was to increase the participation and leadership of African women at all levels of agricultural and environmental activity. The program focused on helping professional women advance so that they might become stronger advocates for policies and programs that benefit women farmers.



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Women's property and inheritance rights: improving lives in changing times -- final synthesis and conference proceedings paper [Nairobi, Kenya from June 18-21, 2002]
03/01/2003 (1.1MB)

This paper synthesizes and summarizes the proceedings of the EGAT/WID NGO Small Grants Program's "Conference on Women's Property and Inheritance Rights," which was held in June 2002 in Nairobi, Kenya. At the conference, representatives of NGOs that had received funding to support their efforts to strengthen women's property and inheritance rights discussed the goals, structures, and outcomes of their work. The NGO grantees had been active in Africa (Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, and Tanzania) and Asia (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka).



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