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Government of Kenya (GoK) integrated gender in a pronounced way in the design and implementation of the Kenya Agricultural …
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the implementation of the UNSCR 1325 "Women, Peace, and Security" in Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The paper …, ethnic, or political) loyalties and pressures in a manner that efficiently prevents individual women/women as a group from … enhancing women's rights and gender equality as a priority. …
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design and outcomes. This constitutes a key challenge in Tanzania, where women and femaleheaded households are constrained by …, through their effects on workingage women's employment in the 2000s. We also discuss the extent to which women's employment is … areas of financial services, labour market regulations, and entrepreneurship support, and women's labour market position has …
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well the WIID's standardized inequality measures relate to measures of per capita income inequality in Kenya due to lack of …
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This paper sets out to investigate the wellbeing of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It undertakes … spatial and temporal comparisons of women's wellbeing using data from the Demographic and Health Survey and the Multiple … improvement and deterioration of women's welfare across the DRC over a three-year period (2007 - 10). …
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recruitment efforts brought more women on board, but some critics regarded the related fast-track program as misguided or …
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Strategic Plan (2021-26) lays out ambitious targets to achieve universal health coverage. Yet, women in Tanzania continue to … challenges disadvantaging women. The aims of this paper are two-fold. First, we examine the evolution of Tanzania's health policy … over the past two decades (2000-21) from the perspective of enhancing financial protection for working-age women. Second …
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This paper examines the impact of the Hindu Succession Act on married women's time use in India. The Hindu Succession … Act was amended between 1976 and 2005 by giving equal inheritance rights to women for inheriting property. To estimate the …. Using the nationally representative Time Use Survey 2019, I find that women exposed to the reform are investing 46 minutes …
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-age women's labour supply decisions in India, where female labour force participation continues to decline over time. We find … for women aged 20-50, with the effect stronger for urban women. The effect is particularly strong if the pension …, leading to reduced labour supply by the elderly, allowing them to provide greater childcare support. The increase in women …
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