This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children … partner violence, early marriage, and female genital mutilations - negatively affect the schooling of boys and girls …

participation, more progressive attitudes towards gender norms, and an increased presence of women in leadership positions. These … concessions to private companies, within which smallholder farmers were forced to cultivate cotton for payment in cash. Women bore … individual-level survey data collected along the concession border, we find lower educational outcomes among women in former …

ineffective. The specialized unit increased awareness about and response to gender-based violence, but was impeded by a broken … the Liberia National Police's innovative efforts to create a more gender-sensitive police service and describes the … (1) recruit female police officers and (2) train a specialized unit to address gender-related crimes. Ambitious …

We study the impact of electoral gender quotas in post-war Burundi and Rwanda on women's political representation … ordinary women, before, during, and after the introduction of gender quotas. We find that, both in Rwanda and Burundi …, descriptive female political representation significantly increased with the introduction of gender quotas, with the share of …

helping to sustain egalitarian gender norms in general, and less violence against women in particular. By exploiting sub …We study the roots of violence against women, and propose that it partly originates in cultural norms that derive from … large degree of spatial variation in both attitudes and actions of violence against women. Using rich individual survey and …

needs to be done to enhance women's access to assets, skills training, and better-quality employment. Further gender … design and outcomes. This constitutes a key challenge in Tanzania, where women and femaleheaded households are constrained by …'s employment policies from a gender perspective by adopting a functional approach. We examine policies with (1) a labour market …

, reconstructs gender relations in the post-civil war context. The current literature examines the role of women in the governance of … argue that women's engagement in Liberian civil wars as combatants and peace activists reconstitute gender norms and gender …This research project traces how women's participation in the Liberian civil wars, as combatants and peace agents …

Agriculture is a main contributor to pro-poor growth in Africa, but gender inequalities in the sector hold back … agricultural growth and affect household welfare negatively. The sector has been characterized by a lack of gender …-disaggregated data and patchy gender-integration in policies and operational responses. To remedy this, the World Bank (WB) and the …

Although Tanzania has made notable progress in enhancing access to financial services, the gender gap in financial … inclusion persists. This paper examines gender disparities in financial inclusion in Tanzania using descriptive and regression … analyses. While the advent of mobile phone money services has led to increased access to formal financial services, women still …

We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …, and by age 22 significantly more women than men have completed high school or tertiary education. From an early age, both … women and men undertake a lot of unpaid labour for their households that tends to be highly gendered, and women's work is …