Gender-based Household Compositional Changes and Implications for Poverty in …

Poverty is one of the most challenging socio-economic problems in South Africa. Though poverty rates have been substantially reduced in the post-apartheid period, many South Africans remain poor.…

Gender, Poverty and Inequality in the Aftermath of Zimbabwe’s Land Reform: …

Gender equality is re-emerging as an important global and national agenda with emphasis placed on closing the gender gap in terms of women’s representation in public and private decision-making…

Resource Flows for poverty alleviation and development in South Africa

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Child Marriage and its Impact on Development: The case of Kasese District, Ug…

Child marriage has continued to be one of the major factors affecting the achievement of development indices and targets in Uganda.This report presents the findings of the study on Child Marriage a…

Freedom of Information (FOI) & Women's Rights in Africa

Based on the interviews conducted and data collected in five African countries namely; Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Zambia very few women organisation have engaged in lobbying for the F…

Women and Renewable Energy in a South African Community: Exploring Energy Pov…

This paper argues that the rights of women to be included in decisions about energy use and their experiences with energy use are ignored. Using an eco-feminist perspective this article explores ho…

Initiation of Sexual Behaviour and Early Childbearing: Poverty and the Gender…

Childbearing is an important life course event and a decision to give birth has significant implication in contemporary society, especially if it occurs before the completion of schooling and preda…

Exploring Structural Violence in the Context of Disability and Poverty in Zim…

Background: While it is widely assumed that disability, poverty and health are closely linked, research falls short of fully understanding the link. One approach to analysing the links between disa…

The Kenyan Constitutional Reform Process: A Case Study on the work of FIDA Ke…

The case study is organized into chronologically-based categories of work based on the different phases of the reform process. It suggests that making the demand for women’s rights within high…

Politics of Gender (in)Equality Relating to Sport and Development Within a Su…

Gender represents a confounding social construction within the multiple-layering of relative disenfranchisement in the Sub-Saharan context of poverty. Class and race play a significant role in the …