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Best of Reports: Focus on Women and Development

2002-03-08

To mark International Women's Week, Reports magazine is running a retrospective of stories that focus on gender and research for sustainable development.

Scholarship Fund for Palestinian Refugee Women

"Studying was always my dream — to finish school and go to university." These are the words of Nesreen Abou Ardineh, a Palestinian living in Lebanon who is in her second year of a five-year engineering course. She’s hoping to specialize in computer science — a subject many people believe is proper only for men. "People kept telling me that engineering is too tough for girls," she says. "Even my English teacher said girls cannot handle it."

Solving Pieces of the Argan Puzzle: Researcher Profile, Zoubida Charrouf

"I didn’t know that I bothered people .....well, I knew that I did, but I didn’t know quite how much."  Zoubida Charrouf, Professor in the Science Faculty of Mohamed V. University, in Rabat,  Morocco is quietly trying to explain some of the hurdles she faces. "People reproach me three things. They reproach me for having helped women  get out of the house. They reproach me for having  improved the extraction of argan oil. And they reproach me for being interested in a tree that belongs to ordinary people, not to academics."

Through Farmers' Eyes 

Using first-person stories and pictures taken by women  farmers, the book Gender, Land, and Livelihoods in East Africa: Through Farmers’ Eyes documents the lives of women in Western Kenya as they work to sustain their soils and their livelihoods. Through Farmers’ Eyes provides links to an interview with the book`s author, Ritu Verma, as well as a slide show, an audio file, and other online resources.

Combatting Violence Against Women in Palestine

A ground-breaking  research project funded by IDRC shows that violence against women is common in the Gaza Strip, the impoverished coastal area between Israel and Egypt. The preliminary results are alarming: half of the women interviewed to date have been victims of violence.

Gender Sensitivity and the Acacia National Strategy for Senegal

Facilitating access to, and exploitation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for marginalized communities, especially women and youth: this is the main objective of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)'s Acacia Initiative.

Combatting Sexual Violence in South Africa

More than 50,000 cases of rape  were reported to South African police in 1996. With financial support from IDRC, the Johannesburg Southern Metropolitan Local Council in partnership with CIETafrica launched  a 'social audit' in 1997 to investigate the causes of rape and other forms of sexual violence. Already, this study has amassed the largest and most detailed body of information  on sexual violence in Africa. Some of the findings may help communities, police, and  social service workers address the problem
more effectively.

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Competition: Gender, Globalization, and Land Tenure

The Gender Unit at IDRC has launched a call for proposals from developing country researchers interested in exploring the issues of gender, globalization, and land tenure.

Resources

IDRC Booktique: Gender and the Informatioin Revolution in Africa

IDRC Booktique: Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development

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