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Women and Poverty
More than 1 billion in the world today, the great majority of whom are women, live in unacceptable conditions of poverty, mostly in the developing countries. Poverty has various causes, including structural ones. Poverty is a complex, multidimensional problem, with origins in both the national and international domains.
- WomenWatch Special Feature: The gender perspectives of the financial crisis
[ www.un.org ]
Languages: English
A WomenWatch special feature on the the gender perspectives of the financial crisis, April 200.
- Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty
[ www.unifem.org ]
Languages: English
The report argues for closer attention to the role of women, particularly working poor women, in the informal economy, and the impact of this on efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals.
- Women and the Right to Food - International Law and State Practice
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
The study looks at the right to food in the context of gender discrimination. It includes a brief overview of the position of women's right to food in international law and identifies gaps in both law and practice. FAO, 2008
- FAO: Gender and Food Security - Nutrition
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish
Statistics, programmes, documents and fact files
- FAO: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
Publication, 1999
- The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction
[ www.wider.unu.edu ]
Languages: English
Subtitled "The Challenges in Development Aid", this research paper recommends that post-conflict reconstruction projects systematically address gender issues and promote gender equality to make peace work. UNU, 2006
- The Global Financial Crisis: Assessing Vulnerability for Women and Children
[ www.worldbank.org ]
Languages: English
World Bank Internal Policy Brief, March 2009
- The gender perspectives of the financial crisis
[ www.un.org ]
Languages: English
The emerging issue on “The gender perspectives of the financial crisis” was considered at an
interactive expert panel at the Fifty-Third Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
(CSW) in March 2009. The website of the UN Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW)
contains the papers and presentations, as well as an issues paper and information on the
panelists. DAW, 2009
- Women In 33 Countries Highly Vulnerable To Financial Crisis Effects
[ www.worldbank.org ]
Languages: English | French
World Bank Estimates Increase in Infant Mortality, Less Girl Education and Reduced Earnings.
World Bank press release, 6 March 2009.
- UNESCO Future Forum: The Potential Impact of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis on
Women and Gender Equality
[ portal.unesco.org ]
Languages: English
The UNESCO Future Forum was held on 2 March 2009 at UNESCO Headquarters to reflect on the
ramifications of the present financial and economic crisis and their implications for
international cooperation in general and in particular for UNESCO’s domains, namely
education, the sciences, culture, communication and information. UNESCO, 2009
- Microfinance: no panacea, but useful
instrument in fight against poverty
[ www.un.org ]
Languages: English
UN-DESA Policy Brief No. 10. DESA, 2008
- Tackling Insecurity in Old Age: The Challenge of Universal Pensions
[ www.un.org ]
Languages: English
UN-DESA Policy Brief No. 3. DESA, 2007
- The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics. Chapter 6 Poverty, decision-making and human rights
[ unstats.un.org ]
Languages: English
This document reviews deficiencies and gaps in the collection, dissemination, presentation and use of data in the following three areas of concern highlighted in the Beijing Platform for Action: Women and poverty; Women in power and decision-making; and Human rights of women. UN Statistics Division, 2005
- Gender Inequalities in Allocating Time to Paid and Unpaid Work: Evidence from Bolivia (UNDP Poverty Center, 2007)
[ www.undp-povertycentre.org ]
Languages: English
UNDP Poverty Center's Working Paper series disseminates the findings of work in progress in order to encourage exchange of ideas about development issues.
- The Gender Pay Gap over Women's Working Lifetime (UNDP Poverty Center, 2006)
[ www.ipc-undp.org ]
Languages: English
UNDP Poverty Center's "One Pagers" are online publications aiming to raise awareness on technical issues of poverty measurement and policies for poverty reduction among a wide audience.
- Women's earning power and wellbeing (UNDP Poverty Center, 2006)
[ www.undp-povertycentre.org ]
Languages: English
UNDP Poverty Center's "One Pagers" are online publications aiming to raise awareness on technical issues of poverty measurement and policies for poverty reduction among a wide audience.
- Poverty among women in Latin America: Feminization or over-representation? (UNDP Poverty Center, 2006)
[ www.undp-povertycentre.org ]
Languages: English
UNDP Poverty Center's Working Paper series disseminates the findings of work in progress in order to encourage exchange of ideas about development issues.
- Online Discussion: Women and Poverty
[ www.un.org ]
Languages: English
From October 2004 to January 2005, WomenWatch hosted a series of online discussions on the Platform's critical areas of concern and other important issues to provide input into the review and appraisal of the Bejing Declaration and Platform for Action. All postings and background notes are available for reading as archived online discussion.
- DESA/DAW: "Empowerment of Women through the life cycle as a transformative strategy for poverty eradication"
[ www.un.org ]
Languages: English
Information on an Expert Group Meeting organized by DAW, 26-29 November 2001
- FAO: The feminization of hunger: What do surveys tell us?
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
2001 article
- FAO: Gender food security
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
FAO synthesis report of regional documents: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Europe, Near East, Latin America
- FAO: Improving the status of disavantaged women in small-scale fishing communities of Capiz and Pangasinan, Philippines
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
Project evaluation, 1994
- IFAD: Report on the Seminar on Rural Poverty Reduction "Harvesting IFAD-BSF Synergies", 2002
[ www.ifad.org ]
Languages: English
- IFAD: Rural Poverty Report 2001 - The Challenge of Ending Rural Poverty
[ www.ifad.org ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish | Arabic
Report with regional assessments
- IFAD: Gender Perspective - Focus on the Rural Poor - An Overview of Gender Issues in IFAD-Assisted Projects
[ www.ifad.org ]
Languages: English
Brochure presenting the evolution of IFAD's approach to gender, together with some examples of sector-specific approaches selected from IFAD's project portfolio, 2000
- IFAD: Household Food Security and the Role of Women: IFAD's Experience in Guatemala
[ www.ifad.org ]
Languages: English
Study identifying the determinants of household food security, 1998
- IFAD: Engendered Mobilization, the Key to Livelihood Security: IFAD's Experience in South Asia
[ www.ifad.org ]
Languages: English
Study on processes and patterns associated with household food security, 1998-2003
- IFAD: Food Security, Poverty and Women: Lessons from Rural Asia
[ www.ifad.org ]
Languages: English
Theoretical and empirical study on three projects in India and Nepal, 1999-2003
- Rural Women in IFAD's Projects: The Key to Poverty Alleviation
[ www.ifad.org ]
Languages: English
- WFP: Focus on Women
[ www.wfp.org ]
Languages: English
Facts on women and poverty, especially relating to food
- UNRISD: Project on Gender, Poverty and Well-being
[ www.unrisd.org ]
Languages: English
This project argued that the links between gender and poverty lie at the level of social and economic relations and institutions rather than merely poverty "outcomes", 1997-1999
- UNDP: Gender and Poverty Reduction
[ www.undp.org ]
Languages: English
Selected UNDP resources on mainstreaming gender into poverty reduction policies and interventions
- UNDP: "In Focus" bulletin, January 2004
[ www.undg.org ]
Languages: English
Includes references to gender equality in income and education in Latin America and the Caribbean
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