The Journey To Awareness of an African Girl-Child

This paper explains my journey as an African girl-child coming into the awareness of who she is and how she perceived change in a new environment. As a young girl migrating to a different country, …

Generating Knowledge and Evidence on the Prevention of Violence Against Women…

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Gender Mainstreaming and Africanizing Social Science Research with Specific R…

Most studies in social sciences have been gender blind, and this blindness hinders attempts to understand the causal mechanisms that create and maintain social patterning in outcomes. It is importa…

Qualitative Evaluation of the Saleema Campaign to Eliminate Female Genital Mu…

Background: Female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C, herein FGM) is a widespread and harmful practice. The Government developed a national campaign in Sudan, called Saleema, to change social n…

Book Chapter: The Violence of Power: Power Relations and Women’s Experience…

Education is an important tool for the development of human potential. Organizations and individuals interested in development consider knowledge, skills and attitudes, obtained through formal, non…

“Weird” Sex: Identity, Censorship, and China’s Women Sex Bloggers

From American Idol style talent competitions to Chinese Vogue, the recent influx of digital culture in urban China has irrevocably changed the country’s social landscape. By 2000, Chinese urbanit…

Enhancing Access to Post-Rape Care for Child Survivors in the Context of Poli…

This study builds on previous interventions by the Population Council and the Zambia Police Service to mitigate unintended pregnancy and HIV among survivors of sexual violence by involving trained …

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

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 …

Put the Power in Her Hands: A Communication Toolkit on Reproductive Health, R…

"Women's funds and nonprofit organizations are doing important work in reproductive health, rights and justice (RH/ RR/RJ). To fulfill their missions, they need to make an effective case to funders…

Women in Agriculture: An assessment of the current state of Affairs in Africa

Agriculture continues to loom large in the development possibilities in Africa. The availability of resources, particularly, human resources, is only a necessary condition to the development of the…