Investing well in the right places: why fund women's funds

Women's fund are public foundations that aims to support and fund women-led solutions to the root causes of social injustice. Supporting feminist groups and movements is the most effective and last…

Introduction: Science Fiction and the Feminist Present

“The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion” (149). So Donna Haraway wrote in 1985 in “A Cyborg Manifesto.” When I composed a call for papers around this…

Is Bilateral Aid Responding to Good Governance in Africa?

This paper investigates whether aid flows from traditional donor countries to African countries have responded to improved governance in African countries, whether aid has been used by donors to im…

Monitoring and Investigating Human rights abuses in armed conflict

Widespread abuses of human rights and international humanitarian law are a common feature of modern conflicts. Civilians, particularly women and children, are the main victims in these wars. Severa…

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.…

Impacts of Climate Change on Health and Wellbeing in South Africa

Given its associated burden of disease, climate change in South Africa could be reframed as predominately a health issue, one necessitating an urgent health-sector response. The growing impact of…

Obstacles for Women in Leadership Positions: The Case of South Africa

One of the findings of a 2007 survey done by the South African Commission on Gender Equality is that more than 30 percent of the respondents are of the opinion that women are too emotional to handl…

Structure, Empowerment and the Liberalization of Cross-National Abortion Rights

Economic, cultural, and political opportunity structures have been separately shown to facilitate and constrain abortion rights. We examine two central and related questions: First, which factors…

The Second Fund her Report : Financial Sustainability for Women’s Movements…

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Review of Household Clean Energy Technology for Lighting, Charging and Cookin…

This toolkit has been designed as a resource document for the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) to implement clean energy projects at the household level in conserv…