Gender Inclusion
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Rural Women as Catalysts to Promote Safe Hygiene and End Open Defecation in Nigeria
Oct 16, 2019In Nigeria, about 50 per cent of the population live in rural areas. But this group of people are disproportionately served and have less access to WASH services than their counterparts in the urban areas. ...Read More -
Upholding Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) for Women in Their Diversity
Apr 8, 2019It is critical to recognize the profound ways in which gender based-violence affects gender balance. Beyond that, it is also important to amplify the experiences of women and girls in their diversity and understand that women... -
Malawi: The Conflict Between Customary And Formal Land Laws
May 9, 2018Despite passing the Deceased Estates Act of 2011 and Gender Equality Act of 2013, which protect spouses and children’s share in the deceased estates, issues of property grabbing are still rampant in Malawi, Deogracias Benjamin Kalima... -
Why Malawian Men Shun Vasectomy Contraceptive Method
Apr 3, 2018Despite the increase in contraceptive use in Malawi, a lot of men are still shunning vasectomy due to existing cultural bias and myths associated with family planning. Vasectomy, a surgical procedure for permanent male sterilization, is... -
Breaking The Silence: How Women In Malawi Find Treatment For Fistula
Jun 27, 2017By Kelvin Tembo Fyness Ngoma’s happiness after delivery of a baby in 1990 was short lived. She could not understand why her urine had become uncontrollable. “I gave birth to a baby girl at Chulu Health... -
Malawi: The Case for Child Marriage in Mzimba
Jun 17, 2017By Kelvin Tembo Malawi, Mzimba – At the age of 11 while her mates wake up early in the morning, take a bath and set off for school, Catherine Msiska* does the opposite. Her routine work... -
Sexual harassment of female students jolts Zimbabwe parliament into action
May 21, 2017By Wellington Zimbowa The Zimbabwean parliament is set to partner all higher education institutions in combating sexual harassment of female students, legislator Beatrice Nyamupinga has revealed. Nyamupinga, the women’s affairs, gender and community development parliamentary... -
Uneven development progress leaves rural women behind
May 1, 2017MWANZA, TANZANIA – For years, the patriarchal nature of Tanzania has marginalised and disempowered women. In Mwanza, the second biggest city in Tanzania after Dar es Salaam, the rural nature of island communities in the lake... -
Women and Land Rights Struggle in Kenya
Apr 23, 2017By Oliech Okun KISUMU COUNTY, KENYA – 28-year-old Tina Anyango (not her real name) aged 28 is a widow living in Kuoyo Kaila, East seme Ward in Kisumu County. She is living with HIV which robbed... -
Is Africa Rising With Its Women?
Mar 16, 2017By Ritah Namwiza For some time now, Africa has been branded as a continent on the rise. In 2015, the World Bank reported that six of the world’s fastest-growing economies were in Africa— Ethiopia, Rwanda,...