rural Women
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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 -
Rural Women, Agrarian Needs and Other Reports
Oct 2, 2017Every week, RuralReporters.com collate reports on development issues in rural Africa and its environs. This report includes some of our top picks from recent must-read research, interviews, blogs, and in-depth articles, carefully selected to help you... -
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... -
Rural Women, ICT Drive and Other Reports
Jun 5, 2017Every week, RuralReporters.com collate reports on development issues in rural Africa and its environs. This report includes some of our top picks from recent must-read research, interviews, blogs, and in-depth articles, carefully selected to help you... -
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... -
Local Thrift Group Boosts Financial Inclusion In Rural Malawi
Dec 13, 2016By Deogracias Benjamin Kalima Sophie Mdala runs a small business in Chikwawa district of southern Malawi. Sales have been good for the past eight years, but it could be better. To improve her business, Mdala needs... -
Kenya: Young Women Lack Access to Safe Abortion Services
Oct 23, 2016By Michael Okun Oliech, Kenya In 2012 the Google Zeitgeist Report ranked abortion as top on the list of the subjects Kenyans search for in the ‘How To’ category. This showed that many girls and... -
Rural Women, Land Rights and Other Reports
Oct 17, 2016Every week, Rural Reporters collate reports on development in rural Africa and its environs. The reports include some of our top picks from recent must-read research, interviews, reports, blogs and in-depth articles which have been carefully... -
Why Family Planning Needs Of Rural Women Can No Longer Be Ignored
Oct 17, 2016By Michael Okun Oliech Access to safe, accurate, high quality, affordable, acceptable and voluntary family planning is a basic human right yet thousands of young girls and women who want to avoid pregnancy in Kenya’s rural...