Women’s Participation In Local Governance In Ghana The Case of the Nadowli …

The issue of women’s participation in all spheres of life has become a major developmental concern world-wide. Many debates on the above issue have highlighted women’s marginalization in all as…

Prevalence and Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with Anaemia in Pregnancy…

Anaemia, though a common problem in Nigeria, has not been adequately studied amongst pregnant women in primary health care facilities. Objective: This study is aimed at determining the prevalence o…

The Use of Facilities for Labor and Delivery: the Views of Women in Rural Uganda

The aim of the paper is to explore factors associated with home or hospital delivery in rural Uganda. Qualitative interviews with recently-delivered women in rural Uganda and statistical analys…

Grants Awarded Nigeria 2001 - 2010

AWDF awards grants to African women's organizations working in the following thematic areas: Women's Human Rights Economic Empowerment Political Participation Peace-Building Healt…

Autoras Africanas: A Favor De Las Mujres

Western culture produces binaries of power that are deeply inscribed both in language and in the collective imaginarium. Subversions tend to appear in the more affluent class, as is the case with f…

Resource Flows for poverty alleviation and development in South Africa

ISBN/ISSN

-

Number of Pages

-

Harmful Traditional Practices against Women and Legislation

By harmful practices, we mean all practices done deliberately by men on the body or the psyche of other human beings for no therapeutic purpose, but rather for cultural or socio-conventional motive…

Child Marriage and its Impact on Development: The case of Kasese District, Ug…

Child marriage has continued to be one of the major factors affecting the achievement of development indices and targets in Uganda.This report presents the findings of the study on Child Marriage a…

Exposition of Culture and the Space of Women: An African View for Policy Cons…

This conceptual article, framed around Marxism, highlighted the fact that, over time, African women have persistently questioned the ways in which understandings of culture have both valued a…

Emancipating the Passive Muse: A Call for a Feminist Approach to Writing Biog…

This essay analyzes two popular biographies on historical women to interrogate how a focus on gender has shaped the genre: Nancy Ruben Stuart’s The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Merc…