Gender equality has become one of the strategic components of the World Bank in its fight to reduce poverty. In 2007, the World Bank launched an action plan in favour of gender equality aimed at increasing the economic opportunities for women to access land, work, agriculture and financial services.
...revent them from having equal access or control over various resou...ources. In rural areas, where access of women to land and non-land resources remains challenging,...ess gender issues. Moreover, access to other natural assets for p...nder inequality regarding the access to natural resources and th...
...dings: for instance, the region scores particularly well on measures of access to basic services, energy,&nb...wide set of indicators related to women’s legal rights, including land ownership, workplace equality...
...ities in poverty are rooted in inequalities in access to economic resources includi...shows that in many countries women have weaker land rights, including inheritance...roup and hence inequality around women’s land rights is also affected by wo...
Education is considered as an important factor in enhancing a person’s opportunities in social and economic mobility. However, leaving school at an early age remains a problem, to which poverty and being female are generally associated with. To further analyze this issue, the Psyc...
The GLRD was launched by FAO in 2010 to highlight the major political, legal and cultural factors that influence the realisation of women’s land rights throughout the world. It also serves as hub of information for policy makers and advocates of women’s land right...
Women, Business and the Law 2018 is the 5th edition in a series of biennial reports measuring the legal obstacles to women who engage in economic activity around the world. The analysis draws on newly-collected data across seven indicators: accessing institutions, using property, gettin...
This platform is part of the Axis 1 "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors" of the Priority Solidarity Fund "Women for the future in the Mediterranean" funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women's Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
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