This annual report of the Women's Legal Rights Initiative (WLR) discusses best practices and reviews lessons learned, approaches, and activities that offer ideas about what works best in a given situation -- or how not to do something. This third annual report takes a broader perspective on best practices and lessons learned than previous reports did. It still focuses on WLR country program activities but considers the process used for developing the activity within each of the project's intermediate results, the need for and benefit of sound monitoring and evaluation plans, including indicators and data collection, and strategies for project management.

This document assesses current gender issues in Benin, together with governmental, non-governmental, and donor-funded activities to address them. It then proposes an integrated, cross-cutting strategy to strengthen attention to gender issues in USAID/Benin’s development assistance programs.

This document is a French-language paralegal manual on the Benin Family Code.

This is the original French-language version of Benin's sexual harassment legislation.

This is a French-language pamphlet that explains Benin's family code. It covers a variety of issues, including marriage, divorce, and children.

This is a French-language manual on the Benin Family Code. It is comprised of two parts: (1) basic paralegal training for community members without formal legal education, and (2) information regarding the reformed Benin Family Code. The manual aims to be an easy-to-use tool that civil society organizations, teachers, midwives, city hall workers, community leaders, and others have used to inform Benin's citizens of their rights and responsibilities under the Family Code.

This PowerPoint presentation, "Gender Mainstreaming and Integration: A Workshop for USAID/Benin Staff," was given at the USAID/Benin Gender Committee training held in June 2002.

This document summarizes a training program on gender integration for USAID/Benin staff, which was held in June 2002 and implemented by the Women in Development Technical Assistance Project (WIDTECH) project. The training focused on integrating gender considerations into the Benin Country Program. In addition, trainers helped USAID/Benin develop a Gender Strategy Implementation Plan, the purpose of which was to help effectively integrate gender considerations into all relevant Mission activities.

This one-pager describes the achievements of USAID's Women's Legal Rights Initiative in Benin. With encouragement from the project, Benin has adopted national reforms that render many longstanding local customs illegal, but awareness is low and enforcement is weak. The Women’s Legal Rights Benin team, with local partners, visits remote areas of the country informing women and men about the new laws.

This is the final report of the Women's Legal Rights Initiative (WLR). The WLR worked to advance the legal, civil, property, and human rights of women in 10 developing countries: Albania, Benin, Guatemala, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, and Swaziland.  It was implemented from 2002 to 2007 by Chemonics International in partnership with the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), MetaMetrics, Inc., and Partners of the Americas.

Produced by the Equity in the Classroom (EIC) project, this toolkit is a compilation of instruments that permit active research in the classroom and the school to promote increased participation and improved learning by girls and other marginalized students in primary education. The toolkit is designed to orient educators to issues of equity and to help them begin a process of research and inquiry to identify factors in schools and classrooms that limit equitable participation and achievement of girls and other disadvantaged learners.

This document reports on the findings of a two-week assessment and analysis trip to Benin by the Women's Legal Rights Initiative. The goal of the trip was to determine pervasive obstacles to the enforcement and enjoyment of women’s legal rights in Benin. The document includes an overview of USAID and other donor programs in Benin, background information on Benin's government and NGO community, findings and recommendations, and a proposed strategy for promoting the women's legal rights in Benin.