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 report presents the findings of two consultants hired by USAID/Rwanda to carry out a gender country assessment, identify strategic recommendations for USAID/Rwanda to strengthen its and its collaborating partners' programs, and incorporate these findings into a comprehensive and practical gender action plan. The assessment, provided to strengthen the Mission’s current program, also lays the groundwork for efforts to integrate gender considerations into the USAID/Rwanda Country Strategic Plan for 2002-2006. The assessment finds that the lives of many women and girls have improved as a result of USAID/Rwanda’s development assistance, however the Mission does not yet analyze or address gender issues in a systematic fashion and does not yet have adequate quantitative or qualitative gender-specific information from which to appropriately design its country strategy.

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On cover: Uruhare rwo kurengera no guteza imbere uburenganzira bw'abagore mu kubungabunga ubusugire bw'ingo n'umuryango nyarwanda muri rusange | Women's Legal Rights and the Rwandan Family (16 Mar 2006 : Hotel Novetel : Kigali, RW) | Women's legal rights initiative (WLR) Rwanda | Women in development IQC | English ed.: PN-ADH-915

This course is designed to help judges, lawyers, and prosecutors in Rwanda acquire the requisite knowledge and skills to make gender-sensitive decisions in domestic relations cases. It covers four main areas in domestic relations laws in Rwanda: gender, marriage, divorce and judicial separation, and succession. One of the objectives of the course is to show the unfairness of gender blindness in legal institutions and encourage informed legal gender analysis.

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.

Women's Legal Rights and the Rwandan Family (16 Mar 2006 : Hotel Novetel : Kigali, RW) | Women's legal rights initiative (WLR) Rwanda | Women in development IQC | Kinyarwanda ed.: PN-ADH-914

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