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.

Women in development indefinite quantity contract (WID IQC) | At head of title: Gender matters : integrating gender, achieving result

This paper evaluates how tariff liberalization impacted male- and female-headed households in South Africa during 1995, 2000, and 2004. An analysis of consumption trends by sex of household head show statistically significant differences, and these are transmitted through the impact in the tariff incidence. The research findings suggests that the sex of the household head matters and must be considered in addition to other household-identifying factors (e.g., socio-economic status) when evaluating the impacts of tariff liberalization.

Project title: Women in development indefinite quantity contract (WID IQC) | Appendices: PD-ACG-390

Project title: Women in development indefinite quantity contract (WID IQC) | Main report: PD-ACG-389

This study uses a dynamic general equilibrium and microsimulation model to assess the effects of trade liberalization on growth, employment, and poverty in South Africa. It examines how men and women have been affected and whether or not trade liberalization has contributed to the faster rise in female unemployment and poverty. A Research Brief of the same name (PN-ADJ-407) summarizes the findings of this report. 

This Research Brief summarizes the findings of a larger report, "Has Trade Liberalization in South Africa Affected Men and Women Differently?" (PN-ADH-667), which was prepared for the Greater Access to Trade Expansion (GATE) Project. Using an applied general equilibrium and microsimulation model, the report examines how trade liberalization has affected men and women since 1994. The Brief presents the paper’s key implications and recommendations.

This fact sheet provides a snapshot of South Africa's economy, covering key economic indicators, trade, poverty, and the labor market. In addition, it presents a development diamond that maps poverty, labor market segmentation, trade, and wage rate trends over a 10-year period.

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.