This gender assessment focuses principally on (a) how strengthening women's participation and paying attention to gender issues can enhance USAID/Angola's results and (b) how monitoring and evaluation can track the success stories of women's involvement in USAID programs as well as any unintended negative impacts that can be remedied once observed. The report identifies key issues for Angolan women, particularly in light of conflict and the anticipated transition from humanitarian to development assistance; these include illiteracy, internal displacement, poverty, and violence. The report also looks at gender and performance monitoring with regard to USAID/Angola programming in the agriculture & food security, democracy & governance, and health & HIV/AIDS sectors.

In preparation for developing its Country Strategic Plan, USAID/Angola asked USAID's Office of Women in Development to help it assess the roles women in Angola are currently playing or might play in the future with some assistance. The assessment identifies gender-based issues that could present challenges or offer opportunities for USAID's democracy work in Angola. This summary report aims to identify existing conditions, desired conditions, discrepancies between the two, the causes of these discrepancies, and how they should be addressed.

This document summarizes the results of a study conducted by the WIDTECH project for the Office of Women in Development. The study identifies barriers to women's participation in building and maintaining peace in Angola and recommends opportunities for enhancing women's contribution to democracy and economic restructuring within USAID programs.

This document reports on the results of a study conducted by the WIDTECH project on behalf of the Women in Development Office. The report identifies barriers to women's participation in building and maintaining peace in Angola and recommends opportunities for enhancing women's contribution to democracy and economic restructuring within USAID programs. The study process also entailed building a general understanding of the circumstances of Angolan women.

This document contains the annexes that accompany Volume I of a report that identifies barriers to women's participation in building and maintaining peace in Angola and recommends opportunities for enhancing women's contribution to democracy and economic restructuring within USAID programs.