Gender

General, Business, Trade and Investment II (GBTI II) IQC SOW

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application/pdf iconGeneral Business, Trade, and Investment II (GBTI II).pdf
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USAID
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Date: 
December 1, 2006
The objective of this IQC is to allow missions and bureaus to continue to engage in business, trade and investment work and related sector reform projects through a structured procurement process. The new IQC will build on initial SEGIR experience in addressing business, trade and investment constraints to economic growth in USAID-presence countries.

The Greater Access to Trade Expansion (GATE) Project: Final Report

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application/pdf iconThe Greater Access to Trade Expansion (GATE) Project - Final Report.pdf
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USAID
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Date: 
November 1, 2009
This USAID final report show how GATE activities enhanced existing USAID trade and economic growth activities by helping missions to address gender considerations in their programming and implementation efforts.

Promoting Gender Equitable Opportunities: Why It Matters for Agricultural Value Chains

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application/pdf iconPromoting Gender Equitable Opportunities - Why It Matters for Agricultural Value Chains.pdf
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USAID
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PDF
Date: 
November 1, 2009
This USAID brief outlines key “evidence-based correlations” among gender equality, competitiveness, and empowerment that inform the GATE Project’s “Promoting Gender Equitable Opportunities in Agricultural Value Chains: A Handbook”: (1) Increasing asset equality between men and women improves growth in the agricultural sector; (2) Increasing gender equality in the labor market improves economic efficiency; and (3) Increasing opportunities for women improves equality and empowerment.

Gender and Economic Growth

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application/pdf iconGender and Economic Growth.pdf
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Wade Channell (TCBoost presenter)
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Date: 
November 12, 2010
A PowerPoint presentation delivered at the USAID Trade and Investment Training: Programming for Greater Impact in Bangkok, Thailand by Wade Channell showing how more and better integration of women into development projects can be good for the bottom line.

WLTIE: The Salmon Story

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WLTIE scholar Stuty Maskey traveled from Nepal to enroll at Oregon State University, where she will earn her MA in Public Policy in spring 2011.  In late 2010, Stuty offered her thoughts on perseverence as a graduate student in the United States, drawing on the scenic Pacific northwest for inspiration.

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Assessing the Role of Gender

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Women play a crucial role in agriculture in developing countries. According to the FAO, two-thirds of the female labor force in developing countries is engaged in agricultural work, as independent food producers or agricultural workers. Rural women produce half of the world’s food and, in developing countries, between 60% and 80% of food crops. Yet, despite this, less than 2% of agricultural land is owned by women.

WLTIE: The Summer School Experience

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Scholar on campus

Gunjan Dhakal joins the WLTIE program from Nepal.  Gunjan is pursuing her graduate degree at Oregon State University, through which she participated in the 2010 International Comparative Rural Policy Studies Summer Institute. 

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WLTIE: Pakistani Scholar Becomes First WLTIE Graduate

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Scholars visit DC

Hajra Zafar is committed to making a difference in her home country of Pakistan as the first woman to receive a master’s degree in economics under USAID’s Women’s Leadership Training in Economics (WLTIE) program.  In May, she completed an accelerated, one-year master’s degree program in economics from Boston University, describing the experience of studying in the United States as “one of the greatest opportunities of my life.”

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