Commonwealth Secretariat
Incorporating Gender into Food Security Policies in the Commonwealth
(Africa: Phase 1, Report of a meeting of Consultants Kampala, Uganda)
London: Commonwealth Secretariat, July 1995

There is indisputable evidence that women are over-represented amongst the poor and hungry of the world. Moreover, women play a dominant role in the food-cycle, in terms of household food production, storage, marketing, preservation, preparation and consumption, throughout most of the developing world and thus most Commonwealth nations.

Keywords: Gender; Food Security Policies
Source: Economic Affairs Division, Commonwealth Secretariat, Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HX, UK.

Emeagwali, T. Gloria
Women Pay the Price: Structural Adjustment in Africa and Carribean
Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 1995

The contributors argue that IMF/World Bank policies have wrecked havoc on a large percentage of humanity, in Third World Countries. These studies have further shown that IMF/World Bank policies have induced or intensified the feminization of poverty and have reversed a great deal of the socio-economic gains of the post-colonial era of the last thirty years.

Keywords: Structural Adjustment; Child Health; Health Care; Employment
Source: Africa World Press, Inc., P.O. Box 1892, Trenton, New Jersey 08607, U.S.A.

Family Care International
NGO Participation in Improving Women's Reproductive Health in Africa
New York, USA: Family Care International, Nov. 1989

This paper reveals that thousands of women die each year from pregnancy-related complications. Also looks at the contribution of NGO's in launching policies and programs to address the root causes of maternal health.

Keywords: Reproduction; Health
Source: Family Care International, 588 Broadway, Suite 510, New York, N.Y.10012, USA.

The Hunger Project
Give a Woman a Place at the Policy Table
New York, USA: The Hunger Project, April 1994

Highlights that women play a pivotal role in food production, but they have little voice as Africa's majority producers of food. Also shows how structural adjustment overburdens women by relying on them to replace the collapsed public sector in African countries.

Keywords: Management; Agriculture
Source: African Hunger Project NY, NY 10010 USA.

Husain, Ishrat Farugee, Rashid
Adjustment in Africa: lessons from country case studies
Washington, U.S.A: World Bank, 1994

This report provides an assessment of structural adjustment policies undertaken by seven African countries in the mid 1980's. This report emphasises the specific economic and social circumstances of each country that led to the adoption of an adjustment programme. It measures and analyses the extent to which the adjustment policies were in fact implemented in each country. Finally the report attempts to assess economic performance in relation to the strength of the implementation of policy reforms. This research was initiated to supplement the main study, which is more aggregated and covers a cross section of twenty nine countries. The motivation behind the research was to capture the diversity of experiences in implementing reforms.

Keywords: Structural Adjustment; Country Profile
Source: c/o SARDC, P.O. 5690, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Ker Conway, Jill; Bourque, C. Susan (Eds.)
The Politics of Women's Education: Perspectives from Asia, Africa, and Latin America
Michigan, USA: Michigan University Press, 1996

In the last 25 years, women have made remarkable progress in access to the class-room and broken new ground in educational opportunities, yet educational equity remains elusive and politically contested. This is a collection of essays that reveal the complex changes in women's education throughout the world and together offer the first comprehensive assessment of what has been attempted, what remains to be done, and what the options are for reform.

Keywords: Policy; Education
Source: The University Of Michigan Press, USA.