design and outcomes. This constitutes a key challenge in Tanzania, where women and femaleheaded households are constrained by … needs to be done to enhance women's access to assets, skills training, and better-quality employment. Further gender …Tanzania has experienced relatively strong and stable economic growth accompanied by social stability over the past two …

social policy trajectories in Mainland Tanzania with a gender lens, to better understand the contributions of these …In July 2020, the United Republic of Tanzania gained the status of a lower-middleincome country. This came after two … working-age women. The paper draws on a scoping review of diverse secondary materials, including academic publications …

-segregated. Macro-level policies in turn can have differential effects on men and women. Evidence that gender equality is itself a … identifies linkages between gender, economic development, and growth, however. This paper explores the macro effects of gender …, transmitted via the productive sector and in the household, in part due to the tendency for work - paid and unpaid - to be gender …

Rwanda is one of the countries with the best strategies for women empowerment and gender equality in Africa and … globally. Nonetheless, some inequalities exist especially in education attainment. This study investigates the gender gaps in …-owned enterprises. The results are corroborated by propensity score matching estimates, implying that the estimated gender productivity …

grapple with important gender inequalities. This paper examines, first, the evolution and effects of Tanzania's social …Tanzania has expanded its social protection framework significantly over the past decade, but the country continues to … protection policies since the 2000s, from the perspective of working-age women. Drawing on a scoping review of diverse evidence …

, reconstructs gender relations in the post-civil war context. The current literature examines the role of women in the governance of … argue that women's engagement in Liberian civil wars as combatants and peace activists reconstitute gender norms and gender …This research project traces how women's participation in the Liberian civil wars, as combatants and peace agents …

Strategic Plan (2021-26) lays out ambitious targets to achieve universal health coverage. Yet, women in Tanzania continue to … challenges disadvantaging women. The aims of this paper are two-fold. First, we examine the evolution of Tanzania's health policy …Tanzania has undertaken important health sector reforms in the new millennium, and the most recent Health Sector …

the hosting population. Using panel data (pre- and post-refugee inflow) from Kagera, a rural region of Tanzania, we find … that the refugee shock led to women being less likely to engage in employment outside the household and more likely to … by (pre-shock) literacy and maths skill. For women who could read and perform simple written mathematical operations the …

Tanzania. Our findings indicate that, compared to men, women are less likely to participate in the labour market and less … likely to get formal wage employment, suggesting the existence of gender bias in the labour market in urban areas of Tanzania …. However, after accounting for selection into labour force participation, the existing gender bias is narrowed for women with …

. We compare scenarios with different gender employment intensities in producing jatropha for biodiesel. Under all … availability emerges when female labour is used intensively, as women are drawn away from food production. A skills …-shortage amongst female workers also limits poverty reduction. Policy simulations indicate that only modest improvements in women …