http://www.wikigender.org/index.php/Women_and_the_Informal_Economy
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Women are over-represented in the informal sector worldwide.
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The informal sector is the primary source of employment for women in most developing countries.
WIEGO – Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing & Organizing
WIEGO is a global network focused on securing livelihoods for the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy. http://wiego.org/
ILO – International Labour Organization
http://www.ilo.org/ilc/ILCSessions/104/media-centre/news/WCMS_375615/lang--en/index.htm
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Women are receiving more targeted humanitarian aid but how much do aid agencies really know about what their programming is achieving?
Women & Aid: Measuring Effectiveness & Impact
By Louise Redvers
DUBAI, 28 July 2015 (IRIN) - Aid agencies have no problem agreeing that gender-sensitive programming is a good idea, but few have come up with concrete methods for evaluating the impact it has on those it is supposed to be helping.
The humanitarian sector’s Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) “Gender Marker” rates aid proposals on whether they ignore, take into account, or prioritise Gender Equality Programming (GEP).
However, the tool, introduced in 2009, only looks at projects on paper, it doesn’t monitor how well (or otherwise) they are rolled out or take into account their end results.
In an effort to close this knowledge gap, academics from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, commissioned by UN Women, carried out four in-depth studies involving 2,000 crisis-affected households in Kenya (in Turkana and Dadaab), the Philippines and Nepal.
UN Human Rights Council Session 29 Resolution
United Nations - General Assembly
A/HRC/29/L.16/Rev.1
Distr.: Limited
1 July 2015
Twenty-ninth session
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development
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