Countries: Belize
Variables: SRACE-PRACTICE-2

"Furthermore, in targeting rural women as recipients of poverty alleviation programs, the BRDP provided a BZ$900 (USD$450) thousand-dollar fund to the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA). This allowed the organization to execute the Gender-based Rural Sustainable Livelihoods Program during 2006–2010 in the central zone and indigenous communities in the south. The program recruited and trained 150 rural women and youth who attended skills training offered by the YWCA in hospitality, food preparation and childcare. The project provided access to micro grants. After this successful phase, the 'Expanding Economic Opportunities through Entrepreneurship and Market Development Project' began in 2012. In addition to skills training, rural women received business mentoring and technical...more

Countries: Benin
Variables: LO-DATA-1, NGOFW-DATA-1, SRACE-PRACTICE-2

“At the forest’s edge, a scientist is giving a lesson on the mushrooms that grow here in the damp ground around the trees of Toui-Kilibo reserve in Benin. Olyvia Fadeyi is a mycologist – she studies fungi – and is teaching the women from the village of Yaoui how best to harness the economic value of this strangest of crops. Mushrooms can be cultivated year round, in back gardens, on vertically stacked shelves, rather than waiting for the naturally abundant ones in the rainy season” (1). “Fadeyi, who recently received €10,000 to fund her mushroom-growing initiative from a science-funding foundation and is asking for additional support from the Beninese authorities,...more

Countries: Serbia
Variables: SRACE-PRACTICE-2

"Roma women, older women, poor women, women with disabilities, refugee and internally displaced women and women heads of household continue to experience multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination... [T]hose women continue to have limited access to [education]" (16).

Countries: Botswana
Variables: SRACE-PRACTICE-2

"The Government in collaboration with civil society organisations continue to implement comprehensive empowerment programmes including life skills, technical skills, business management and financial assistance for income generating projects to enhance opportunities for employment creation for women. These facilitate reintegration of commercial sex workers into society. Current efforts to provide alternatives to commercial sex work include: youth and women empowerment programmes including development of business and technical skills, financial support for entrepreneurship and enterprise development; poverty eradication programmes; micro lending programmes to provide start-up capital and mentorship for small businesses; provision of free education, back-to-school programme for youth who dropped out and those who previously failed, re-admission after pregnancy; orphan care...more

Countries: China
Variables: SRACE-PRACTICE-2

"Since 2014, more than 30 million yuan in special funds have been provided to offer practical technical training for rural women, support women in developing specialty industries and achieve economic empowerment" (11). “Women accounted for 58 per cent of all participants and 90 per cent in training sessions on embroidery, wax printing, dough modelling and other projects of intangible cultural heritage" (20). "Some projects with crafts traditionally taught only to men have also embraced female apprentices" (21). "[Governmental projects] also provided women with access to more and varied selections of cultural and artistic works" (25).

Countries: Azerbaijan
Variables: SRACE-PRACTICE-2

"[T]he Government of Azerbaijan keeps in focus educational opportunities of IDP women and children, and the development of skills by promoting their entrepreneurial activities and increasing the participation in governance" (6). "To prevent the cases of early marriage, young girls are encouraged to take various professions. Local education management offices, law enforcement agencies and local executive authorities conduct a regular awareness work jointly with parents to promote their admission to the vocational education schools as they complete their compulsory studies in secondary schools" (19).

Countries: Azerbaijan
Variables: SRACE-PRACTICE-2

"During 2015–2018, 1245 women were briefed on how to improve their skills. The tailoring plant was restored in Ismayilli on the initiative of the Center of Children’s and Families’ Support that provided jobs for 54 women from vulnerable families. In general, 842 women have applied for job to 11 Support Centers in this period, and 339 out of that number have obtained jobs. 85 of them were invited to the vocational education courses while others were directed to the employment centers. Women ’s Resource Centers run its activities in the districts of Sabirabad and Ismayilli. 650 women have benefited from those resources" (24).

Countries: Nicaragua
Variables: SRACE-PRACTICE-2

"Special programmes and projects will be put in place to that end. The Government acknowledges the right to create and enjoy all forms of art and culture. The national human development plans for the periods 2008–2012 and 2012–2016 contain guidelines for public institutions on fostering the preservation and promotion of all features of our national identity and culture, supporting and developing expressions of local and national culture, and encouraging the widespread practice of all sporting disciplines" (27). "Article 28 of the Equal Rights and Opportunities Act stipulates that the State and regional and local governments shall promote culture, ensuring equal opportunities for women and men, by funding the development of...more

Countries: Nepal
Variables: SRACE-PRACTICE-2

"Under the Women Development Program, in an effort to provide life skill education and training for girls and women, rural out-of-school adolescent girls have been imparted with life skill education and training" (14). "Women’s access to employment-oriented vocational education and training has been enhanced with encouraged participation of women in non-traditional trades. WDP has been instrumental in promoting education and training for rural women, especially the marginalized women community." (39). "For providing business services, trainings and access to markets, information and technology, particularly to low income women, the government has focused on skill training and entrepreneurship development for women." (41). "To promote the rights of the girl child and increase...more

Countries: Iran
Variables: SRACE-PRACTICE-2

"[T]housands of women were permitted to attend a World Cup Qualifier game between Iran and Cambodia in 2019, following pressure from human rights groups and the sport’s world governing body, FIFA" (para 7).

Countries: Kenya
Variables: SRACE-PRACTICE-2

Grassroots organisations are emerging all around the country to build community awareness of women’s legal rights. One group, the Come Together Widows and Orphans Organization (CTWOO), has offered legal advice and support to nearly 500,000 widows since 2013. The NGO is trying to address disinheritance at its roots. It works with other groups to increase financial and legal literacy across the country, especially among married couples, encouraging them to discuss finances openly, and to write wills" (para 8-9).

Countries: New Zealand
Variables: SRACE-PRACTICE-2

"As the stories of women from diverse backgrounds in Aotearoa New Zealand have shown in our own and others’ research, many have turned to their own cultures, social networks and religions to help them through the pandemic. Others have used sport and exercise, nature and digital technology to build a sense of belonging and support during difficult times Such strategies have helped them manage unprecedented levels of stress in their own lives, and the lives of those around them. Women have been active and creative in the ways they’ve found to care for themselves and others" (Para. 10-11).

Countries: Suriname
Variables: LO-DATA-3, SRACE-PRACTICE-1, SRACE-PRACTICE-2

"Various important statistics are not disaggregated making it difficult to obtain gender breakdowns, as is the case with data on access to land, production, credit, skills training, sports and recreation" (7).

Countries: Estonia
Variables: SRACE-PRACTICE-2

"Women are also more active in training and individual development, participating in various trainings almost twice as much. The share of women in the age group of 25 64 participating in lifelong learning during the last four weeks grew from 8.5% in 2006 to 14,5% in 2011. The proportion of such men grew from 4,2% to 9,2%" (25). "According to the 2009 2010 time use survey 41% m en and 31% of women engaged in sports in their free time. Most people (57% of men and 64% of women) were exercising independently from sports clubs. At the end of 2010, 129 839 persons were going in for sports in some...more

Countries: Egypt
Variables: LO-PRACTICE-1, SRACE-PRACTICE-2

"But Al-Sisi said the money needs to be increased 'as part of the money will be used to help Egyptian women live in a healthy home, have access to high-quality services, obtain soft-term loans from banks, and find jobs in small-scale productive projects'" (para 9).