This is a single-volume guide to all the main analytical frameworks for gender-sensitive research and planning. A framework is particularly useful for setting out the different categories of elemen…
This is the first title in a new series Interventions, a strategic initiative by CODESRIA, aimed at promoting the research output of the younger generation of academics and scholars in Africa, and …
La jeune génération africaine est souvent taxée de muette, et de n’être pas assez impliquée dans la lutte pour la recherche de réponses et de moyens pour donner un sens à l’Afrique. Et s…
Learning a Living is a timely, engaging and original contribution to the debate over the relationship between education, innovation, work and the workforce. The acute concerns around rising unemplo…
This collection of essays seeks to provide an understanding of gender relations in sustainable development. Researchers, activists and policy-makers from the North and South offer new ways to chall…
Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this collection of essays intends to enrich and move our understanding of southern African societies, and to contribute to the policies and …
The publication contends that development assistance has been of benefit to developing countries over the years. It has helped to build physical infrastructural, human and institutional capacities …
The view held by Ghanaians is generally is that the lack of basic necessities endangers the survivals of the poor and rich alike and undermines the attempts by national leaders to build a peaceful …
This report comprises 8 papers that were presented at a conference organised in Ghana in 2008, on the theme: ‘Beyond Foreign Direct Investment in Africa’s Mining Sector’. The papers explore v…
In every society, formal education, particularly at the tertiary level, serves as a basis for securing social, economic and political advantages. So central is formal education and the concomitant …
Child marriage has become a common feature in most communities in Africa. This means that young girls who have not attained the minimum age for marriage of 18 years are married off; sometimes to me…
Reviewing the progress achieved in making gender a central concern in the development progress, this book evaluates selected leading bilateral and multilateral donor agencies, including the World B…
"This book brings together a variety of feminist activities and academics, from both North and South, engaged in development, to answer these questions. Each describes her project and its feminist …
Non-government organisations working in the humanitarian and development sectors won official approval in the 1980's and 1990's but there are signs now that they are losing favour. The NGO sector s…
Many practitioners and thinkers have tried to make women ‘matter’ in development. However, women-focused approaches have often sought to address women’s needs outside the wider social context…
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) presents one of its flagship publications, the 2009 African Women's Report. The report's theme: Measuring Gender Inequality in Africa: Expe…
This timely volume shows that, despite the global spread of neo-liberal economic ideology, the need remains to understand variations in cultural values and political institutions. Are human rights …
This book contains insightful and well-articulated analyses of key factors and issues for nation building in Cameroon and the Central African sub region in terms of the sociology-economico-politica…
This book is a multidisciplinary exploration of gender equity in the African context from the standpoint of globalization as the highest stage of imperialism in the 2000s. The question is tackled t…
The First Regional Conference on Internal Displacement in West Africa took place in Abuja, Nigeria from 26 to 28 April 2006. The meeting was hosted by the Federal Government of Nigeria and co-spons…