MDGs, Women & Africa - A Resource Guide

Select Resources on Goal 1: Fighting Poverty

 

Publications:

ILO Global Employment Trends for Women (2009)

ILO Working Paper No. 86 ‘The unpaid care work – paid work connection’ (2009)

M. Pinkovskiy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘African Poverty is Falling… Much faster than you think!’ (2010)

The Africa Development Bank (AfDB) and the World Bank ‘Africa competitiveness report 2009’ (2009)

The Center for Global Development, the Population Council and the International Center for Research on Women ‘Girls Count, A global investment & Action agenda: A girls count report on adolescent girls’ (2009)

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Economic Development in Africa Report (2010)

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the African Union (AU) ‘Economic Report on Africa 2010’ (2010)

UNDG MDG Thematic Paper on MDG 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger (2010)

UNRISD ‘Combating Poverty and Inequality; Structural change, social policy and politics’ (2010)

 

Organizations:

CARE

Internatinal Labour Organization (ILO)

Oxfam

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

World Bank

 

Outreach material:

Kick Out Poverty

Millennium Campaign

Stand Up Take Action

TEDxChange

 

Best practices:

UNDG MDG Good Practices (2010) Chapter 1 on Poverty, Employment and Hunger  

 

Statistics and other resources:

The African Development Bank Group ‘African Economic Outlook 2010’ Data & Statistics

The World Bank Africa Development Indicators 2010