Although microfinance has elicited different reactions from different stakeholders, there seem to be a general agreement that it is useful in reducing poverty. However the context in which microfinance is of help to rural poor households is not well researched. This study is an attempt to contribute in to the debate on what works and […]

2022 Thandika Mkandawire Memorial Lecture & Panel Discussions. ROUNDTABLE PANEL DISCUSSION THEME: THE FEASIBILITY OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL STATE IN AFRICA  

Women continue to face significant barriers to full participation in peace processes during and after conflict. Although the post-conflict moment creates a window of opportunity for redressing structural economic inequalities, the opportunity is often squandered. Only a multi-sectoral approach that closely links women’s economic empowerment to political and social empowerment can translate national and international […]

Women and gender contestations have been central to both revolutionary and counter-revolutionary processes in Egypt since the beginning of the protest movement in January 2011. However, Egyptian women have a long history of political participation in opposition parties, trade unions, social movements and feminist organizations. Nadje Al-Ali explores women’s roles and involvement in the protest […]

Dr. Mnisi Weeks discusses the political economy of rural South Africa, drawing from the ethnographic research she conducted for her book Access to Justice and Human Security: Cultural Contradictions in Rural South Africa. Her research reveals how historical conditions and contemporary pressures grounded in severe neglect and harm by the state have resulted in a […]

The fourth and final webinar of CGSHR’s Spring 2021 Speaker Series, “Prospects for Sustainable Peace at the Nexus of Race, Gender, and the Climate Crisis.” This intervention introduces degrowth scholarship and activism and discusses how it can help us to build a new economic paradigm – a paradigm that ventures beyond what Rachel Carson has […]

The third panel of the CGSHR Fall 2020 symposium, “Confronting the Climate Crisis: Feminist Pathways to Just and Sustainable Futures.”  

The second panel of the CGSHR Fall 2020 symposium, “Confronting the Climate Crisis: Feminist Pathways to Just and Sustainable Futures.”  

The first session of CGSHR Fall 2020 symposium, “Confronting the Climate Crisis: Feminist Pathways to Just and Sustainable Futures.”  

The 2nd in a two-part collaborative webinar series between the Gender & Trade Coalition and Consortium on Gender, Security & Human Rights. This second gender and trade webinar looks at the world as it could be, exploring how feminist thinkers have envisioned alternatives for post-war recovery and sustainable peace. Such alternatives include: how feminist approaches […]