29 Aug 2011This report, by the Harare-based Research and Advocacy Unit, examines politically motivated violence against women in Zimbabwe between 2000 and 2010. Download the report below for more information.

12 Apr 2011For immediate releaseAs the protest campaign grows in Swaziland, and alarming reports grow of a security clampdown, African democracy institute Idasa calls on Swaziland to avoid further bloodshed and a ...

07 May 2010People often say that relationships between men and women are too difficult to understand! Gender is one way of trying to understand them better. Gender helps us to see what ...

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03 Mar 2008Women and men experience and respond to peace, conflict and post-conflict situations in different ways. SSR that fully integrates gender issues is a crucial element in building a responsive and ...

30 Aug 2007Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Council contracted Idasa to provide a specialised capacity building programme based on Gender Mainstreaming. The training programme sought to develop a common and a broader understanding of the ...

11 Aug 2006By Eshetu Bekele Yimenu Background information The majority of the country’s poor people living on less than US$1 per day are women (in Ethiopia women constitute over 50% of the ...

15 Apr 2005Several government programmes that seek to address poverty - among these are social grants, provision of basic services such as education, health, housing, water and sanitation and provision of infrastructure. There are also targeted ...

28 Feb 2005The South African government’s commitment to gender equity is entrenched in the Constitution, in various pieces of legislation and policies that were developed during the first decade of democracy. Most ...

27 Aug 2004Ten years into our democracy gender inequalities remain a central challenge in South Africa. Since 1994, we have seen significant changes in policy development across government departments that reflect its ...

09 Aug 2004This programme takes a critical look at the women’s struggle and the gains it has made over the past ten years. We hear the views of feminist, Claire Mathonsi, who ...

10 Jun 2004Penny Parenzee The connection between crime and poverty is well established. But more significant perhaps, although less often mentioned, is the connection between poverty and vulnerability to crime. Poor women ...

18 May 2004Debbie Bud lender The Women's Budget Initiative has twice examined the budget of the Department of Labour (DoL). The first Women's Budget of 1996 included a chapter on Women and ...

06 May 2004Debbie Budlender, CASE 2003 was the eighth year of the Women‘s Budget Initiative (WBI), a collaborative venture between parliamentarians and two nongovernmental organisations (NGOs)  the Institute for Democracy in ...

29 Apr 2003Penny Parenzee In 1997, as an urgent response to the deep levels of poverty in the country, the Department of Finance initiated a fund for poverty relief (referred to in ...

06 Oct 2002"This brief provides an overview of the paper titled “Rights, roles and resources: An analysis of women’s housing rights – the implications of the Grootboom case”. The paper was written ...

01 Jul 2002In 1997, it was estimated that 2,2 million families in South Africa were without adequate housing. It was further estimated that this figure would increase by 204 000 every year ...

15 Dec 2001In this policy paper, the focus is on gender as a key variable influencing potential emigration. The survey results suggest that women have significantly lower emigration potential than men, despite ...

22 Jun 2001This paper draws attention to the need for a gender analysis of the South African government’s proposed new policy on international migration, by identifying a number of areas of implicit ...

21 Jun 2001"The objective of this brief is to discuss and identify some of the gaps of the noncontributory social security net pertaining to women in South Africa. Several inequities were found ...

21 Jun 2000Sikhander Coopoo "The White Paper on Local Government established a framework for municipal finance which supports the developmental role of local government. This framework forms part of the broader ‘new’ ...

21 Jun 2000Terence Smith "Most analyses of government budgets and their differential impacts on women and men tend to focus on the expenditure side of the budget, with very little attention being ...

21 Jun 2000Tanya Goldman "Customs and Excise is the section of the South African Revenue Service (SARS) responsible for the collection of revenue at all points of entry into the country. Revenues ...

30 May 2000For the Women’s Budget Initiative Authors: Barbara Klugman, Women’s Health Project, University of the Witwatersrand Di McIntyre, Health Economics Unit, University of Cape Town.

21 Apr 2000Researchers: Fairuz Mullagee and Roseline Nyman Editors: Debbie Budlender and Neil Newman "This study occurs in the sixth year of the South African Women’s Budget Initiative (WBI). The chapter on ...