East Africa: reducing poverty and gender inequality : selected strategies and issues
GPE regional brief, ILO
2005
Abstract
poverty alleviation employment opportunity sex discrimination women womens empowerment legal aspect access to land access to credit microfinance access to education social protection informal economy East Africa Housing Kenya Political Participation Tanzania Uganda
Focuses on the interface between poverty reduction and employment from a gender perspective. Comprises six thematic sections, each of which looks at a major policy area of poverty reduction strategies in particular context of East Africa.