Productive resources

By Fortune Muzarabani In the remote fishing villages along the banks of the Zambezi River, women in Binga, Matabeleland North province, are leading a quiet revolution. For generations, local communities […]

Amplifying the voices of marginalised women and girls in decision-making, meaningful participation, gender-responsive finance, and budgeting conversations is a powerful and transformative way of equalising the unequal and responding to […]

August marks Women’s Month and every year South Africa sets aside this month to commemorate National Women’s Day and to celebrate the achievements of women from all walks of life […]

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Chiota Greenfield partnered with private companies such as Zimbabwe’s giant day old chicks supplier, Irvines, to support women in implementation of commercial broiler production namely Materera Chicken project which comprised […]

This edition of Africa in Fact questions whether the Asian model can be transposed onto Africa. GGA promotes good governance in Africa and Africa in Fact publishes articles from writers […]

Lilongwe 15 February 2016: Abiti Mkwanda, a 62-year-old woman resident in Mangochi district in the southern region of Malawi remembers vividly how the 2015 floods left her hopeless when her […]

My name is Boy Boy Mamba and I am a pastor in Swaziland. I also organize trainings on bee-keeping for my church. When I started this project, it was aimed at empowering members of the community some of whom are OVC (Orphaned and Vulnerable Children), widows, the elderly and disabled people.

This issue of the Arise Magazine is themed “Women and Natural Resource Management.À Women clearly outdo men in terms of their involvement in use, management and conservation of natural resources, yet they face categorical exclusion and are denied equal sharing of access to, and benefits from natural resources. This is caused by a number of factors like un-equal power relations, and the patriarchal nature of our society that demeans and belittles women.

Consequently, in order to promote a participatory culture in the use, management and conservation of natural resources like land, livestock, agriculture, oil, fisheries and forests, this Issue recommends that policy makers, planners and development workers have a better understanding of the relative and often shifting roles of men and women in natural resource management, including division of labour, access to resources, decision-making and traditional knowledge and practices.

The magazine also includes sector- specific recommendations that delineate women’s roles in natural resource management.

These are some highlights of what’s contained in the issue: Undue Influence from a Rotten Institution: Corruption in Natural Resource Management; Will Ugandan Women Benefit from Oil? Lessons from
Ghana and Women and Men in Agriculture: Closing the Gender Gap.