Latin America/Caribbean

ICRW conducted an analysis of programs in developing countries as well as a field-based assessment of selected programs in three countries: India, Kenya, and Colombia that integrate adolescent reproductive health and livelihoods concerns, with a view to offering recommendations for more effective strategies and approaches. This brief aims to assess the challenges and potential effectiveness of integrated programs, highlight innovative approaches, and define gaps that exist in designing interventions.

Women in many countries are far less likely than men to own property and assets - key tools to gaining economic security and earning higher incomes. Though laws to protect women's property rights exist in most countries, gender and cultural constraints can prevent women from owning or inheriting property. In this series, ICRW suggests practical steps to promote, protect and fulfill women's property rights.

Other publications in this series:
Women's Property Rights as an AIDS Response, Emerging Efforts in South Asia
Women's Property Rights, HIV and AIDS, and Violence in South Africa and Uganda: Preliminary Findings
Women's Property Rights as an AIDS Response, Lessons from Community Interventions in Africa
Learning How to Better Promote, Protect and Fulfill Women's Property Rights
Connecting Rights to Reality: A Progressive Framework of Core Legal Protections for Women's Property Rights

ICRW undertook an 18-month analysis of programs that link adolescent reproductive health and livelihoods to assess the challenges and effectiveness of such programs, highlight innovative approaches and define gaps that exist in designing interventions. The resulting analysis provides a clear understanding of whether linked interventions have potential for effectively improving the lives of youth.

Women in many countries are far less likely than men to own property and assets - key tools to gaining economic security and earning higher incomes. Though laws to protect women's property rights exist in most countries, gender and cultural constraints can prevent women from owning or inheriting property. In this series, ICRW suggests practical steps to promote, protect and fulfill women's property rights.

Other publications in this series:
Women's Property Rights as an AIDS Response, Emerging Efforts in South Asia
Women's Property Rights, HIV and AIDS, and Violence in South Africa and Uganda: Preliminary Findings
Women's Property Rights as an AIDS Response, Lessons from Community Interventions in Africa
Mending the Gap Between Law and Practice, Organizational Approaches for Women's Property Rights
Connecting Rights to Reality: A Progressive Framework of Core Legal Protections for Women's Property Rights

Working with partners in Ethiopia, Kenya, Peru, Tanzania, and Thailand, ICRW undertook a series of studies to explore how to increase intake of iron, vitamin A and iodine by combining women's productive and reproductive roles. This report summarizes the findings from the intervention research project implemented by the Center for the Study and Promotion of Nutrition (CEPREN) in Peru. The study was designed to engage women members of community kitchens in the design, implementation, and evaluation of a trial intervention to reduce iron deficiency among women of reproductive age.

Working with partners in Ethiopia, Kenya, Peru, Tanzania, and Thailand, ICRW undertook a series of studies to explore how to increase intake of iron, vitamin A and iodine by combining women's productive and reproductive roles. This report summarizes the findings from the intervention research project implemented from 1995-98 in Tanzania. The focus of the study was to promote the adoption of improved home-based solar dryers as a means to enhance nutritional quality of vitamin A-rich foods and consumption of those foods by young children.

In 2002, ICRW researchers analyzed the budgetary implications of domestic violence (DV) policies in Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico and Peru. ICRW also developed a preliminary framework to facilitate the process of systematically analyzing the budgetary implications of domestic violence. This paper is a synthesis of the initial research and the framework.

This report synthesizes the results of five community-based interventions that aimed to improve the micronutrient status of women and children by analyzing the intra-household dynamics that contribute to nutrition distribution in the household.

There is an urgent need to accelerate efforts to reduce stigma and discrimination of HIV/AIDS. This report seeks to describe best practice and distil the key lessons. It provides a useful tool for those working on HIV and AIDS to incorporate a strong focus on tackling stigma and discrimination in their work.

Women in many countries are far less likely than men to own property and assets - key tools to gaining economic security and earning higher incomes. Though laws to protect women's property rights exist in most countries, gender and cultural constraints can prevent women from owning or inheriting property. In this series, ICRW suggests practical steps to promote, protect and fulfill women's property rights.

Other publications in this series:
Women's Property Rights as an AIDS Response, Emerging Efforts in South Asia
Women's Property Rights, HIV and AIDS, and Violence in South Africa and Uganda: Preliminary Findings
Women's Property Rights as an AIDS Response, Lessons from Community Interventions in Africa
Learning How to Better Promote, Protect and Fulfill Women's Property Rights
Mending the Gap Between Law and Practice, Organizational Approaches for Women's Property Rights