The Project “GENDER AND REMITTANCES: CONSTRUCTING
A LOCAL GENDER SENSITIVE DEVELOPMENT” financed by UNDP, contains 6 case
studies : Dominican Republic-United States, Philippines-Italy,
Albany-Greece, Senegal-France, Morocco-Spain, Lesotho-South Africa.
The Project’s overall objective was to enhance gender-responsive
local development by identifying and promoting options in the
utilization of remittances for sustainable livelihoods and the building
of social capital in poor rural and semi-urban communities.
The research sought to combine the advantages of
quantitative and qualitative tools, thus both kinds of data were
collected at both ends of the migratory spectrum.
We share this information here, since very few or
none quantitative data is available on remittances with a gender
perspective. We hope it will be useful for stakeholders working on
gender, migration and remittances, having in mind the project's three
specific objectives.
* To increase awareness and improve access by
women-headed, remittance-recipient households to productive resources
while augmenting their assets and strengthening their capacities;
* To provide relevant information and support to local and national
governments to identify and formulate policies that will optimize the
utilization of remittances for sustainable livelihoods and building
social capital;
* To enhance the capacities of key stakeholders to integrate gender
into policies, programmes, projects, and other initiatives linking
remittances with sustainable livelihoods and building social capital.
- Migrant who sends remittances
- Remittances recipient household
- Remittance recipient or return migrant with productive investment
- Local/national stakeholders
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