Gender and Migration

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Gender, Remittances and Development
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Academic Institutions

Universidad Rafael Landívar, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales (Guatemala)





UN-INSTRAW has partnered with the Universidad Rafael Landívar, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales in the implementation of a qualitative study on the female migration from North Guatemala to South Mexico.






University of Phippines, Center for Women’s Studies
(Philippines)

UN-INSTRAW has partnered with the UP Center for Women’s Studies in the implementation of the “Gender and Remittances: Building Gender-Responsive Local Development” project (2007-2008), which will analyze women’s migration and the local development impacts of remittances in Albania, Dominican Republic, Lesotho, Morocco, Philippines and Senegal from a gender perspective. CWS will work specifically on the Philippines component of this multi-country project.

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Fundación General (Spain)


UN-INSTRAW has partnered with the UAM Fundación General in the implementation of the “Gender and Remittances: Building Gender-Responsive Local Development” project (2007-2008), which will analyze women’s migration and the local development impacts of remittances in Albania, Dominican Republic, Lesotho, Morocco, Philippines and Senegal from a gender perspective. Fundación General will work specifically on the Morocco component of this multi-country project.




Sussex Centre for Migration Research
(UK)

UN-INSTRAW has partnered with the Sussex Centre for Migration Research in the implementation of the “Gender and Remittances: Building Gender-Responsive Local Development” project (2007-2008), which will analyze women’s migration and the local development impacts of remittances in Albania, Dominican Republic, Lesotho, Morocco, Philippines and Senegal from a gender perspective. The Centre will work specifically on the Albania component of this multi-country project.

Southern African Migration Projetct, Queens University (SAMP)

UN-INSTRAW has partnered with the SAMP in the implementation of the “Gender and Remittances: Building Gender-Responsive Local Development” project (2007-2008), which will analyze women’s migration and the local development impacts of remittances in Albania, Dominican Republic, Lesotho, Morocco, Philippines and Senegal from a gender perspective. The SAMP will work specifically on the Lesotho component of this multi-country project.

Laboratoire Genre de l’Ifan Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (Senegal)

UN-INSTRAW has partnered with the SAMP in the implementation of the “Gender and Remittances: Building Gender-Responsive Local Development” project (2007-2008), which will analyze women’s migration and the local development impacts of remittances in Albania, Dominican Republic, Lesotho, Morocco, Philippines and Senegal from a gender perspective. The SAMP will work specifically on the Lesotho component of this multi-country project.

South Africa Institute of International Affairs, University of Witwatersrand (South Africa)


UN-INSTRAW has partnered with SAIIA in the implementation of the “Women’s Migration and Remittances in Southern Africa” project (2007), which looks at the gender dimensions of women’s migration and remittances from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe to South Africa.


Civil Society Organizations

Filipino Women Council (Italy)

UN-INSTRAW has partnered with FWC for the implementation of the “Gender Dimensions of Remittances: Their flows, uses and development impacts in the Philippines” project (2007-2008), which seeks to analyze women’s migration and remittances between Italy and the Philippines from a gender perspective.


Intergovernmental organizations

OIM



UN-INSTRAW collaborated with the IOM on a case study of the gender dimensions of women’s migration and remittances between Spain and Colombia, and the Guatemalan 2007 investigation about remittances.



UN entities

IFAD

UN-INSTRAW has partnered with IFAD for the implementation of the “Gender Dimensions of Remittances: Their flows, uses and development impacts in the Philippines” project (2007-2008), which seeks to analyze women’s migration and remittances between Italy and the Philippines from a gender perspective. The project is being implemented with funding from IFAD and in collaboration with the Filipino Women’s Council.


UNDP


UN-INSTRAW has partnered with the UNDP Gender Unit Team and the Capacity Development Group , a project on “Gender and Remittances: Building Gender-Responsive Local Development” (2007-2008), which will analyze women’s migration and the local development impacts of remittances in Albania, Dominican Republic, Lesotho, Morocco, Philippines and Senegal from a gender perspective.




UNFPA


UN-INSTRAW has developed a close working relationship with UNFPA, which has financed three case studies on the gender dimensions of migration and remittances in Dominican Republic (2005), Guatemala (2007) and Southern Africa (2007 – women’s migration from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe to South Africa).