SEOW-MENA Sustainable Economic Opportunities for Women

EOWEL Bibliography by country

The info sheets were created from the documents mentioned above.
Three main sources were used for each country:

• CEDAW’s website by country
• POGAR’s website by country
• The World Bank’s data by country

Complementary information sources were used, in case World Bank data would be incomplete.

1. Lebanon

Gender and Development

Community Habitat and Finance website / Lebanon section
http://www.chfhq.org/section/lebanon

CEDAW, Reservations, scroll down to Lebanon

I. Introduction

The following report is a literature review of women's economic participation in the countries covered by CRTD.A's Sustainable Economic Opportunities for Women project.
The five countries include Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Syria respectively. The report serves as a beginning point to gather information on women's economic situation, women entrepreneurs and available programs and projects in each of the countries in order to help guide CRTD.A's research team during assessment visits and to provide background information essential for the second phase of implementation of the above-mentioned project.

General Resources on Gender and Development

General Resources on Development

Arab Gulf Program for United Nations Development Organizations (AGFUND)
http://www.agfund.org/

Directory of Development Organizations, Edition 2007
http://www.devdir.org/
Middle East webpage
http://www.devdir.org/asia_middle_east.htm

International Development Research Center
http://www.idrc.ca/
IDRC’s MENA webpage
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-8557-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

ILO, Women Entrepreneurship Development, Publication Page
Contains Globalization and Gender Briefs