By Louise Ashton and Chris McCall Development work can at times be baffling. Even with deliberate and substantial research, the best laid plans are met with complications and unforeseen obstacles. Members of GPPI’s Project Honduras are learning this lesson first hand as they continue to advance their main long-term initiative of improving household water sanitation practices […]
The Gender Equality Paradox in the Middle East and North Africa
By Noora AlSindi The World Economic Forum has recently released The Global Gender Gap Index for 2011, and the global rankings are by no means a surprise. The Report, published annually since 2006, ranks approximately 135 countries based on their gender performance by benchmarking criteria such as economic participation and opportunity, political empowerment, educational attainment […]