Gender violence response strategies in South Africa for 2016
Published by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in 2016, this report maps local gender-based violence prevention and response strategies in South Africa.
Voices of gender-based violence survivors in South Africa
Violence against Women in South Africa: a Country in Crisis explores the experiences and insights of female survivors of violence. It uses life histories, case studies and focus group discussions to capture the lived reality of survivors of violence and explains the high rates of violence against women through their own voices. The report has an interesting methodology that includes the "voice" of survivors, but its recommendations are familiar to those working in the gender-based violence field in South Africa.
The World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report quantifies the magnitude of gender disparities and tracks their progress over time, with a specific focus on the gaps between women and men across four key areas: health, education, economy and politics. This is a Nigeria-specific report.
The World Bank's gender data portal for Nigeria tracks gender gaps in key areas: economic opportunity, education, health, public life, decision making, and agency.
Findings of a study by the Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme (NSRP) that explores the extent to which government youth employment and empowerment programmes target, reach and work for young women.
This scorecard, developed in 2016 by AIDS Accountability International, gives a brief assessment of child marriage in Africa. The scorecard examines data on reported child marriage prevalence, the minimum age of sexual consent, policies on legal marital age and education budgets across the continent.
Visualised reports with facts and insights on child marriage in Africa
UNICEF published the Profile of Child Marriage in Africa report in 2015 shedding light on the realities of child marriage on the continent with well-visualised data.
A gender pay gap calculator for the continent, developed by Code for Africa. The tool uses data from the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2017.