SeneGAD

02/03/2020

HAPPY MARCH!!! March marks women's history month, a month to celebrate the accomplishments and strides that women have made throughout history. As many of you know, PC Senegal has a special way of celebrating this month, MARCH GADNESS!!!

March GADness is a competition to encourage volunteers across Senegal to participate in gender and development work all month long! Volunteers will design, implement, and share gender and youth development projects within their Senegalese communities.

All GAD work that volunteers complete will be reported, and at the end of the month the points will be tallied to determine our WINNERS!! Remember, not all projects need to be big ones! Points can be earned simply by posting about GAD work on social media or changing your profile picture to our winning GADness logo, s/o to Emily Ruhm!!!

So, now is the time to get started!!! We encourage everyone to use the SeneGAD google drive for competition information, activity ideas, and more! Follow us here, on our website, and on our instagram for updates throughout the month! We are SO excited to see all of the amazing work that will be done, sooo on your mark, get set, GAD!!!

Website: senegad.wordpress.com
Instagram:
Google Drive: bit.ly/SeneGAD

21/01/2020

Greetings from the new SeneGAD team! We hope everyone’s year is off to a peaceful and productive start! This past October, twenty volunteers from all sectors gathered to create our 2020 SeneGAD action plan.

Coming up, we have several major events volunteers will want to keep in mind. First is the Gender Champion Workshop, in which volunteers and counterparts from all across the country will be coming to Thies for a gender focused Training of Trainers. Following the workshop they will be equipped with the tools and knowledge to return to their communities and hold their own regional trainings. Then in March SeneGAD will host our annual March GADness competition, held in honor of International Women's Day (March 8). For the whole month, different regions will compete with each other to see who can incorporate the most GAD related activities into their projects and communities. The winner will not only have yearlong bragging rights, but also a nice cash prize! And after that, the time for Girls Camps begins.

It will be a big year ahead, and we at SeneGAD are excited about making it the most GADtacular year yet! Please check out our Wordpress for a new blog post and more information about our committee. If you ever have any inquiries, did a new GAD project, or just want to chat about our program please do not hesitate to reach out at: senegad@gmail.com.

Gender and Development through Peace Corps Senegal

04/06/2019

Congratulations to PCV Erin for winning this year's March GADness! Throughout the month of March, PCVs across Senegal were hard at work implementing gender and development work for our March GADness competition. Find out more about what work was done in our April blog:

SeneGAD recently concluded this year’s March GADness competition, a month-long contest promoting gender and development work in Peace Corps Senegal. This year is a continuation of an idea cre…

17/03/2019

Last weekend, SeneGAD hosted a Gender Champion Workshop in Thies to train local counterparts from across the country. Learn more about the workshop and some of the counterparts that attended via our latest blog post:

From March 9th – 11th, 2019, Peace Corps Senegal and SeneGAD hosted 14 Senegalese nationals from across the country for a Gender Champion training of trainers workshop in Thies. SeneGAD regio…

08/03/2019

Happy International Women's Day! Check out our newest blog post about how we celebrated here in Senegal: https://senegad.wordpress.com/2019/03/08/international-womens-day-2019/

31/03/2018

Women and children bear the main negative impacts of fuel and water collection and transport, with women in many developing countries spending from 1 to 4 hours a day collecting biomass for fuel. A study of time and water poverty in 25 sub-Saharan African countries estimated that women spend at least 16 million hours a day collecting drinking water; men spend 6 million hours; and children, 4 million hours . Gender gaps in domestic and household work, including time spent obtaining water and fuel and processing food, are intensified in contexts of economic crisis, environmental degradation, natural disasters, and inadequate infrastructure and services.

http://ow.ly/tAIc30iVh9V

When more women work, economies grow. If women’s paid employment rates were raised to the same level as men’s, the United States’ gross domestic product would be an estimated 9 per cent higher, the Euro-zone’s would climb by 13 per cent, and Japan’s would be boosted by 16 per cent.

30/03/2018

Women are responsible for household food preparation in 85-90 per cent of cases surveyed in a wide range of countries.

http://ow.ly/ocEH30iVgWR

When more women work, economies grow. If women’s paid employment rates were raised to the same level as men’s, the United States’ gross domestic product would be an estimated 9 per cent higher, the Euro-zone’s would climb by 13 per cent, and Japan’s would be boosted by 16 per cent.

29/03/2018

Women farmers control less land than do men, and also have limited access to inputs, seeds, credits, and extension services. Less than 20 per cent of landholders are women. Gender differences in access to land and credit affect the relative ability of female and male farmers and entrepreneurs to invest, operate to scale, and benefit from new economic opportunities.

http://ow.ly/B2Pf30iVgON

When more women work, economies grow. If women’s paid employment rates were raised to the same level as men’s, the United States’ gross domestic product would be an estimated 9 per cent higher, the Euro-zone’s would climb by 13 per cent, and Japan’s would be boosted by 16 per cent.

28/03/2018

Women comprise an average of 43 per cent of the agricultural labour force in developing countries, varying considerably across regions from 20 per cent or less in Latin America to 50 per cent or more in parts of Asia and Africa. Despite the regional and sub-regional variation, women make an essential contribution to agriculture across the developing world.

http://ow.ly/gcg530iVgGJ

28/03/2018

What does the UN have to say about women's empowerment:
Ethnicity and gender interact to create especially large pay gaps for minority women. In 2013 in the US for instance, “women of all major racial and ethnic groups earn less than men of the same group, and also earn less than white men…Hispanic women’s median earnings were USD 541 per week of full-time work, only 61.2 per cent of white men’s median weekly earnings, but 91.1 per cent of the median weekly earnings of Hispanic men (because Hispanic men also have low earnings). The median weekly earnings of black women were USD 606, only 68.6 per cent of white men’s earnings, but 91.3 per cent of black men’s median weekly earnings, which are also fairly low. Earnings for a full-time week of work leave Hispanic women well below, and Hispanic men and black women not much above, the qualifying income threshold for receipt of food stamps of USD 588.75 for a family of four”.

http://ow.ly/B2YY30iVgwF

27/03/2018

Women’s economic equality is good for business. Companies greatly benefit from increasing leadership opportunities for women, which is shown to increase organizational effectiveness. It is estimated that companies with three or more women in senior management functions score higher in all dimensions of organizational effectiveness.

http://ow.ly/RHnZ30iVgkx

When more women work, economies grow. If women’s paid employment rates were raised to the same level as men’s, the United States’ gross domestic product would be an estimated 9 per cent higher, the Euro-zone’s would climb by 13 per cent, and Japan’s would be boosted by 16 per cent.

26/03/2018

Gender differences in laws affect both developing and developed economies, and women in all regions. Almost 90 per cent of 143 economies studied have at least one legal difference restricting women’s economic opportunities. Of those, 79 economies have laws that restrict the types of jobs that women can do. And husbands can object to their wives working and prevent them from accepting jobs in 15 economies.

http://ow.ly/Cnaz30iVgdN

When more women work, economies grow. If women’s paid employment rates were raised to the same level as men’s, the United States’ gross domestic product would be an estimated 9 per cent higher, the Euro-zone’s would climb by 13 per cent, and Japan’s would be boosted by 16 per cent.