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Uganda: From periphery to center - A strategic country gender assessment
2 March 2005
The World Bank
Lack of control over productive resources by women remains one of the root causes of poverty. Women explained that they lack control over land, the crops their labor produces from it, livestock, and other productive resources. Yet they are responsible for meeting family needs. They complained bitterly of men wasting time and family resources drinking. Women are “overburdened” and this affects their productivity. … Gender is a number one poverty issue. Gender inequality emerges from PPA2 as one of the main reasons for persistent poverty. Women’s lack of decision-making power – over land and other household assets, cash incomes, and when and how often to have children – is a direct cause of welfare problems like poor nutrition and health, excessive fertility, high infant mortality, overwork among women and drunkenness among men.
Keywords: Uganda, gender assessment
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