The Millennium Development Goals- a Feminist Development Economics Perspective by Diane Elson
Elson looks at the relevance of the Millennium Development Goals. Whilst the broadly expressed goals do encapsulate some important aspects of the agreements reached in the UN conferences of the 1990s, their translation into a set of targets and indicators is problematic. She looks at them from a feminist economic perspective.

The Human Rights of African Women in the 21 st century
by Patricia McFadden
McFadden draws attention to the historical significances and commonalities between the struggles of working people, black people and women, and the ways in which struggles against exploitation, racism and sexism have been waged in the lives and on the bodies of black women – of African women.

The Rights-Based Approach to Development: Potential for Change or More of the Same?
by Dzodzi Tsikata

The endorsement and or adoption of the Human Rights-Based Approaches (RBA) has allowed human rights language to enter the world of development programming as a welcome and legitimate friend. Much has been debated about the merits and demerits of this development. Sceptical voices are arguing that the development industry has simply taken the high minded concerns of human rights instruments and moulded them to its own purposes and therefore, not much is likely to change in policies and programmes.

Gender, Citizenship and Customary Law from Colonial to Commonwealth Africa
by Ada Okoye

Gender, Neoliberalism and the African State
by Zo Randriamaro

The NEPAD, Gender and the Poverty Trap: the NEPAD and the challenges of financing for the development in Africa from a gender perspective by Zo Randriamaro

Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals
This report from the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) presents data, statistics and analysis of state of women's empowerment in the new century and what remains to be done to achieve equality

Assement of the Gender Orientation of NEPAD
by Sara Hlupekile Longwe

Defining an Agenda for Women's Rights in Africa
by Rotimi Sankore

Governing the African Political Space for Sustainable Development: A Reflection on NEPAD
by Adebayo Olukoshi

In Search of Gender Justice: Can NEPAD Deliver?
By Zenebeworke Tadesse

Sharing the Citizenship of Women: A Comparative Gendered Analysis of the Concept of “Legal Personhood” in Africa
By Ada Okoye

Sketching a Methodology for Assessing Gender Equity under Adjustment Policies in sub-Saharan Africa. With an introduction to the case study of Madagascar
By Milasoa Cherel-Robson