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Women’s rights in climate change: using video as a tool for empowerment in Nepal

01/03/2009

10 pages long

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Women’s rights in climate change: using video as a tool for empowerment in Nepal

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An innovative Action Aid-supplied project in Nepal has seen women’s empowerment make rapid progress through the use of video discussions about climate change. In this exploration of the project, we ask what we can learn from the use of such technology, and consider the implications for international development agencies and their efforts to support women’s […]

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Resilience, power, culture, and climate: a case study from semi-arid Tanzania, and new research directions

01/03/2009

13 pages long

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Resilience, power, culture, and climate: a case study from semi-arid Tanzania, and new research directions

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Rapid changes to the climate are predicted over the next few years, and these present challenges for women’s empowerment and gender equality on a completely new scale. There is little evidence or research to provide a reliable basis for gender-sensitive approaches to agricultural adaptation to climate change. This article explores the gender dimensions of climate […]

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Engendering the climate-change negotiations: experiences, challenges, and steps forward

01/03/2009

13 pages long

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Engendering the climate-change negotiations: experiences, challenges, and steps forward

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The United Nations is formally committed to gender mainstreaming in all policies and programmes, and that should include policy-making processes relating to climate change. Yet gender aspects are rarely addressed in climate-change policy, either at the national or at the international levels. Reasons include gaps in gender-sensitive data and knowledge about the links between gender […]

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No climate justice without gender justice: an overview of the issues

01/03/2009

13 pages long

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Both climate change itself and related policies are likely to have wide-ranging effects on gender relations, especially in developing countries. Poor women face many gender-specific barriers that limit their ability to cope with and adapt to a changing climate; these must be removed in the interests of both gender equity and adaptation efficiency. At the […]

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The bio-fuel frenzy: what options for rural women? A case of rural development schizophrenia

01/03/2009

15 pages long

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The bio-fuel frenzy: what options for rural women? A case of rural development schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia, from the Greek roots schizein (‘to split’) and phren (‘mind’), is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness characterised by impairments in the perception or expression of reality. The key message of this article is that mainstream agricultural policy is at odds with what needs to happen on the ground, and is being […]

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Journal article

Introduction

01/03/2009

3 pages long

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website.

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Research report

Metals, mining, and sustainable development in Central America

17/02/2009

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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Extractives

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An assessment of benefits and costs for El Salvador’s communities that will be affected by mining. “If mining is to realize any of its promise, it must be done with the full sanction and support of local communities. The mining industry must respect local communities’ right to free, prior, and informed consent. Furthermore, it must […]

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Research report

Ghana’s Big Test

13/02/2009

1 documents

66 pages long

Languages: English

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Oil’s challenge to democratic development

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Briefing note

No-one Written Off: Reforming welfare to reward responsibility

06/02/2009

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility asks to be judged on increasing social inclusion through employment and on continued falls in child poverty. Yet with both the numbers of children in poverty and the number of households below the poverty line rising over the last two years, Oxfam believes that a purely […]

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Briefing paper

Blind Optimism: Challenging the myths about private health care in poor countries

01/02/2009

9 documents

55 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Spanish

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Health systems

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The realisation of the right to health for millions of people in poor countries depends upon a massive increase in health services to achieve universal and equitable access. A growing number of international donors are promoting an expansion of private-sector health-care delivery to fulfil this goal. The private sector can play a role in health […]

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