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Gender mainstreaming in government offices in Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos: perspectives from below

01/07/2005

11 pages long

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Gender mainstreaming in government offices in Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos: perspectives from below

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In this article, I aim to examine the ways in which gender concerns have been ‘mainstreamed’ into government activities. I focus on three countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region: Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. While gender mainstreaming policies are in place at the national level in these countries, the ‘evaporation’ (Longwe 1995) of such policies at […]

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Research report

Bringing Budgets Alive: Participatory budgeting in practice

01/02/2005

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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Participation

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This report describes how Community Pride Initiative have tried to use the principles of participatory budgeting, as developed in Brazil, to improve the way public money is used in Greater Manchester. It outlines how to create added value from adopting participatory budgeting ideas and shows that it is possible to operate participatory budgets using no […]

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Journal article

Working at the intersection – a story from Australia

01/02/2004

8 pages long

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Conceived by nurses in the hospital of a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, and inspired by Norwegian People’s Aid, the international aid agency of the Australian trade unions was designed to give a genuine material base to solidarity with national liberation struggles. Bridging the difficult division in Australian labour politics between the Catholic right and […]

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Journal article

Female volunteers: an asset to the reproductive health sector in rural Cambodia

01/08/2003

15 pages long

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Female volunteers: an asset to the reproductive health sector in rural Cambodia

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The results of a field study examined in this article show the remarkable success of a reproductive health education and community outreach project in Cambodia that has been implemented by the Ministry of Women’s and Veterans’ Affairs since 1995, both in terms of levels of volunteer activity and in terms of the impact of the […]

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Journal article

Negotiating violence and non-violence in Cambodian marriages

01/07/2003

12 pages long

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Negotiating violence and non-violence in Cambodian marriages

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Domestic violence is a pressing issue in Cambodia. Combating it requires an understanding of the social meanings behind it. As such, policy makers and planners need to start from a careful picture of the cultural terrain upon which this violence is played out. This will equip them to recognise potential points of entry for interventions. […]

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Journal article

Should they be committed? Motivating volunteers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

01/02/2002

12 pages long

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Expatriate volunteers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, work in a country where many of their fellow expatriates are paid considerably more than they are. Such volunteers often find that the financial disparities affect the perceptions that people have of them. This paper explores the self-perceptions of volunteers working with Voluntary Service Overseas in Phnom Penh, and […]

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Book

Cambodia

01/01/2000

3 documents

89 pages long

Languages: English

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Cambodia is a country of contradictions. It is a devoutly Buddhist nation, with a highly sophisticated traditional culture, represented for many by the elegance of its classical dance forms and the splendour of the temples of AngkorWat. But for almost forty years Cambodia was threatened by cycles of violence and destruction from which it is […]

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Discussion paper

Development in Conflict: The Gender Dimension

01/01/1999

1 documents

106 pages long

Languages: English

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This report arose out of a workshop held in Thailand in February 1993. The participants were drawn from Oxfam (UK and Ireland) staff in Asia and the Middle East, and from the Gender and Development Unit, and from other sister organisations in the region. The workshop provided an opportunity for participants to share experience and […]

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Book

A Safer Future: Reducing the human cost of war

01/01/1997

1 documents

128 pages long

Languages: English

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A Safer Future draws on Oxfam’s experience of working with communities caught up in armed conflict in many countries around the world and makes recommendations for urgent action by governments that would reduce the risk of war and protect civilian lives. It looks specifically at changes in international policies and pre-emptive action by the international […]

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Book

Punishing the Poor: The international isolation of Kampuchea

01/01/1988

4 documents

193 pages long

Languages: English

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Punishing the poor traces the Kampuchean people’s struggle to overcome the consequences of two decades of war, and the ravages of the Khmer Rouge regime. It focuses on their remarkable achievements since 1979 and the many problems which still beset their recovery. Kampuchea urgently needs peace, and the resources for the Kampuchean people to rebuild […]

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