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Journal article

Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

01/06/2008

7 pages long

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Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

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Women planners in Africa do not constitute a critical mass: their numbers remain negligible and their output unrecognised, while mentors and role models still tend to be male. Women’s experiences are undervalued, and their knowledge is often excluded in policy, project planning, and implementation. This article arises not from systematic academic research but from confessional, […]

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Case study

Monitoring the Implementation of Women’s Human-Rights Instruments: The case of the Africa gender monitor

01/02/2008

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Gender mainstreaming

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This paper illustrates how Oxfam GB Southern Africa supports the efforts of women’s-rights organisations to monitor the domestication and implementation of women’s human-rights instruments such as the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Africa Women’s Protocol) in Africa, using the example of the […]

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Journal article

Women’s pages’ in Kenya’s newspapers: implications for the country’s development

01/11/2007

9 pages long

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Women’s pages’ in Kenya’s newspapers: implications for the country’s development

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Newspapers in Kenya are written for men, and about the affairs of men, whereas women remain invisible in relation to the serious issues of the day. But there have been efforts to cover women’s issues, and to sell newspapers to Kenyan women. These have taken the form of having separate and detached ‘women’s pages’ slotted […]

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Briefing paper

Africa’s Missing Billions: International arms flows and the cost of conflict

11/10/2007

4 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Africa suffers enormously from conflict and armed violence. As well as the human tragedy, armed conflict costs Africa around $18bn per year, seriously derailing development. The most commonly used weapons in Africa’s conflicts are Kalashnikov assault rifles. The vast majority of these weapons and their ammunition – perhaps 95 per cent – come from outside […]

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Education resource

Global Music Lessons for ages 5-7

08/09/2007

6 documents

Languages: English

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Designed to tie in with Oxjam, these activities celebrate music from across the globe. Choose from numerous stand-alone lessons, offering opportunities for singing, performing, composing, improvising, listening, and appraising. You can also explore rhythm, timbre, texture, structure, and pitch by using music from many cultures and countries. Resources have also been created for ages 7-11, […]

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Education resource

Photo Opportunities: Explore the globe with this visual literacy resource for ages 7–11

01/09/2007

5 documents

Languages: English

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Explore the theme of everyday tasks with these beautiful images from around the world. This vibrant visual literacy resource for 7-11 year olds includes detailed background information, guidance on using images, and activities for using captions, storyboarding, and cropping images. Investigate how children view images differently at different ages, and support them to develop key […]

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Book

Practising Gender Equality in Education

15/06/2007

1 documents

136 pages long

Languages: English

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Drawing on the work of the Beyond Access, Gender, Education, and Development project, contributors discuss some of the key challenges in achieving gender equality in education, give examples of initiatives in a range of contexts, and make recommendations for action. They suggest that there is a more substantive goal to aim for than gender parity […]

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Book

Africa Up in Smoke? 2: An update report on Africa and global warming from the working group on climate change and development

30/10/2006

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Too much or too little rain can be a matter of life or death in Africa. At different times and in different places across the continent, climate change threatens both. This briefing brings up to date the original report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development, Africa – Up in smoke?, released in […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Working with the Media on Gender and Education: A guide for training and planning

11/07/2006

2 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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This guide has been developed following two ‘Gender, Education and the Media’ workshops which were held in Nairobi, Kenya in December 2005 and in Dhaka, Bangladesh in March 2006. It brings together learning from both workshops in order to help organisations working on gender and education develop and implement media-advocacy strategies for gender equitable education. […]

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Briefing paper

Delivering the Agenda: Addressing chronic underdevelopment in Kenya’s arid lands

16/05/2006

3 documents

25 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Due to economic and political marginalisation, the arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) are today the most under-developed areas of Kenya. The pastoral inhabitants of these lands have both the right and the ability to maintain a decent livelihood but have been denied an appropriate and effective development policy for decades. The current drought-related crisis has […]

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