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Is there life after gender mainstreaming?

01/07/2005

13 pages long

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Is there life after gender mainstreaming?

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In the world of feminist activism, the time is ripe for reflection and review. We need to ask why change is not happening, what works, and what is next. This article points to the fact that while women have made many gains in the last decade, policies that successfully promote women’s empowerment and gender equality […]

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Gender mainstreaming since Beijing: a review of success and limitations in international institutions

01/07/2005

12 pages long

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Gender mainstreaming since Beijing: a review of success and limitations in international institutions

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The Beijing Platform for Action prioritised gender mainstreaming as the mechanism to achieve gender equality. A decade later, policy makers and practitioners are debating whether this has succeeded or failed. This article aims to contribute to this debate by reviewing progress made to date, through a review of gender mainstreaming policies in international development institutions. […]

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Introduction

01/07/2005

8 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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Re-thinking gender mainstreaming in African NGOs and communities

01/07/2005

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Re-thinking gender mainstreaming in African NGOs and communities

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This article examines research on gender mainstreaming initiatives, undertaken by a sample of local NGOs in four African countries. This research explores where resistance to gender equality comes from in some African organisations and communities. It shows that for gender mainstreaming processes to be effective they need to address the complex realities of people, and […]

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Not a sufficient condition: the limited relevance of the gender MDG to women’s progress

01/03/2005

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Not a sufficient condition: the limited relevance of the gender MDG to women’s progress

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Despite recent awareness of the need to ‘mainstream’ gender perspectives into public policy, and in responses to economic inequity and growing poverty, practice often seems to continue to place gender equity as a secondary goal. Are the Millennium Development Goals any different? This article argues that – taking Belize as a case in point – […]

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The education MDGs: achieving gender equality through curriculum and pedagogy change

01/03/2005

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The education MDGs: achieving gender equality through curriculum and pedagogy change

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This article argues that there is a need for gender-sensitive curricula and pedagogies in schools in order to achieve good-quality outcomes for girls’ education. It examines different dimensions of gender equality and draws on issues raised and discussed at two international seminars which challenged narrow views of curriculum and pedagogy. The article considers these issues […]

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Making the links: women’s rights and empowerment are key to achieving the millennium development goals

01/03/2005

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Making the links: women’s rights and empowerment are key to achieving the millennium development goals

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Men and women have the right to live their lives and raise their children in dignity, free from hunger and from fear of violence, oppression or injustice. 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 […]

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Approaches to reducing maternal mortality: Oxfam and the MDGs

01/03/2005

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Approaches to reducing maternal mortality: Oxfam and the MDGs

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The political momentum of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), coupled with a technical consensus about how to tackle maternal mortality, greatly improves the prospect of reducing women’s death and disability rates. In its campaigning and advocacy work on the MDGs, Oxfam will focus on the need to raise the national and international finance for the […]

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Out of the margins: the MDGs through a CEDAW lens

01/03/2005

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Out of the margins: the MDGs through a CEDAW lens

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This article examines the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from a women’s human rights perspective. It outlines some of the practical ways in which human rights principles, and the provisions set out in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in particular, can be used to ensure that the MDGs […]

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Critiquing the MDGs from a Caribbean perspective

01/03/2005

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Critiquing the MDGs from a Caribbean perspective

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This article explores ways in which the MDGs can be made to work to promote women’s equality and empowerment. Drawn from the author’s extensive experience of feminist activism in the Caribbean region, it discusses strategies to improve the MDGs. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents […]

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