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Journal article

Protecting public health in adverse circumstances: subnational women leaders and feminist policymaking during COVID-19

07/12/2021

21 pages long

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Protecting public health in adverse circumstances: subnational women leaders and feminist policymaking during COVID-19

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This article analyses how women governors, mayors, and local elected officials promoted public health and social protection in countries where men chief executives failed to take steps to contain the virus. We focus on adverse circumstances in six cases: Brazil, the United States, the Philippines, Japan, Mexico, and India. While individual women may not see […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Care Principles and Care-Responsiveness Barometer: Guidelines and toolkit for international financial institutions (IFIs)

06/12/2021

2 documents

84 pages long

Languages: English

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The architecture of development finance lacks a care perspective despite strong commitments to gender equality goals. The Care Principles and Care-Responsiveness Barometer have been developed as guiding tools for international financial institutions (IFIs) to promote, measure and improve the care-responsiveness of all their operations.

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Journal article

Femonationalism and anti-gender backlash: the instrumental use of gender equality in the nationalist discourse of the Fratelli d’Italia party

01/12/2021

20 pages long

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Femonationalism and anti-gender backlash: the instrumental use of gender equality in the nationalist discourse of the Fratelli d’Italia party

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In the context of the current escalation of anti-gender backlash, this article analyses the instrumental use of gender equality by nationalist forces and unpacks the ways in which the latter dynamic threatens feminist politics and gender justice. I study the intersection of gender and sexuality issues with the co-option of selected aspects of the feminist […]

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Briefing paper

Youth Wellbeing in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: An in-depth, multi-level and interdisciplinary study into wellbeing and gender equality among Palestinian youth

15/04/2021

1 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

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This study presents an important opportunity to fill a gap in knowledge by offering a critical understanding of the state of youth wellbeing in the Occupied Palestinian Territory through a comprehensive interdisciplinary and multi-level approach. By combining the economic, political and socio-cultural spheres and a macro (policy/institutional), meso (organizational) and micro (individual) level analysis, we […]

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Briefing note

Addressing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work for a Gender-Equal and Inclusive Kenya

13/04/2021

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

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Care work is the heartbeat of every society: it contributes to our wellbeing as a nation and is crucial for our social and economic development. Yet the disproportionate responsibility for unpaid care work results in time poverty and significant opportunity costs, particularly among the poorest and most marginalized women and girls. This policy brief outlines […]

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Journal article

Intersectionality and collective action: visioning a Feminist Green New Deal in the US

10/12/2020

18 pages long

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Intersectionality and collective action: visioning a Feminist Green New Deal in the US

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In the wake of the introduction of the Resolution for a Green New Deal to the US House of Representatives in 2019, feminist climate justice activists and organisers initiated and cultivated the Feminist Coalition for a Green New Deal. The Coalition advances an intersectional feminist analysis as part of the national conversation about the Green […]

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Journal article

Rural women’s participation in solar-powered irrigation in Niger: lessons from Dimitra Clubs

10/12/2020

14 pages long

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Rural women’s participation in solar-powered irrigation in Niger: lessons from Dimitra Clubs

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The relative lack of women’s participation in energy-related development projects around the world to transform agricultural productivity has been a source of significant concern globally. Out of 181 countries, Niger holds the current position for being the second most vulnerable to climate change. Despite the emphasis on women’s participation in solar-powered irrigation initiatives in Niger […]

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Journal article

Gender in the modernisation of waste management: key lessons from fieldwork in Bhutan, Mongolia, and Nepal

10/12/2020

18 pages long

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Gender in the modernisation of waste management: key lessons from fieldwork in Bhutan, Mongolia, and Nepal

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The waste sector is a significant and growing source of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Most developing countries are minor contributors to global GHG, and produce limited emissions from municipal solid waste. However, as poor countries become integrated into global circuits of production and consumption, their contributions to global GHG emissions are likely to increase […]

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Research report

Gender and LGBTQI+ Policy and Programming in Vanuatu: Opportunities, challenges, capacity, and tools for change

28/09/2020

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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In 2016 the government of Vanuatu introduced a National Gender Equality Policy. A second phase of the policy will be implemented in 2020–2024. Insights from key informants working on gender in Vanuatu reveal that there have been some positive developments in the first policy phase. A number of challenges remain, however, including limited capacity in […]

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Research report

Shaking Up to Move Forward: Visions for stronger partnerships between youth movements and social organizations

12/08/2020

3 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Youth-led progressive and feminist movements are some of the most powerful drivers of change in many countries, pushing path-breaking progress on political accountability, climate justice, gender equality and economic transformation. With youth movements set to be protagonists of systemic change in the next decade, understanding how to equitably partner with and enhance the power of […]

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