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Gender, Development, and Diversity

01/01/2004

1 documents

95 pages long

Languages: English

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Each one of us lives life as a carrier of multiple identities – including gender, race, class, and age. The sum of these identities determines our opportunities in life, and empowers or disempowers us, depending on our context. Gender, Development, and Diversity focuses on the implications that this has for the development goals of poverty […]

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Gender, Education, and Training

01/01/2004

1 documents

83 pages long

Languages: English

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This collection of articles by development workers and researchers focuses on learning opportunities for women offered by education and training. There is a continuing imbalance in educational participation – women make up an estimated two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people – and writers reflect on the causes and consequences of this. While this lack of […]

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Feedback

01/11/2003

3 pages long

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Based on ‘Microfinance, empowerment, and Sudra women in India’. In their article ‘Microfinance and women’s empowerment: a lesson from India’, published in the November 2002 issue of Development in Practice, Fiona Leach and Shashikala Sitaram (henceforth LS) report the results of their research on an NGO project undertaken in the Karnataka State of South India-an […]

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Measuring the invisibles: gender mainstreaming and monitoring experience from a dairy development project in Tanzania

01/11/2003

15 pages long

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Measuring the invisibles: gender mainstreaming and monitoring experience from a dairy development project in Tanzania

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Development projects are under pressure to deliver positive gender changes. This paper provides a practical example of how one project in Tanzania attempted to meet this demand. It details how a conventional technical project developed its own understanding of what it is to be gender sensitive, and identified gender concerns that it might address. The […]

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Marriage, development, and the status of women in Kerala, India

01/07/2003

8 pages long

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Marriage, development, and the status of women in Kerala, India

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This article explores the linkages between women’s status and marriage in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Widely known as a progressive region, with high levels of social development despite poor economic growth, Kerala also fares exceptionally well in terms of standard indicators of female position. However, closer scrutiny of prevailing cultural mores, particularly in […]

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Rethinking culture and development: marriage and gender among the tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka

01/07/2003

10 pages long

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Rethinking culture and development: marriage and gender among the tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka

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Marriage is the most auspicious rite of passage in the life of a Tamil woman worker in Sri Lanka’s tea plantations. It supposedly confers on her the power to bring wealth, prosperity and health to her family, and to enhance the well-being of her husband. In reality, however, married women on the plantations experience self-denial, […]

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Developing policy on integration and reconstruction in Kosovo

01/05/2003

19 pages long

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Developing policy on integration and reconstruction in Kosovo

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The Gender Audit (GA) and associated reports and reviews drawn upon in this article enable an evaluation of how far the intervention processes at work in Kosovo since 1999 have been inclusive of gender analysis and supportive of women’s and girls’ needs and interests. This assessment considers the strengths and drawbacks of various attempts to […]

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Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences

01/05/2003

14 pages long

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Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences

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At first glance it would appear that despite women’s vital participation in peace-making processes, they are for the most part marginalised or belittled. However, moving away from the idea of women as outsiders and/or victims, we find evidence of their involvement in projects initiated and driven by them and/or in activities in which they work […]

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Guest editorial

01/05/2003

5 pages long

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Much has been written about women’s suffering in times of war but, despite the lip-service, little has actually been done to address it. Contributors to this issue of Development in Practice discuss conflicts that have raged throughout the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe over the past century and highlight the commonalities of some of […]

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Women and wars: some trajectories towards a feminist peace

01/05/2003

11 pages long

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Women and wars: some trajectories towards a feminist peace

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This paper seeks to explode a number of myths about women’s absence from wars and conflict; it considers some problems about their vulnerabilities in these circumstances; and offers some feminist perspectives for addressing these problems. The paper considers the conflicting demands made on women in periods of war and revolution, and argues that differing historical […]

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