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Leaving no-one behind: can the Sustainable Development Goals succeed where the Millennium Development Goals lacked?

04/03/2016

13 pages long

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Leaving no-one behind: can the Sustainable Development Goals succeed where the Millennium Development Goals lacked?

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This article considers what the Leave No-one Behind agenda means, and how it interacts with the gender equality agenda. It starts with a brief assessment of what the Millennium Development Goals have delivered for women and girls by way of comparison. We then go on to look at the Sustainable Development Goal framework, in relation […]

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Women’s Economic Empowerment and Domestic Violence: Links and lessons for practitioners working with intersectional approaches

30/11/2015

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper examines the intersectional elements of the links between women’s increased market-oriented economic activity and women’s experience of domestic violence. Through a literature review, complemented by perspectives from staff working within the Oxfam confederation working on women’s economic empowerment (WEE) and violence against women (VAW), the research discussed in the paper found that WE […]

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Re-politicising Intersectionality: How an intersectional perspective can help INGOs be better allies to women’s rights movements

30/11/2015

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14 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper argues that the international development sector can become a better ally to women’s rights movements by changing its approach to intersectionality. Instead of using intersectionality merely as a way of understanding the impact of different social, political and economic identities on our gendered experiences, international organisations should build their understanding of how such […]

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Your Struggle is My Struggle: Integrating intersectionality in work with lesbian women, bisexual women and trans-women in Zimbabwe

30/11/2015

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14 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper presents the work of Voice of the Voiceless (VOVO), a civil society organization based in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and development partner of Oxfam. VOVO is working to integrate intersectionality in its work with lesbian women, bisexual women and trans-women (LBT). This work highlights the importance of using intersectional awareness to build bridges and form […]

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Active Citizenship of Women and Youth in Nicaragua

30/11/2015

2 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper reviews the construction of intersectional strategies for active citizenship that have contributed to the Active Citizenship Program for Women and Youth (2011-2016) led by Oxfam in Nicaragua. The document seeks to highlight the intersecting forms of violence and subordination that women and youth identities in Nicaragua face in different ways, and underscore how […]

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Gender, poverty, and inequality: a brief history of feminist contributions in the field of international development

31/07/2015

16 pages long

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Gender, poverty, and inequality: a brief history of feminist contributions in the field of international development

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This paper provides a brief history of feminist contributions to the analysis of gender, poverty, and inequality in the field of international development. It draws out the continuous threads running through these contributions over the years, as the focus has moved from micro-level analysis to a concern with macro-level forces. It concludes with a brief […]

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‘Leave no one behind’ and the challenge of intersectionality: Christian Aid’s experience of working with single and Dalit women in India

31/07/2015

16 pages long

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‘Leave no one behind’ and the challenge of intersectionality: Christian Aid’s experience of working with single and Dalit women in India

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The principle of ‘leaving no one behind’ is strongly emerging as a defining aspect of the new development framework under negotiation in 2015. This stems from an acknowledgement of the failure of the Millennium Development Goals in securing benefits for the most marginalised groups, those suffering from economic deprivation and discrimination as a result of […]

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Intersectional mainstreaming and Sightsavers’ Lady Health Workers Programme in Pakistan

07/11/2012

8 pages long

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Intersectional mainstreaming and Sightsavers’ Lady Health Workers Programme in Pakistan

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Gender mainstreaming, or at least the language of gender mainstreaming, has become a mainstay for donor agencies and non-government organisations engaged in development work. Increasingly, however, there are calls for the mainstreaming of other so-called ‘cross-cutting aspects of development’, such as disability. This article tries to provide an answer to the resultant question of how […]

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