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Gender Equality, HIV and AIDS: Challenges for the Education Sector

01/12/2008

1 documents

200 pages long

Languages: English

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The book shows that while gender inequalities in society generally, and particularly within the education sector, are driving aspects of the HIV epidemic, educational settings can be empowering and bring about change. It examines different expectations of what HIV education programmes and education settings can do to transform unequal gender relations and protect young people […]

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Briefing note

One Year After Cyclone Sidr: Fear replaces hope

14/11/2008

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Long before Cyclone Sidr struck the southern coastal areas of Bangladesh on 15 November 2007, many important life-saving actions had been carried out. Thanks to early warning systems and disaster preparedness measures, up to 3,000,000 people had already evacuated low-lying coastal areas, many finding refuge in anti-cyclone shelters. Local government officials and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) […]

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Briefing paper

Ending the R&D Crisis in Public Health: Promoting pro-poor medical innovation

13/11/2008

6 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Spanish

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Access to medicines

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Diseases that disproportionately affect the developing world cause immense suffering and ill health. Medical innovation has the potential to deliver new medicines, vaccines, and diagnostics to overcome these diseases, yet few treatments have emerged. Current efforts to resolve the crisis are inadequate: financing for research and development (R&D) is insufficient, uncoordinated, and mostly tied to […]

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Briefing note

If Not Now, When? Three actions the G20 must take now to protect the world’s poor from the economic crisis and build a new political and economic governance system

13/11/2008

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The world’s poor must not pay the price for the collapse of financial markets. Without immediate action, millions will suffer. Poor women and children will pay for the financial folly, failed ideology and crude self-interest that led to this crisis. Much of the burden will be borne by those least able to cope, whether it […]

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Research report

Agrofuels in Brazil: What is the outlook for its farming sector?

12/11/2008

2 documents

66 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese

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This is a critical look at the agrofuels industry in Brazil. Focusing on ethanol production from sugarcane and the production of biodiesel, the study examines the impact of government policy regarding agrofuel production on the country’s farming sector and its consequent effects on food security and rural development in Brazil, a leading player in global […]

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Journal article

Flower by Flower, We Make a Garden’: Palestinian women organising for economic justice

09/11/2008

12 pages long

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Flower by Flower, We Make a Garden’: Palestinian women organising for economic justice

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This article illustrates a unique experience of social-movement building, initiated by Sawt el-Amel, a grassroots organisation of Arab workers in Israel. The process started in 2005, with the establishment of an activist forum for women on social welfare in Nazareth. Gradually, this is transforming into a union for Arab women all across Israel. The initiative […]

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Journal article

The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

08/11/2008

10 pages long

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The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

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In seven short years, Kup Women for Peace, a community organisation in Papua New Guinea, has gone from tribal peacebuilding to ensuring a free, fair, and violence-free election in one small part of Simbu Province. The organisation’s approach was multi-faceted and locally appropriate, enfranchising many women – and educating men – in the process. In […]

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Journal article

Introduction

08/11/2008

9 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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Journal article

Citadel of Women’: strengthening female leadership in rural Cambodia

07/11/2008

12 pages long

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Citadel of Women’: strengthening female leadership in rural Cambodia

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This article discusses the work of Banteay Srei, a local Cambodian NGO, in relation to building the capacity of women to participate in leadership as a part of the decentralisation process. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, […]

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Research report

Responsible Investment: A force for poverty alleviation

06/11/2008

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The unprecedented turmoil in the world’s financial markets has resulted in a significant loss of trust in the global financial system. Financial institutions and the market as a whole have been criticised for short-termism, for lacking transparency, and for not being properly accountable to regulators or to wider society. The credit crisis has also raised […]

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