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Rethinking gender and development practice for the 21st Century

01/03/2000

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Rethinking gender and development practice for the 21st Century

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People are confused about the concept of gender as used in development planning and practice, and male-dominated institutions are still resistant to it. This is threatening the achievement of women’s rights and equality and the transformation of gender relations, argues Judy El-Bushra, and explores some definitions. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & […]

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Women’s labour and economic globalisation: a participatory workshop created by Alternative Women in Development (Alt-WID)

01/03/2000

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Women’s labour and economic globalisation: a participatory workshop created by Alternative Women in Development (Alt-WID)

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Alt-WID, a working group of feminist educators and activists formed in 1993, focuses on the relationships between global macroeconomic policies and conditions in our local communities. The group is particularly interested in translating ideas into popular education tools that can be used by organisers and grassroots groups. This article describes one of their workshops. This […]

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Moving the goalposts: gender and globalisation in the twenty-first century

01/03/2000

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Moving the goalposts: gender and globalisation in the twenty-first century

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Development institutions saw their work challenged by those working on gender and development in the last third of the twentieth century. Ruth Pearson argues that the new century will witness an assertion of the global relevance of gender in development, and see gender analysis applied in new contexts, and to men as well as women. […]

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Culture as a barrier to rural women’s entrepreneurship: experience from Zimbabwe

01/03/2000

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Culture as a barrier to rural women’s entrepreneurship: experience from Zimbabwe

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Gender analysis shows that women can only be self-confident and autonomous in their economic activities if no cultural restraints hold them back. This article identifies the most important issues to be addressed by programmes and projects aiming to promote women’s equality through entrepreneurship and makes suggestions for the future focus of gender programmes, especially training. […]

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Introduction

01/03/2000

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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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Briefing note

Achieving Universal Primary Education

04/02/2000

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4 pages long

Languages: English

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The world is facing a silent education crisis. The victims receive no television coverage, and their voices go largely unheard. But the consequences of this crisis are immense in terms of wasted opportunities for economic growth and social justice. The education deficit is particularly acute in sub-Saharan Africa, where problems caused by lack of funding […]

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Research report

Make Trade Work For The Poor: Position paper on UNCTAD, on the occasion of its Tenth Conference in Bangkok, February 2000

01/02/2000

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7 pages long

Languages: English

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Position paper on UNCTAD, on the occasion of its Tenth Conference in Bangkok, February 2000. There is an urgent need for UNCTAD to take a lead in promoting new approaches to development that favour poorer people and countries – in part because of the failures of today’s international economic managers. Many governmental organisations still do […]

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Assessing nutritional status and functional ability of older adults in developing countries

01/02/2000

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This paper reports on the findings of a five-year collaborative research programme between the Public Health Nutrition Unit (PHNU) of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and HelpAge International (HAI) that was conducted in India, Tanzania, and Malawi with the broad objective of providing simple and easy tools for assessing nutritional vulnerability […]

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The new urban poor: the Tobas Indians

01/02/2000

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The author describes the movement of the Tobas Indians from their nomadic, rural lifestyle in northern Argentina (due mainly to industrial deforestation) to Rosario, a city of around 1 million inhabitants. He highlights the difficulties the Tobas face in Rosario; their economic destitution, and the lack of education in their own language. He advocates economic […]

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Human rights and religious backlash: the experience of a Bangladeshi NGO

01/02/2000

12 pages long

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As part of a human rights education campaign, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) fixed Governance,000 posters throughout Bangladesh. This met with opposition from the religious organisations. This paper investigates the nature and cause of the backlash and sets out strategies for how development organisations can achieve their objectives in the face of opposition. The […]

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