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Small arms ammunition is the fuel that keeps many of the world’s conflicts raging. While small arms do not themselves cause conflict, they make it much […] View resource Briefing paper A Recipe for Disaster: Will the Doha Round fail to deliver for development? 01/04/2006 8 documents 36 pages long Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Trade policy Overview As yet another deadline approaches in the Doha Round of trade negotiations, the chances of a deal being done this year that helps developing countries are looking increasingly slim. Aggressive demands by rich countries mean that, far from being able to pursue reforms that will lift people out of poverty, poor countries are having to […] View resource Briefing paper What Happened in Hong Kong? Initial analysis of the WTO Ministerial, December 2005 20/12/2005 2 documents 22 pages long Languages: English, Portuguese Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Trade policy World Trade Organisation WTO Overview The WTO Hong Kong ministerial meeting was a lost opportunity to make trade fairer for poor people around the world. Rich countries put their commercial interests before those of developing countries. Most of the difficult decisions were put off to a further meeting in early 2006, but it is far from clear why rich countries […] View resource Case study Girls’ Education in Africa 19/12/2005 4 documents 10 pages long Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Girls' education Overview Sub-Saharan Africa has some huge problems to resolve if it is to achieve gender equality in education, and fulfil the Millennium Development Goals related to education and gender. Conversely, the region also has some of the most innovative and enterprising examples of initiatives that promote gender equality in education. This paper focuses on sub-Saharan Africa […] View resource Case study Developing Capacity to Achieve Gender Equality in Education 19/12/2005 4 documents 10 pages long Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Gender mainstreaming Girls' education Overview Failure to achieve gender equality in education is often blamed on ‘weak capacity’. This paper illustrates the ways in which individual, organisational, and institutional capacity all play important roles in producing positive results for girls. It is essential to recognise that these different forms of capacity are related, in order to prevent the disappearance of […] View resource Case study Making it Happen: Political will for gender equality in education 19/12/2005 4 documents 10 pages long Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Gender mainstreaming Girls' education Overview Why do some countries succeed in promoting gender parity and equality in education while others do not? The answer often given is ‘political will’. All too often, however, no further explanation is offered. There has been little effort to understand why governments are unwilling or unable to change their policies and priorities to achieve equal […] View resource Case study Beyond the Mainstream: Education for nomadic and pastoralist girls and boys 19/12/2005 4 documents 12 pages long Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Gender mainstreaming Girls' education Pastoralism Overview This paper illustrates the challenges involved in providing good-quality gender-equitable education for children who are beyond the reach of mainstream, formal education. It focuses on children of nomadic and pastoralist households, identifying specific issues in providing schooling for them, and drawing on lessons from approaches and initiatives by various agencies (government and non-government). The paper […] View resource Case study Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Education 05/12/2005 4 documents 11 pages long Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Gender mainstreaming Gender-responsive budgeting Girls' education Overview In the mid-1980s, the Australian government embarked on the first initiative to analyse government budgets from a gender perspective. In 1995, South Africa and the Philippines became the second and third countries to attempt gender-responsive budget exercises. By 2003, there had been similar initiatives in more than sixty countries. This paper uses the gender-response budgeting […] View resource Case study Beyond Access for Girls and Boys: How to achieve good-quality, gender-equitable education 01/12/2005 4 documents 10 pages long Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Gender mainstreaming Girls' education Overview This is the first of nine papers in a series on Education and Gender Equality, which have been developed from the work of the Beyond Access: Gender, Education, and Development, project.1 The focus of the series is on how to ensure not only equal access to a basic education for boys and girls, but that […] View resource Case study Gender Equality and Adult Basic Education 01/12/2005 4 documents 10 pages long Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Gender mainstreaming HIV and AIDS Overview This paper highlights the fact that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) do not directly address the issue of adult basic education and literacy, in spite of these being essential for achieving the Millennium targets. It explores the potential of adult basic education with gender equality to be transformatory for individuals, and for groups working to […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know