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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Working with women refugees in Eastern Sri Lanka

01/06/1993

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Working with women refugees in Eastern Sri Lanka

Keywords

Overview

The destruction of social frameworks by war allows women to participate in arenas from which they are traditionally excluded. This contributes to women’s empowerment, if the women concerned are aware of the changes and want them to survive post-war. Community Aid Abroad (CAA) has been working with people displaced by conflict in eastern Sri Lanka. […]

Case study

Women’s Collective Action in the Honey Sector in Ethiopia

27/03/2013

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

At first glance, the honey sector in Ethiopia seems an unlikely place in which to find women forming collective action(CA) groups, taking leadership positions, and benefiting from increased income generation. Beekeeping and honey production are largely male occupations. Over the last decade, however, women have begun to participate in CA in the honey sector in […]

Journal article

Filipino women demand freedom from debt

01/10/1993

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Filipino women demand freedom from debt

Keywords

Overview

Filipino women are fighting back against unrecognised household work, underpaid income-earning employment, the burden of foreign debt, and debt repayment conditionality’s. One important initiative is the Women’s Committee within the ‘Freedom from Debt Coalition’. The latter works for sustainable development, and the former ensures that gender issues are integrated into all its policies. The author […]

Journal article

AIDS, women, land, and natural resources in Africa: current challenges

01/03/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

AIDS, women, land, and natural resources in Africa: current challenges

Keywords

Overview

AIDS-affected households in rural Africa often turn to natural resources as a livelihood safety net. Yet women affected by AIDS have less time for sound resource management, and indigenous knowledge is lost when parents die before educating their children. As demand and inappropriate use grow, resource depletion and land degradation increase. In many countries, widows […]

Research report

Our Search for Peace: Women in South Sudan’s National Peace Processes, 2005–2018

30/01/2020

1 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

South Sudanese women have played critical roles in efforts to achieve peace in South Sudan, yet their contributions have been under-recognized and under-documented. This paper contributes to remedying this by sharing women’s stories of their roles in peacemaking through the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (2005), the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan […]

Journal article

Saharawi women: ‘between ambition and suffering’

01/02/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Saharawi women: ‘between ambition and suffering’

Keywords

Overview

A conference by ‘One World Action’ that focused on Saharawi women refugees, has highlighted how women worldwide cope with displacement. The true picture is starkly different to that portrayed by Western media and understood by Western aid agencies. Women refugees are not ‘victims’ but empower themselves by running the camps and assuming traditional male roles […]

Journal article

‘Pink transportation’ in Mexico City: reclaiming urban space through collective action against gender-based violence

01/07/2013

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Pink transportation’ in Mexico City: reclaiming urban space through collective action against gender-based violence

Keywords

Overview

Women-only transportation has become a popular option for urban women around the world who are tired of being groped and harassed in buses, subways and taxis. The separation of men and women in public transit is controversial among feminists, since it does not address or solve the fundamental issue of gender inequality which causes violence and harassment. However, less […]

Journal article

The devil is in the details: a feminist perspective on development, women’s rights, and fundamentalisms

28/03/2017

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

The devil is in the details: a feminist perspective on development, women’s rights, and fundamentalisms

Keywords

Overview

This article presents the Association for Women’s Rights in Development’s (AWID) perspective on the issue of religious fundamentalisms as they affect women’s rights in the world today. Globally and in every religious context there has been a growth in the power and influence of religious fundamentalist actors. Although the violence that they are wreaking on […]

Journal article

Community research on older women in the Dominican Republic

01/07/2000

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Community research on older women in the Dominican Republic

Keywords

Overview

This article looks at action-research into the interests and needs of older women in 11 urban communities in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The research was instigated by Aquelarre (CEAPA), with help from International Co-operation for Development (ICD); Fundompromued (the Dominican Foundation for the Protection of Women of the Third Age); and informal women’s groups. The […]

Journal article

The effects of drought on the condition of women

01/02/1994

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

The effects of drought on the condition of women

Keywords

Overview

Rural women play a central role in their country’s economy and households. Therefore, drought profoundly interrupts their work and has far-reaching impacts in five areas. Economically, drought affects food, trade, labour and migration. Environmentally, finding alternatives to crops has direct and indirect consequences for land use. Socially, Tichagwa looks at migration to urban areas; female […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Working with women refugees in Eastern Sri Lanka

01/06/1993

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Working with women refugees in Eastern Sri Lanka

Keywords

Overview

The destruction of social frameworks by war allows women to participate in arenas from which they are traditionally excluded. This contributes to women’s empowerment, if the women concerned are aware of the changes and want them to survive post-war. Community Aid Abroad (CAA) has been working with people displaced by conflict in eastern Sri Lanka. […]

Case study

Women’s Collective Action in the Honey Sector in Ethiopia

27/03/2013

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

At first glance, the honey sector in Ethiopia seems an unlikely place in which to find women forming collective action(CA) groups, taking leadership positions, and benefiting from increased income generation. Beekeeping and honey production are largely male occupations. Over the last decade, however, women have begun to participate in CA in the honey sector in […]

Journal article

Filipino women demand freedom from debt

01/10/1993

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Filipino women demand freedom from debt

Keywords

Overview

Filipino women are fighting back against unrecognised household work, underpaid income-earning employment, the burden of foreign debt, and debt repayment conditionality’s. One important initiative is the Women’s Committee within the ‘Freedom from Debt Coalition’. The latter works for sustainable development, and the former ensures that gender issues are integrated into all its policies. The author […]

Journal article

AIDS, women, land, and natural resources in Africa: current challenges

01/03/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

AIDS, women, land, and natural resources in Africa: current challenges

Keywords

Overview

AIDS-affected households in rural Africa often turn to natural resources as a livelihood safety net. Yet women affected by AIDS have less time for sound resource management, and indigenous knowledge is lost when parents die before educating their children. As demand and inappropriate use grow, resource depletion and land degradation increase. In many countries, widows […]

Research report

Our Search for Peace: Women in South Sudan’s National Peace Processes, 2005–2018

30/01/2020

1 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

South Sudanese women have played critical roles in efforts to achieve peace in South Sudan, yet their contributions have been under-recognized and under-documented. This paper contributes to remedying this by sharing women’s stories of their roles in peacemaking through the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (2005), the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan […]

Journal article

Saharawi women: ‘between ambition and suffering’

01/02/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Saharawi women: ‘between ambition and suffering’

Keywords

Overview

A conference by ‘One World Action’ that focused on Saharawi women refugees, has highlighted how women worldwide cope with displacement. The true picture is starkly different to that portrayed by Western media and understood by Western aid agencies. Women refugees are not ‘victims’ but empower themselves by running the camps and assuming traditional male roles […]

Journal article

‘Pink transportation’ in Mexico City: reclaiming urban space through collective action against gender-based violence

01/07/2013

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Pink transportation’ in Mexico City: reclaiming urban space through collective action against gender-based violence

Keywords

Overview

Women-only transportation has become a popular option for urban women around the world who are tired of being groped and harassed in buses, subways and taxis. The separation of men and women in public transit is controversial among feminists, since it does not address or solve the fundamental issue of gender inequality which causes violence and harassment. However, less […]

Journal article

The devil is in the details: a feminist perspective on development, women’s rights, and fundamentalisms

28/03/2017

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

The devil is in the details: a feminist perspective on development, women’s rights, and fundamentalisms

Keywords

Overview

This article presents the Association for Women’s Rights in Development’s (AWID) perspective on the issue of religious fundamentalisms as they affect women’s rights in the world today. Globally and in every religious context there has been a growth in the power and influence of religious fundamentalist actors. Although the violence that they are wreaking on […]

Journal article

Community research on older women in the Dominican Republic

01/07/2000

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Community research on older women in the Dominican Republic

Keywords

Overview

This article looks at action-research into the interests and needs of older women in 11 urban communities in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The research was instigated by Aquelarre (CEAPA), with help from International Co-operation for Development (ICD); Fundompromued (the Dominican Foundation for the Protection of Women of the Third Age); and informal women’s groups. The […]

Journal article

The effects of drought on the condition of women

01/02/1994

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

The effects of drought on the condition of women

Keywords

Overview

Rural women play a central role in their country’s economy and households. Therefore, drought profoundly interrupts their work and has far-reaching impacts in five areas. Economically, drought affects food, trade, labour and migration. Environmentally, finding alternatives to crops has direct and indirect consequences for land use. Socially, Tichagwa looks at migration to urban areas; female […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Working with women refugees in Eastern Sri Lanka

01/06/1993

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Working with women refugees in Eastern Sri Lanka

Keywords

Overview

The destruction of social frameworks by war allows women to participate in arenas from which they are traditionally excluded. This contributes to women’s empowerment, if the women concerned are aware of the changes and want them to survive post-war. Community Aid Abroad (CAA) has been working with people displaced by conflict in eastern Sri Lanka. […]

Case study

Women’s Collective Action in the Honey Sector in Ethiopia

27/03/2013

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

At first glance, the honey sector in Ethiopia seems an unlikely place in which to find women forming collective action(CA) groups, taking leadership positions, and benefiting from increased income generation. Beekeeping and honey production are largely male occupations. Over the last decade, however, women have begun to participate in CA in the honey sector in […]

Journal article

Filipino women demand freedom from debt

01/10/1993

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Filipino women demand freedom from debt

Keywords

Overview

Filipino women are fighting back against unrecognised household work, underpaid income-earning employment, the burden of foreign debt, and debt repayment conditionality’s. One important initiative is the Women’s Committee within the ‘Freedom from Debt Coalition’. The latter works for sustainable development, and the former ensures that gender issues are integrated into all its policies. The author […]

Journal article

AIDS, women, land, and natural resources in Africa: current challenges

01/03/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

AIDS, women, land, and natural resources in Africa: current challenges

Keywords

Overview

AIDS-affected households in rural Africa often turn to natural resources as a livelihood safety net. Yet women affected by AIDS have less time for sound resource management, and indigenous knowledge is lost when parents die before educating their children. As demand and inappropriate use grow, resource depletion and land degradation increase. In many countries, widows […]

Research report

Our Search for Peace: Women in South Sudan’s National Peace Processes, 2005–2018

30/01/2020

1 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

South Sudanese women have played critical roles in efforts to achieve peace in South Sudan, yet their contributions have been under-recognized and under-documented. This paper contributes to remedying this by sharing women’s stories of their roles in peacemaking through the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (2005), the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan […]

Journal article

Saharawi women: ‘between ambition and suffering’

01/02/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Saharawi women: ‘between ambition and suffering’

Keywords

Overview

A conference by ‘One World Action’ that focused on Saharawi women refugees, has highlighted how women worldwide cope with displacement. The true picture is starkly different to that portrayed by Western media and understood by Western aid agencies. Women refugees are not ‘victims’ but empower themselves by running the camps and assuming traditional male roles […]

Journal article

‘Pink transportation’ in Mexico City: reclaiming urban space through collective action against gender-based violence

01/07/2013

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Pink transportation’ in Mexico City: reclaiming urban space through collective action against gender-based violence

Keywords

Overview

Women-only transportation has become a popular option for urban women around the world who are tired of being groped and harassed in buses, subways and taxis. The separation of men and women in public transit is controversial among feminists, since it does not address or solve the fundamental issue of gender inequality which causes violence and harassment. However, less […]

Journal article

The devil is in the details: a feminist perspective on development, women’s rights, and fundamentalisms

28/03/2017

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

The devil is in the details: a feminist perspective on development, women’s rights, and fundamentalisms

Keywords

Overview

This article presents the Association for Women’s Rights in Development’s (AWID) perspective on the issue of religious fundamentalisms as they affect women’s rights in the world today. Globally and in every religious context there has been a growth in the power and influence of religious fundamentalist actors. Although the violence that they are wreaking on […]

Journal article

Community research on older women in the Dominican Republic

01/07/2000

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Community research on older women in the Dominican Republic

Keywords

Overview

This article looks at action-research into the interests and needs of older women in 11 urban communities in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The research was instigated by Aquelarre (CEAPA), with help from International Co-operation for Development (ICD); Fundompromued (the Dominican Foundation for the Protection of Women of the Third Age); and informal women’s groups. The […]

Journal article

The effects of drought on the condition of women

01/02/1994

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

The effects of drought on the condition of women

Keywords

Overview

Rural women play a central role in their country’s economy and households. Therefore, drought profoundly interrupts their work and has far-reaching impacts in five areas. Economically, drought affects food, trade, labour and migration. Environmentally, finding alternatives to crops has direct and indirect consequences for land use. Socially, Tichagwa looks at migration to urban areas; female […]