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From palm tree to parliament: training women for political leadership and public life

01/11/2000

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

From palm tree to parliament: training women for political leadership and public life

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Overview

Over the past two decades, I have worked in the field of developing women’s political leadership in over 30 countries. In this article, I define what I mean by women’s leadership, why I think there is a need to develop it, and the methods and tools that I have used to achieve this, in several […]

Journal article

‘No one understands what we go through’: self-identification of health risks by women sanitation workers in Pune, India during the COVID-19 pandemic

23/03/2021

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘No one understands what we go through’: self-identification of health risks by women sanitation workers in Pune, India during the COVID-19 pandemic

Keywords

Overview

This paper speaks of the women sanitation workers who are working at the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pune city, an epicentre of rising COVID-19 cases in India. Prevailing caste and gendered norms of labour roles render the women doubly vulnerable. Within that context, we investigate how the women sanitation workers self-identify their health […]

Journal article

Women, trade, and migration

01/07/2004

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, trade, and migration

Keywords

Overview

The impact of modern trade policies on the position of women across the world has produced a growing literature in recent years. This has largely concentrated on analyses of the impact on women of privatisation and trade liberalisation during the course of the past two decades. There has been increased interest on the part of […]

Case study

Women’s Leadership and Participation: Overview

07/02/2008

4 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The right to participate in decision-making at the local, national, and international level is one which women are often denied, whether as active citizens or as leaders. In particular, women living in poverty often have very little opportunity to influence decisions and policies that will have a direct influence on their lives and livelihoods, and […]

Case study

Policy Research on the Africa Women’s Protocol

01/02/2008

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender mainstreaming

Overview

On 11 July 2003, the Heads of State and Government of the African Union adopted the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. The Protocol is potentially a powerful force for positive change in the lives of African Women. However if this potential is to […]

Case study

A Life with Dignity: Honduran women raising voices to improve labour standards

01/11/2008

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This paper shows how CODEMUH (Colectiva de Mujeres Hondureñas), a grassroots women’s collective in Honduras, mobilised a popular movement around labour rights in the country’s textile factories, or maquilas. Focusing on occupational health, CODEMUH ran a campaign which included research, training, and advocacy workshops for the women themselves, building alliances locally, nationally, and internationally, and […]

Case study

Indigenous Women against Impunity: Challenging discrimination in Guatemala’s legal system

01/11/2008

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Guatemala signed a peace accord in 1997, after 36 years of conflict. But the legacy of violence continues to haunt its population, especially indigenous people and women, who face ethnic and gender-based discrimination. A culture of impunity dominates the government’s legal system. Only 3 per cent of violent deaths are ever investigated. Violence, especially violence […]

Journal article

‘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

Free access through journal website

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

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

Case study

Creating the Space to Empower Women Fishers: Lessons from the Philippines

07/02/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam GB’s Leadership Development Programme for Women works with four partners in the Philippines. The work involves assessing how far gender is mainstreamed into programme work, and developing action plans to ensure that women working in the fishing industry play a more active role in community-based coastal resource management and in designing fisheries policy reforms. […]

Case study

Breaking the Barriers: Sierra Leonean women on the march

07/02/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Women in Sierra Leone are under-represented in politics and over-represented among poor people. This paper describes the activities of two projects – the Women In Leadership project and its successor, the Promoting A Culture of Equal Representation project – that have aimed to increase the numbers of women in local and national government. In so […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

From palm tree to parliament: training women for political leadership and public life

01/11/2000

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

From palm tree to parliament: training women for political leadership and public life

Keywords

Overview

Over the past two decades, I have worked in the field of developing women’s political leadership in over 30 countries. In this article, I define what I mean by women’s leadership, why I think there is a need to develop it, and the methods and tools that I have used to achieve this, in several […]

Journal article

‘No one understands what we go through’: self-identification of health risks by women sanitation workers in Pune, India during the COVID-19 pandemic

23/03/2021

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘No one understands what we go through’: self-identification of health risks by women sanitation workers in Pune, India during the COVID-19 pandemic

Keywords

Overview

This paper speaks of the women sanitation workers who are working at the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pune city, an epicentre of rising COVID-19 cases in India. Prevailing caste and gendered norms of labour roles render the women doubly vulnerable. Within that context, we investigate how the women sanitation workers self-identify their health […]

Journal article

Women, trade, and migration

01/07/2004

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, trade, and migration

Keywords

Overview

The impact of modern trade policies on the position of women across the world has produced a growing literature in recent years. This has largely concentrated on analyses of the impact on women of privatisation and trade liberalisation during the course of the past two decades. There has been increased interest on the part of […]

Case study

Women’s Leadership and Participation: Overview

07/02/2008

4 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The right to participate in decision-making at the local, national, and international level is one which women are often denied, whether as active citizens or as leaders. In particular, women living in poverty often have very little opportunity to influence decisions and policies that will have a direct influence on their lives and livelihoods, and […]

Case study

Policy Research on the Africa Women’s Protocol

01/02/2008

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender mainstreaming

Overview

On 11 July 2003, the Heads of State and Government of the African Union adopted the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. The Protocol is potentially a powerful force for positive change in the lives of African Women. However if this potential is to […]

Case study

A Life with Dignity: Honduran women raising voices to improve labour standards

01/11/2008

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This paper shows how CODEMUH (Colectiva de Mujeres Hondureñas), a grassroots women’s collective in Honduras, mobilised a popular movement around labour rights in the country’s textile factories, or maquilas. Focusing on occupational health, CODEMUH ran a campaign which included research, training, and advocacy workshops for the women themselves, building alliances locally, nationally, and internationally, and […]

Case study

Indigenous Women against Impunity: Challenging discrimination in Guatemala’s legal system

01/11/2008

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Guatemala signed a peace accord in 1997, after 36 years of conflict. But the legacy of violence continues to haunt its population, especially indigenous people and women, who face ethnic and gender-based discrimination. A culture of impunity dominates the government’s legal system. Only 3 per cent of violent deaths are ever investigated. Violence, especially violence […]

Journal article

‘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

Free access through journal website

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

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

Case study

Creating the Space to Empower Women Fishers: Lessons from the Philippines

07/02/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam GB’s Leadership Development Programme for Women works with four partners in the Philippines. The work involves assessing how far gender is mainstreamed into programme work, and developing action plans to ensure that women working in the fishing industry play a more active role in community-based coastal resource management and in designing fisheries policy reforms. […]

Case study

Breaking the Barriers: Sierra Leonean women on the march

07/02/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Women in Sierra Leone are under-represented in politics and over-represented among poor people. This paper describes the activities of two projects – the Women In Leadership project and its successor, the Promoting A Culture of Equal Representation project – that have aimed to increase the numbers of women in local and national government. In so […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

From palm tree to parliament: training women for political leadership and public life

01/11/2000

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

From palm tree to parliament: training women for political leadership and public life

Keywords

Overview

Over the past two decades, I have worked in the field of developing women’s political leadership in over 30 countries. In this article, I define what I mean by women’s leadership, why I think there is a need to develop it, and the methods and tools that I have used to achieve this, in several […]

Journal article

‘No one understands what we go through’: self-identification of health risks by women sanitation workers in Pune, India during the COVID-19 pandemic

23/03/2021

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘No one understands what we go through’: self-identification of health risks by women sanitation workers in Pune, India during the COVID-19 pandemic

Keywords

Overview

This paper speaks of the women sanitation workers who are working at the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pune city, an epicentre of rising COVID-19 cases in India. Prevailing caste and gendered norms of labour roles render the women doubly vulnerable. Within that context, we investigate how the women sanitation workers self-identify their health […]

Journal article

Women, trade, and migration

01/07/2004

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, trade, and migration

Keywords

Overview

The impact of modern trade policies on the position of women across the world has produced a growing literature in recent years. This has largely concentrated on analyses of the impact on women of privatisation and trade liberalisation during the course of the past two decades. There has been increased interest on the part of […]

Case study

Women’s Leadership and Participation: Overview

07/02/2008

4 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The right to participate in decision-making at the local, national, and international level is one which women are often denied, whether as active citizens or as leaders. In particular, women living in poverty often have very little opportunity to influence decisions and policies that will have a direct influence on their lives and livelihoods, and […]

Case study

Policy Research on the Africa Women’s Protocol

01/02/2008

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender mainstreaming

Overview

On 11 July 2003, the Heads of State and Government of the African Union adopted the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. The Protocol is potentially a powerful force for positive change in the lives of African Women. However if this potential is to […]

Case study

A Life with Dignity: Honduran women raising voices to improve labour standards

01/11/2008

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This paper shows how CODEMUH (Colectiva de Mujeres Hondureñas), a grassroots women’s collective in Honduras, mobilised a popular movement around labour rights in the country’s textile factories, or maquilas. Focusing on occupational health, CODEMUH ran a campaign which included research, training, and advocacy workshops for the women themselves, building alliances locally, nationally, and internationally, and […]

Case study

Indigenous Women against Impunity: Challenging discrimination in Guatemala’s legal system

01/11/2008

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Guatemala signed a peace accord in 1997, after 36 years of conflict. But the legacy of violence continues to haunt its population, especially indigenous people and women, who face ethnic and gender-based discrimination. A culture of impunity dominates the government’s legal system. Only 3 per cent of violent deaths are ever investigated. Violence, especially violence […]

Journal article

‘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

Free access through journal website

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

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

Case study

Creating the Space to Empower Women Fishers: Lessons from the Philippines

07/02/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam GB’s Leadership Development Programme for Women works with four partners in the Philippines. The work involves assessing how far gender is mainstreamed into programme work, and developing action plans to ensure that women working in the fishing industry play a more active role in community-based coastal resource management and in designing fisheries policy reforms. […]

Case study

Breaking the Barriers: Sierra Leonean women on the march

07/02/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Women in Sierra Leone are under-represented in politics and over-represented among poor people. This paper describes the activities of two projects – the Women In Leadership project and its successor, the Promoting A Culture of Equal Representation project – that have aimed to increase the numbers of women in local and national government. In so […]