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Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

07/11/2010

12 pages long

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Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

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Overview

This article focuses on Zimbabwean women who are responding to the economic problems at home by trading food in South Africa. It explores the crops the women market, the strategies they use to access these markets, the challenges they face in South Africa, and the way they handle and resolve conflicts of various kinds which […]

Case study

SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: Changing the lives of women in Katungulu, DRC, through the provision of safe water, sanitation and hygiene

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

In the past, the women of Katungulu had no alternative but to make a two-hour round-trip to a contaminated river to collect water. The scarcity of water meant that villagers couldn’t wash themselves, their children or their clothes. It was also a source of conflict. Now, however, as a result of work done by Tearfund […]

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Sanctioned violence: development and the persecution of women as witches in South Bihar

01/05/1998

12 pages long

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Sanctioned violence: development and the persecution of women as witches in South Bihar

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Overview

Victimizing women as witches is prevalent in the tribal regions of South Bihar. As a result, from 1991 to 1994, over 60 women are known to have been killed in West Singhbhum district alone. The main reasons behind this persecution are to maintain women in economic and social subjugation, to exploit them sexually, and to […]

Journal article

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

01/11/2000

8 pages long

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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 […]

Briefing note

Our Country, Our Peace: Why women must be included in Yemen’s peace process

11/12/2015

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Yemen conflict has had a catastrophic effect on its people, with specific impacts on already-vulnerable women and girls. But political talks about Yemen’s future have almost exclusively been conducted by male politicians and combatants. This contrasts with the 2011 uprising, when women helped set Yemen on a path towards political reform. However, the 2011 […]

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Gendered labour’s positions of vulnerabilities in digital labour platforms and strategies of resistance: a case study of women workers’ struggle in Urban Company, New Delhi

07/12/2022

20 pages long

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Gendered labour’s positions of vulnerabilities in digital labour platforms and strategies of resistance: a case study of women workers’ struggle in Urban Company, New Delhi

Keywords

Overview

The expansion of digital labour platforms (DLPs) in South Asia has incorporated the pre-existing intersectional social inequalities, initiating new sites of exploitation and collective resistance which disrupt and negotiate the gendered labour's positions of vulnerabilities. This paper explores the case of a courageous strike by women workers of Urban Company (online beauty and home services […]

Journal article

Globalisation and women in India

01/11/1999

6 pages long

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Globalisation and women in India

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Overview

Describing the way globalisation has affected India over the last decade, the author considers the impact of these changes on women, in the main areas of `development’ due to globalisation: commercialisation, capitalisation, foreign trade orientation, and financialisation and industrial restructuring. She develops the point that the `skewed income and wealth’ structure in India, and the […]

Journal article

An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case-study of Nigerian women

01/02/1999

12 pages long

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An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case-study of Nigerian women

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Overview

The paper presents a potentially effective empowerment strategy for women, using Nigeria as a case-study. The strategy evolves from an evaluation of recent empowerment strategies in Nigeria, empowerment concepts, and Karl’s (1995) scheme of empowerment. The author argues that the empowerment of women (understood as enhancing their capacity to influence and participate in making decisions […]

Journal article

Women and family poultry production in rural Africa

01/02/2000

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The author discusses the importance of rural family poultry (RFP) in Africa as an income generating and/or subsistence asset for families, particularly highlighting the gender dimension of RFP, since women are often the main owners of, and carers for, chickens. RFP development programmes must take account of other demands on women’s time, but should aim […]

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‘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

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‘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 […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

07/11/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on Zimbabwean women who are responding to the economic problems at home by trading food in South Africa. It explores the crops the women market, the strategies they use to access these markets, the challenges they face in South Africa, and the way they handle and resolve conflicts of various kinds which […]

Case study

SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: Changing the lives of women in Katungulu, DRC, through the provision of safe water, sanitation and hygiene

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the past, the women of Katungulu had no alternative but to make a two-hour round-trip to a contaminated river to collect water. The scarcity of water meant that villagers couldn’t wash themselves, their children or their clothes. It was also a source of conflict. Now, however, as a result of work done by Tearfund […]

Journal article

Sanctioned violence: development and the persecution of women as witches in South Bihar

01/05/1998

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Sanctioned violence: development and the persecution of women as witches in South Bihar

Keywords

Overview

Victimizing women as witches is prevalent in the tribal regions of South Bihar. As a result, from 1991 to 1994, over 60 women are known to have been killed in West Singhbhum district alone. The main reasons behind this persecution are to maintain women in economic and social subjugation, to exploit them sexually, and to […]

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 […]

Briefing note

Our Country, Our Peace: Why women must be included in Yemen’s peace process

11/12/2015

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Yemen conflict has had a catastrophic effect on its people, with specific impacts on already-vulnerable women and girls. But political talks about Yemen’s future have almost exclusively been conducted by male politicians and combatants. This contrasts with the 2011 uprising, when women helped set Yemen on a path towards political reform. However, the 2011 […]

Journal article

Gendered labour’s positions of vulnerabilities in digital labour platforms and strategies of resistance: a case study of women workers’ struggle in Urban Company, New Delhi

07/12/2022

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered labour’s positions of vulnerabilities in digital labour platforms and strategies of resistance: a case study of women workers’ struggle in Urban Company, New Delhi

Keywords

Overview

The expansion of digital labour platforms (DLPs) in South Asia has incorporated the pre-existing intersectional social inequalities, initiating new sites of exploitation and collective resistance which disrupt and negotiate the gendered labour's positions of vulnerabilities. This paper explores the case of a courageous strike by women workers of Urban Company (online beauty and home services […]

Journal article

Globalisation and women in India

01/11/1999

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Globalisation and women in India

Keywords

Overview

Describing the way globalisation has affected India over the last decade, the author considers the impact of these changes on women, in the main areas of `development’ due to globalisation: commercialisation, capitalisation, foreign trade orientation, and financialisation and industrial restructuring. She develops the point that the `skewed income and wealth’ structure in India, and the […]

Journal article

An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case-study of Nigerian women

01/02/1999

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case-study of Nigerian women

Keywords

Overview

The paper presents a potentially effective empowerment strategy for women, using Nigeria as a case-study. The strategy evolves from an evaluation of recent empowerment strategies in Nigeria, empowerment concepts, and Karl’s (1995) scheme of empowerment. The author argues that the empowerment of women (understood as enhancing their capacity to influence and participate in making decisions […]

Journal article

Women and family poultry production in rural Africa

01/02/2000

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The author discusses the importance of rural family poultry (RFP) in Africa as an income generating and/or subsistence asset for families, particularly highlighting the gender dimension of RFP, since women are often the main owners of, and carers for, chickens. RFP development programmes must take account of other demands on women’s time, but should aim […]

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 […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

07/11/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on Zimbabwean women who are responding to the economic problems at home by trading food in South Africa. It explores the crops the women market, the strategies they use to access these markets, the challenges they face in South Africa, and the way they handle and resolve conflicts of various kinds which […]

Case study

SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: Changing the lives of women in Katungulu, DRC, through the provision of safe water, sanitation and hygiene

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the past, the women of Katungulu had no alternative but to make a two-hour round-trip to a contaminated river to collect water. The scarcity of water meant that villagers couldn’t wash themselves, their children or their clothes. It was also a source of conflict. Now, however, as a result of work done by Tearfund […]

Journal article

Sanctioned violence: development and the persecution of women as witches in South Bihar

01/05/1998

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Sanctioned violence: development and the persecution of women as witches in South Bihar

Keywords

Overview

Victimizing women as witches is prevalent in the tribal regions of South Bihar. As a result, from 1991 to 1994, over 60 women are known to have been killed in West Singhbhum district alone. The main reasons behind this persecution are to maintain women in economic and social subjugation, to exploit them sexually, and to […]

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 […]

Briefing note

Our Country, Our Peace: Why women must be included in Yemen’s peace process

11/12/2015

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Yemen conflict has had a catastrophic effect on its people, with specific impacts on already-vulnerable women and girls. But political talks about Yemen’s future have almost exclusively been conducted by male politicians and combatants. This contrasts with the 2011 uprising, when women helped set Yemen on a path towards political reform. However, the 2011 […]

Journal article

Gendered labour’s positions of vulnerabilities in digital labour platforms and strategies of resistance: a case study of women workers’ struggle in Urban Company, New Delhi

07/12/2022

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered labour’s positions of vulnerabilities in digital labour platforms and strategies of resistance: a case study of women workers’ struggle in Urban Company, New Delhi

Keywords

Overview

The expansion of digital labour platforms (DLPs) in South Asia has incorporated the pre-existing intersectional social inequalities, initiating new sites of exploitation and collective resistance which disrupt and negotiate the gendered labour's positions of vulnerabilities. This paper explores the case of a courageous strike by women workers of Urban Company (online beauty and home services […]

Journal article

Globalisation and women in India

01/11/1999

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Globalisation and women in India

Keywords

Overview

Describing the way globalisation has affected India over the last decade, the author considers the impact of these changes on women, in the main areas of `development’ due to globalisation: commercialisation, capitalisation, foreign trade orientation, and financialisation and industrial restructuring. She develops the point that the `skewed income and wealth’ structure in India, and the […]

Journal article

An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case-study of Nigerian women

01/02/1999

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case-study of Nigerian women

Keywords

Overview

The paper presents a potentially effective empowerment strategy for women, using Nigeria as a case-study. The strategy evolves from an evaluation of recent empowerment strategies in Nigeria, empowerment concepts, and Karl’s (1995) scheme of empowerment. The author argues that the empowerment of women (understood as enhancing their capacity to influence and participate in making decisions […]

Journal article

Women and family poultry production in rural Africa

01/02/2000

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The author discusses the importance of rural family poultry (RFP) in Africa as an income generating and/or subsistence asset for families, particularly highlighting the gender dimension of RFP, since women are often the main owners of, and carers for, chickens. RFP development programmes must take account of other demands on women’s time, but should aim […]

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 […]