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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

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Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

01/06/2008

10 pages long

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Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

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This article offers strategies for women’s empowerment in conservative, tribal, and religious environments, based on an innovative programme in Pakistan. Mainstreaming Gender and Development (MGD) encouraged participants to build on their communities’ strengths, minimised resistance among families and communities by including them in the development process, and succeeded in building a cadre of women activists. […]

Journal article

Empowering women through cash relief in humanitarian contexts

01/12/2001

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Empowering women through cash relief in humanitarian contexts

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Overview

This paper discusses the rationale behind cash transfer strategies as an alternative means of channelling resources to women and men in humanitarian contexts. It highlights key gender-related considerations that contribute to the success of the strategy. Food aid remains the largest part of United Nations appeals, but it is often delayed, inadequate in quantity and […]

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‘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

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

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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 […]

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Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

07/12/2021

21 pages long

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Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the relationships between violences against women (VAW) and rural development in the context of postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip region (FTN). How might we understand the relationships between postwar development, its gendered implications, and VAW in this context? What are the implications of these entanglements for feminist activism? The article explores this […]

Journal article

Walking together: the journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the women’s movement

01/09/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Walking together: the journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the women’s movement

Keywords

Overview

The story of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the way in which women engaged with it, gaining from its overall liberatory calls, as well as its political independence from the UN and other multilateral agencies, is relatively unknown in the world of development and women; and yet it is an important example of multilateral space. […]

Journal article

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

27/03/2015

16 pages long

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Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

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Overview

Women living in marginalised urban neighbourhoods are often excluded from the economic, political, and social resources available to other city dwellers. The focus on the decentralisation of services and resource provision in urban areas presents an opportunity to citizens, including women, to organise to hold local government to account. This article builds on case studies […]

Journal article

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

01/02/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

Keywords

Overview

Water supply and sanitation provision are key elements in progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Women’s participation is considered integral to the sustainability of the projects created to meet these two MDGs. Bringing feminist and geographic critiques to bear on gendered approaches to improving sanitation coverage, the research reported on in this article indicates […]

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Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

24/06/2020

24 pages long

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Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

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Overview

The multilateral decision-making enabled by the United Nations (UN), as the world’s only forum for negotiating agreements between almost all countries, has been both fertile and frustrating for advancing women’s rights. The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women at Beijing, held at a post-Cold War high point in international co-operation, generated a significant political settlement […]

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The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

08/11/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

Keywords

Overview

In seven short years, Kup Women for Peace, a community organisation in Papua New Guinea, has gone from tribal peacebuilding to ensuring a free, fair, and violence-free election in one small part of Simbu Province. The organisation’s approach was multi-faceted and locally appropriate, enfranchising many women – and educating men – in the process. In […]

Journal article

Environment and women in Uganda: the way I see it

01/02/1993

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Environment and women in Uganda: the way I see it

Keywords

Overview

Adoko’s argument is that projects to protect the environment should not be made the responsibility of poor women, particularly since it is not women – or poor people – who are destroying the environment. In the case of tree planting in Uganda, women are burdened with collecting water for saplings, whilst important gender issues such […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

01/06/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

Keywords

Overview

This article offers strategies for women’s empowerment in conservative, tribal, and religious environments, based on an innovative programme in Pakistan. Mainstreaming Gender and Development (MGD) encouraged participants to build on their communities’ strengths, minimised resistance among families and communities by including them in the development process, and succeeded in building a cadre of women activists. […]

Journal article

Empowering women through cash relief in humanitarian contexts

01/12/2001

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Empowering women through cash relief in humanitarian contexts

Keywords

Overview

This paper discusses the rationale behind cash transfer strategies as an alternative means of channelling resources to women and men in humanitarian contexts. It highlights key gender-related considerations that contribute to the success of the strategy. Food aid remains the largest part of United Nations appeals, but it is often delayed, inadequate in quantity and […]

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

Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

07/12/2021

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the relationships between violences against women (VAW) and rural development in the context of postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip region (FTN). How might we understand the relationships between postwar development, its gendered implications, and VAW in this context? What are the implications of these entanglements for feminist activism? The article explores this […]

Journal article

Walking together: the journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the women’s movement

01/09/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Walking together: the journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the women’s movement

Keywords

Overview

The story of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the way in which women engaged with it, gaining from its overall liberatory calls, as well as its political independence from the UN and other multilateral agencies, is relatively unknown in the world of development and women; and yet it is an important example of multilateral space. […]

Journal article

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

27/03/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

Keywords

Overview

Women living in marginalised urban neighbourhoods are often excluded from the economic, political, and social resources available to other city dwellers. The focus on the decentralisation of services and resource provision in urban areas presents an opportunity to citizens, including women, to organise to hold local government to account. This article builds on case studies […]

Journal article

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

01/02/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

Keywords

Overview

Water supply and sanitation provision are key elements in progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Women’s participation is considered integral to the sustainability of the projects created to meet these two MDGs. Bringing feminist and geographic critiques to bear on gendered approaches to improving sanitation coverage, the research reported on in this article indicates […]

Journal article

Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

24/06/2020

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

Keywords

Overview

The multilateral decision-making enabled by the United Nations (UN), as the world’s only forum for negotiating agreements between almost all countries, has been both fertile and frustrating for advancing women’s rights. The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women at Beijing, held at a post-Cold War high point in international co-operation, generated a significant political settlement […]

Journal article

The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

08/11/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

Keywords

Overview

In seven short years, Kup Women for Peace, a community organisation in Papua New Guinea, has gone from tribal peacebuilding to ensuring a free, fair, and violence-free election in one small part of Simbu Province. The organisation’s approach was multi-faceted and locally appropriate, enfranchising many women – and educating men – in the process. In […]

Journal article

Environment and women in Uganda: the way I see it

01/02/1993

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Environment and women in Uganda: the way I see it

Keywords

Overview

Adoko’s argument is that projects to protect the environment should not be made the responsibility of poor women, particularly since it is not women – or poor people – who are destroying the environment. In the case of tree planting in Uganda, women are burdened with collecting water for saplings, whilst important gender issues such […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

01/06/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

Keywords

Overview

This article offers strategies for women’s empowerment in conservative, tribal, and religious environments, based on an innovative programme in Pakistan. Mainstreaming Gender and Development (MGD) encouraged participants to build on their communities’ strengths, minimised resistance among families and communities by including them in the development process, and succeeded in building a cadre of women activists. […]

Journal article

Empowering women through cash relief in humanitarian contexts

01/12/2001

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Empowering women through cash relief in humanitarian contexts

Keywords

Overview

This paper discusses the rationale behind cash transfer strategies as an alternative means of channelling resources to women and men in humanitarian contexts. It highlights key gender-related considerations that contribute to the success of the strategy. Food aid remains the largest part of United Nations appeals, but it is often delayed, inadequate in quantity and […]

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

Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

07/12/2021

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the relationships between violences against women (VAW) and rural development in the context of postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip region (FTN). How might we understand the relationships between postwar development, its gendered implications, and VAW in this context? What are the implications of these entanglements for feminist activism? The article explores this […]

Journal article

Walking together: the journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the women’s movement

01/09/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Walking together: the journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the women’s movement

Keywords

Overview

The story of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the way in which women engaged with it, gaining from its overall liberatory calls, as well as its political independence from the UN and other multilateral agencies, is relatively unknown in the world of development and women; and yet it is an important example of multilateral space. […]

Journal article

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

27/03/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

Keywords

Overview

Women living in marginalised urban neighbourhoods are often excluded from the economic, political, and social resources available to other city dwellers. The focus on the decentralisation of services and resource provision in urban areas presents an opportunity to citizens, including women, to organise to hold local government to account. This article builds on case studies […]

Journal article

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

01/02/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

Keywords

Overview

Water supply and sanitation provision are key elements in progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Women’s participation is considered integral to the sustainability of the projects created to meet these two MDGs. Bringing feminist and geographic critiques to bear on gendered approaches to improving sanitation coverage, the research reported on in this article indicates […]

Journal article

Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

24/06/2020

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

Keywords

Overview

The multilateral decision-making enabled by the United Nations (UN), as the world’s only forum for negotiating agreements between almost all countries, has been both fertile and frustrating for advancing women’s rights. The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women at Beijing, held at a post-Cold War high point in international co-operation, generated a significant political settlement […]

Journal article

The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

08/11/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

Keywords

Overview

In seven short years, Kup Women for Peace, a community organisation in Papua New Guinea, has gone from tribal peacebuilding to ensuring a free, fair, and violence-free election in one small part of Simbu Province. The organisation’s approach was multi-faceted and locally appropriate, enfranchising many women – and educating men – in the process. In […]

Journal article

Environment and women in Uganda: the way I see it

01/02/1993

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Environment and women in Uganda: the way I see it

Keywords

Overview

Adoko’s argument is that projects to protect the environment should not be made the responsibility of poor women, particularly since it is not women – or poor people – who are destroying the environment. In the case of tree planting in Uganda, women are burdened with collecting water for saplings, whilst important gender issues such […]