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Teaching about gender, health, and communicable disease: experiences and challenges

01/07/2001

13 pages long

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Teaching about gender, health, and communicable disease: experiences and challenges

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This article looks at the challenges and opportunities we have encountered while teaching a short course on gender, health, and communicable disease. The course is aimed at health policy-makers, planners, and managers from national ministries, international and national health organisations, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). It ran for the first time in April 2000, with participants […]

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Gender and power relations in a bureaucratic context: female immigrants from Ethiopia in an absorption centre in Israel

01/12/2001

10 pages long

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Gender and power relations in a bureaucratic context: female immigrants from Ethiopia in an absorption centre in Israel

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In this article, I discuss the ways in which the bureaucracy of absorption centres in Israel disempowered Ethiopian women immigrants by promoting a strict gender division of labour within a ‘family unit’ that reflected wider social structures in Israel. In their interactions with Ethiopian immigrants, the officials running the absorption centres enhanced the idea of […]

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Look FIRST from a gender perspective: NAFTA and the FTAA

01/07/2004

9 pages long

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Look FIRST from a gender perspective: NAFTA and the FTAA

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Advocates for gender and economic justice have been calling for gender and social-impact assessments of trade policies for the past seven years. In 2002, Women’s Edge Coalition completed a Trade Impact Review (TIR), an economic and legal framework to analyse the ways in which women and men may be differentially affected by global trade and […]

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The education MDGs: achieving gender equality through curriculum and pedagogy change

01/03/2005

12 pages long

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The education MDGs: achieving gender equality through curriculum and pedagogy change

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This article argues that there is a need for gender-sensitive curricula and pedagogies in schools in order to achieve good-quality outcomes for girls’ education. It examines different dimensions of gender equality and draws on issues raised and discussed at two international seminars which challenged narrow views of curriculum and pedagogy. The article considers these issues […]

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Gender-based violence against children in emergencies: Save the Children UK’s response

01/03/2007

13 pages long

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Gender-based violence against children in emergencies: Save the Children UK’s response

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Violence against children is a global phenomenon. During humanitarian crises, and armed conflict in particular, the potential for gender-based violence (GBV), including sexual exploitation, increases. Children, particularly adolescent girls, are vulnerable. This article traces the impact of an exposé of sexual abuse by humanitarian workers on the wider protection policies and practices of Save the […]

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Climate change and sustainable technology: re-linking poverty, gender, and governance

01/03/2009

13 pages long

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Climate change and sustainable technology: re-linking poverty, gender, and governance

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This article examines the role of sustainable technology in tackling climate change in developing countries. Drawing on solar home systems in Bangladesh as an example, it argues that increasing women’s visibility in technology committees is not necessarily effective in challenging gender stereotypes. Crafting new rules may fail to confront power inequalities. Sustainable technology can exert […]

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Can water professionals meet gender goals? a case study of the Department of Irrigation in Nepal

01/03/2010

11 pages long

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Can water professionals meet gender goals? a case study of the Department of Irrigation in Nepal

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This article argues that there are contradictions between gender goals and policies and the aspirations of irrigation professionals, which are embedded in the incentive structure of the bureaucracy. In addition, the dominant professional culture of irrigation engineers is strongly masculine, linking professional performance to masculinity. The prevailing incentives and culture of the irrigation bureaucracy stand […]

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Good’ water governance and gender equity: a troubled relationship

01/03/2010

15 pages long

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Good’ water governance and gender equity: a troubled relationship

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This paper sets out a framework for understanding water governance, arguing that a narrow focus on gender-sensitive mechanisms of water delivery (such as committees, tariffs, technologies) is insufficient to ensure gender equitable outcomes. We need to expand our analysis of water governance in two directions. Firstly, to understand the ways in which societal resources are […]

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Fat eggs’: gender and fertility as important factors in HIV/AIDS prevention in Botswana

11/11/2010

9 pages long

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Fat eggs’: gender and fertility as important factors in HIV/AIDS prevention in Botswana

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This article examines the response in Botswana to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and some overlooked but key cultural factors that inhibit effective policy implementation. Specifically, this article highlights the importance of gender and fertility as they intersect with ideas of food, fat and social aspects of health in Botswana culture. Using ethnographic methods to understand the […]

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Gender and building homes in disaster in Sindh, Pakistan

25/06/2012

15 pages long

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Gender and building homes in disaster in Sindh, Pakistan

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During 2010 and 2011, Pakistan experienced a series of catastrophic floods. Sindh was the worst affected province, where people already living with chronic poverty and accompanying vulnerability were still recovering from the 2010 mega floods. Women, elderly people, minority groups, differently abled people, and children were among those hit hardest. This study examines and evaluates […]

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Journal article

Teaching about gender, health, and communicable disease: experiences and challenges

01/07/2001

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Teaching about gender, health, and communicable disease: experiences and challenges

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Overview

This article looks at the challenges and opportunities we have encountered while teaching a short course on gender, health, and communicable disease. The course is aimed at health policy-makers, planners, and managers from national ministries, international and national health organisations, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). It ran for the first time in April 2000, with participants […]

Journal article

Gender and power relations in a bureaucratic context: female immigrants from Ethiopia in an absorption centre in Israel

01/12/2001

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender and power relations in a bureaucratic context: female immigrants from Ethiopia in an absorption centre in Israel

Keywords

Overview

In this article, I discuss the ways in which the bureaucracy of absorption centres in Israel disempowered Ethiopian women immigrants by promoting a strict gender division of labour within a ‘family unit’ that reflected wider social structures in Israel. In their interactions with Ethiopian immigrants, the officials running the absorption centres enhanced the idea of […]

Journal article

Look FIRST from a gender perspective: NAFTA and the FTAA

01/07/2004

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Look FIRST from a gender perspective: NAFTA and the FTAA

Keywords

Overview

Advocates for gender and economic justice have been calling for gender and social-impact assessments of trade policies for the past seven years. In 2002, Women’s Edge Coalition completed a Trade Impact Review (TIR), an economic and legal framework to analyse the ways in which women and men may be differentially affected by global trade and […]

Journal article

The education MDGs: achieving gender equality through curriculum and pedagogy change

01/03/2005

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

The education MDGs: achieving gender equality through curriculum and pedagogy change

Keywords

Overview

This article argues that there is a need for gender-sensitive curricula and pedagogies in schools in order to achieve good-quality outcomes for girls’ education. It examines different dimensions of gender equality and draws on issues raised and discussed at two international seminars which challenged narrow views of curriculum and pedagogy. The article considers these issues […]

Journal article

Gender-based violence against children in emergencies: Save the Children UK’s response

01/03/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender-based violence against children in emergencies: Save the Children UK’s response

Keywords

Overview

Violence against children is a global phenomenon. During humanitarian crises, and armed conflict in particular, the potential for gender-based violence (GBV), including sexual exploitation, increases. Children, particularly adolescent girls, are vulnerable. This article traces the impact of an exposé of sexual abuse by humanitarian workers on the wider protection policies and practices of Save the […]

Journal article

Climate change and sustainable technology: re-linking poverty, gender, and governance

01/03/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Climate change and sustainable technology: re-linking poverty, gender, and governance

Keywords

Overview

This article examines the role of sustainable technology in tackling climate change in developing countries. Drawing on solar home systems in Bangladesh as an example, it argues that increasing women’s visibility in technology committees is not necessarily effective in challenging gender stereotypes. Crafting new rules may fail to confront power inequalities. Sustainable technology can exert […]

Journal article

Can water professionals meet gender goals? a case study of the Department of Irrigation in Nepal

01/03/2010

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Can water professionals meet gender goals? a case study of the Department of Irrigation in Nepal

Keywords

Overview

This article argues that there are contradictions between gender goals and policies and the aspirations of irrigation professionals, which are embedded in the incentive structure of the bureaucracy. In addition, the dominant professional culture of irrigation engineers is strongly masculine, linking professional performance to masculinity. The prevailing incentives and culture of the irrigation bureaucracy stand […]

Journal article

Good’ water governance and gender equity: a troubled relationship

01/03/2010

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Good’ water governance and gender equity: a troubled relationship

Keywords

Overview

This paper sets out a framework for understanding water governance, arguing that a narrow focus on gender-sensitive mechanisms of water delivery (such as committees, tariffs, technologies) is insufficient to ensure gender equitable outcomes. We need to expand our analysis of water governance in two directions. Firstly, to understand the ways in which societal resources are […]

Journal article

Fat eggs’: gender and fertility as important factors in HIV/AIDS prevention in Botswana

11/11/2010

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fat eggs’: gender and fertility as important factors in HIV/AIDS prevention in Botswana

Keywords

Overview

This article examines the response in Botswana to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and some overlooked but key cultural factors that inhibit effective policy implementation. Specifically, this article highlights the importance of gender and fertility as they intersect with ideas of food, fat and social aspects of health in Botswana culture. Using ethnographic methods to understand the […]

Journal article

Gender and building homes in disaster in Sindh, Pakistan

25/06/2012

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender and building homes in disaster in Sindh, Pakistan

Keywords

Overview

During 2010 and 2011, Pakistan experienced a series of catastrophic floods. Sindh was the worst affected province, where people already living with chronic poverty and accompanying vulnerability were still recovering from the 2010 mega floods. Women, elderly people, minority groups, differently abled people, and children were among those hit hardest. This study examines and evaluates […]

Showing 352 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Teaching about gender, health, and communicable disease: experiences and challenges

01/07/2001

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Teaching about gender, health, and communicable disease: experiences and challenges

Keywords

Overview

This article looks at the challenges and opportunities we have encountered while teaching a short course on gender, health, and communicable disease. The course is aimed at health policy-makers, planners, and managers from national ministries, international and national health organisations, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). It ran for the first time in April 2000, with participants […]

Journal article

Gender and power relations in a bureaucratic context: female immigrants from Ethiopia in an absorption centre in Israel

01/12/2001

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender and power relations in a bureaucratic context: female immigrants from Ethiopia in an absorption centre in Israel

Keywords

Overview

In this article, I discuss the ways in which the bureaucracy of absorption centres in Israel disempowered Ethiopian women immigrants by promoting a strict gender division of labour within a ‘family unit’ that reflected wider social structures in Israel. In their interactions with Ethiopian immigrants, the officials running the absorption centres enhanced the idea of […]

Journal article

Look FIRST from a gender perspective: NAFTA and the FTAA

01/07/2004

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Look FIRST from a gender perspective: NAFTA and the FTAA

Keywords

Overview

Advocates for gender and economic justice have been calling for gender and social-impact assessments of trade policies for the past seven years. In 2002, Women’s Edge Coalition completed a Trade Impact Review (TIR), an economic and legal framework to analyse the ways in which women and men may be differentially affected by global trade and […]

Journal article

The education MDGs: achieving gender equality through curriculum and pedagogy change

01/03/2005

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

The education MDGs: achieving gender equality through curriculum and pedagogy change

Keywords

Overview

This article argues that there is a need for gender-sensitive curricula and pedagogies in schools in order to achieve good-quality outcomes for girls’ education. It examines different dimensions of gender equality and draws on issues raised and discussed at two international seminars which challenged narrow views of curriculum and pedagogy. The article considers these issues […]

Journal article

Gender-based violence against children in emergencies: Save the Children UK’s response

01/03/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender-based violence against children in emergencies: Save the Children UK’s response

Keywords

Overview

Violence against children is a global phenomenon. During humanitarian crises, and armed conflict in particular, the potential for gender-based violence (GBV), including sexual exploitation, increases. Children, particularly adolescent girls, are vulnerable. This article traces the impact of an exposé of sexual abuse by humanitarian workers on the wider protection policies and practices of Save the […]

Journal article

Climate change and sustainable technology: re-linking poverty, gender, and governance

01/03/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Climate change and sustainable technology: re-linking poverty, gender, and governance

Keywords

Overview

This article examines the role of sustainable technology in tackling climate change in developing countries. Drawing on solar home systems in Bangladesh as an example, it argues that increasing women’s visibility in technology committees is not necessarily effective in challenging gender stereotypes. Crafting new rules may fail to confront power inequalities. Sustainable technology can exert […]

Journal article

Can water professionals meet gender goals? a case study of the Department of Irrigation in Nepal

01/03/2010

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Can water professionals meet gender goals? a case study of the Department of Irrigation in Nepal

Keywords

Overview

This article argues that there are contradictions between gender goals and policies and the aspirations of irrigation professionals, which are embedded in the incentive structure of the bureaucracy. In addition, the dominant professional culture of irrigation engineers is strongly masculine, linking professional performance to masculinity. The prevailing incentives and culture of the irrigation bureaucracy stand […]

Journal article

Good’ water governance and gender equity: a troubled relationship

01/03/2010

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Good’ water governance and gender equity: a troubled relationship

Keywords

Overview

This paper sets out a framework for understanding water governance, arguing that a narrow focus on gender-sensitive mechanisms of water delivery (such as committees, tariffs, technologies) is insufficient to ensure gender equitable outcomes. We need to expand our analysis of water governance in two directions. Firstly, to understand the ways in which societal resources are […]

Journal article

Fat eggs’: gender and fertility as important factors in HIV/AIDS prevention in Botswana

11/11/2010

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fat eggs’: gender and fertility as important factors in HIV/AIDS prevention in Botswana

Keywords

Overview

This article examines the response in Botswana to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and some overlooked but key cultural factors that inhibit effective policy implementation. Specifically, this article highlights the importance of gender and fertility as they intersect with ideas of food, fat and social aspects of health in Botswana culture. Using ethnographic methods to understand the […]

Journal article

Gender and building homes in disaster in Sindh, Pakistan

25/06/2012

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender and building homes in disaster in Sindh, Pakistan

Keywords

Overview

During 2010 and 2011, Pakistan experienced a series of catastrophic floods. Sindh was the worst affected province, where people already living with chronic poverty and accompanying vulnerability were still recovering from the 2010 mega floods. Women, elderly people, minority groups, differently abled people, and children were among those hit hardest. This study examines and evaluates […]