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Looking beyond gender in humanitarian interventions: a study of a drought-stricken region of Kenya

25/06/2012

13 pages long

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Looking beyond gender in humanitarian interventions: a study of a drought-stricken region of Kenya

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Slow-onset disasters such as droughts usually occur with such frequency that people have no time to recover before the onset of the next drought. All members of the community suffer as a result of recurrent droughts, but the effects are often more severe on vulnerable groups such as children, elderly people, and some women. This […]

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Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana – the role of the women’s movement in Ghana

07/11/2012

11 pages long

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Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana – the role of the women’s movement in Ghana

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Commitment to gender mainstreaming has been expressed worldwide as a result of the Beijing conference in 1995. The introduction of gender mainstreaming in the Beijing Platform for Action was regarded as a victory for gender ambassadors from the South, including the women’s movements. However, an empirical study from Ghana on the processes of ‘translating’ gender […]

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Political transition and sexual and gender-based violence in South Africa, Kenya, and Zimbabwe: a comparative analysis

12/11/2013

13 pages long

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Political transition and sexual and gender-based violence in South Africa, Kenya, and Zimbabwe: a comparative analysis

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This article draws on research conducted in Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe that focused on violence in the context of political transition. The paper examines the relation between political transition and sexual and gender-based violence in the three countries. The paper argues that it is critical to recognise sexual and gender-based violence as bound to systemic gendered inequality if […]

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Gender-based violence and the Arms Trade Treaty: reflections from a campaigning and legal perspective

12/11/2013

11 pages long

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Gender-based violence and the Arms Trade Treaty: reflections from a campaigning and legal perspective

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The Arms Trade Treaty, the first treaty to regulate the international transfer of conventional arms and ammunition, was adopted in 2013 at the United Nations. It aims to regulate the flow of weapons around the world by requiring governments to assess all arms transfers against a set of criteria, before the transfer is authorised or denied. The agreed criteria […]

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Adolescent girls’ experiences of violence in school in Sierra Leone and the challenges to sustainable change

20/03/2014

16 pages long

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Adolescent girls’ experiences of violence in school in Sierra Leone and the challenges to sustainable change

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Gender based violence in or around schools continues to be a serious and pressing problem in Sierra Leone that necessitates greater attention. At the core of such violence is gender inequality that is pervasive in Sierra Leone society. School related gender-based violence is part of a complex, multi-faceted social issue. As microcosms of wider society, […]

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Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

10/11/2014

16 pages long

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Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

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This article draws on Promundo and RWAMREC’s programmatic experiences in Rwanda of implementing MenCare+, a gender transformative approach to engaging young and adult men (ages 15–35) in caregiving, maternal, newborn, and child health, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. We present initial results from fathers’ groups with more than 600 men, including the impact of participation in […]

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Community mentors as coaches: transforming gender norms through cricket among adolescent males in urban India

27/03/2015

14 pages long

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Community mentors as coaches: transforming gender norms through cricket among adolescent males in urban India

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Addressing violence against women and girls (VAWG) through the medium of male team sport may be a promising strategy for addressing interpersonal violence and gender norms transformation in urban communities. Parivartan is a violence prevention programme in a large slum community in Mumbai, India, which works with men and boys to reduce violence and promote […]

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The Individual Deprivation Measure: measuring poverty as if gender and inequality matter

31/07/2015

17 pages long

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The Individual Deprivation Measure: measuring poverty as if gender and inequality matter

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As inequality deepens globally and within countries it is vital that we know how poverty shapes, constrains, and often destroys the lives of women and men. We know from decades of research that poverty is experienced differently by women and men, yet existing mainstream measures of poverty have been blind to gender. This article focuses […]

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Gender equality, resilience to climate change, and the design of livestock projects for rural livelihoods

23/11/2015

15 pages long

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Gender equality, resilience to climate change, and the design of livestock projects for rural livelihoods

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Currently, there is growing interest in how livestock projects can contribute to resilience to the effects of climate change. In this article we recommend a shift away from gross productivity to sustainability, via the use of thrifty local breeds, with an additional emphasis on improving survival of young animals. These animals, due to their local […]

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Integrating a gender perspective into transparency and accountability initiatives: three case studies

09/11/2017

18 pages long

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Integrating a gender perspective into transparency and accountability initiatives: three case studies

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Overview

Natural resource wealth is not shared equally by all. While elites may capture the profits disproportionately in many contexts, marginalised social groups – including women – are less likely to experience the benefits of extraction, and are affected differently by virtue of their gendered roles in the economy and society. Women also tend to be […]

Showing 352 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Looking beyond gender in humanitarian interventions: a study of a drought-stricken region of Kenya

25/06/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Looking beyond gender in humanitarian interventions: a study of a drought-stricken region of Kenya

Keywords

Overview

Slow-onset disasters such as droughts usually occur with such frequency that people have no time to recover before the onset of the next drought. All members of the community suffer as a result of recurrent droughts, but the effects are often more severe on vulnerable groups such as children, elderly people, and some women. This […]

Journal article

Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana – the role of the women’s movement in Ghana

07/11/2012

11 pages long

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Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana – the role of the women’s movement in Ghana

Keywords

Overview

Commitment to gender mainstreaming has been expressed worldwide as a result of the Beijing conference in 1995. The introduction of gender mainstreaming in the Beijing Platform for Action was regarded as a victory for gender ambassadors from the South, including the women’s movements. However, an empirical study from Ghana on the processes of ‘translating’ gender […]

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Political transition and sexual and gender-based violence in South Africa, Kenya, and Zimbabwe: a comparative analysis

12/11/2013

13 pages long

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Political transition and sexual and gender-based violence in South Africa, Kenya, and Zimbabwe: a comparative analysis

Keywords

Overview

This article draws on research conducted in Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe that focused on violence in the context of political transition. The paper examines the relation between political transition and sexual and gender-based violence in the three countries. The paper argues that it is critical to recognise sexual and gender-based violence as bound to systemic gendered inequality if […]

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Gender-based violence and the Arms Trade Treaty: reflections from a campaigning and legal perspective

12/11/2013

11 pages long

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Gender-based violence and the Arms Trade Treaty: reflections from a campaigning and legal perspective

Keywords

Overview

The Arms Trade Treaty, the first treaty to regulate the international transfer of conventional arms and ammunition, was adopted in 2013 at the United Nations. It aims to regulate the flow of weapons around the world by requiring governments to assess all arms transfers against a set of criteria, before the transfer is authorised or denied. The agreed criteria […]

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Adolescent girls’ experiences of violence in school in Sierra Leone and the challenges to sustainable change

20/03/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Adolescent girls’ experiences of violence in school in Sierra Leone and the challenges to sustainable change

Keywords

Overview

Gender based violence in or around schools continues to be a serious and pressing problem in Sierra Leone that necessitates greater attention. At the core of such violence is gender inequality that is pervasive in Sierra Leone society. School related gender-based violence is part of a complex, multi-faceted social issue. As microcosms of wider society, […]

Journal article

Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

10/11/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

Keywords

Overview

This article draws on Promundo and RWAMREC’s programmatic experiences in Rwanda of implementing MenCare+, a gender transformative approach to engaging young and adult men (ages 15–35) in caregiving, maternal, newborn, and child health, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. We present initial results from fathers’ groups with more than 600 men, including the impact of participation in […]

Journal article

Community mentors as coaches: transforming gender norms through cricket among adolescent males in urban India

27/03/2015

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Community mentors as coaches: transforming gender norms through cricket among adolescent males in urban India

Keywords

Overview

Addressing violence against women and girls (VAWG) through the medium of male team sport may be a promising strategy for addressing interpersonal violence and gender norms transformation in urban communities. Parivartan is a violence prevention programme in a large slum community in Mumbai, India, which works with men and boys to reduce violence and promote […]

Journal article

The Individual Deprivation Measure: measuring poverty as if gender and inequality matter

31/07/2015

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Individual Deprivation Measure: measuring poverty as if gender and inequality matter

Keywords

Overview

As inequality deepens globally and within countries it is vital that we know how poverty shapes, constrains, and often destroys the lives of women and men. We know from decades of research that poverty is experienced differently by women and men, yet existing mainstream measures of poverty have been blind to gender. This article focuses […]

Journal article

Gender equality, resilience to climate change, and the design of livestock projects for rural livelihoods

23/11/2015

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender equality, resilience to climate change, and the design of livestock projects for rural livelihoods

Keywords

Overview

Currently, there is growing interest in how livestock projects can contribute to resilience to the effects of climate change. In this article we recommend a shift away from gross productivity to sustainability, via the use of thrifty local breeds, with an additional emphasis on improving survival of young animals. These animals, due to their local […]

Journal article

Integrating a gender perspective into transparency and accountability initiatives: three case studies

09/11/2017

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Integrating a gender perspective into transparency and accountability initiatives: three case studies

Keywords

Overview

Natural resource wealth is not shared equally by all. While elites may capture the profits disproportionately in many contexts, marginalised social groups – including women – are less likely to experience the benefits of extraction, and are affected differently by virtue of their gendered roles in the economy and society. Women also tend to be […]

Showing 352 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Looking beyond gender in humanitarian interventions: a study of a drought-stricken region of Kenya

25/06/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Looking beyond gender in humanitarian interventions: a study of a drought-stricken region of Kenya

Keywords

Overview

Slow-onset disasters such as droughts usually occur with such frequency that people have no time to recover before the onset of the next drought. All members of the community suffer as a result of recurrent droughts, but the effects are often more severe on vulnerable groups such as children, elderly people, and some women. This […]

Journal article

Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana – the role of the women’s movement in Ghana

07/11/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana – the role of the women’s movement in Ghana

Keywords

Overview

Commitment to gender mainstreaming has been expressed worldwide as a result of the Beijing conference in 1995. The introduction of gender mainstreaming in the Beijing Platform for Action was regarded as a victory for gender ambassadors from the South, including the women’s movements. However, an empirical study from Ghana on the processes of ‘translating’ gender […]

Journal article

Political transition and sexual and gender-based violence in South Africa, Kenya, and Zimbabwe: a comparative analysis

12/11/2013

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Political transition and sexual and gender-based violence in South Africa, Kenya, and Zimbabwe: a comparative analysis

Keywords

Overview

This article draws on research conducted in Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe that focused on violence in the context of political transition. The paper examines the relation between political transition and sexual and gender-based violence in the three countries. The paper argues that it is critical to recognise sexual and gender-based violence as bound to systemic gendered inequality if […]

Journal article

Gender-based violence and the Arms Trade Treaty: reflections from a campaigning and legal perspective

12/11/2013

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender-based violence and the Arms Trade Treaty: reflections from a campaigning and legal perspective

Keywords

Overview

The Arms Trade Treaty, the first treaty to regulate the international transfer of conventional arms and ammunition, was adopted in 2013 at the United Nations. It aims to regulate the flow of weapons around the world by requiring governments to assess all arms transfers against a set of criteria, before the transfer is authorised or denied. The agreed criteria […]

Journal article

Adolescent girls’ experiences of violence in school in Sierra Leone and the challenges to sustainable change

20/03/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Adolescent girls’ experiences of violence in school in Sierra Leone and the challenges to sustainable change

Keywords

Overview

Gender based violence in or around schools continues to be a serious and pressing problem in Sierra Leone that necessitates greater attention. At the core of such violence is gender inequality that is pervasive in Sierra Leone society. School related gender-based violence is part of a complex, multi-faceted social issue. As microcosms of wider society, […]

Journal article

Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

10/11/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

Keywords

Overview

This article draws on Promundo and RWAMREC’s programmatic experiences in Rwanda of implementing MenCare+, a gender transformative approach to engaging young and adult men (ages 15–35) in caregiving, maternal, newborn, and child health, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. We present initial results from fathers’ groups with more than 600 men, including the impact of participation in […]

Journal article

Community mentors as coaches: transforming gender norms through cricket among adolescent males in urban India

27/03/2015

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Community mentors as coaches: transforming gender norms through cricket among adolescent males in urban India

Keywords

Overview

Addressing violence against women and girls (VAWG) through the medium of male team sport may be a promising strategy for addressing interpersonal violence and gender norms transformation in urban communities. Parivartan is a violence prevention programme in a large slum community in Mumbai, India, which works with men and boys to reduce violence and promote […]

Journal article

The Individual Deprivation Measure: measuring poverty as if gender and inequality matter

31/07/2015

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Individual Deprivation Measure: measuring poverty as if gender and inequality matter

Keywords

Overview

As inequality deepens globally and within countries it is vital that we know how poverty shapes, constrains, and often destroys the lives of women and men. We know from decades of research that poverty is experienced differently by women and men, yet existing mainstream measures of poverty have been blind to gender. This article focuses […]

Journal article

Gender equality, resilience to climate change, and the design of livestock projects for rural livelihoods

23/11/2015

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender equality, resilience to climate change, and the design of livestock projects for rural livelihoods

Keywords

Overview

Currently, there is growing interest in how livestock projects can contribute to resilience to the effects of climate change. In this article we recommend a shift away from gross productivity to sustainability, via the use of thrifty local breeds, with an additional emphasis on improving survival of young animals. These animals, due to their local […]

Journal article

Integrating a gender perspective into transparency and accountability initiatives: three case studies

09/11/2017

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Integrating a gender perspective into transparency and accountability initiatives: three case studies

Keywords

Overview

Natural resource wealth is not shared equally by all. While elites may capture the profits disproportionately in many contexts, marginalised social groups – including women – are less likely to experience the benefits of extraction, and are affected differently by virtue of their gendered roles in the economy and society. Women also tend to be […]