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Refugees and ‘host communities’ facing gender-based violence: developing an area-based approach to gender-based violence around Mbera Camp, Mauritania

09/11/2016

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Refugees and ‘host communities’ facing gender-based violence: developing an area-based approach to gender-based violence around Mbera Camp, Mauritania

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The article analyses the impact of fragility and conflict on women’s and girls’ rights in eastern Mauritania, comparing the experience of Malian refugees living in Mbera Camp with the situation of women and girls outside the camp. Both experience extreme insecurity in everyday life: in addition to the economic need they endure alongside men and […]

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Tapping the Sustainable Development Goals for progressive gender equity and equality policy?

04/03/2016

16 pages long

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Tapping the Sustainable Development Goals for progressive gender equity and equality policy?

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This article examines the new agenda for sustainable development adopted by the United Nations, to see if it contains policies for gender equity and equality as well as for sustainable development in tune with planetary boundaries. It finds that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are not ambitious and lack a systematic policy approach. It therefore […]

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Appropriate gender-analysis tools for unpacking the gender-energy-poverty nexus

06/07/2007

16 pages long

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Appropriate gender-analysis tools for unpacking the gender-energy-poverty nexus

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In rural and low-income urban households, energy is ‘women’s business’: women are responsible for providing energy, and use it for domestic chores and productive activities. However, the poor quality fuels many women use contribute to their time poverty, ill health, and level of drudgery. Despite these negative impacts, energy policy remains gender-blind. This can be […]

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Climate change: learning from gender analysis and women’s experiences of organising for sustainable development

01/07/2002

9 pages long

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Climate change: learning from gender analysis and women’s experiences of organising for sustainable development

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This article argues that climate change not only requires major technological solutions, but also has political and socio-economic aspects with implications for development policy and practice. Questions of globalisation, equity, and the distribution of welfare and power underlie many of its manifestations, and its impacts are not only severe, but also unevenly distributed. There are […]

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The micro-politics of gender mainstreaming: the administration of policy in humanitarian work in Cambodia

07/11/2012

13 pages long

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The micro-politics of gender mainstreaming: the administration of policy in humanitarian work in Cambodia

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This article looks at how one organisation, Oxfam GB, attempted to mainstream gender issues into a development project in Cambodia as part of its humanitarian response, by establishing ‘gender infrastructure’. This refers to changes to organisational systems and procedures to provide a framework which enables development organisations to promote gender equality and address women’s interests. […]

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Queering’ development: exploring the links between same-sex sexualities, gender, and development

01/03/2000

11 pages long

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Queering’ development: exploring the links between same-sex sexualities, gender, and development

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This article argues that gender and development policy and practice would be enhanced by embracing the challenges to conventional definitions of sex and gender that ‘queer theory’ poses. The author draws on insights from cultural studies, and discusses the experience of lesbian and gay activists from China as well as Europe and Africa. This article […]

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Measuring the drivers of gender inequality and their impact on development: the role of discriminatory social institutions

31/07/2015

13 pages long

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Measuring the drivers of gender inequality and their impact on development: the role of discriminatory social institutions

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This paper highlights the key role of discriminatory social institutions – formal and informal laws, social norms, and practices – as the underlying drivers of gender inequality. Using the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) from the OECD Development Centre, this paper assesses the cost of gender-based discrimination in social institutions for economic and human […]

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Institutions, organisations and gender equality in an era of globalisation

01/05/2003

8 pages long

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Institutions, organisations and gender equality in an era of globalisation

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Development organisations can play a significant role in supporting women in the communities where they work to challenge unequal gender relations. The authors of this article argue that the majority of development organisations fail to do so because they pay insufficient attention to the importance of social institutions in perpetuating inequality. Two prominent approaches to […]

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Measuring progress on gender and agriculture in the 1982 and 2008 World Development Reports

01/03/2008

13 pages long

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Measuring progress on gender and agriculture in the 1982 and 2008 World Development Reports

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More than two decades separate two World Development Reports (WDRs) on agriculture: the first was published in 1982, the second in 2008. In this article, we ask what these documents can tell us about the evolution of gender analysis of the agriculture sector in those 25 years, and find that at the heart of the […]

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Substantive gender mainstreaming and the missing middle: a view from Dutch development agencies

07/11/2012

13 pages long

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Substantive gender mainstreaming and the missing middle: a view from Dutch development agencies

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Dutch development agencies were among the frontrunners and promoters of gender mainstreaming from the mid-1990s. In this article, we reflect on their experiences of mainstreaming gender, and argue that procedural approaches need to be complemented with more substantive approaches. We trace the resourcing of gender mainstreaming policies in Dutch development agencies, and reflect on the […]

Showing 347 matching results from Policy & Practice

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Refugees and ‘host communities’ facing gender-based violence: developing an area-based approach to gender-based violence around Mbera Camp, Mauritania

09/11/2016

15 pages long

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Refugees and ‘host communities’ facing gender-based violence: developing an area-based approach to gender-based violence around Mbera Camp, Mauritania

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Overview

The article analyses the impact of fragility and conflict on women’s and girls’ rights in eastern Mauritania, comparing the experience of Malian refugees living in Mbera Camp with the situation of women and girls outside the camp. Both experience extreme insecurity in everyday life: in addition to the economic need they endure alongside men and […]

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Tapping the Sustainable Development Goals for progressive gender equity and equality policy?

04/03/2016

16 pages long

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Tapping the Sustainable Development Goals for progressive gender equity and equality policy?

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Overview

This article examines the new agenda for sustainable development adopted by the United Nations, to see if it contains policies for gender equity and equality as well as for sustainable development in tune with planetary boundaries. It finds that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are not ambitious and lack a systematic policy approach. It therefore […]

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Appropriate gender-analysis tools for unpacking the gender-energy-poverty nexus

06/07/2007

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Appropriate gender-analysis tools for unpacking the gender-energy-poverty nexus

Keywords

Overview

In rural and low-income urban households, energy is ‘women’s business’: women are responsible for providing energy, and use it for domestic chores and productive activities. However, the poor quality fuels many women use contribute to their time poverty, ill health, and level of drudgery. Despite these negative impacts, energy policy remains gender-blind. This can be […]

Journal article

Climate change: learning from gender analysis and women’s experiences of organising for sustainable development

01/07/2002

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Climate change: learning from gender analysis and women’s experiences of organising for sustainable development

Keywords

Overview

This article argues that climate change not only requires major technological solutions, but also has political and socio-economic aspects with implications for development policy and practice. Questions of globalisation, equity, and the distribution of welfare and power underlie many of its manifestations, and its impacts are not only severe, but also unevenly distributed. There are […]

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The micro-politics of gender mainstreaming: the administration of policy in humanitarian work in Cambodia

07/11/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

The micro-politics of gender mainstreaming: the administration of policy in humanitarian work in Cambodia

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Overview

This article looks at how one organisation, Oxfam GB, attempted to mainstream gender issues into a development project in Cambodia as part of its humanitarian response, by establishing ‘gender infrastructure’. This refers to changes to organisational systems and procedures to provide a framework which enables development organisations to promote gender equality and address women’s interests. […]

Journal article

Queering’ development: exploring the links between same-sex sexualities, gender, and development

01/03/2000

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Queering’ development: exploring the links between same-sex sexualities, gender, and development

Keywords

Overview

This article argues that gender and development policy and practice would be enhanced by embracing the challenges to conventional definitions of sex and gender that ‘queer theory’ poses. The author draws on insights from cultural studies, and discusses the experience of lesbian and gay activists from China as well as Europe and Africa. This article […]

Journal article

Measuring the drivers of gender inequality and their impact on development: the role of discriminatory social institutions

31/07/2015

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Measuring the drivers of gender inequality and their impact on development: the role of discriminatory social institutions

Keywords

Overview

This paper highlights the key role of discriminatory social institutions – formal and informal laws, social norms, and practices – as the underlying drivers of gender inequality. Using the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) from the OECD Development Centre, this paper assesses the cost of gender-based discrimination in social institutions for economic and human […]

Journal article

Institutions, organisations and gender equality in an era of globalisation

01/05/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Institutions, organisations and gender equality in an era of globalisation

Keywords

Overview

Development organisations can play a significant role in supporting women in the communities where they work to challenge unequal gender relations. The authors of this article argue that the majority of development organisations fail to do so because they pay insufficient attention to the importance of social institutions in perpetuating inequality. Two prominent approaches to […]

Journal article

Measuring progress on gender and agriculture in the 1982 and 2008 World Development Reports

01/03/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Measuring progress on gender and agriculture in the 1982 and 2008 World Development Reports

Keywords

Overview

More than two decades separate two World Development Reports (WDRs) on agriculture: the first was published in 1982, the second in 2008. In this article, we ask what these documents can tell us about the evolution of gender analysis of the agriculture sector in those 25 years, and find that at the heart of the […]

Journal article

Substantive gender mainstreaming and the missing middle: a view from Dutch development agencies

07/11/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Substantive gender mainstreaming and the missing middle: a view from Dutch development agencies

Keywords

Overview

Dutch development agencies were among the frontrunners and promoters of gender mainstreaming from the mid-1990s. In this article, we reflect on their experiences of mainstreaming gender, and argue that procedural approaches need to be complemented with more substantive approaches. We trace the resourcing of gender mainstreaming policies in Dutch development agencies, and reflect on the […]

Showing 347 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Refugees and ‘host communities’ facing gender-based violence: developing an area-based approach to gender-based violence around Mbera Camp, Mauritania

09/11/2016

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Refugees and ‘host communities’ facing gender-based violence: developing an area-based approach to gender-based violence around Mbera Camp, Mauritania

Keywords

Overview

The article analyses the impact of fragility and conflict on women’s and girls’ rights in eastern Mauritania, comparing the experience of Malian refugees living in Mbera Camp with the situation of women and girls outside the camp. Both experience extreme insecurity in everyday life: in addition to the economic need they endure alongside men and […]

Journal article

Tapping the Sustainable Development Goals for progressive gender equity and equality policy?

04/03/2016

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Tapping the Sustainable Development Goals for progressive gender equity and equality policy?

Keywords

Overview

This article examines the new agenda for sustainable development adopted by the United Nations, to see if it contains policies for gender equity and equality as well as for sustainable development in tune with planetary boundaries. It finds that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are not ambitious and lack a systematic policy approach. It therefore […]

Journal article

Appropriate gender-analysis tools for unpacking the gender-energy-poverty nexus

06/07/2007

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Appropriate gender-analysis tools for unpacking the gender-energy-poverty nexus

Keywords

Overview

In rural and low-income urban households, energy is ‘women’s business’: women are responsible for providing energy, and use it for domestic chores and productive activities. However, the poor quality fuels many women use contribute to their time poverty, ill health, and level of drudgery. Despite these negative impacts, energy policy remains gender-blind. This can be […]

Journal article

Climate change: learning from gender analysis and women’s experiences of organising for sustainable development

01/07/2002

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Climate change: learning from gender analysis and women’s experiences of organising for sustainable development

Keywords

Overview

This article argues that climate change not only requires major technological solutions, but also has political and socio-economic aspects with implications for development policy and practice. Questions of globalisation, equity, and the distribution of welfare and power underlie many of its manifestations, and its impacts are not only severe, but also unevenly distributed. There are […]

Journal article

The micro-politics of gender mainstreaming: the administration of policy in humanitarian work in Cambodia

07/11/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

The micro-politics of gender mainstreaming: the administration of policy in humanitarian work in Cambodia

Keywords

Overview

This article looks at how one organisation, Oxfam GB, attempted to mainstream gender issues into a development project in Cambodia as part of its humanitarian response, by establishing ‘gender infrastructure’. This refers to changes to organisational systems and procedures to provide a framework which enables development organisations to promote gender equality and address women’s interests. […]

Journal article

Queering’ development: exploring the links between same-sex sexualities, gender, and development

01/03/2000

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Queering’ development: exploring the links between same-sex sexualities, gender, and development

Keywords

Overview

This article argues that gender and development policy and practice would be enhanced by embracing the challenges to conventional definitions of sex and gender that ‘queer theory’ poses. The author draws on insights from cultural studies, and discusses the experience of lesbian and gay activists from China as well as Europe and Africa. This article […]

Journal article

Measuring the drivers of gender inequality and their impact on development: the role of discriminatory social institutions

31/07/2015

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Measuring the drivers of gender inequality and their impact on development: the role of discriminatory social institutions

Keywords

Overview

This paper highlights the key role of discriminatory social institutions – formal and informal laws, social norms, and practices – as the underlying drivers of gender inequality. Using the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) from the OECD Development Centre, this paper assesses the cost of gender-based discrimination in social institutions for economic and human […]

Journal article

Institutions, organisations and gender equality in an era of globalisation

01/05/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Institutions, organisations and gender equality in an era of globalisation

Keywords

Overview

Development organisations can play a significant role in supporting women in the communities where they work to challenge unequal gender relations. The authors of this article argue that the majority of development organisations fail to do so because they pay insufficient attention to the importance of social institutions in perpetuating inequality. Two prominent approaches to […]

Journal article

Measuring progress on gender and agriculture in the 1982 and 2008 World Development Reports

01/03/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Measuring progress on gender and agriculture in the 1982 and 2008 World Development Reports

Keywords

Overview

More than two decades separate two World Development Reports (WDRs) on agriculture: the first was published in 1982, the second in 2008. In this article, we ask what these documents can tell us about the evolution of gender analysis of the agriculture sector in those 25 years, and find that at the heart of the […]

Journal article

Substantive gender mainstreaming and the missing middle: a view from Dutch development agencies

07/11/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Substantive gender mainstreaming and the missing middle: a view from Dutch development agencies

Keywords

Overview

Dutch development agencies were among the frontrunners and promoters of gender mainstreaming from the mid-1990s. In this article, we reflect on their experiences of mainstreaming gender, and argue that procedural approaches need to be complemented with more substantive approaches. We trace the resourcing of gender mainstreaming policies in Dutch development agencies, and reflect on the […]