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Journal article

Gendered social media communication around mining: patriarchy, diamonds, and seeking feminist solidarity online

07/12/2021

21 pages long

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Gendered social media communication around mining: patriarchy, diamonds, and seeking feminist solidarity online

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Overview

Although it is increasingly well-known that mining generates a vast array of gendered impacts, less studied is how women in mining zones have turned to online social media to articulate concerns and mobilise for collective action. This article explores how gendered social media communication has conveyed injustices experienced by women in Zimbabwe’s diamond-mining areas and […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of Gender within the Livelihoods Programme on Nias Island, Indonesia

01/05/2007

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Since the 2004 tsunami and 2005 earthquake, international agencies have made significant progress rebuilding the island of Nias. However, there is concern that they have paid little attention to ensuring gender equitable access to humanitarian and development programming. Oxfam’s livelihood programme was established on Nias in 2005, and was due to finish at the end […]

Case study

Making it Happen: Political will for gender equality in education

19/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Why do some countries succeed in promoting gender parity and equality in education while others do not? The answer often given is ‘political will’. All too often, however, no further explanation is offered. There has been little effort to understand why governments are unwilling or unable to change their policies and priorities to achieve equal […]

Book

Gender, Education, and Training

01/01/2004

1 documents

83 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This collection of articles by development workers and researchers focuses on learning opportunities for women offered by education and training. There is a continuing imbalance in educational participation – women make up an estimated two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people – and writers reflect on the causes and consequences of this. While this lack of […]

Journal article

Gender and the environment: Traps and opportunities

01/03/1992

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

A growing debate about gender and the environment highlights women’s roles in the use and management of natural resources, opening up important opportunities for development analysis and action. But there are traps in conceiving of women’s roles in relation to the environment in a partial, narrow, or static way; of isolating them from men’s roles; […]

Journal article

The evaporation of gender policies in the patriarchal cooking pot

01/05/1997

9 pages long

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The evaporation of gender policies in the patriarchal cooking pot

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Overview

This article suggests that gender-oriented policies tend to evaporate within the bureaucracy of the typical international development agency. An agency is here represented as a ‘patriarchal cooking pot’, in which gender policies are likely to evaporate because they threaten the internal patriarchal tradition of the agency, and also because such policies would upset the cosy […]

Journal article

Training the uniforms: gender and peacekeeping operations

01/05/2003

7 pages long

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Training the uniforms: gender and peacekeeping operations

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Overview

The fact that war changes roles and responsibilities within society, while exposing men and women of all ages and classes to new threats and opportunities, has become increasingly recognised. Civil wars disrupt and destroy civilian life. Men leave, die in combat, are brutalised, lose employment, or resort to despair, violence, or apathy. Women assume enormous […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Test Your Organisation with the 12 Boxes Framework: A facilitators’ guide to support NGOs in self-assessing their response to HIV and AIDS in their workplace and in their work using a gender perspective

01/01/2007

1 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This guide is written for development NGOs that are concerned about the HIV and AIDS epidemic, and how they can improve their response to it. Based on Oxfam Novib’s experiences of gender mainstreaming the guide is aimed at NGO managers looking to do a self-assessment. Two lessons learned were crucial and form the basis for […]

Case study

Learning the Meaning of HIV and AIDS and Gender – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

20/06/2005

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Gender AIDS Forum (GAF) is a Durban based South African Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) committed to enabling a deeper consciousness in women and men about the links between gender and HIV and AIDS. GAF is an activist organisation, a learning organisation and a knowledge creating organisation. This case study outlines the development of the organisation, […]

Journal article

Youth and ICTs in a ‘new’ India: exploring changing gendered online relationships among young urban men and women

11/07/2018

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Youth and ICTs in a ‘new’ India: exploring changing gendered online relationships among young urban men and women

Keywords

Overview

Like many countries in the global South, the rise and widespread accessibility of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in India have profoundly changed the lives of young people and impacted the dynamics of their gendered relationships. Millions of young people in India now have access to new opportunities and novel ways of communicating and interacting […]

Showing 347 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Gendered social media communication around mining: patriarchy, diamonds, and seeking feminist solidarity online

07/12/2021

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered social media communication around mining: patriarchy, diamonds, and seeking feminist solidarity online

Keywords

Overview

Although it is increasingly well-known that mining generates a vast array of gendered impacts, less studied is how women in mining zones have turned to online social media to articulate concerns and mobilise for collective action. This article explores how gendered social media communication has conveyed injustices experienced by women in Zimbabwe’s diamond-mining areas and […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of Gender within the Livelihoods Programme on Nias Island, Indonesia

01/05/2007

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Since the 2004 tsunami and 2005 earthquake, international agencies have made significant progress rebuilding the island of Nias. However, there is concern that they have paid little attention to ensuring gender equitable access to humanitarian and development programming. Oxfam’s livelihood programme was established on Nias in 2005, and was due to finish at the end […]

Case study

Making it Happen: Political will for gender equality in education

19/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Why do some countries succeed in promoting gender parity and equality in education while others do not? The answer often given is ‘political will’. All too often, however, no further explanation is offered. There has been little effort to understand why governments are unwilling or unable to change their policies and priorities to achieve equal […]

Book

Gender, Education, and Training

01/01/2004

1 documents

83 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This collection of articles by development workers and researchers focuses on learning opportunities for women offered by education and training. There is a continuing imbalance in educational participation – women make up an estimated two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people – and writers reflect on the causes and consequences of this. While this lack of […]

Journal article

Gender and the environment: Traps and opportunities

01/03/1992

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

A growing debate about gender and the environment highlights women’s roles in the use and management of natural resources, opening up important opportunities for development analysis and action. But there are traps in conceiving of women’s roles in relation to the environment in a partial, narrow, or static way; of isolating them from men’s roles; […]

Journal article

The evaporation of gender policies in the patriarchal cooking pot

01/05/1997

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

The evaporation of gender policies in the patriarchal cooking pot

Keywords

Overview

This article suggests that gender-oriented policies tend to evaporate within the bureaucracy of the typical international development agency. An agency is here represented as a ‘patriarchal cooking pot’, in which gender policies are likely to evaporate because they threaten the internal patriarchal tradition of the agency, and also because such policies would upset the cosy […]

Journal article

Training the uniforms: gender and peacekeeping operations

01/05/2003

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Training the uniforms: gender and peacekeeping operations

Keywords

Overview

The fact that war changes roles and responsibilities within society, while exposing men and women of all ages and classes to new threats and opportunities, has become increasingly recognised. Civil wars disrupt and destroy civilian life. Men leave, die in combat, are brutalised, lose employment, or resort to despair, violence, or apathy. Women assume enormous […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Test Your Organisation with the 12 Boxes Framework: A facilitators’ guide to support NGOs in self-assessing their response to HIV and AIDS in their workplace and in their work using a gender perspective

01/01/2007

1 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This guide is written for development NGOs that are concerned about the HIV and AIDS epidemic, and how they can improve their response to it. Based on Oxfam Novib’s experiences of gender mainstreaming the guide is aimed at NGO managers looking to do a self-assessment. Two lessons learned were crucial and form the basis for […]

Case study

Learning the Meaning of HIV and AIDS and Gender – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

20/06/2005

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Gender AIDS Forum (GAF) is a Durban based South African Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) committed to enabling a deeper consciousness in women and men about the links between gender and HIV and AIDS. GAF is an activist organisation, a learning organisation and a knowledge creating organisation. This case study outlines the development of the organisation, […]

Journal article

Youth and ICTs in a ‘new’ India: exploring changing gendered online relationships among young urban men and women

11/07/2018

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Youth and ICTs in a ‘new’ India: exploring changing gendered online relationships among young urban men and women

Keywords

Overview

Like many countries in the global South, the rise and widespread accessibility of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in India have profoundly changed the lives of young people and impacted the dynamics of their gendered relationships. Millions of young people in India now have access to new opportunities and novel ways of communicating and interacting […]

Showing 347 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Gendered social media communication around mining: patriarchy, diamonds, and seeking feminist solidarity online

07/12/2021

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered social media communication around mining: patriarchy, diamonds, and seeking feminist solidarity online

Keywords

Overview

Although it is increasingly well-known that mining generates a vast array of gendered impacts, less studied is how women in mining zones have turned to online social media to articulate concerns and mobilise for collective action. This article explores how gendered social media communication has conveyed injustices experienced by women in Zimbabwe’s diamond-mining areas and […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of Gender within the Livelihoods Programme on Nias Island, Indonesia

01/05/2007

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Since the 2004 tsunami and 2005 earthquake, international agencies have made significant progress rebuilding the island of Nias. However, there is concern that they have paid little attention to ensuring gender equitable access to humanitarian and development programming. Oxfam’s livelihood programme was established on Nias in 2005, and was due to finish at the end […]

Case study

Making it Happen: Political will for gender equality in education

19/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Why do some countries succeed in promoting gender parity and equality in education while others do not? The answer often given is ‘political will’. All too often, however, no further explanation is offered. There has been little effort to understand why governments are unwilling or unable to change their policies and priorities to achieve equal […]

Book

Gender, Education, and Training

01/01/2004

1 documents

83 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This collection of articles by development workers and researchers focuses on learning opportunities for women offered by education and training. There is a continuing imbalance in educational participation – women make up an estimated two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people – and writers reflect on the causes and consequences of this. While this lack of […]

Journal article

Gender and the environment: Traps and opportunities

01/03/1992

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

A growing debate about gender and the environment highlights women’s roles in the use and management of natural resources, opening up important opportunities for development analysis and action. But there are traps in conceiving of women’s roles in relation to the environment in a partial, narrow, or static way; of isolating them from men’s roles; […]

Journal article

The evaporation of gender policies in the patriarchal cooking pot

01/05/1997

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

The evaporation of gender policies in the patriarchal cooking pot

Keywords

Overview

This article suggests that gender-oriented policies tend to evaporate within the bureaucracy of the typical international development agency. An agency is here represented as a ‘patriarchal cooking pot’, in which gender policies are likely to evaporate because they threaten the internal patriarchal tradition of the agency, and also because such policies would upset the cosy […]

Journal article

Training the uniforms: gender and peacekeeping operations

01/05/2003

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Training the uniforms: gender and peacekeeping operations

Keywords

Overview

The fact that war changes roles and responsibilities within society, while exposing men and women of all ages and classes to new threats and opportunities, has become increasingly recognised. Civil wars disrupt and destroy civilian life. Men leave, die in combat, are brutalised, lose employment, or resort to despair, violence, or apathy. Women assume enormous […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Test Your Organisation with the 12 Boxes Framework: A facilitators’ guide to support NGOs in self-assessing their response to HIV and AIDS in their workplace and in their work using a gender perspective

01/01/2007

1 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This guide is written for development NGOs that are concerned about the HIV and AIDS epidemic, and how they can improve their response to it. Based on Oxfam Novib’s experiences of gender mainstreaming the guide is aimed at NGO managers looking to do a self-assessment. Two lessons learned were crucial and form the basis for […]

Case study

Learning the Meaning of HIV and AIDS and Gender – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

20/06/2005

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Gender AIDS Forum (GAF) is a Durban based South African Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) committed to enabling a deeper consciousness in women and men about the links between gender and HIV and AIDS. GAF is an activist organisation, a learning organisation and a knowledge creating organisation. This case study outlines the development of the organisation, […]

Journal article

Youth and ICTs in a ‘new’ India: exploring changing gendered online relationships among young urban men and women

11/07/2018

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Youth and ICTs in a ‘new’ India: exploring changing gendered online relationships among young urban men and women

Keywords

Overview

Like many countries in the global South, the rise and widespread accessibility of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in India have profoundly changed the lives of young people and impacted the dynamics of their gendered relationships. Millions of young people in India now have access to new opportunities and novel ways of communicating and interacting […]