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Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘Smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development

07/11/2012

12 pages long

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Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘Smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development

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This article focuses on the current trend for investing in women and girls as ‘smart economics’, which is a direct descendant of the efficiency approach to women in development (WID) prevalent in the wake of the economic crisis in the 1980s. We highlight the dangers of conflating the empowerment of women as individuals with the […]

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Challenges for integrating gender into poverty alleviation programmes: lessons from Sudan

01/11/2002

9 pages long

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Challenges for integrating gender into poverty alleviation programmes: lessons from Sudan

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Integrating gender into poverty alleviation programmes requires a thorough understanding of gender relations, and well-crafted strategies by development organisations. This article discusses some of the strategies used to promote gender-fair development in the context of Sudan, with specific reference to Oxfam’s work in Sudan during the 1990s. The gender dimensions of poverty in rural communities […]

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Gender relations, development practice and ‘culture’

01/02/1995

6 pages long

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Gender relations, development practice and ‘culture’

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This article looks at challenges faced by development practitioners addressing issues of gender and culture. False assumptions undermine such work: that oppressed women are passive; that people never question state religion and that ‘culture’ and ‘religion’ are interchangeable terms; and that cultural norms remain stagnant. Practitioners should instead take advantage of the ever-changing nature of […]

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Rethinking culture and development: marriage and gender among the tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka

01/07/2003

10 pages long

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Rethinking culture and development: marriage and gender among the tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka

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Marriage is the most auspicious rite of passage in the life of a Tamil woman worker in Sri Lanka’s tea plantations. It supposedly confers on her the power to bring wealth, prosperity and health to her family, and to enhance the well-being of her husband. In reality, however, married women on the plantations experience self-denial, […]

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Gender, poverty, and inequality: a brief history of feminist contributions in the field of international development

31/07/2015

16 pages long

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Gender, poverty, and inequality: a brief history of feminist contributions in the field of international development

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This paper provides a brief history of feminist contributions to the analysis of gender, poverty, and inequality in the field of international development. It draws out the continuous threads running through these contributions over the years, as the focus has moved from micro-level analysis to a concern with macro-level forces. It concludes with a brief […]

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Contested terrain: Oxfam, gender, and the aftermath of war

01/12/2001

10 pages long

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Contested terrain: Oxfam, gender, and the aftermath of war

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In this paper I explore the terrain of the international NGO (INGO) – in this case Oxfam GB – and some of its difficulties in integrating gender equity goals in the institutional structures and policies which govern its activities in conflict and its aftermath. I look at terrain that is divided into areas that are […]

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Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations

01/07/2002

9 pages long

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Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations

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Vulnerability to environmental degradation and natural hazards is articulated along social, poverty, and gender lines. Just as gender is not sufficiently mainstreamed in many areas of development policy and practice, so the potential impacts of climate change on gender relations have not been studied, and remain invisible. In this article we outline climate change predictions, […]

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Improving the effectiveness of humanitarian action: progress in implementing the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Gender Marker

25/06/2012

11 pages long

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Improving the effectiveness of humanitarian action: progress in implementing the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Gender Marker

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The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Gender Marker is a tool that tracks and measures whether humanitarian projects mainstream gender adequately and respond effectively to the distinct needs of women, girls, boys, and men. The Gender Marker represents an important opportunity to improve the quality of humanitarian programming by addressing gender inequality. This article explores the […]

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‘It’s just been such a horrible experience.’ Perceptions of gender mainstreaming by practitioners in South African organisations

07/11/2012

11 pages long

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‘It’s just been such a horrible experience.’ Perceptions of gender mainstreaming by practitioners in South African organisations

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Gender mainstreaming experienced a boom of popularity in development organisations around the world following the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. This article contributes to understanding the current state of gender mainstreaming, with a focus on South Africa. Discussions with gender practitioners in South African non-government organisations point to the widespread rejection […]

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Why gender matters in activism: feminism and social justice movements

01/07/2013

16 pages long

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Why gender matters in activism: feminism and social justice movements

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Social justice movements are able to generate deep and lasting changes that policy change and development interventions alone cannot achieve. However, in many cases, women’s rights and gender justice remain low on the priorities of movements, even when women are active members. This article offers a preview of three case studies developed as part of the BRIDGE Cutting […]

Showing 347 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘Smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development

07/11/2012

12 pages long

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Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘Smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the current trend for investing in women and girls as ‘smart economics’, which is a direct descendant of the efficiency approach to women in development (WID) prevalent in the wake of the economic crisis in the 1980s. We highlight the dangers of conflating the empowerment of women as individuals with the […]

Journal article

Challenges for integrating gender into poverty alleviation programmes: lessons from Sudan

01/11/2002

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Challenges for integrating gender into poverty alleviation programmes: lessons from Sudan

Keywords

Overview

Integrating gender into poverty alleviation programmes requires a thorough understanding of gender relations, and well-crafted strategies by development organisations. This article discusses some of the strategies used to promote gender-fair development in the context of Sudan, with specific reference to Oxfam’s work in Sudan during the 1990s. The gender dimensions of poverty in rural communities […]

Journal article

Gender relations, development practice and ‘culture’

01/02/1995

6 pages long

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Gender relations, development practice and ‘culture’

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Overview

This article looks at challenges faced by development practitioners addressing issues of gender and culture. False assumptions undermine such work: that oppressed women are passive; that people never question state religion and that ‘culture’ and ‘religion’ are interchangeable terms; and that cultural norms remain stagnant. Practitioners should instead take advantage of the ever-changing nature of […]

Journal article

Rethinking culture and development: marriage and gender among the tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka

01/07/2003

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Rethinking culture and development: marriage and gender among the tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka

Keywords

Overview

Marriage is the most auspicious rite of passage in the life of a Tamil woman worker in Sri Lanka’s tea plantations. It supposedly confers on her the power to bring wealth, prosperity and health to her family, and to enhance the well-being of her husband. In reality, however, married women on the plantations experience self-denial, […]

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Gender, poverty, and inequality: a brief history of feminist contributions in the field of international development

31/07/2015

16 pages long

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Gender, poverty, and inequality: a brief history of feminist contributions in the field of international development

Keywords

Overview

This paper provides a brief history of feminist contributions to the analysis of gender, poverty, and inequality in the field of international development. It draws out the continuous threads running through these contributions over the years, as the focus has moved from micro-level analysis to a concern with macro-level forces. It concludes with a brief […]

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Contested terrain: Oxfam, gender, and the aftermath of war

01/12/2001

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Contested terrain: Oxfam, gender, and the aftermath of war

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Overview

In this paper I explore the terrain of the international NGO (INGO) – in this case Oxfam GB – and some of its difficulties in integrating gender equity goals in the institutional structures and policies which govern its activities in conflict and its aftermath. I look at terrain that is divided into areas that are […]

Journal article

Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations

01/07/2002

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations

Keywords

Overview

Vulnerability to environmental degradation and natural hazards is articulated along social, poverty, and gender lines. Just as gender is not sufficiently mainstreamed in many areas of development policy and practice, so the potential impacts of climate change on gender relations have not been studied, and remain invisible. In this article we outline climate change predictions, […]

Journal article

Improving the effectiveness of humanitarian action: progress in implementing the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Gender Marker

25/06/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Improving the effectiveness of humanitarian action: progress in implementing the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Gender Marker

Keywords

Overview

The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Gender Marker is a tool that tracks and measures whether humanitarian projects mainstream gender adequately and respond effectively to the distinct needs of women, girls, boys, and men. The Gender Marker represents an important opportunity to improve the quality of humanitarian programming by addressing gender inequality. This article explores the […]

Journal article

‘It’s just been such a horrible experience.’ Perceptions of gender mainstreaming by practitioners in South African organisations

07/11/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘It’s just been such a horrible experience.’ Perceptions of gender mainstreaming by practitioners in South African organisations

Keywords

Overview

Gender mainstreaming experienced a boom of popularity in development organisations around the world following the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. This article contributes to understanding the current state of gender mainstreaming, with a focus on South Africa. Discussions with gender practitioners in South African non-government organisations point to the widespread rejection […]

Journal article

Why gender matters in activism: feminism and social justice movements

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Why gender matters in activism: feminism and social justice movements

Keywords

Overview

Social justice movements are able to generate deep and lasting changes that policy change and development interventions alone cannot achieve. However, in many cases, women’s rights and gender justice remain low on the priorities of movements, even when women are active members. This article offers a preview of three case studies developed as part of the BRIDGE Cutting […]

Showing 347 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘Smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development

07/11/2012

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘Smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the current trend for investing in women and girls as ‘smart economics’, which is a direct descendant of the efficiency approach to women in development (WID) prevalent in the wake of the economic crisis in the 1980s. We highlight the dangers of conflating the empowerment of women as individuals with the […]

Journal article

Challenges for integrating gender into poverty alleviation programmes: lessons from Sudan

01/11/2002

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Challenges for integrating gender into poverty alleviation programmes: lessons from Sudan

Keywords

Overview

Integrating gender into poverty alleviation programmes requires a thorough understanding of gender relations, and well-crafted strategies by development organisations. This article discusses some of the strategies used to promote gender-fair development in the context of Sudan, with specific reference to Oxfam’s work in Sudan during the 1990s. The gender dimensions of poverty in rural communities […]

Journal article

Gender relations, development practice and ‘culture’

01/02/1995

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender relations, development practice and ‘culture’

Keywords

Overview

This article looks at challenges faced by development practitioners addressing issues of gender and culture. False assumptions undermine such work: that oppressed women are passive; that people never question state religion and that ‘culture’ and ‘religion’ are interchangeable terms; and that cultural norms remain stagnant. Practitioners should instead take advantage of the ever-changing nature of […]

Journal article

Rethinking culture and development: marriage and gender among the tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka

01/07/2003

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Rethinking culture and development: marriage and gender among the tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka

Keywords

Overview

Marriage is the most auspicious rite of passage in the life of a Tamil woman worker in Sri Lanka’s tea plantations. It supposedly confers on her the power to bring wealth, prosperity and health to her family, and to enhance the well-being of her husband. In reality, however, married women on the plantations experience self-denial, […]

Journal article

Gender, poverty, and inequality: a brief history of feminist contributions in the field of international development

31/07/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, poverty, and inequality: a brief history of feminist contributions in the field of international development

Keywords

Overview

This paper provides a brief history of feminist contributions to the analysis of gender, poverty, and inequality in the field of international development. It draws out the continuous threads running through these contributions over the years, as the focus has moved from micro-level analysis to a concern with macro-level forces. It concludes with a brief […]

Journal article

Contested terrain: Oxfam, gender, and the aftermath of war

01/12/2001

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Contested terrain: Oxfam, gender, and the aftermath of war

Keywords

Overview

In this paper I explore the terrain of the international NGO (INGO) – in this case Oxfam GB – and some of its difficulties in integrating gender equity goals in the institutional structures and policies which govern its activities in conflict and its aftermath. I look at terrain that is divided into areas that are […]

Journal article

Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations

01/07/2002

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations

Keywords

Overview

Vulnerability to environmental degradation and natural hazards is articulated along social, poverty, and gender lines. Just as gender is not sufficiently mainstreamed in many areas of development policy and practice, so the potential impacts of climate change on gender relations have not been studied, and remain invisible. In this article we outline climate change predictions, […]

Journal article

Improving the effectiveness of humanitarian action: progress in implementing the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Gender Marker

25/06/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Improving the effectiveness of humanitarian action: progress in implementing the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Gender Marker

Keywords

Overview

The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Gender Marker is a tool that tracks and measures whether humanitarian projects mainstream gender adequately and respond effectively to the distinct needs of women, girls, boys, and men. The Gender Marker represents an important opportunity to improve the quality of humanitarian programming by addressing gender inequality. This article explores the […]

Journal article

‘It’s just been such a horrible experience.’ Perceptions of gender mainstreaming by practitioners in South African organisations

07/11/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘It’s just been such a horrible experience.’ Perceptions of gender mainstreaming by practitioners in South African organisations

Keywords

Overview

Gender mainstreaming experienced a boom of popularity in development organisations around the world following the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. This article contributes to understanding the current state of gender mainstreaming, with a focus on South Africa. Discussions with gender practitioners in South African non-government organisations point to the widespread rejection […]

Journal article

Why gender matters in activism: feminism and social justice movements

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Why gender matters in activism: feminism and social justice movements

Keywords

Overview

Social justice movements are able to generate deep and lasting changes that policy change and development interventions alone cannot achieve. However, in many cases, women’s rights and gender justice remain low on the priorities of movements, even when women are active members. This article offers a preview of three case studies developed as part of the BRIDGE Cutting […]