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Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

01/07/2013

16 pages long

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Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

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A wide range of development actors play a major role in initiating, supporting, and promoting collective action of various forms, which aims to secure economic and wider benefits to women, through improving their engagement in markets. But there is limited understanding of what works for rural women in terms of their participation in collective action, […]

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Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

01/02/2010

12 pages long

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Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

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Overview

Water supply and sanitation provision are key elements in progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Women’s participation is considered integral to the sustainability of the projects created to meet these two MDGs. Bringing feminist and geographic critiques to bear on gendered approaches to improving sanitation coverage, the research reported on in this article indicates […]

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ICTs and decision making: findings from the Poverty Assessor

01/04/2010

10 pages long

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Pro-poor decision making depends on an understanding of the complexities and inter-relationships between household livelihood, demographic, and economic factors. This article describes the design and implementation of the Poverty Assessor, a software programme to assist practitioners, policy makers, and researchers in visualising the direct impacts on poverty of specific livelihood factors and events among populations […]

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Women’s empowerment revisited: a case study from Bangladesh

01/09/2010

15 pages long

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Women’s empowerment revisited: a case study from Bangladesh

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Development methods

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This article explores the changing dimensions of women’s empowerment over time in three Bangladesh villages where one of the authors has been conducting research since 1991. The article discusses theoretical issues related to the measurement of women’s empowerment, and describes findings from a recent study in the villages exploring the current salience of indicators developed […]

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‘Bread and butter’ human rights: NGOs in Fiji

01/09/2010

13 pages long

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Overview

While ‘rights-based’ approaches to development – those in which development and poverty alleviation are viewed through the lens of human rights – have become the language of choice among the international development community, less is known about how human rights are used for development at the local level. Using a case study of Fiji, this […]

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Linking evidence with user voice for pro-poor policy: lessons from East Africa

01/11/2010

15 pages long

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Overview

Many agricultural research and development projects seek to achieve pro-poor outcomes through policy change. However, policy processes are complex, and a strategic approach to enhancing impact at policy level is often not applied. This article describes two case studies of actual policy change – on dairy marketing in Kenya, and on urban agriculture in Kampala […]

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The roles of, and relationships between, expatriates, volunteers, and local development workers

01/02/2011

11 pages long

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This article reports on exploratory research based on interviews with expatriate and local aid workers employed by local and international NGOs in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Thematic analysis of the interviews found that personnel were placed in groups based on their job category – consultant, volunteer, or permanent staff – regardless of experience. These categories logically […]

Research report

Managing Price Risk in Local Food Reserves: Analysing the prospects for a stabilisation fund in Mali and Niger

02/07/2013

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

Local food reserves can contribute to food security strategies and have the potential to empower communities. These collective initiatives are set up and owned by small-scale producers with the objective of increasing the availability and access to food, or of increasing income by managing the food-price cycle. But the rate of failure among local food […]

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Frustrated and Displaced’: Filipina domestic workers in Canada

01/03/1998

6 pages long

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Frustrated and Displaced’: Filipina domestic workers in Canada

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This article examines the case of Filipina domestic workers in Canada, based on a participatory action research study that the authors carried out with Filipina domestic workers in 1996. The Philippines has been a major supplier of migrant labour, and is one of the principal sources of foreign domestic workers in Canada. This article is […]

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Migration, ethnicity and conflict: Oxfam’s experience of working with Roma communities in Tuzla, Bosnia-Hercegovina

01/03/1998

6 pages long

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Migration, ethnicity and conflict: Oxfam’s experience of working with Roma communities in Tuzla, Bosnia-Hercegovina

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Overview

The article draws on the experience of Oxfam GB in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina in researching and working with Roma communities, and focuses on the changes in the role of women as a result of the recent conflict. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and […]

Showing 467 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

Keywords

Overview

A wide range of development actors play a major role in initiating, supporting, and promoting collective action of various forms, which aims to secure economic and wider benefits to women, through improving their engagement in markets. But there is limited understanding of what works for rural women in terms of their participation in collective action, […]

Journal article

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

01/02/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

Keywords

Overview

Water supply and sanitation provision are key elements in progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Women’s participation is considered integral to the sustainability of the projects created to meet these two MDGs. Bringing feminist and geographic critiques to bear on gendered approaches to improving sanitation coverage, the research reported on in this article indicates […]

Journal article

ICTs and decision making: findings from the Poverty Assessor

01/04/2010

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Pro-poor decision making depends on an understanding of the complexities and inter-relationships between household livelihood, demographic, and economic factors. This article describes the design and implementation of the Poverty Assessor, a software programme to assist practitioners, policy makers, and researchers in visualising the direct impacts on poverty of specific livelihood factors and events among populations […]

Journal article

Women’s empowerment revisited: a case study from Bangladesh

01/09/2010

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s empowerment revisited: a case study from Bangladesh

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

This article explores the changing dimensions of women’s empowerment over time in three Bangladesh villages where one of the authors has been conducting research since 1991. The article discusses theoretical issues related to the measurement of women’s empowerment, and describes findings from a recent study in the villages exploring the current salience of indicators developed […]

Journal article

‘Bread and butter’ human rights: NGOs in Fiji

01/09/2010

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

While ‘rights-based’ approaches to development – those in which development and poverty alleviation are viewed through the lens of human rights – have become the language of choice among the international development community, less is known about how human rights are used for development at the local level. Using a case study of Fiji, this […]

Journal article

Linking evidence with user voice for pro-poor policy: lessons from East Africa

01/11/2010

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Many agricultural research and development projects seek to achieve pro-poor outcomes through policy change. However, policy processes are complex, and a strategic approach to enhancing impact at policy level is often not applied. This article describes two case studies of actual policy change – on dairy marketing in Kenya, and on urban agriculture in Kampala […]

Journal article

The roles of, and relationships between, expatriates, volunteers, and local development workers

01/02/2011

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article reports on exploratory research based on interviews with expatriate and local aid workers employed by local and international NGOs in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Thematic analysis of the interviews found that personnel were placed in groups based on their job category – consultant, volunteer, or permanent staff – regardless of experience. These categories logically […]

Research report

Managing Price Risk in Local Food Reserves: Analysing the prospects for a stabilisation fund in Mali and Niger

02/07/2013

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Local food reserves can contribute to food security strategies and have the potential to empower communities. These collective initiatives are set up and owned by small-scale producers with the objective of increasing the availability and access to food, or of increasing income by managing the food-price cycle. But the rate of failure among local food […]

Journal article

Frustrated and Displaced’: Filipina domestic workers in Canada

01/03/1998

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Frustrated and Displaced’: Filipina domestic workers in Canada

Keywords

Overview

This article examines the case of Filipina domestic workers in Canada, based on a participatory action research study that the authors carried out with Filipina domestic workers in 1996. The Philippines has been a major supplier of migrant labour, and is one of the principal sources of foreign domestic workers in Canada. This article is […]

Journal article

Migration, ethnicity and conflict: Oxfam’s experience of working with Roma communities in Tuzla, Bosnia-Hercegovina

01/03/1998

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Migration, ethnicity and conflict: Oxfam’s experience of working with Roma communities in Tuzla, Bosnia-Hercegovina

Keywords

Overview

The article draws on the experience of Oxfam GB in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina in researching and working with Roma communities, and focuses on the changes in the role of women as a result of the recent conflict. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and […]

Showing 467 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

Keywords

Overview

A wide range of development actors play a major role in initiating, supporting, and promoting collective action of various forms, which aims to secure economic and wider benefits to women, through improving their engagement in markets. But there is limited understanding of what works for rural women in terms of their participation in collective action, […]

Journal article

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

01/02/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

Keywords

Overview

Water supply and sanitation provision are key elements in progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Women’s participation is considered integral to the sustainability of the projects created to meet these two MDGs. Bringing feminist and geographic critiques to bear on gendered approaches to improving sanitation coverage, the research reported on in this article indicates […]

Journal article

ICTs and decision making: findings from the Poverty Assessor

01/04/2010

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Pro-poor decision making depends on an understanding of the complexities and inter-relationships between household livelihood, demographic, and economic factors. This article describes the design and implementation of the Poverty Assessor, a software programme to assist practitioners, policy makers, and researchers in visualising the direct impacts on poverty of specific livelihood factors and events among populations […]

Journal article

Women’s empowerment revisited: a case study from Bangladesh

01/09/2010

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s empowerment revisited: a case study from Bangladesh

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

This article explores the changing dimensions of women’s empowerment over time in three Bangladesh villages where one of the authors has been conducting research since 1991. The article discusses theoretical issues related to the measurement of women’s empowerment, and describes findings from a recent study in the villages exploring the current salience of indicators developed […]

Journal article

‘Bread and butter’ human rights: NGOs in Fiji

01/09/2010

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

While ‘rights-based’ approaches to development – those in which development and poverty alleviation are viewed through the lens of human rights – have become the language of choice among the international development community, less is known about how human rights are used for development at the local level. Using a case study of Fiji, this […]

Journal article

Linking evidence with user voice for pro-poor policy: lessons from East Africa

01/11/2010

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Many agricultural research and development projects seek to achieve pro-poor outcomes through policy change. However, policy processes are complex, and a strategic approach to enhancing impact at policy level is often not applied. This article describes two case studies of actual policy change – on dairy marketing in Kenya, and on urban agriculture in Kampala […]

Journal article

The roles of, and relationships between, expatriates, volunteers, and local development workers

01/02/2011

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article reports on exploratory research based on interviews with expatriate and local aid workers employed by local and international NGOs in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Thematic analysis of the interviews found that personnel were placed in groups based on their job category – consultant, volunteer, or permanent staff – regardless of experience. These categories logically […]

Research report

Managing Price Risk in Local Food Reserves: Analysing the prospects for a stabilisation fund in Mali and Niger

02/07/2013

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Local food reserves can contribute to food security strategies and have the potential to empower communities. These collective initiatives are set up and owned by small-scale producers with the objective of increasing the availability and access to food, or of increasing income by managing the food-price cycle. But the rate of failure among local food […]

Journal article

Frustrated and Displaced’: Filipina domestic workers in Canada

01/03/1998

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Frustrated and Displaced’: Filipina domestic workers in Canada

Keywords

Overview

This article examines the case of Filipina domestic workers in Canada, based on a participatory action research study that the authors carried out with Filipina domestic workers in 1996. The Philippines has been a major supplier of migrant labour, and is one of the principal sources of foreign domestic workers in Canada. This article is […]

Journal article

Migration, ethnicity and conflict: Oxfam’s experience of working with Roma communities in Tuzla, Bosnia-Hercegovina

01/03/1998

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Migration, ethnicity and conflict: Oxfam’s experience of working with Roma communities in Tuzla, Bosnia-Hercegovina

Keywords

Overview

The article draws on the experience of Oxfam GB in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina in researching and working with Roma communities, and focuses on the changes in the role of women as a result of the recent conflict. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and […]