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Media briefing

Unregulated and Unaccountable: How the private health care sector in India is putting women’s lives at risk

06/02/2013

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Decades of appallingly low investment in the public health sector has left India with a crumbling health system, unable to meet the needs of its citizens. Despite efforts in recent years to strengthen the public health system, India has one of the lowest levels of government investment in health in the world, just one percent […]

Journal article

Public policies on water provision and early childhood education and care (ECEC): do they reduce and redistribute unpaid work?

10/11/2014

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Public policies on water provision and early childhood education and care (ECEC): do they reduce and redistribute unpaid work?

Keywords

Overview

Governments need to provide public finance to support services to reduce and redistribute unpaid work. However, while the financial costs of the required public investment are up front and highly visible; the (many) benefits are diffuse, spread over time, and include non-monetary as well as monetary benefits. This article focuses on two experiences from developing countries, in the water […]

Case study

Scholarships and the Healthcare Human Resources Crisis: A case study of Soviet and Russian scholarships for medical students from Ghana

23/12/2014

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Scholarships for study in the former Soviet Union were offered to students in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and across the developing world. Many of these scholarships were used to study medicine, and the health workforces of many sub-Saharan African countries now contain a significant number of Soviet-trained doctors – though they remain critically understaffed. […]

Case study

I Care About Her: Building a movement of champions in Zambia to end violence against women and girls

05/03/2015

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Over half of women in Zambia have experienced physical or sexual violence (Zambia Demographic and Health Survey, 2007). Oxfam is partnering with several local organisations to implement I Care About Her, a programme which works to end violence against women and girls by transforming attitudes and beliefs and mobilising men and boys to champion non-violence. […]

Journal article

ActionAid’s Young Urban Women Programme in urban India: taking an intersectional approach to decent work, unpaid care, and sexual and reproductive health and rights

27/03/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

ActionAid’s Young Urban Women Programme in urban India: taking an intersectional approach to decent work, unpaid care, and sexual and reproductive health and rights

Keywords

Overview

This article traces the implementation of a programme with young urban women living in poverty in the Indian cities of Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Chennai. The programme aims to increase their economic independence and control over their bodies. It begins from an intersectional analysis of women’s access to decent work, their unpaid care work responsibilities, and […]

Journal article

‘I don’t care about their reactions’: agency and ICTs in women’s empowerment in Afghanistan

11/07/2018

16 pages long

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‘I don’t care about their reactions’: agency and ICTs in women’s empowerment in Afghanistan

Keywords

Overview

Gender justice and women’s empowerment are both an end and a goal of sustainable development, and information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) policies and monitoring needs to be informed by this understanding. This article draws on research from Afghanistan exploring how women’s empowerment is conceptualised in relation to information and communication technologies (ICTs) currently, […]

Journal article

Beyond development impact: gender and care in the Pacific Seasonal Worker Programme

28/03/2019

16 pages long

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Beyond development impact: gender and care in the Pacific Seasonal Worker Programme

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Overview

Close to 17,320 workers participate in the Seasonal Worker Programme, a temporary migration scheme between Australia and selected island countries in the Pacific. This article looks at the ways in which seasonal migration affects the social lives of migrants from Tonga and Vanuatu, in their households and communities. It explores the various barriers that women […]

Education resource

Into Film presents Dhanak: Does everyone in India have equal access to healthcare?

03/11/2017

1 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Dhanak is the story of Pari and her little brother Chotu who travel the length of Rajasthan, India, in the hope that Chotu will be able to regain his sight. This story of hope and determination will help learners aged 11-16 to think critically about access to healthcare, inequality and why essential services are so […]

Journal article

Introduction: A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision

31/08/2022

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Introduction: A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision

Keywords

Overview

This is the introduction to the journal issue on 'A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision'.

Journal article

Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

31/08/2022

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

Keywords

Overview

In both academic and practitioner work on women’s work, there is significant focus on women in the 18–55 age bracket. However, there remains a gap in the policy agenda on the impact of COVID-19 on older women in the 55+ age group, including those with disabilities. Christian Aid research and projects that have focused on […]

Showing 436 matching results from Policy & Practice

Media briefing

Unregulated and Unaccountable: How the private health care sector in India is putting women’s lives at risk

06/02/2013

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Decades of appallingly low investment in the public health sector has left India with a crumbling health system, unable to meet the needs of its citizens. Despite efforts in recent years to strengthen the public health system, India has one of the lowest levels of government investment in health in the world, just one percent […]

Journal article

Public policies on water provision and early childhood education and care (ECEC): do they reduce and redistribute unpaid work?

10/11/2014

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Public policies on water provision and early childhood education and care (ECEC): do they reduce and redistribute unpaid work?

Keywords

Overview

Governments need to provide public finance to support services to reduce and redistribute unpaid work. However, while the financial costs of the required public investment are up front and highly visible; the (many) benefits are diffuse, spread over time, and include non-monetary as well as monetary benefits. This article focuses on two experiences from developing countries, in the water […]

Case study

Scholarships and the Healthcare Human Resources Crisis: A case study of Soviet and Russian scholarships for medical students from Ghana

23/12/2014

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Scholarships for study in the former Soviet Union were offered to students in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and across the developing world. Many of these scholarships were used to study medicine, and the health workforces of many sub-Saharan African countries now contain a significant number of Soviet-trained doctors – though they remain critically understaffed. […]

Case study

I Care About Her: Building a movement of champions in Zambia to end violence against women and girls

05/03/2015

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Over half of women in Zambia have experienced physical or sexual violence (Zambia Demographic and Health Survey, 2007). Oxfam is partnering with several local organisations to implement I Care About Her, a programme which works to end violence against women and girls by transforming attitudes and beliefs and mobilising men and boys to champion non-violence. […]

Journal article

ActionAid’s Young Urban Women Programme in urban India: taking an intersectional approach to decent work, unpaid care, and sexual and reproductive health and rights

27/03/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

ActionAid’s Young Urban Women Programme in urban India: taking an intersectional approach to decent work, unpaid care, and sexual and reproductive health and rights

Keywords

Overview

This article traces the implementation of a programme with young urban women living in poverty in the Indian cities of Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Chennai. The programme aims to increase their economic independence and control over their bodies. It begins from an intersectional analysis of women’s access to decent work, their unpaid care work responsibilities, and […]

Journal article

‘I don’t care about their reactions’: agency and ICTs in women’s empowerment in Afghanistan

11/07/2018

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘I don’t care about their reactions’: agency and ICTs in women’s empowerment in Afghanistan

Keywords

Overview

Gender justice and women’s empowerment are both an end and a goal of sustainable development, and information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) policies and monitoring needs to be informed by this understanding. This article draws on research from Afghanistan exploring how women’s empowerment is conceptualised in relation to information and communication technologies (ICTs) currently, […]

Journal article

Beyond development impact: gender and care in the Pacific Seasonal Worker Programme

28/03/2019

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Beyond development impact: gender and care in the Pacific Seasonal Worker Programme

Keywords

Overview

Close to 17,320 workers participate in the Seasonal Worker Programme, a temporary migration scheme between Australia and selected island countries in the Pacific. This article looks at the ways in which seasonal migration affects the social lives of migrants from Tonga and Vanuatu, in their households and communities. It explores the various barriers that women […]

Education resource

Into Film presents Dhanak: Does everyone in India have equal access to healthcare?

03/11/2017

1 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Dhanak is the story of Pari and her little brother Chotu who travel the length of Rajasthan, India, in the hope that Chotu will be able to regain his sight. This story of hope and determination will help learners aged 11-16 to think critically about access to healthcare, inequality and why essential services are so […]

Journal article

Introduction: A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision

31/08/2022

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Introduction: A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision

Keywords

Overview

This is the introduction to the journal issue on 'A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision'.

Journal article

Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

31/08/2022

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

Keywords

Overview

In both academic and practitioner work on women’s work, there is significant focus on women in the 18–55 age bracket. However, there remains a gap in the policy agenda on the impact of COVID-19 on older women in the 55+ age group, including those with disabilities. Christian Aid research and projects that have focused on […]

Showing 436 matching results from Policy & Practice

Media briefing

Unregulated and Unaccountable: How the private health care sector in India is putting women’s lives at risk

06/02/2013

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Decades of appallingly low investment in the public health sector has left India with a crumbling health system, unable to meet the needs of its citizens. Despite efforts in recent years to strengthen the public health system, India has one of the lowest levels of government investment in health in the world, just one percent […]

Journal article

Public policies on water provision and early childhood education and care (ECEC): do they reduce and redistribute unpaid work?

10/11/2014

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Public policies on water provision and early childhood education and care (ECEC): do they reduce and redistribute unpaid work?

Keywords

Overview

Governments need to provide public finance to support services to reduce and redistribute unpaid work. However, while the financial costs of the required public investment are up front and highly visible; the (many) benefits are diffuse, spread over time, and include non-monetary as well as monetary benefits. This article focuses on two experiences from developing countries, in the water […]

Case study

Scholarships and the Healthcare Human Resources Crisis: A case study of Soviet and Russian scholarships for medical students from Ghana

23/12/2014

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Scholarships for study in the former Soviet Union were offered to students in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and across the developing world. Many of these scholarships were used to study medicine, and the health workforces of many sub-Saharan African countries now contain a significant number of Soviet-trained doctors – though they remain critically understaffed. […]

Case study

I Care About Her: Building a movement of champions in Zambia to end violence against women and girls

05/03/2015

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Over half of women in Zambia have experienced physical or sexual violence (Zambia Demographic and Health Survey, 2007). Oxfam is partnering with several local organisations to implement I Care About Her, a programme which works to end violence against women and girls by transforming attitudes and beliefs and mobilising men and boys to champion non-violence. […]

Journal article

ActionAid’s Young Urban Women Programme in urban India: taking an intersectional approach to decent work, unpaid care, and sexual and reproductive health and rights

27/03/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

ActionAid’s Young Urban Women Programme in urban India: taking an intersectional approach to decent work, unpaid care, and sexual and reproductive health and rights

Keywords

Overview

This article traces the implementation of a programme with young urban women living in poverty in the Indian cities of Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Chennai. The programme aims to increase their economic independence and control over their bodies. It begins from an intersectional analysis of women’s access to decent work, their unpaid care work responsibilities, and […]

Journal article

‘I don’t care about their reactions’: agency and ICTs in women’s empowerment in Afghanistan

11/07/2018

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘I don’t care about their reactions’: agency and ICTs in women’s empowerment in Afghanistan

Keywords

Overview

Gender justice and women’s empowerment are both an end and a goal of sustainable development, and information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) policies and monitoring needs to be informed by this understanding. This article draws on research from Afghanistan exploring how women’s empowerment is conceptualised in relation to information and communication technologies (ICTs) currently, […]

Journal article

Beyond development impact: gender and care in the Pacific Seasonal Worker Programme

28/03/2019

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Beyond development impact: gender and care in the Pacific Seasonal Worker Programme

Keywords

Overview

Close to 17,320 workers participate in the Seasonal Worker Programme, a temporary migration scheme between Australia and selected island countries in the Pacific. This article looks at the ways in which seasonal migration affects the social lives of migrants from Tonga and Vanuatu, in their households and communities. It explores the various barriers that women […]

Education resource

Into Film presents Dhanak: Does everyone in India have equal access to healthcare?

03/11/2017

1 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Dhanak is the story of Pari and her little brother Chotu who travel the length of Rajasthan, India, in the hope that Chotu will be able to regain his sight. This story of hope and determination will help learners aged 11-16 to think critically about access to healthcare, inequality and why essential services are so […]

Journal article

Introduction: A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision

31/08/2022

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Introduction: A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision

Keywords

Overview

This is the introduction to the journal issue on 'A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision'.

Journal article

Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

31/08/2022

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

Keywords

Overview

In both academic and practitioner work on women’s work, there is significant focus on women in the 18–55 age bracket. However, there remains a gap in the policy agenda on the impact of COVID-19 on older women in the 55+ age group, including those with disabilities. Christian Aid research and projects that have focused on […]