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We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

01/03/2000

10 pages long

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We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

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A team of researchers talked to people living in poverty in Ethiopia to ascertain what stops them from gaining access to affordable, good quality basic health-care services, reproductive health-care services, and primary education. The research findings shed new light on the linkages between limited access to basic services and poverty, low incomes, insecure livelihoods, and […]

Research report

Understanding norms around the gendered division of labour: Results from focus group discussions in Zimbabwe

12/06/2018

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Social norms refer to the shared expectations held by a given community. They are often held in place by social approval or rewards for conformity, and by disapproval or sanctions for transgressions. Understanding how and why social norms hold sway can provide a powerful means for understanding the gendered division of work that prevails in […]

Journal article

Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

01/07/2009

10 pages long

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Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

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Overview

This article explores the issue of women providing unpaid care for family members living with HIV in South Africa and Zimbabwe. State policies rely on women providing home-based care, in the context of failing health systems. This has the effect of impoverishing women, and reinforcing gender stereotypes. Recommendations will be given on how to make […]

Journal article

Environment, living spaces, and health: compound-organisation practices in a Bamako squatter settlement, Mali

01/07/2001

12 pages long

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Environment, living spaces, and health: compound-organisation practices in a Bamako squatter settlement, Mali

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Overview

This article is based on a study conducted in Samé, a squatter settlement on the outskirts of Bamako, capital of Mali. The objective was to observe how individuals and their families ensure health and well-being through organising everyday life in their compounds (the basic housing unit in African cities). The compound is mainly a female […]

Discussion paper

Green, Fair and Caring: A feminist roadmap for Wales

23/10/2025

3 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This report contributes to a global vision for a green new deal by grounding it in the Welsh context. It recognises that the economic and climate crises are deeply interconnected as interlocking consequences of unjust systems—patriarchy, neoliberalism, and extractive economics—that exploit people while degrading the environment. Within this, the undervaluing of care—both paid and unpaid—illustrates […]

Journal article

The Beijing Platform for Action charted a future we still need to bring up: building feminist economic policy

24/06/2020

17 pages long

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The Beijing Platform for Action charted a future we still need to bring up: building feminist economic policy

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Overview

The Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), written 25 years ago, is remarkable in its economic diagnostics, analytical framework, and policy prescriptions, which remain fully relevant today. In this article, we revisit the main economic problems identified by the BPfA: GDP growth, employment, care, and poverty. In terms of GDP growth, the BPfA was clear that […]

Journal article

Is liberalisation damaging Albanian women’s health?

01/10/1993

3 pages long

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Is liberalisation damaging Albanian women’s health?

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This article shows how Albanian women are taking active control of daily struggles brought about by an unstable political system and paramount shifts in social and economic structures. How do women take care of the material needs of their family when resources are scarce? How do they cope with no basic health care, lack of […]

Journal article

Using key informant monitoring in safe motherhood programming in Nepal

01/04/2005

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

This article discusses the methodology and application of the Key Informant Monitoring (KIM) tool as used by the Nepal Safer Motherhood Project (NSMP). NSMP aims to achieve a sustained increase in the uptake of midwifery and essential obstetric care services by addressing, among other things, constraints on access to such services. Data collected by community-based […]

Technical briefing

Practical Guide: Applying sustainable development to arms-transfer decisions

01/04/2009

3 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of conflict, armed crime, and all forms of armed violence around the world is apparent for all to see. Armed violence closes schools, paralyses communities, burdens health-care systems, discourages investment and economic activity, and makes lives and livelihoods less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public […]

Briefing note

A Dangerous Diversion: Will the IFC’s flagship health PPP bankrupt Lesotho’s Ministry of Health?

07/04/2014

3 documents

28 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital in Lesotho was built under a public–private partnership (PPP), which is the first of its kind in a low-income country and has been described as opening a new era for private sector involvement in healthcare in Africa. Instead, the Ministry of Health in one of the poorest and most unequal […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

01/03/2000

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

Keywords

Overview

A team of researchers talked to people living in poverty in Ethiopia to ascertain what stops them from gaining access to affordable, good quality basic health-care services, reproductive health-care services, and primary education. The research findings shed new light on the linkages between limited access to basic services and poverty, low incomes, insecure livelihoods, and […]

Research report

Understanding norms around the gendered division of labour: Results from focus group discussions in Zimbabwe

12/06/2018

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Social norms refer to the shared expectations held by a given community. They are often held in place by social approval or rewards for conformity, and by disapproval or sanctions for transgressions. Understanding how and why social norms hold sway can provide a powerful means for understanding the gendered division of work that prevails in […]

Journal article

Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

01/07/2009

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the issue of women providing unpaid care for family members living with HIV in South Africa and Zimbabwe. State policies rely on women providing home-based care, in the context of failing health systems. This has the effect of impoverishing women, and reinforcing gender stereotypes. Recommendations will be given on how to make […]

Journal article

Environment, living spaces, and health: compound-organisation practices in a Bamako squatter settlement, Mali

01/07/2001

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Environment, living spaces, and health: compound-organisation practices in a Bamako squatter settlement, Mali

Keywords

Overview

This article is based on a study conducted in Samé, a squatter settlement on the outskirts of Bamako, capital of Mali. The objective was to observe how individuals and their families ensure health and well-being through organising everyday life in their compounds (the basic housing unit in African cities). The compound is mainly a female […]

Discussion paper

Green, Fair and Caring: A feminist roadmap for Wales

23/10/2025

3 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report contributes to a global vision for a green new deal by grounding it in the Welsh context. It recognises that the economic and climate crises are deeply interconnected as interlocking consequences of unjust systems—patriarchy, neoliberalism, and extractive economics—that exploit people while degrading the environment. Within this, the undervaluing of care—both paid and unpaid—illustrates […]

Journal article

The Beijing Platform for Action charted a future we still need to bring up: building feminist economic policy

24/06/2020

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Beijing Platform for Action charted a future we still need to bring up: building feminist economic policy

Keywords

Overview

The Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), written 25 years ago, is remarkable in its economic diagnostics, analytical framework, and policy prescriptions, which remain fully relevant today. In this article, we revisit the main economic problems identified by the BPfA: GDP growth, employment, care, and poverty. In terms of GDP growth, the BPfA was clear that […]

Journal article

Is liberalisation damaging Albanian women’s health?

01/10/1993

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Is liberalisation damaging Albanian women’s health?

Keywords

Overview

This article shows how Albanian women are taking active control of daily struggles brought about by an unstable political system and paramount shifts in social and economic structures. How do women take care of the material needs of their family when resources are scarce? How do they cope with no basic health care, lack of […]

Journal article

Using key informant monitoring in safe motherhood programming in Nepal

01/04/2005

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the methodology and application of the Key Informant Monitoring (KIM) tool as used by the Nepal Safer Motherhood Project (NSMP). NSMP aims to achieve a sustained increase in the uptake of midwifery and essential obstetric care services by addressing, among other things, constraints on access to such services. Data collected by community-based […]

Technical briefing

Practical Guide: Applying sustainable development to arms-transfer decisions

01/04/2009

3 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of conflict, armed crime, and all forms of armed violence around the world is apparent for all to see. Armed violence closes schools, paralyses communities, burdens health-care systems, discourages investment and economic activity, and makes lives and livelihoods less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public […]

Briefing note

A Dangerous Diversion: Will the IFC’s flagship health PPP bankrupt Lesotho’s Ministry of Health?

07/04/2014

3 documents

28 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital in Lesotho was built under a public–private partnership (PPP), which is the first of its kind in a low-income country and has been described as opening a new era for private sector involvement in healthcare in Africa. Instead, the Ministry of Health in one of the poorest and most unequal […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

01/03/2000

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

Keywords

Overview

A team of researchers talked to people living in poverty in Ethiopia to ascertain what stops them from gaining access to affordable, good quality basic health-care services, reproductive health-care services, and primary education. The research findings shed new light on the linkages between limited access to basic services and poverty, low incomes, insecure livelihoods, and […]

Research report

Understanding norms around the gendered division of labour: Results from focus group discussions in Zimbabwe

12/06/2018

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Social norms refer to the shared expectations held by a given community. They are often held in place by social approval or rewards for conformity, and by disapproval or sanctions for transgressions. Understanding how and why social norms hold sway can provide a powerful means for understanding the gendered division of work that prevails in […]

Journal article

Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

01/07/2009

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the issue of women providing unpaid care for family members living with HIV in South Africa and Zimbabwe. State policies rely on women providing home-based care, in the context of failing health systems. This has the effect of impoverishing women, and reinforcing gender stereotypes. Recommendations will be given on how to make […]

Journal article

Environment, living spaces, and health: compound-organisation practices in a Bamako squatter settlement, Mali

01/07/2001

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Environment, living spaces, and health: compound-organisation practices in a Bamako squatter settlement, Mali

Keywords

Overview

This article is based on a study conducted in Samé, a squatter settlement on the outskirts of Bamako, capital of Mali. The objective was to observe how individuals and their families ensure health and well-being through organising everyday life in their compounds (the basic housing unit in African cities). The compound is mainly a female […]

Discussion paper

Green, Fair and Caring: A feminist roadmap for Wales

23/10/2025

3 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report contributes to a global vision for a green new deal by grounding it in the Welsh context. It recognises that the economic and climate crises are deeply interconnected as interlocking consequences of unjust systems—patriarchy, neoliberalism, and extractive economics—that exploit people while degrading the environment. Within this, the undervaluing of care—both paid and unpaid—illustrates […]

Journal article

The Beijing Platform for Action charted a future we still need to bring up: building feminist economic policy

24/06/2020

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Beijing Platform for Action charted a future we still need to bring up: building feminist economic policy

Keywords

Overview

The Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), written 25 years ago, is remarkable in its economic diagnostics, analytical framework, and policy prescriptions, which remain fully relevant today. In this article, we revisit the main economic problems identified by the BPfA: GDP growth, employment, care, and poverty. In terms of GDP growth, the BPfA was clear that […]

Journal article

Is liberalisation damaging Albanian women’s health?

01/10/1993

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Is liberalisation damaging Albanian women’s health?

Keywords

Overview

This article shows how Albanian women are taking active control of daily struggles brought about by an unstable political system and paramount shifts in social and economic structures. How do women take care of the material needs of their family when resources are scarce? How do they cope with no basic health care, lack of […]

Journal article

Using key informant monitoring in safe motherhood programming in Nepal

01/04/2005

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the methodology and application of the Key Informant Monitoring (KIM) tool as used by the Nepal Safer Motherhood Project (NSMP). NSMP aims to achieve a sustained increase in the uptake of midwifery and essential obstetric care services by addressing, among other things, constraints on access to such services. Data collected by community-based […]

Technical briefing

Practical Guide: Applying sustainable development to arms-transfer decisions

01/04/2009

3 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of conflict, armed crime, and all forms of armed violence around the world is apparent for all to see. Armed violence closes schools, paralyses communities, burdens health-care systems, discourages investment and economic activity, and makes lives and livelihoods less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public […]

Briefing note

A Dangerous Diversion: Will the IFC’s flagship health PPP bankrupt Lesotho’s Ministry of Health?

07/04/2014

3 documents

28 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital in Lesotho was built under a public–private partnership (PPP), which is the first of its kind in a low-income country and has been described as opening a new era for private sector involvement in healthcare in Africa. Instead, the Ministry of Health in one of the poorest and most unequal […]