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Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

23/03/2021

18 pages long

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Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

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This paper applies an intersectional lens to health in informal urban settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We explored how intersecting social characteristics including gender, age, wealth, occupation, and tenant status influence health and well-being outcomes. We found that hazardous environmental conditions, poor waste disposal, and waste burning contribute to health problems at a neighbourhood level. […]

Journal article

‘We aren’t even allowed to dream of a future in politics’: gender disparities in Indian youth political interest, engagement, and aspirations

18/09/2025

30 pages long

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‘We aren’t even allowed to dream of a future in politics’: gender disparities in Indian youth political interest, engagement, and aspirations

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Across countries and contexts, girls face structural barriers to their political engagement and leadership. This cross-sectional mixed-methods study investigated the moderating role of gender in factors shaping youths’ political engagement in India. Data from 602 high school and college-aged youth (68.9 per cent girls, mean age = 17) from 27 cities in India revealed significant gender disparities. […]

Briefing paper

Sick Development: How rich-country government and World Bank funding to for-profit private hospitals causes harm and should be stopped

29/06/2023

6 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

Development finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit hospitals in the Global South that block patients from getting care, or bankrupt them, with some even imprisoning patients who cannot afford their bills. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of […]

Briefing paper

Addressing the Human Cost of Assam Tea: An agenda for change to respect, protect and fulfil human rights on Assam tea plantations

10/10/2019

2 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Workers on tea plantations in the Assam region of India are systematically denied their rights to a living wage and decent working and living conditions. The fact that they are unable to meet their basic living costs is starkly illustrated by our finding that 50% of the households that researchers visited on behalf of Oxfam […]

Case study

Has the Impact of HIV and AIDS Affected the Lives of Rural ‘Gogos’?

06/06/2005

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

For some, growing old has been an opportunity to stand back from daily lfe and to enjoy some personal time. For others though, this has been a time when, traditionally, some forms of childcare have been the norm. The sometimes idealistic picture of quietude in old age is, for many, now being shattered by the […]

Briefing note

Essential Services: HIV, health services and gender in South Africa

01/09/2006

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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Much has been achieved in just over a decade of democracy in South Africa by facilitating access of the poor to health and other services. However much more needs to be done if the constitutional rights of citizens to dignity is to become universal. Under the strain of an HIV onslaught, second to non in […]

Journal article

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

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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 […]

Showing 437 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

23/03/2021

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

Keywords

Overview

This paper applies an intersectional lens to health in informal urban settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We explored how intersecting social characteristics including gender, age, wealth, occupation, and tenant status influence health and well-being outcomes. We found that hazardous environmental conditions, poor waste disposal, and waste burning contribute to health problems at a neighbourhood level. […]

Journal article

‘We aren’t even allowed to dream of a future in politics’: gender disparities in Indian youth political interest, engagement, and aspirations

18/09/2025

30 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘We aren’t even allowed to dream of a future in politics’: gender disparities in Indian youth political interest, engagement, and aspirations

Keywords

Overview

Across countries and contexts, girls face structural barriers to their political engagement and leadership. This cross-sectional mixed-methods study investigated the moderating role of gender in factors shaping youths’ political engagement in India. Data from 602 high school and college-aged youth (68.9 per cent girls, mean age = 17) from 27 cities in India revealed significant gender disparities. […]

Briefing paper

Sick Development: How rich-country government and World Bank funding to for-profit private hospitals causes harm and should be stopped

29/06/2023

6 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Development finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit hospitals in the Global South that block patients from getting care, or bankrupt them, with some even imprisoning patients who cannot afford their bills. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of […]

Briefing paper

Addressing the Human Cost of Assam Tea: An agenda for change to respect, protect and fulfil human rights on Assam tea plantations

10/10/2019

2 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Workers on tea plantations in the Assam region of India are systematically denied their rights to a living wage and decent working and living conditions. The fact that they are unable to meet their basic living costs is starkly illustrated by our finding that 50% of the households that researchers visited on behalf of Oxfam […]

Case study

Has the Impact of HIV and AIDS Affected the Lives of Rural ‘Gogos’?

06/06/2005

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

For some, growing old has been an opportunity to stand back from daily lfe and to enjoy some personal time. For others though, this has been a time when, traditionally, some forms of childcare have been the norm. The sometimes idealistic picture of quietude in old age is, for many, now being shattered by the […]

Briefing note

Essential Services: HIV, health services and gender in South Africa

01/09/2006

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Much has been achieved in just over a decade of democracy in South Africa by facilitating access of the poor to health and other services. However much more needs to be done if the constitutional rights of citizens to dignity is to become universal. Under the strain of an HIV onslaught, second to non in […]

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 […]

Showing 437 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

23/03/2021

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

Keywords

Overview

This paper applies an intersectional lens to health in informal urban settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We explored how intersecting social characteristics including gender, age, wealth, occupation, and tenant status influence health and well-being outcomes. We found that hazardous environmental conditions, poor waste disposal, and waste burning contribute to health problems at a neighbourhood level. […]

Journal article

‘We aren’t even allowed to dream of a future in politics’: gender disparities in Indian youth political interest, engagement, and aspirations

18/09/2025

30 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘We aren’t even allowed to dream of a future in politics’: gender disparities in Indian youth political interest, engagement, and aspirations

Keywords

Overview

Across countries and contexts, girls face structural barriers to their political engagement and leadership. This cross-sectional mixed-methods study investigated the moderating role of gender in factors shaping youths’ political engagement in India. Data from 602 high school and college-aged youth (68.9 per cent girls, mean age = 17) from 27 cities in India revealed significant gender disparities. […]

Briefing paper

Sick Development: How rich-country government and World Bank funding to for-profit private hospitals causes harm and should be stopped

29/06/2023

6 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Development finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit hospitals in the Global South that block patients from getting care, or bankrupt them, with some even imprisoning patients who cannot afford their bills. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of […]

Briefing paper

Addressing the Human Cost of Assam Tea: An agenda for change to respect, protect and fulfil human rights on Assam tea plantations

10/10/2019

2 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Workers on tea plantations in the Assam region of India are systematically denied their rights to a living wage and decent working and living conditions. The fact that they are unable to meet their basic living costs is starkly illustrated by our finding that 50% of the households that researchers visited on behalf of Oxfam […]

Case study

Has the Impact of HIV and AIDS Affected the Lives of Rural ‘Gogos’?

06/06/2005

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

For some, growing old has been an opportunity to stand back from daily lfe and to enjoy some personal time. For others though, this has been a time when, traditionally, some forms of childcare have been the norm. The sometimes idealistic picture of quietude in old age is, for many, now being shattered by the […]

Briefing note

Essential Services: HIV, health services and gender in South Africa

01/09/2006

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Much has been achieved in just over a decade of democracy in South Africa by facilitating access of the poor to health and other services. However much more needs to be done if the constitutional rights of citizens to dignity is to become universal. Under the strain of an HIV onslaught, second to non in […]

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 […]