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Rapid Gender Analysis and its use in crises: from zero to fifty in five years

11/07/2019

15 pages long

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Rapid Gender Analysis and its use in crises: from zero to fifty in five years

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This article explores how and why the international non-government organisation, CARE, developed its own system of gender analysis, Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA), during the humanitarian response in Syria. The article tracks and reviews a sample of the first 50 CARE RGA reports to share recurrent gender themes that emerge across them, including the lack of […]

Education resource

Birthrights – Maternal Health in Ghana: Resources for ages 11-14

01/01/2015

3 documents

Languages: English

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Overview

Explore the relationships between healthcare and inequality. World leaders have promised to both reduce inequality and ensure healthy lives for everyone. But what is the link between these issues? Find out more about the Sustainable Development Goals and explore the day in the life of Cecilia, a midwife in Ghana. Learn about the experiences of […]

Journal article

Unintended complicities: preventing violence against women in South Africa

20/07/2016

15 pages long

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Unintended complicities: preventing violence against women in South Africa

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This article considers how the prevention of violence against women and girls (VAWG) is inadvertently being caught up in broader economic policies aimed at the cut-back of services, with the basis for this argument provided by a detailed case study of funding to organisations providing post-rape care services in South Africa. To contextualise current circumstances, […]

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Following the law, but losing the spirit of child protection in Kenya

01/06/2012

11 pages long

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This paper explores how an ostensibly child-centred system can fail to protect children. In some policy arenas, the Kenyan state is recognised as a leader in Africa for the care and protection of children at risk. Yet a case study of children’s experiences illuminates how, despite adherence to a legislated framework and series of protocols, […]

Journal article

Public Spaces, Street Art, and the Challenges of Feminist Ecological Citizenship in Chile

19/09/2024

20 pages long

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Public Spaces, Street Art, and the Challenges of Feminist Ecological Citizenship in Chile

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While considerable literature examines the intersection between feminism and ecology, as well as the intersection between feminism and urbanism, few studies address the intersection between feminism and ecology by looking at aesthetic activism in the city. This essay explores the synergies and potential connections between the idea of body/territory and feminist ecological citizenship through the […]

Journal article

Sexual-health communication across and within cultures: the Clown Project, Guatemala

01/06/2009

13 pages long

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The synergies created through the careful application of both organic and symbolic communication demonstrably reach those most vulnerable to the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS. The Clown Project uses labour-intensive face-to-face street theatre and dialogue, participatory workshops, and symbolic communication such as print-based materials. Some lessons learned in selected communities in Guatemala and […]

Case study

ECB Project Case Study: NGOs traditionally compete for funds; what happens when they join forces to raise money together?

30/09/2011

3 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

In 2008, following a first phase of the Emergency Capacity Building Project, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation accepted a proposal from CARE International, Catholic Relief Services, Mercy Corps, Oxfam, Save the Children, and World Vision International worth $12.3 million for a further five year joint programme. Stepping outside their traditional grant making strategy to […]

Briefing note

Arms Transfer Decisions: Considering development

27/06/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Overview

The devastating impact of armed violence around the world is well known. Conflict and armed violence close schools, paralyse neighbourhoods, burden health-care services, discourage investment, and make lives less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public services such as education and health-care, and when such spending takes place without […]

Briefing paper

Universal Health Coverage: Why health insurance schemes are leaving the poor behind

09/10/2013

8 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Japanese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Universal Health Coverage is about the right to health. Everyone – rich or poor – should get the health care they need without suffering financial hardship. Unfortunately, some donors and developing country governments are promoting health insurance schemes that exclude the majority of people and l may also reinforce inequality – by prioritizing people who […]

Discussion paper

Beyond GDP: A compendium of regional feminist perspectives

10/12/2024

4 documents

38 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Overview

In this publication, leading feminist thinkers from Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, share perspectives on why we must move beyond gross domestic product (GDP) as the primary measure of societal progress. Drawing on regional examples, they demonstrate how the GDP-growth obsession is skewing policy-making towards measures […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Rapid Gender Analysis and its use in crises: from zero to fifty in five years

11/07/2019

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Rapid Gender Analysis and its use in crises: from zero to fifty in five years

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how and why the international non-government organisation, CARE, developed its own system of gender analysis, Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA), during the humanitarian response in Syria. The article tracks and reviews a sample of the first 50 CARE RGA reports to share recurrent gender themes that emerge across them, including the lack of […]

Education resource

Birthrights – Maternal Health in Ghana: Resources for ages 11-14

01/01/2015

3 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Explore the relationships between healthcare and inequality. World leaders have promised to both reduce inequality and ensure healthy lives for everyone. But what is the link between these issues? Find out more about the Sustainable Development Goals and explore the day in the life of Cecilia, a midwife in Ghana. Learn about the experiences of […]

Journal article

Unintended complicities: preventing violence against women in South Africa

20/07/2016

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Unintended complicities: preventing violence against women in South Africa

Keywords

Overview

This article considers how the prevention of violence against women and girls (VAWG) is inadvertently being caught up in broader economic policies aimed at the cut-back of services, with the basis for this argument provided by a detailed case study of funding to organisations providing post-rape care services in South Africa. To contextualise current circumstances, […]

Journal article

Following the law, but losing the spirit of child protection in Kenya

01/06/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper explores how an ostensibly child-centred system can fail to protect children. In some policy arenas, the Kenyan state is recognised as a leader in Africa for the care and protection of children at risk. Yet a case study of children’s experiences illuminates how, despite adherence to a legislated framework and series of protocols, […]

Journal article

Public Spaces, Street Art, and the Challenges of Feminist Ecological Citizenship in Chile

19/09/2024

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Public Spaces, Street Art, and the Challenges of Feminist Ecological Citizenship in Chile

Keywords

Overview

While considerable literature examines the intersection between feminism and ecology, as well as the intersection between feminism and urbanism, few studies address the intersection between feminism and ecology by looking at aesthetic activism in the city. This essay explores the synergies and potential connections between the idea of body/territory and feminist ecological citizenship through the […]

Journal article

Sexual-health communication across and within cultures: the Clown Project, Guatemala

01/06/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The synergies created through the careful application of both organic and symbolic communication demonstrably reach those most vulnerable to the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS. The Clown Project uses labour-intensive face-to-face street theatre and dialogue, participatory workshops, and symbolic communication such as print-based materials. Some lessons learned in selected communities in Guatemala and […]

Case study

ECB Project Case Study: NGOs traditionally compete for funds; what happens when they join forces to raise money together?

30/09/2011

3 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

In 2008, following a first phase of the Emergency Capacity Building Project, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation accepted a proposal from CARE International, Catholic Relief Services, Mercy Corps, Oxfam, Save the Children, and World Vision International worth $12.3 million for a further five year joint programme. Stepping outside their traditional grant making strategy to […]

Briefing note

Arms Transfer Decisions: Considering development

27/06/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of armed violence around the world is well known. Conflict and armed violence close schools, paralyse neighbourhoods, burden health-care services, discourage investment, and make lives less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public services such as education and health-care, and when such spending takes place without […]

Briefing paper

Universal Health Coverage: Why health insurance schemes are leaving the poor behind

09/10/2013

8 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Japanese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Universal Health Coverage is about the right to health. Everyone – rich or poor – should get the health care they need without suffering financial hardship. Unfortunately, some donors and developing country governments are promoting health insurance schemes that exclude the majority of people and l may also reinforce inequality – by prioritizing people who […]

Discussion paper

Beyond GDP: A compendium of regional feminist perspectives

10/12/2024

4 documents

38 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

In this publication, leading feminist thinkers from Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, share perspectives on why we must move beyond gross domestic product (GDP) as the primary measure of societal progress. Drawing on regional examples, they demonstrate how the GDP-growth obsession is skewing policy-making towards measures […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Rapid Gender Analysis and its use in crises: from zero to fifty in five years

11/07/2019

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Rapid Gender Analysis and its use in crises: from zero to fifty in five years

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how and why the international non-government organisation, CARE, developed its own system of gender analysis, Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA), during the humanitarian response in Syria. The article tracks and reviews a sample of the first 50 CARE RGA reports to share recurrent gender themes that emerge across them, including the lack of […]

Education resource

Birthrights – Maternal Health in Ghana: Resources for ages 11-14

01/01/2015

3 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Explore the relationships between healthcare and inequality. World leaders have promised to both reduce inequality and ensure healthy lives for everyone. But what is the link between these issues? Find out more about the Sustainable Development Goals and explore the day in the life of Cecilia, a midwife in Ghana. Learn about the experiences of […]

Journal article

Unintended complicities: preventing violence against women in South Africa

20/07/2016

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Unintended complicities: preventing violence against women in South Africa

Keywords

Overview

This article considers how the prevention of violence against women and girls (VAWG) is inadvertently being caught up in broader economic policies aimed at the cut-back of services, with the basis for this argument provided by a detailed case study of funding to organisations providing post-rape care services in South Africa. To contextualise current circumstances, […]

Journal article

Following the law, but losing the spirit of child protection in Kenya

01/06/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper explores how an ostensibly child-centred system can fail to protect children. In some policy arenas, the Kenyan state is recognised as a leader in Africa for the care and protection of children at risk. Yet a case study of children’s experiences illuminates how, despite adherence to a legislated framework and series of protocols, […]

Journal article

Public Spaces, Street Art, and the Challenges of Feminist Ecological Citizenship in Chile

19/09/2024

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Public Spaces, Street Art, and the Challenges of Feminist Ecological Citizenship in Chile

Keywords

Overview

While considerable literature examines the intersection between feminism and ecology, as well as the intersection between feminism and urbanism, few studies address the intersection between feminism and ecology by looking at aesthetic activism in the city. This essay explores the synergies and potential connections between the idea of body/territory and feminist ecological citizenship through the […]

Journal article

Sexual-health communication across and within cultures: the Clown Project, Guatemala

01/06/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The synergies created through the careful application of both organic and symbolic communication demonstrably reach those most vulnerable to the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS. The Clown Project uses labour-intensive face-to-face street theatre and dialogue, participatory workshops, and symbolic communication such as print-based materials. Some lessons learned in selected communities in Guatemala and […]

Case study

ECB Project Case Study: NGOs traditionally compete for funds; what happens when they join forces to raise money together?

30/09/2011

3 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

In 2008, following a first phase of the Emergency Capacity Building Project, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation accepted a proposal from CARE International, Catholic Relief Services, Mercy Corps, Oxfam, Save the Children, and World Vision International worth $12.3 million for a further five year joint programme. Stepping outside their traditional grant making strategy to […]

Briefing note

Arms Transfer Decisions: Considering development

27/06/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of armed violence around the world is well known. Conflict and armed violence close schools, paralyse neighbourhoods, burden health-care services, discourage investment, and make lives less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public services such as education and health-care, and when such spending takes place without […]

Briefing paper

Universal Health Coverage: Why health insurance schemes are leaving the poor behind

09/10/2013

8 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Japanese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Universal Health Coverage is about the right to health. Everyone – rich or poor – should get the health care they need without suffering financial hardship. Unfortunately, some donors and developing country governments are promoting health insurance schemes that exclude the majority of people and l may also reinforce inequality – by prioritizing people who […]

Discussion paper

Beyond GDP: A compendium of regional feminist perspectives

10/12/2024

4 documents

38 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

In this publication, leading feminist thinkers from Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, share perspectives on why we must move beyond gross domestic product (GDP) as the primary measure of societal progress. Drawing on regional examples, they demonstrate how the GDP-growth obsession is skewing policy-making towards measures […]