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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, […]

Discussion paper

Macroeconomic Policy and Women’s Economic Empowerment

01/09/2017

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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At its core, the economic empowerment of women – to succeed and advance economically and to make and act on economic decisions – depends on the quantity and quality of paid employment, the provision or absence of public services, the amount of unpaid care work borne by women, as well as coverage or lack thereof […]

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 […]

Research report

Rohingya Refugee Response Gender Analysis: Recognizing and responding to gender inequalities

01/08/2018

1 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Since August 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar for camps in the Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh. The research for this report was conducted to identify the needs, vulnerabilities, risks and concerns of Rohingya refugee and host community women, girls, men and boys in Cox's Bazar, as well as the skills […]

Education resource

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

01/01/2015

3 documents

Languages: English

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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 […]

Education resource

More or Less Equal? Geography resources for ages 11-16

11/01/2016

25 documents

Languages: English, Welsh

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Bring your geography lessons to life by exploring how inequality and poverty affect the lives of young people in different parts of the world, including the UK. Created in partnership with Young Lives and with the support of subject associations, More or Less Equal? has separate sessions in Geography, Maths and English which can be […]

Research report

Counting on Women’s Work Without Counting Women’s Work: Women’s unpaid work in Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt

31/05/2019

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

In the MENA region, care is considered the main responsibility of women, and prioritized over their participation in the labour market. This report is based on an extensive review of existing literature on paid labour, gender-based division of household tasks, unpaid non-economic labour and economic labour, as well as the different contexts within which these […]

Journal article

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 […]

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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

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 […]

Showing 436 matching results from Policy & Practice

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, […]

Discussion paper

Macroeconomic Policy and Women’s Economic Empowerment

01/09/2017

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

At its core, the economic empowerment of women – to succeed and advance economically and to make and act on economic decisions – depends on the quantity and quality of paid employment, the provision or absence of public services, the amount of unpaid care work borne by women, as well as coverage or lack thereof […]

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 […]

Research report

Rohingya Refugee Response Gender Analysis: Recognizing and responding to gender inequalities

01/08/2018

1 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Since August 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar for camps in the Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh. The research for this report was conducted to identify the needs, vulnerabilities, risks and concerns of Rohingya refugee and host community women, girls, men and boys in Cox's Bazar, as well as the skills […]

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 […]

Education resource

More or Less Equal? Geography resources for ages 11-16

11/01/2016

25 documents

Languages: English, Welsh

Keywords

Overview

Bring your geography lessons to life by exploring how inequality and poverty affect the lives of young people in different parts of the world, including the UK. Created in partnership with Young Lives and with the support of subject associations, More or Less Equal? has separate sessions in Geography, Maths and English which can be […]

Research report

Counting on Women’s Work Without Counting Women’s Work: Women’s unpaid work in Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt

31/05/2019

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the MENA region, care is considered the main responsibility of women, and prioritized over their participation in the labour market. This report is based on an extensive review of existing literature on paid labour, gender-based division of household tasks, unpaid non-economic labour and economic labour, as well as the different contexts within which these […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

Showing 436 matching results from Policy & Practice

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, […]

Discussion paper

Macroeconomic Policy and Women’s Economic Empowerment

01/09/2017

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

At its core, the economic empowerment of women – to succeed and advance economically and to make and act on economic decisions – depends on the quantity and quality of paid employment, the provision or absence of public services, the amount of unpaid care work borne by women, as well as coverage or lack thereof […]

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 […]

Research report

Rohingya Refugee Response Gender Analysis: Recognizing and responding to gender inequalities

01/08/2018

1 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Since August 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar for camps in the Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh. The research for this report was conducted to identify the needs, vulnerabilities, risks and concerns of Rohingya refugee and host community women, girls, men and boys in Cox's Bazar, as well as the skills […]

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 […]

Education resource

More or Less Equal? Geography resources for ages 11-16

11/01/2016

25 documents

Languages: English, Welsh

Keywords

Overview

Bring your geography lessons to life by exploring how inequality and poverty affect the lives of young people in different parts of the world, including the UK. Created in partnership with Young Lives and with the support of subject associations, More or Less Equal? has separate sessions in Geography, Maths and English which can be […]

Research report

Counting on Women’s Work Without Counting Women’s Work: Women’s unpaid work in Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt

31/05/2019

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the MENA region, care is considered the main responsibility of women, and prioritized over their participation in the labour market. This report is based on an extensive review of existing literature on paid labour, gender-based division of household tasks, unpaid non-economic labour and economic labour, as well as the different contexts within which these […]

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 […]

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

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 […]