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Early marriage and poverty: exploring links and key policy issues

01/07/2003

10 pages long

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Early marriage and poverty: exploring links and key policy issues

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This article explores the connections between poverty and the early marriage of girls. These links are rarely acknowledged in development research, policy and practice, despite the fact that in parts of sub- Saharan Africa, where women form the majority of the poor, it is estimated that over 60 per cent of girls under 19 are […]

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TRIPS and biodiversity: a gender perspective

01/07/2004

8 pages long

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TRIPS and biodiversity: a gender perspective

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Gene Campaign is a movement involving organisations across Asia, working towards food and livelihood security for rural and tribal communities. It is deeply concerned about the negative impacts of privatisation on genetic resources through patenting and intellectual property rights. Biological resources are the mainstay of the livelihoods and local economies of communities in developing countries. […]

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Sustaining peace, re-building livelihoods: the Gujarat harmony project

01/11/2004

9 pages long

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Sustaining peace, re-building livelihoods: the Gujarat harmony project

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In February 2002, a burning train carriage set off some of the worst communal riots in the prosperous state of Gujarat that post-Independence India has ever witnessed. Civil society remained largely silent, partly out of fear, and institutional response was limited. This paper describes how the Gujarat Harmony Project is attempting to reconcile Hindu and […]

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Advocacy training by the international community of women living with HIV/AIDS

01/11/2005

10 pages long

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Advocacy training by the international community of women living with HIV/AIDS

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The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS joined forces with the POLICY project with the aim of developing an advocacy agenda on sexual and reproductive health rights, and access to care, treatment, and support for women living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Swaziland. The process began with an assessment of the concerns and […]

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A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa

01/03/2006

12 pages long

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A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa

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HIV/AIDS can no longer be viewed as a pandemic. It is in fact emerging as multiple epidemics. These epidemics vary from country to country, region to region and continent to continent. As a body of knowledge develops on HIV/AIDS and responses to it in sub-Saharan Africa, care is necessary when considering the experience of HIV/AIDS […]

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Gender-based violence against children in emergencies: Save the Children UK’s response

01/03/2007

13 pages long

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Gender-based violence against children in emergencies: Save the Children UK’s response

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Violence against children is a global phenomenon. During humanitarian crises, and armed conflict in particular, the potential for gender-based violence (GBV), including sexual exploitation, increases. Children, particularly adolescent girls, are vulnerable. This article traces the impact of an exposé of sexual abuse by humanitarian workers on the wider protection policies and practices of Save the […]

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Experiences of abortion in Nepal and menstrual regulation in Bangladesh: a gender analysis

01/07/2008

15 pages long

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Experiences of abortion in Nepal and menstrual regulation in Bangladesh: a gender analysis

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The extent to which abortion and menstrual regulation services are safe, legal, and women-friendly is a strong proxy of gender equity. This article draws on women’s voices from Nepal and Bangladesh to illustrate that even where services are provided legally, women can still face multiple barriers to access to services, and problematic quality of care. […]

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Embracing the rights of people in prostitution and sex workers to address HIV and AIDS effectively

01/07/2008

13 pages long

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Embracing the rights of people in prostitution and sex workers to address HIV and AIDS effectively

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As the world’s HIV crisis grows, strategies continue to focus on containing the pandemic within high-risk populations. Is there a more effective way of engaging and approaching marginalised populations to help combat the global pandemic than the strategies pursued to date? If so, what would such an approach look like? This article will analyse the […]

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The Health Status of Cambodia’s Elderly in a Context of Gendered Violence

01/11/2009

13 pages long

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The Health Status of Cambodia’s Elderly in a Context of Gendered Violence

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This article uses Cambodia’s 2005 Demographic and Health Survey to explore differences in health status and health care access among elderly women and men, in the historical context of gendered violence during the Khmer Rouge regime. Results point to small disadvantages for women in becoming sick and seeking treatment, which are explained by their relatively […]

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Transforming gender in homestead food production

03/11/2010

14 pages long

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Transforming gender in homestead food production

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In Bangladesh, Helen Keller International (HKI) is known for its homestead food production (HFP) programme, which promotes small-scale agriculture among women, specifically to improve women’s and children’s nutrition outcomes, including dietary diversity and knowledge of maternal self-care and infant-young child feeding practices. To achieve these aims, the programme focuses on women’s empowerment. This article presents […]

Showing 436 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Early marriage and poverty: exploring links and key policy issues

01/07/2003

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Early marriage and poverty: exploring links and key policy issues

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the connections between poverty and the early marriage of girls. These links are rarely acknowledged in development research, policy and practice, despite the fact that in parts of sub- Saharan Africa, where women form the majority of the poor, it is estimated that over 60 per cent of girls under 19 are […]

Journal article

TRIPS and biodiversity: a gender perspective

01/07/2004

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

TRIPS and biodiversity: a gender perspective

Keywords

Overview

Gene Campaign is a movement involving organisations across Asia, working towards food and livelihood security for rural and tribal communities. It is deeply concerned about the negative impacts of privatisation on genetic resources through patenting and intellectual property rights. Biological resources are the mainstay of the livelihoods and local economies of communities in developing countries. […]

Journal article

Sustaining peace, re-building livelihoods: the Gujarat harmony project

01/11/2004

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Sustaining peace, re-building livelihoods: the Gujarat harmony project

Keywords

Overview

In February 2002, a burning train carriage set off some of the worst communal riots in the prosperous state of Gujarat that post-Independence India has ever witnessed. Civil society remained largely silent, partly out of fear, and institutional response was limited. This paper describes how the Gujarat Harmony Project is attempting to reconcile Hindu and […]

Journal article

Advocacy training by the international community of women living with HIV/AIDS

01/11/2005

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Advocacy training by the international community of women living with HIV/AIDS

Keywords

Overview

The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS joined forces with the POLICY project with the aim of developing an advocacy agenda on sexual and reproductive health rights, and access to care, treatment, and support for women living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Swaziland. The process began with an assessment of the concerns and […]

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A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa

01/03/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa

Keywords

Overview

HIV/AIDS can no longer be viewed as a pandemic. It is in fact emerging as multiple epidemics. These epidemics vary from country to country, region to region and continent to continent. As a body of knowledge develops on HIV/AIDS and responses to it in sub-Saharan Africa, care is necessary when considering the experience of HIV/AIDS […]

Journal article

Gender-based violence against children in emergencies: Save the Children UK’s response

01/03/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender-based violence against children in emergencies: Save the Children UK’s response

Keywords

Overview

Violence against children is a global phenomenon. During humanitarian crises, and armed conflict in particular, the potential for gender-based violence (GBV), including sexual exploitation, increases. Children, particularly adolescent girls, are vulnerable. This article traces the impact of an exposé of sexual abuse by humanitarian workers on the wider protection policies and practices of Save the […]

Journal article

Experiences of abortion in Nepal and menstrual regulation in Bangladesh: a gender analysis

01/07/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Experiences of abortion in Nepal and menstrual regulation in Bangladesh: a gender analysis

Keywords

Overview

The extent to which abortion and menstrual regulation services are safe, legal, and women-friendly is a strong proxy of gender equity. This article draws on women’s voices from Nepal and Bangladesh to illustrate that even where services are provided legally, women can still face multiple barriers to access to services, and problematic quality of care. […]

Journal article

Embracing the rights of people in prostitution and sex workers to address HIV and AIDS effectively

01/07/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Embracing the rights of people in prostitution and sex workers to address HIV and AIDS effectively

Keywords

Overview

As the world’s HIV crisis grows, strategies continue to focus on containing the pandemic within high-risk populations. Is there a more effective way of engaging and approaching marginalised populations to help combat the global pandemic than the strategies pursued to date? If so, what would such an approach look like? This article will analyse the […]

Journal article

The Health Status of Cambodia’s Elderly in a Context of Gendered Violence

01/11/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Health Status of Cambodia’s Elderly in a Context of Gendered Violence

Keywords

Overview

This article uses Cambodia’s 2005 Demographic and Health Survey to explore differences in health status and health care access among elderly women and men, in the historical context of gendered violence during the Khmer Rouge regime. Results point to small disadvantages for women in becoming sick and seeking treatment, which are explained by their relatively […]

Journal article

Transforming gender in homestead food production

03/11/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transforming gender in homestead food production

Keywords

Overview

In Bangladesh, Helen Keller International (HKI) is known for its homestead food production (HFP) programme, which promotes small-scale agriculture among women, specifically to improve women’s and children’s nutrition outcomes, including dietary diversity and knowledge of maternal self-care and infant-young child feeding practices. To achieve these aims, the programme focuses on women’s empowerment. This article presents […]

Showing 436 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Early marriage and poverty: exploring links and key policy issues

01/07/2003

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Early marriage and poverty: exploring links and key policy issues

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the connections between poverty and the early marriage of girls. These links are rarely acknowledged in development research, policy and practice, despite the fact that in parts of sub- Saharan Africa, where women form the majority of the poor, it is estimated that over 60 per cent of girls under 19 are […]

Journal article

TRIPS and biodiversity: a gender perspective

01/07/2004

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

TRIPS and biodiversity: a gender perspective

Keywords

Overview

Gene Campaign is a movement involving organisations across Asia, working towards food and livelihood security for rural and tribal communities. It is deeply concerned about the negative impacts of privatisation on genetic resources through patenting and intellectual property rights. Biological resources are the mainstay of the livelihoods and local economies of communities in developing countries. […]

Journal article

Sustaining peace, re-building livelihoods: the Gujarat harmony project

01/11/2004

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Sustaining peace, re-building livelihoods: the Gujarat harmony project

Keywords

Overview

In February 2002, a burning train carriage set off some of the worst communal riots in the prosperous state of Gujarat that post-Independence India has ever witnessed. Civil society remained largely silent, partly out of fear, and institutional response was limited. This paper describes how the Gujarat Harmony Project is attempting to reconcile Hindu and […]

Journal article

Advocacy training by the international community of women living with HIV/AIDS

01/11/2005

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Advocacy training by the international community of women living with HIV/AIDS

Keywords

Overview

The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS joined forces with the POLICY project with the aim of developing an advocacy agenda on sexual and reproductive health rights, and access to care, treatment, and support for women living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Swaziland. The process began with an assessment of the concerns and […]

Journal article

A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa

01/03/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa

Keywords

Overview

HIV/AIDS can no longer be viewed as a pandemic. It is in fact emerging as multiple epidemics. These epidemics vary from country to country, region to region and continent to continent. As a body of knowledge develops on HIV/AIDS and responses to it in sub-Saharan Africa, care is necessary when considering the experience of HIV/AIDS […]

Journal article

Gender-based violence against children in emergencies: Save the Children UK’s response

01/03/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender-based violence against children in emergencies: Save the Children UK’s response

Keywords

Overview

Violence against children is a global phenomenon. During humanitarian crises, and armed conflict in particular, the potential for gender-based violence (GBV), including sexual exploitation, increases. Children, particularly adolescent girls, are vulnerable. This article traces the impact of an exposé of sexual abuse by humanitarian workers on the wider protection policies and practices of Save the […]

Journal article

Experiences of abortion in Nepal and menstrual regulation in Bangladesh: a gender analysis

01/07/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Experiences of abortion in Nepal and menstrual regulation in Bangladesh: a gender analysis

Keywords

Overview

The extent to which abortion and menstrual regulation services are safe, legal, and women-friendly is a strong proxy of gender equity. This article draws on women’s voices from Nepal and Bangladesh to illustrate that even where services are provided legally, women can still face multiple barriers to access to services, and problematic quality of care. […]

Journal article

Embracing the rights of people in prostitution and sex workers to address HIV and AIDS effectively

01/07/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Embracing the rights of people in prostitution and sex workers to address HIV and AIDS effectively

Keywords

Overview

As the world’s HIV crisis grows, strategies continue to focus on containing the pandemic within high-risk populations. Is there a more effective way of engaging and approaching marginalised populations to help combat the global pandemic than the strategies pursued to date? If so, what would such an approach look like? This article will analyse the […]

Journal article

The Health Status of Cambodia’s Elderly in a Context of Gendered Violence

01/11/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Health Status of Cambodia’s Elderly in a Context of Gendered Violence

Keywords

Overview

This article uses Cambodia’s 2005 Demographic and Health Survey to explore differences in health status and health care access among elderly women and men, in the historical context of gendered violence during the Khmer Rouge regime. Results point to small disadvantages for women in becoming sick and seeking treatment, which are explained by their relatively […]

Journal article

Transforming gender in homestead food production

03/11/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transforming gender in homestead food production

Keywords

Overview

In Bangladesh, Helen Keller International (HKI) is known for its homestead food production (HFP) programme, which promotes small-scale agriculture among women, specifically to improve women’s and children’s nutrition outcomes, including dietary diversity and knowledge of maternal self-care and infant-young child feeding practices. To achieve these aims, the programme focuses on women’s empowerment. This article presents […]