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Book

Women and the Family

01/01/1996

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Maternal and child health

Overview

Looking at factors as diverse as the pervasiveness of patriarchy, changing family forms, female infanticide, and land reform policies, this collection of articles considers the family from a gender perspective, and how the socially prescribed roles of men and women within the family can constrain women’s opportunities. Women are usually responsible for domestic tasks and […]

Briefing paper

Held to Account: Putting democratic governance at the heart of development finance

31/10/2013

6 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Unaccountable government is a substantial obstacle to development. It prevents people from exercising their rights and accessing health care, education and the other essential services they need in order to work their way out of poverty. At best, poor governance leads to mismanagement of public funds; at worst to outright corruption. The experiences of Sierra […]

Research report

What Works for Women: Proven approaches for empowering women smallholders and achieving food security

15/03/2012

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The question of ‘what changes do we need to empower women smallholders and achieve food security?’ has been asked repeatedly. But transformational changes in both public policy and practice have been few and far between, although increasing access to resources and opportunities for women farmers could substantially reduce the number of hungry people in the […]

Briefing paper

Debt Relief for Rwanda: An opportunity for peacebuilding and reconstruction

01/03/1999

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Rwanda stands at a critical point in its history. The country’s people are seeking to rebuild a society shattered by war and a genocide in which one in eight Rwandans – Tutsi and Hutu opponents of the government’s extremist policies – was killed, and which further led to the outflow of over one and a […]

Book

Renewing Our Voice: Code of good practice for NGO’s responding to HIV and AIDS

01/12/2004

4 documents

110 pages long

Languages: English, French, Russian, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Over the last twenty years, there has been a considerable increase in the number and range of NGOs involved in responding to the multiple challenges presented by HIV and AIDS: NGOs undertaking HIV and AIDS work; NGOs integrating HIV and AIDS-specific interventions within other health programming; and NGOs mainstreaming HIV and AIDS within development, human […]

Briefing paper

Taxing for a More Equal Kenya: A five-point action plan to tackle inequality

06/12/2017

1 documents

78 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Extreme inequality is out of control in Kenya. Less than 0.1% of the population (8,300 people) own more wealth than the bottom 99.9% (more than 44 million people). Tackling inequality could help to lift millions out of poverty, secure sustainable economic growth and bring the country together. Inequality is not inevitable and the government can […]

Journal article

‘Why would I want to be anonymous?’ Questioning ethical principles of anonymity in cross-cultural feminist research

05/11/2019

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Why would I want to be anonymous?’ Questioning ethical principles of anonymity in cross-cultural feminist research

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on anonymity in research, considering it in relation to feminist values. There has been increasing debate in the feminist literature on the universality of ethics, including reflection on principles such as anonymity. However, there has been limited discussion of the specific challenge facing feminist researchers to amplify the voices of women participants, […]

Briefing paper

Taxing for Shared Prosperity: Policy options for the Asia-Pacific region

08/12/2017

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Asia-Pacific region was a model for ‘growing with equity’ in the 1970s and 1980s. Rapid economic growth was achieved without major increases in inequality. However an economic take-off and market-oriented reforms in recent years, despite helping hundreds of millions to be lifted out of extreme poverty, has been accompanied by growing income and wealth […]

Book

Gender in the 21st Century

01/01/2000

1 documents

121 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

From the perspectives of development specialists and feminist activists, this book considers the challenges facing gender and development practitioners and policy-makers in the twenty first century. Despite some successes, women in many countries remain in abject poverty, lacking food, clean water, education, and medical care. Women throughout the world are still economically, politically and socially […]

Case study

Bringing Clean Energy and Co-Benefits to Remote Communities in Tajikistan and Afghanistan

03/02/2021

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study shows how clean, affordable and reliable electricity can be provided to thousands of people even in the poorest, most remote and difficult terrains. It illustrates how this simultaneously reduces energy poverty and carbon emissions while generating multiple co-benefits, including increased incomes, improved food security and community well-being, reduced deforestation, improved health from […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Book

Women and the Family

01/01/1996

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Maternal and child health

Overview

Looking at factors as diverse as the pervasiveness of patriarchy, changing family forms, female infanticide, and land reform policies, this collection of articles considers the family from a gender perspective, and how the socially prescribed roles of men and women within the family can constrain women’s opportunities. Women are usually responsible for domestic tasks and […]

Briefing paper

Held to Account: Putting democratic governance at the heart of development finance

31/10/2013

6 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Unaccountable government is a substantial obstacle to development. It prevents people from exercising their rights and accessing health care, education and the other essential services they need in order to work their way out of poverty. At best, poor governance leads to mismanagement of public funds; at worst to outright corruption. The experiences of Sierra […]

Research report

What Works for Women: Proven approaches for empowering women smallholders and achieving food security

15/03/2012

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The question of ‘what changes do we need to empower women smallholders and achieve food security?’ has been asked repeatedly. But transformational changes in both public policy and practice have been few and far between, although increasing access to resources and opportunities for women farmers could substantially reduce the number of hungry people in the […]

Briefing paper

Debt Relief for Rwanda: An opportunity for peacebuilding and reconstruction

01/03/1999

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Rwanda stands at a critical point in its history. The country’s people are seeking to rebuild a society shattered by war and a genocide in which one in eight Rwandans – Tutsi and Hutu opponents of the government’s extremist policies – was killed, and which further led to the outflow of over one and a […]

Book

Renewing Our Voice: Code of good practice for NGO’s responding to HIV and AIDS

01/12/2004

4 documents

110 pages long

Languages: English, French, Russian, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Over the last twenty years, there has been a considerable increase in the number and range of NGOs involved in responding to the multiple challenges presented by HIV and AIDS: NGOs undertaking HIV and AIDS work; NGOs integrating HIV and AIDS-specific interventions within other health programming; and NGOs mainstreaming HIV and AIDS within development, human […]

Briefing paper

Taxing for a More Equal Kenya: A five-point action plan to tackle inequality

06/12/2017

1 documents

78 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Extreme inequality is out of control in Kenya. Less than 0.1% of the population (8,300 people) own more wealth than the bottom 99.9% (more than 44 million people). Tackling inequality could help to lift millions out of poverty, secure sustainable economic growth and bring the country together. Inequality is not inevitable and the government can […]

Journal article

‘Why would I want to be anonymous?’ Questioning ethical principles of anonymity in cross-cultural feminist research

05/11/2019

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Why would I want to be anonymous?’ Questioning ethical principles of anonymity in cross-cultural feminist research

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on anonymity in research, considering it in relation to feminist values. There has been increasing debate in the feminist literature on the universality of ethics, including reflection on principles such as anonymity. However, there has been limited discussion of the specific challenge facing feminist researchers to amplify the voices of women participants, […]

Briefing paper

Taxing for Shared Prosperity: Policy options for the Asia-Pacific region

08/12/2017

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Asia-Pacific region was a model for ‘growing with equity’ in the 1970s and 1980s. Rapid economic growth was achieved without major increases in inequality. However an economic take-off and market-oriented reforms in recent years, despite helping hundreds of millions to be lifted out of extreme poverty, has been accompanied by growing income and wealth […]

Book

Gender in the 21st Century

01/01/2000

1 documents

121 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

From the perspectives of development specialists and feminist activists, this book considers the challenges facing gender and development practitioners and policy-makers in the twenty first century. Despite some successes, women in many countries remain in abject poverty, lacking food, clean water, education, and medical care. Women throughout the world are still economically, politically and socially […]

Case study

Bringing Clean Energy and Co-Benefits to Remote Communities in Tajikistan and Afghanistan

03/02/2021

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study shows how clean, affordable and reliable electricity can be provided to thousands of people even in the poorest, most remote and difficult terrains. It illustrates how this simultaneously reduces energy poverty and carbon emissions while generating multiple co-benefits, including increased incomes, improved food security and community well-being, reduced deforestation, improved health from […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Book

Women and the Family

01/01/1996

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Maternal and child health

Overview

Looking at factors as diverse as the pervasiveness of patriarchy, changing family forms, female infanticide, and land reform policies, this collection of articles considers the family from a gender perspective, and how the socially prescribed roles of men and women within the family can constrain women’s opportunities. Women are usually responsible for domestic tasks and […]

Briefing paper

Held to Account: Putting democratic governance at the heart of development finance

31/10/2013

6 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Unaccountable government is a substantial obstacle to development. It prevents people from exercising their rights and accessing health care, education and the other essential services they need in order to work their way out of poverty. At best, poor governance leads to mismanagement of public funds; at worst to outright corruption. The experiences of Sierra […]

Research report

What Works for Women: Proven approaches for empowering women smallholders and achieving food security

15/03/2012

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The question of ‘what changes do we need to empower women smallholders and achieve food security?’ has been asked repeatedly. But transformational changes in both public policy and practice have been few and far between, although increasing access to resources and opportunities for women farmers could substantially reduce the number of hungry people in the […]

Briefing paper

Debt Relief for Rwanda: An opportunity for peacebuilding and reconstruction

01/03/1999

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Rwanda stands at a critical point in its history. The country’s people are seeking to rebuild a society shattered by war and a genocide in which one in eight Rwandans – Tutsi and Hutu opponents of the government’s extremist policies – was killed, and which further led to the outflow of over one and a […]

Book

Renewing Our Voice: Code of good practice for NGO’s responding to HIV and AIDS

01/12/2004

4 documents

110 pages long

Languages: English, French, Russian, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Over the last twenty years, there has been a considerable increase in the number and range of NGOs involved in responding to the multiple challenges presented by HIV and AIDS: NGOs undertaking HIV and AIDS work; NGOs integrating HIV and AIDS-specific interventions within other health programming; and NGOs mainstreaming HIV and AIDS within development, human […]

Briefing paper

Taxing for a More Equal Kenya: A five-point action plan to tackle inequality

06/12/2017

1 documents

78 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Extreme inequality is out of control in Kenya. Less than 0.1% of the population (8,300 people) own more wealth than the bottom 99.9% (more than 44 million people). Tackling inequality could help to lift millions out of poverty, secure sustainable economic growth and bring the country together. Inequality is not inevitable and the government can […]

Journal article

‘Why would I want to be anonymous?’ Questioning ethical principles of anonymity in cross-cultural feminist research

05/11/2019

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Why would I want to be anonymous?’ Questioning ethical principles of anonymity in cross-cultural feminist research

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on anonymity in research, considering it in relation to feminist values. There has been increasing debate in the feminist literature on the universality of ethics, including reflection on principles such as anonymity. However, there has been limited discussion of the specific challenge facing feminist researchers to amplify the voices of women participants, […]

Briefing paper

Taxing for Shared Prosperity: Policy options for the Asia-Pacific region

08/12/2017

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Asia-Pacific region was a model for ‘growing with equity’ in the 1970s and 1980s. Rapid economic growth was achieved without major increases in inequality. However an economic take-off and market-oriented reforms in recent years, despite helping hundreds of millions to be lifted out of extreme poverty, has been accompanied by growing income and wealth […]

Book

Gender in the 21st Century

01/01/2000

1 documents

121 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

From the perspectives of development specialists and feminist activists, this book considers the challenges facing gender and development practitioners and policy-makers in the twenty first century. Despite some successes, women in many countries remain in abject poverty, lacking food, clean water, education, and medical care. Women throughout the world are still economically, politically and socially […]

Case study

Bringing Clean Energy and Co-Benefits to Remote Communities in Tajikistan and Afghanistan

03/02/2021

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study shows how clean, affordable and reliable electricity can be provided to thousands of people even in the poorest, most remote and difficult terrains. It illustrates how this simultaneously reduces energy poverty and carbon emissions while generating multiple co-benefits, including increased incomes, improved food security and community well-being, reduced deforestation, improved health from […]