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Journal article

Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

23/03/2021

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

Keywords

Overview

Health significantly supports human development, which is particularly critical in countries affected by armed conflict. Health and health care are equally important for women hoping to be effective agents of change in their post-war societies. Through a grounded case study conducted in the district of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 2017, we aimed to understand the […]

Discussion paper

Care & the Platform Economy in the UK: A Mapping Exercise

03/07/2025

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the UK and globally, in-home domestic childcare and adult care services are increasingly being provided via digital platforms, with significant implications for in-home/domestic care workers. This paper maps what we already know about this phenomenon and identifies knowledge gaps that could be filled through focused research in support of influencing initiatives aimed at improving […]

Journal article

Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

10/11/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

Keywords

Overview

This article draws on Promundo and RWAMREC’s programmatic experiences in Rwanda of implementing MenCare+, a gender transformative approach to engaging young and adult men (ages 15–35) in caregiving, maternal, newborn, and child health, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. We present initial results from fathers’ groups with more than 600 men, including the impact of participation in […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Participatory Methodology: Rapid Care Analysis

15/11/2016

8 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Rapid Care Analysis is a rapid assessment tool to improve the design of a wider programme through gathering evidence to promote the recognition of care work and the identification of practical interventions. A key aim is to reduce the time or labour required for daily housework and caring for people, and thus increase women’s: […]

Journal article

Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers

07/12/2022

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers

Keywords

Overview

The platform economy is conquering the domestic work and home care sector in countries of the global North as a response to the scarcity of affordable quality care services. Based on in-depth interviews with workers, firms and stakeholders, the objective of our study is to unravel the new mechanisms of exploitation and invisibility of this […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Redistributing Care Work for Gender Equality and Justice: A training curriculum

15/06/2015

1 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

People contribute to the economy through their work in many different ways. Women and men contribute to the productive economy by producing goods and services that people use every day. It is this work that is counted and measured by governments. Yet the work of social reproduction ‘ which refers to the activities needed to […]

Guidelines and toolkits

How to Talk about Care in the UK: A framing toolkit

30/05/2023

6 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

Keywords

Overview

Across the UK, many people providing paid and unpaid care – including parents and guardians of children, paid care workers, and unpaid carers – experience poverty, and great physical and emotional pressures. This is because the care they provide remains largely taken for granted and is not properly supported by governments and wider society. In […]

Briefing paper

Your Money or Your Life: Will leaders act now to save lives and make healthcare free in poor countries?

14/09/2009

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Health systems

Overview

User fees for health care are a life or death issue for millions of people in poor countries. Too poor to pay, women and children are paying with their lives. People who can’t pay are often imprisoned in hospitals until their families can clear their bills. For those who do pay, over 100 million are […]

Journal article

How is eye care seeking affected by intersectional experiences? A study of ageing women in the Indian Sundarbans

23/03/2021

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

How is eye care seeking affected by intersectional experiences? A study of ageing women in the Indian Sundarbans

Keywords

Overview

Old age often marks a period of changed socioeconomic position and physical infirmity. Older adults make up a large and complex population sub-group where several identities and characteristics coalesce to create intersectional experiences. Visual impairment can be prevented or cured to a large extent. Globally, women’s access to eye care is lower than that for […]

Briefing note

Achieving Healthcare for All in India

04/12/2012

2 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The current debate around Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in India is playing for high stakes. This paper reviews the main issues covered in the debate and considers whether the Government should take a proactive role in ensuring access to healthcare for all, or support the flawed status quo. The debate has polarised positions on a […]

Showing 437 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

23/03/2021

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

Keywords

Overview

Health significantly supports human development, which is particularly critical in countries affected by armed conflict. Health and health care are equally important for women hoping to be effective agents of change in their post-war societies. Through a grounded case study conducted in the district of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 2017, we aimed to understand the […]

Discussion paper

Care & the Platform Economy in the UK: A Mapping Exercise

03/07/2025

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the UK and globally, in-home domestic childcare and adult care services are increasingly being provided via digital platforms, with significant implications for in-home/domestic care workers. This paper maps what we already know about this phenomenon and identifies knowledge gaps that could be filled through focused research in support of influencing initiatives aimed at improving […]

Journal article

Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

10/11/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

Keywords

Overview

This article draws on Promundo and RWAMREC’s programmatic experiences in Rwanda of implementing MenCare+, a gender transformative approach to engaging young and adult men (ages 15–35) in caregiving, maternal, newborn, and child health, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. We present initial results from fathers’ groups with more than 600 men, including the impact of participation in […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Participatory Methodology: Rapid Care Analysis

15/11/2016

8 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Rapid Care Analysis is a rapid assessment tool to improve the design of a wider programme through gathering evidence to promote the recognition of care work and the identification of practical interventions. A key aim is to reduce the time or labour required for daily housework and caring for people, and thus increase women’s: […]

Journal article

Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers

07/12/2022

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers

Keywords

Overview

The platform economy is conquering the domestic work and home care sector in countries of the global North as a response to the scarcity of affordable quality care services. Based on in-depth interviews with workers, firms and stakeholders, the objective of our study is to unravel the new mechanisms of exploitation and invisibility of this […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Redistributing Care Work for Gender Equality and Justice: A training curriculum

15/06/2015

1 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

People contribute to the economy through their work in many different ways. Women and men contribute to the productive economy by producing goods and services that people use every day. It is this work that is counted and measured by governments. Yet the work of social reproduction ‘ which refers to the activities needed to […]

Guidelines and toolkits

How to Talk about Care in the UK: A framing toolkit

30/05/2023

6 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

Keywords

Overview

Across the UK, many people providing paid and unpaid care – including parents and guardians of children, paid care workers, and unpaid carers – experience poverty, and great physical and emotional pressures. This is because the care they provide remains largely taken for granted and is not properly supported by governments and wider society. In […]

Briefing paper

Your Money or Your Life: Will leaders act now to save lives and make healthcare free in poor countries?

14/09/2009

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Health systems

Overview

User fees for health care are a life or death issue for millions of people in poor countries. Too poor to pay, women and children are paying with their lives. People who can’t pay are often imprisoned in hospitals until their families can clear their bills. For those who do pay, over 100 million are […]

Journal article

How is eye care seeking affected by intersectional experiences? A study of ageing women in the Indian Sundarbans

23/03/2021

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

How is eye care seeking affected by intersectional experiences? A study of ageing women in the Indian Sundarbans

Keywords

Overview

Old age often marks a period of changed socioeconomic position and physical infirmity. Older adults make up a large and complex population sub-group where several identities and characteristics coalesce to create intersectional experiences. Visual impairment can be prevented or cured to a large extent. Globally, women’s access to eye care is lower than that for […]

Briefing note

Achieving Healthcare for All in India

04/12/2012

2 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The current debate around Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in India is playing for high stakes. This paper reviews the main issues covered in the debate and considers whether the Government should take a proactive role in ensuring access to healthcare for all, or support the flawed status quo. The debate has polarised positions on a […]

Showing 437 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

23/03/2021

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

Keywords

Overview

Health significantly supports human development, which is particularly critical in countries affected by armed conflict. Health and health care are equally important for women hoping to be effective agents of change in their post-war societies. Through a grounded case study conducted in the district of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 2017, we aimed to understand the […]

Discussion paper

Care & the Platform Economy in the UK: A Mapping Exercise

03/07/2025

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the UK and globally, in-home domestic childcare and adult care services are increasingly being provided via digital platforms, with significant implications for in-home/domestic care workers. This paper maps what we already know about this phenomenon and identifies knowledge gaps that could be filled through focused research in support of influencing initiatives aimed at improving […]

Journal article

Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

10/11/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

Keywords

Overview

This article draws on Promundo and RWAMREC’s programmatic experiences in Rwanda of implementing MenCare+, a gender transformative approach to engaging young and adult men (ages 15–35) in caregiving, maternal, newborn, and child health, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. We present initial results from fathers’ groups with more than 600 men, including the impact of participation in […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Participatory Methodology: Rapid Care Analysis

15/11/2016

8 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Rapid Care Analysis is a rapid assessment tool to improve the design of a wider programme through gathering evidence to promote the recognition of care work and the identification of practical interventions. A key aim is to reduce the time or labour required for daily housework and caring for people, and thus increase women’s: […]

Journal article

Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers

07/12/2022

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers

Keywords

Overview

The platform economy is conquering the domestic work and home care sector in countries of the global North as a response to the scarcity of affordable quality care services. Based on in-depth interviews with workers, firms and stakeholders, the objective of our study is to unravel the new mechanisms of exploitation and invisibility of this […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Redistributing Care Work for Gender Equality and Justice: A training curriculum

15/06/2015

1 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

People contribute to the economy through their work in many different ways. Women and men contribute to the productive economy by producing goods and services that people use every day. It is this work that is counted and measured by governments. Yet the work of social reproduction ‘ which refers to the activities needed to […]

Guidelines and toolkits

How to Talk about Care in the UK: A framing toolkit

30/05/2023

6 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

Keywords

Overview

Across the UK, many people providing paid and unpaid care – including parents and guardians of children, paid care workers, and unpaid carers – experience poverty, and great physical and emotional pressures. This is because the care they provide remains largely taken for granted and is not properly supported by governments and wider society. In […]

Briefing paper

Your Money or Your Life: Will leaders act now to save lives and make healthcare free in poor countries?

14/09/2009

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Health systems

Overview

User fees for health care are a life or death issue for millions of people in poor countries. Too poor to pay, women and children are paying with their lives. People who can’t pay are often imprisoned in hospitals until their families can clear their bills. For those who do pay, over 100 million are […]

Journal article

How is eye care seeking affected by intersectional experiences? A study of ageing women in the Indian Sundarbans

23/03/2021

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

How is eye care seeking affected by intersectional experiences? A study of ageing women in the Indian Sundarbans

Keywords

Overview

Old age often marks a period of changed socioeconomic position and physical infirmity. Older adults make up a large and complex population sub-group where several identities and characteristics coalesce to create intersectional experiences. Visual impairment can be prevented or cured to a large extent. Globally, women’s access to eye care is lower than that for […]

Briefing note

Achieving Healthcare for All in India

04/12/2012

2 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The current debate around Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in India is playing for high stakes. This paper reviews the main issues covered in the debate and considers whether the Government should take a proactive role in ensuring access to healthcare for all, or support the flawed status quo. The debate has polarised positions on a […]