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Flower by Flower, We Make a Garden’: Palestinian women organising for economic justice

09/11/2008

12 pages long

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Flower by Flower, We Make a Garden’: Palestinian women organising for economic justice

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This article illustrates a unique experience of social-movement building, initiated by Sawt el-Amel, a grassroots organisation of Arab workers in Israel. The process started in 2005, with the establishment of an activist forum for women on social welfare in Nazareth. Gradually, this is transforming into a union for Arab women all across Israel. The initiative […]

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The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

08/11/2008

10 pages long

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The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

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Overview

In seven short years, Kup Women for Peace, a community organisation in Papua New Guinea, has gone from tribal peacebuilding to ensuring a free, fair, and violence-free election in one small part of Simbu Province. The organisation’s approach was multi-faceted and locally appropriate, enfranchising many women – and educating men – in the process. In […]

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Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

01/07/2009

10 pages long

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Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

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Overview

This article explores the issue of women providing unpaid care for family members living with HIV in South Africa and Zimbabwe. State policies rely on women providing home-based care, in the context of failing health systems. This has the effect of impoverishing women, and reinforcing gender stereotypes. Recommendations will be given on how to make […]

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Trade unions and women’s empowerment in North-East Brazil

01/07/2009

12 pages long

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Trade unions and women’s empowerment in North-East Brazil

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Overview

An important feature of contemporary globalisation has been the ‘feminisation of agriculture’ across the global south, as numerous new regions of export horticulture emerge to supply global retailers. Much literature details the poor conditions faced by women workers. This article details the formation and expansion of a highly globally integrated export horticulture sector in north-east […]

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Exploring women’s daily lives and participation in the informal labour market in Mumbai, India

01/07/2009

11 pages long

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Exploring women’s daily lives and participation in the informal labour market in Mumbai, India

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Overview

Dramatic reductions in trade barriers during the past 10 years have caused unprecedented economic growth in India. Little is known about the impact of globalisation on the informal labour market, especially the impact on women. We interviewed women working in four occupations in Mumbai’s informal labour market, gathering information about their daily lives, job responsibilities, […]

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After the summit: women’s access to water and policymaking in Brazil

01/03/2010

11 pages long

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After the summit: women’s access to water and policymaking in Brazil

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This article argues that following the Earth Summit, Brazil has pursued an ineffective water policy agenda, which has undermined women’s right to safe water and adequate sanitation. It sets out some examples of women’s involvement in water and sanitation programmes, and argues for the integration of strong gender perspectives in public policymaking and water distribution […]

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Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

07/11/2010

12 pages long

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Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

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Overview

This article focuses on Zimbabwean women who are responding to the economic problems at home by trading food in South Africa. It explores the crops the women market, the strategies they use to access these markets, the challenges they face in South Africa, and the way they handle and resolve conflicts of various kinds which […]

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New agribusiness investments mean wholesale sell-out for women farmers

10/11/2010

11 pages long

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New agribusiness investments mean wholesale sell-out for women farmers

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Overview

Globalisation impacts on local land markets and land-use; land transaction costs affect food prices; and the combined effect is particularly damaging to women who produce food and who put food on the table for their families. This paper examines three issues: what is attracting investors and market speculators into the farm and land sectors? What […]

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Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men: gender-mainstreaming in refugee camps

01/03/2011

13 pages long

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Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men: gender-mainstreaming in refugee camps

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Overview

Gender mainstreaming in humanitarian programmes with forced migrants is based on a belief that such an approach will lead to greater gender equality, while raising the status of women through their ’empowerment’. In this article, I focus on the activities of international and local humanitarian organisations in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. I argue that the […]

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Cash transfers, gender equity and women’s empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

01/07/2011

17 pages long

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Cash transfers, gender equity and women’s empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

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Overview

Conditional cash transfer programmes provide extremely poor households with a cash subsidy, on condition that children attend school, and mothers and infants undergo health checks. These programmes are generally considered effective social protection mechanisms, and success in meeting children’s nutrition, education, and health targets is reported. However, the impact of these programmes on women’s empowerment […]

Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Flower by Flower, We Make a Garden’: Palestinian women organising for economic justice

09/11/2008

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Flower by Flower, We Make a Garden’: Palestinian women organising for economic justice

Keywords

Overview

This article illustrates a unique experience of social-movement building, initiated by Sawt el-Amel, a grassroots organisation of Arab workers in Israel. The process started in 2005, with the establishment of an activist forum for women on social welfare in Nazareth. Gradually, this is transforming into a union for Arab women all across Israel. The initiative […]

Journal article

The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

08/11/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

Keywords

Overview

In seven short years, Kup Women for Peace, a community organisation in Papua New Guinea, has gone from tribal peacebuilding to ensuring a free, fair, and violence-free election in one small part of Simbu Province. The organisation’s approach was multi-faceted and locally appropriate, enfranchising many women – and educating men – in the process. In […]

Journal article

Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

01/07/2009

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the issue of women providing unpaid care for family members living with HIV in South Africa and Zimbabwe. State policies rely on women providing home-based care, in the context of failing health systems. This has the effect of impoverishing women, and reinforcing gender stereotypes. Recommendations will be given on how to make […]

Journal article

Trade unions and women’s empowerment in North-East Brazil

01/07/2009

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Trade unions and women’s empowerment in North-East Brazil

Keywords

Overview

An important feature of contemporary globalisation has been the ‘feminisation of agriculture’ across the global south, as numerous new regions of export horticulture emerge to supply global retailers. Much literature details the poor conditions faced by women workers. This article details the formation and expansion of a highly globally integrated export horticulture sector in north-east […]

Journal article

Exploring women’s daily lives and participation in the informal labour market in Mumbai, India

01/07/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Exploring women’s daily lives and participation in the informal labour market in Mumbai, India

Keywords

Overview

Dramatic reductions in trade barriers during the past 10 years have caused unprecedented economic growth in India. Little is known about the impact of globalisation on the informal labour market, especially the impact on women. We interviewed women working in four occupations in Mumbai’s informal labour market, gathering information about their daily lives, job responsibilities, […]

Journal article

After the summit: women’s access to water and policymaking in Brazil

01/03/2010

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

After the summit: women’s access to water and policymaking in Brazil

Keywords

Overview

This article argues that following the Earth Summit, Brazil has pursued an ineffective water policy agenda, which has undermined women’s right to safe water and adequate sanitation. It sets out some examples of women’s involvement in water and sanitation programmes, and argues for the integration of strong gender perspectives in public policymaking and water distribution […]

Journal article

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

07/11/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on Zimbabwean women who are responding to the economic problems at home by trading food in South Africa. It explores the crops the women market, the strategies they use to access these markets, the challenges they face in South Africa, and the way they handle and resolve conflicts of various kinds which […]

Journal article

New agribusiness investments mean wholesale sell-out for women farmers

10/11/2010

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

New agribusiness investments mean wholesale sell-out for women farmers

Keywords

Overview

Globalisation impacts on local land markets and land-use; land transaction costs affect food prices; and the combined effect is particularly damaging to women who produce food and who put food on the table for their families. This paper examines three issues: what is attracting investors and market speculators into the farm and land sectors? What […]

Journal article

Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men: gender-mainstreaming in refugee camps

01/03/2011

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men: gender-mainstreaming in refugee camps

Keywords

Overview

Gender mainstreaming in humanitarian programmes with forced migrants is based on a belief that such an approach will lead to greater gender equality, while raising the status of women through their ’empowerment’. In this article, I focus on the activities of international and local humanitarian organisations in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. I argue that the […]

Journal article

Cash transfers, gender equity and women’s empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

01/07/2011

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Cash transfers, gender equity and women’s empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

Keywords

Overview

Conditional cash transfer programmes provide extremely poor households with a cash subsidy, on condition that children attend school, and mothers and infants undergo health checks. These programmes are generally considered effective social protection mechanisms, and success in meeting children’s nutrition, education, and health targets is reported. However, the impact of these programmes on women’s empowerment […]

Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Flower by Flower, We Make a Garden’: Palestinian women organising for economic justice

09/11/2008

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Flower by Flower, We Make a Garden’: Palestinian women organising for economic justice

Keywords

Overview

This article illustrates a unique experience of social-movement building, initiated by Sawt el-Amel, a grassroots organisation of Arab workers in Israel. The process started in 2005, with the establishment of an activist forum for women on social welfare in Nazareth. Gradually, this is transforming into a union for Arab women all across Israel. The initiative […]

Journal article

The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

08/11/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

Keywords

Overview

In seven short years, Kup Women for Peace, a community organisation in Papua New Guinea, has gone from tribal peacebuilding to ensuring a free, fair, and violence-free election in one small part of Simbu Province. The organisation’s approach was multi-faceted and locally appropriate, enfranchising many women – and educating men – in the process. In […]

Journal article

Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

01/07/2009

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the issue of women providing unpaid care for family members living with HIV in South Africa and Zimbabwe. State policies rely on women providing home-based care, in the context of failing health systems. This has the effect of impoverishing women, and reinforcing gender stereotypes. Recommendations will be given on how to make […]

Journal article

Trade unions and women’s empowerment in North-East Brazil

01/07/2009

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Trade unions and women’s empowerment in North-East Brazil

Keywords

Overview

An important feature of contemporary globalisation has been the ‘feminisation of agriculture’ across the global south, as numerous new regions of export horticulture emerge to supply global retailers. Much literature details the poor conditions faced by women workers. This article details the formation and expansion of a highly globally integrated export horticulture sector in north-east […]

Journal article

Exploring women’s daily lives and participation in the informal labour market in Mumbai, India

01/07/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Exploring women’s daily lives and participation in the informal labour market in Mumbai, India

Keywords

Overview

Dramatic reductions in trade barriers during the past 10 years have caused unprecedented economic growth in India. Little is known about the impact of globalisation on the informal labour market, especially the impact on women. We interviewed women working in four occupations in Mumbai’s informal labour market, gathering information about their daily lives, job responsibilities, […]

Journal article

After the summit: women’s access to water and policymaking in Brazil

01/03/2010

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

After the summit: women’s access to water and policymaking in Brazil

Keywords

Overview

This article argues that following the Earth Summit, Brazil has pursued an ineffective water policy agenda, which has undermined women’s right to safe water and adequate sanitation. It sets out some examples of women’s involvement in water and sanitation programmes, and argues for the integration of strong gender perspectives in public policymaking and water distribution […]

Journal article

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

07/11/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on Zimbabwean women who are responding to the economic problems at home by trading food in South Africa. It explores the crops the women market, the strategies they use to access these markets, the challenges they face in South Africa, and the way they handle and resolve conflicts of various kinds which […]

Journal article

New agribusiness investments mean wholesale sell-out for women farmers

10/11/2010

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

New agribusiness investments mean wholesale sell-out for women farmers

Keywords

Overview

Globalisation impacts on local land markets and land-use; land transaction costs affect food prices; and the combined effect is particularly damaging to women who produce food and who put food on the table for their families. This paper examines three issues: what is attracting investors and market speculators into the farm and land sectors? What […]

Journal article

Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men: gender-mainstreaming in refugee camps

01/03/2011

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men: gender-mainstreaming in refugee camps

Keywords

Overview

Gender mainstreaming in humanitarian programmes with forced migrants is based on a belief that such an approach will lead to greater gender equality, while raising the status of women through their ’empowerment’. In this article, I focus on the activities of international and local humanitarian organisations in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. I argue that the […]

Journal article

Cash transfers, gender equity and women’s empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

01/07/2011

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Cash transfers, gender equity and women’s empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

Keywords

Overview

Conditional cash transfer programmes provide extremely poor households with a cash subsidy, on condition that children attend school, and mothers and infants undergo health checks. These programmes are generally considered effective social protection mechanisms, and success in meeting children’s nutrition, education, and health targets is reported. However, the impact of these programmes on women’s empowerment […]