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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

01/06/2008

10 pages long

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Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

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Overview

This article offers strategies for women’s empowerment in conservative, tribal, and religious environments, based on an innovative programme in Pakistan. Mainstreaming Gender and Development (MGD) encouraged participants to build on their communities’ strengths, minimised resistance among families and communities by including them in the development process, and succeeded in building a cadre of women activists. […]

Journal article

Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

10/12/2020

14 pages long

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Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

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Overview

As a new debt crisis is hitting the global South, aggravated by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and economies will face growing difficulties and challenges to deal with climate emergencies, adaptation, and mitigation. As we have seen in the past, debt crises tend to have a negative impact on women’s rights and […]

Journal article

Globalisation and women in India

01/11/1999

6 pages long

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Globalisation and women in India

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Overview

Describing the way globalisation has affected India over the last decade, the author considers the impact of these changes on women, in the main areas of `development’ due to globalisation: commercialisation, capitalisation, foreign trade orientation, and financialisation and industrial restructuring. She develops the point that the `skewed income and wealth’ structure in India, and the […]

Journal article

‘Yes caste is important, (but)’: examining the knowledge-production assemblage of Dwij-Savarna scholarship as it invisibilises caste in the context of women’s prisons in India

12/12/2023

14 pages long

Languages: English

‘Yes caste is important, (but)’: examining the knowledge-production assemblage of Dwij-Savarna scholarship as it invisibilises caste in the context of women’s prisons in India

Keywords

Overview

Gayatri Spivak, Partha Chatterjee, and many other Dwij-Savarna (‘upper caste’) academics from historically privileged ‘Dwij-Savarna’ Indian castes like Brahmins pioneered subaltern studies in the context of South Asian studies. Their thrust towards decolonising led to an epistemic de-centring of Western hegemony in knowledge production on behalf of marginalised ‘subalterns’. However, Umesh Bagade points out that […]

Journal article

Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

24/06/2020

24 pages long

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Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

Keywords

Overview

The multilateral decision-making enabled by the United Nations (UN), as the world’s only forum for negotiating agreements between almost all countries, has been both fertile and frustrating for advancing women’s rights. The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women at Beijing, held at a post-Cold War high point in international co-operation, generated a significant political settlement […]

Case study

Women’s Leadership and Participation: Overview

07/02/2008

4 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The right to participate in decision-making at the local, national, and international level is one which women are often denied, whether as active citizens or as leaders. In particular, women living in poverty often have very little opportunity to influence decisions and policies that will have a direct influence on their lives and livelihoods, and […]

Briefing paper

How States can deliver on the AU Declaration for an African Women’s Decade 2010-2020

01/11/2009

2 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Policy briefing for African delegations attending the AU Ministerial Conference of Gender Ministers and the 8th African Regional Conference on Women to review 15 years of the Beijing Platform of Action, The Gambia, November 2009. This policy briefing argues that the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in Africa, the AU Women’s […]

Journal article

Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana – the role of the women’s movement in Ghana

07/11/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana – the role of the women’s movement in Ghana

Keywords

Overview

Commitment to gender mainstreaming has been expressed worldwide as a result of the Beijing conference in 1995. The introduction of gender mainstreaming in the Beijing Platform for Action was regarded as a victory for gender ambassadors from the South, including the women’s movements. However, an empirical study from Ghana on the processes of ‘translating’ gender […]

Journal article

Women, resistance, and development: a case study from Dangs, India

01/03/1993

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, resistance, and development: a case study from Dangs, India

Keywords

Overview

Studies of resistance often overlook the significance of gender. This article, based on the author’s experience as a Project Officer with an NGO that supported the development work of a grassroots organisation, the Gram Vikas Mandali Association Trust, describes the historical context of everyday resistance by village women against the Forest Department in western India. […]

Journal article

An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case-study of Nigerian women

01/02/1999

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case-study of Nigerian women

Keywords

Overview

The paper presents a potentially effective empowerment strategy for women, using Nigeria as a case-study. The strategy evolves from an evaluation of recent empowerment strategies in Nigeria, empowerment concepts, and Karl’s (1995) scheme of empowerment. The author argues that the empowerment of women (understood as enhancing their capacity to influence and participate in making decisions […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

01/06/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

Keywords

Overview

This article offers strategies for women’s empowerment in conservative, tribal, and religious environments, based on an innovative programme in Pakistan. Mainstreaming Gender and Development (MGD) encouraged participants to build on their communities’ strengths, minimised resistance among families and communities by including them in the development process, and succeeded in building a cadre of women activists. […]

Journal article

Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

10/12/2020

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

Keywords

Overview

As a new debt crisis is hitting the global South, aggravated by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and economies will face growing difficulties and challenges to deal with climate emergencies, adaptation, and mitigation. As we have seen in the past, debt crises tend to have a negative impact on women’s rights and […]

Journal article

Globalisation and women in India

01/11/1999

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Globalisation and women in India

Keywords

Overview

Describing the way globalisation has affected India over the last decade, the author considers the impact of these changes on women, in the main areas of `development’ due to globalisation: commercialisation, capitalisation, foreign trade orientation, and financialisation and industrial restructuring. She develops the point that the `skewed income and wealth’ structure in India, and the […]

Journal article

‘Yes caste is important, (but)’: examining the knowledge-production assemblage of Dwij-Savarna scholarship as it invisibilises caste in the context of women’s prisons in India

12/12/2023

14 pages long

Languages: English

‘Yes caste is important, (but)’: examining the knowledge-production assemblage of Dwij-Savarna scholarship as it invisibilises caste in the context of women’s prisons in India

Keywords

Overview

Gayatri Spivak, Partha Chatterjee, and many other Dwij-Savarna (‘upper caste’) academics from historically privileged ‘Dwij-Savarna’ Indian castes like Brahmins pioneered subaltern studies in the context of South Asian studies. Their thrust towards decolonising led to an epistemic de-centring of Western hegemony in knowledge production on behalf of marginalised ‘subalterns’. However, Umesh Bagade points out that […]

Journal article

Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

24/06/2020

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

Keywords

Overview

The multilateral decision-making enabled by the United Nations (UN), as the world’s only forum for negotiating agreements between almost all countries, has been both fertile and frustrating for advancing women’s rights. The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women at Beijing, held at a post-Cold War high point in international co-operation, generated a significant political settlement […]

Case study

Women’s Leadership and Participation: Overview

07/02/2008

4 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The right to participate in decision-making at the local, national, and international level is one which women are often denied, whether as active citizens or as leaders. In particular, women living in poverty often have very little opportunity to influence decisions and policies that will have a direct influence on their lives and livelihoods, and […]

Briefing paper

How States can deliver on the AU Declaration for an African Women’s Decade 2010-2020

01/11/2009

2 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Policy briefing for African delegations attending the AU Ministerial Conference of Gender Ministers and the 8th African Regional Conference on Women to review 15 years of the Beijing Platform of Action, The Gambia, November 2009. This policy briefing argues that the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in Africa, the AU Women’s […]

Journal article

Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana – the role of the women’s movement in Ghana

07/11/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana – the role of the women’s movement in Ghana

Keywords

Overview

Commitment to gender mainstreaming has been expressed worldwide as a result of the Beijing conference in 1995. The introduction of gender mainstreaming in the Beijing Platform for Action was regarded as a victory for gender ambassadors from the South, including the women’s movements. However, an empirical study from Ghana on the processes of ‘translating’ gender […]

Journal article

Women, resistance, and development: a case study from Dangs, India

01/03/1993

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, resistance, and development: a case study from Dangs, India

Keywords

Overview

Studies of resistance often overlook the significance of gender. This article, based on the author’s experience as a Project Officer with an NGO that supported the development work of a grassroots organisation, the Gram Vikas Mandali Association Trust, describes the historical context of everyday resistance by village women against the Forest Department in western India. […]

Journal article

An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case-study of Nigerian women

01/02/1999

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case-study of Nigerian women

Keywords

Overview

The paper presents a potentially effective empowerment strategy for women, using Nigeria as a case-study. The strategy evolves from an evaluation of recent empowerment strategies in Nigeria, empowerment concepts, and Karl’s (1995) scheme of empowerment. The author argues that the empowerment of women (understood as enhancing their capacity to influence and participate in making decisions […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

01/06/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

Keywords

Overview

This article offers strategies for women’s empowerment in conservative, tribal, and religious environments, based on an innovative programme in Pakistan. Mainstreaming Gender and Development (MGD) encouraged participants to build on their communities’ strengths, minimised resistance among families and communities by including them in the development process, and succeeded in building a cadre of women activists. […]

Journal article

Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

10/12/2020

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

Keywords

Overview

As a new debt crisis is hitting the global South, aggravated by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and economies will face growing difficulties and challenges to deal with climate emergencies, adaptation, and mitigation. As we have seen in the past, debt crises tend to have a negative impact on women’s rights and […]

Journal article

Globalisation and women in India

01/11/1999

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Globalisation and women in India

Keywords

Overview

Describing the way globalisation has affected India over the last decade, the author considers the impact of these changes on women, in the main areas of `development’ due to globalisation: commercialisation, capitalisation, foreign trade orientation, and financialisation and industrial restructuring. She develops the point that the `skewed income and wealth’ structure in India, and the […]

Journal article

‘Yes caste is important, (but)’: examining the knowledge-production assemblage of Dwij-Savarna scholarship as it invisibilises caste in the context of women’s prisons in India

12/12/2023

14 pages long

Languages: English

‘Yes caste is important, (but)’: examining the knowledge-production assemblage of Dwij-Savarna scholarship as it invisibilises caste in the context of women’s prisons in India

Keywords

Overview

Gayatri Spivak, Partha Chatterjee, and many other Dwij-Savarna (‘upper caste’) academics from historically privileged ‘Dwij-Savarna’ Indian castes like Brahmins pioneered subaltern studies in the context of South Asian studies. Their thrust towards decolonising led to an epistemic de-centring of Western hegemony in knowledge production on behalf of marginalised ‘subalterns’. However, Umesh Bagade points out that […]

Journal article

Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

24/06/2020

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

Keywords

Overview

The multilateral decision-making enabled by the United Nations (UN), as the world’s only forum for negotiating agreements between almost all countries, has been both fertile and frustrating for advancing women’s rights. The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women at Beijing, held at a post-Cold War high point in international co-operation, generated a significant political settlement […]

Case study

Women’s Leadership and Participation: Overview

07/02/2008

4 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The right to participate in decision-making at the local, national, and international level is one which women are often denied, whether as active citizens or as leaders. In particular, women living in poverty often have very little opportunity to influence decisions and policies that will have a direct influence on their lives and livelihoods, and […]

Briefing paper

How States can deliver on the AU Declaration for an African Women’s Decade 2010-2020

01/11/2009

2 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Policy briefing for African delegations attending the AU Ministerial Conference of Gender Ministers and the 8th African Regional Conference on Women to review 15 years of the Beijing Platform of Action, The Gambia, November 2009. This policy briefing argues that the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in Africa, the AU Women’s […]

Journal article

Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana – the role of the women’s movement in Ghana

07/11/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana – the role of the women’s movement in Ghana

Keywords

Overview

Commitment to gender mainstreaming has been expressed worldwide as a result of the Beijing conference in 1995. The introduction of gender mainstreaming in the Beijing Platform for Action was regarded as a victory for gender ambassadors from the South, including the women’s movements. However, an empirical study from Ghana on the processes of ‘translating’ gender […]

Journal article

Women, resistance, and development: a case study from Dangs, India

01/03/1993

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, resistance, and development: a case study from Dangs, India

Keywords

Overview

Studies of resistance often overlook the significance of gender. This article, based on the author’s experience as a Project Officer with an NGO that supported the development work of a grassroots organisation, the Gram Vikas Mandali Association Trust, describes the historical context of everyday resistance by village women against the Forest Department in western India. […]

Journal article

An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case-study of Nigerian women

01/02/1999

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case-study of Nigerian women

Keywords

Overview

The paper presents a potentially effective empowerment strategy for women, using Nigeria as a case-study. The strategy evolves from an evaluation of recent empowerment strategies in Nigeria, empowerment concepts, and Karl’s (1995) scheme of empowerment. The author argues that the empowerment of women (understood as enhancing their capacity to influence and participate in making decisions […]