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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

Keywords

Overview

Proverbial statements about women being second-class citizens are familiar in many societies. It is vitally important to challenge the many barriers to full citizenship that confront women, and barriers to women’s human rights in general. Development interventions must help to do this. The denial of equal citizenship to women is a phenomenon familiar in many […]

Journal article

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

Keywords

Overview

Women’s struggle for both equality and national liberation are crucial to democracy: if a democratic state is one in which citizens have the right to participate in society and the way it is governed, women must, automatically, be included in the equation. Yet in many so-called democratic states, women lack full citizenship. This article traces […]

Research report

“Do Our Voices Matter?”: An analysis of women civil society representatives’ meaningful participation at the UN Security Council

17/12/2020

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Peace is made at home, in the streets, in our communities – and on the world stage. In all these spaces, women in all their diversity work to forge the conditions that make peace possible. Perhaps nowhere is this clearer than in conflict-affected countries, where diverse women’s organizations draw attention to human rights violations happening […]

Journal article

Marriage, well-being, and agency among women

01/07/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Marriage, well-being, and agency among women

Keywords

Overview

In a slum in Delhi, married women’s sense of well-being is based on their everyday experience of sexuality, motherhood, and work. While they may not be deliriously happy or content in their lives as married women, they attain respectability and status through marriage and childbearing, and exercise agency in speaking out against the oppressive conditions […]

Case study

Strengthening Women’s Political Participation in Pakistan

24/11/2020

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Strengthening Women’s Political participation initiative built on a long struggle for women’s rights in Pakistan. Raising Her Voice (RHV) was one of the first global campaigns to address both invisible and visible structural causes of gender injustice. It sought to challenge social norms, empower women, increase their political participation and change government policy. In […]

Journal article

Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

01/12/2001

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

Keywords

Overview

Women and men face different risks and vulnerabilities during disaster, and they bring different resources to preparing for and coping with disaster. Less well recognised are the ways in which humanitarian interventions themselves influence the nature of gender relations during crises. A gender-blind humanitarian response which does not address gender-specific issues and does not pay […]

Journal article

A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

09/07/2014

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

Keywords

Overview

This article presents findings from a review of 70 evaluations of development interventions which had direct or indirect impacts on the economic empowerment of women and girls. We defined this as a process whereby women and girls experience transformation in power, agency, and economic advancement. The review distilled knowledge about monitoring, evaluation, and learning methods […]

Case study

Strengthening Governance Programming Through Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls: Raising Her Voice in Nigeria

16/07/2012

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The experiences of the Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme in Nigeria illustrate the power of coalition building for legislative advocacy, reinforced by mass grassroots mobilization. The focus of this case study is on RHV implementing partner, Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA), which works to promote poor and marginalized women’s participation in governance and […]

Journal article

Women’s entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps

23/03/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps

Keywords

Overview

In the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, as part of their efforts to rebuild the national economy, many donor agencies and non-government organisations increased their efforts to support the goal of women’s economic empowerment. However, the share of women-owned businesses in Lebanon has remained low, and women are mostly still limited to work in […]

Journal article

Point of Order, Mr Speaker’: African women claiming their space in parliament

01/11/2000

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Point of Order, Mr Speaker’: African women claiming their space in parliament

Keywords

Overview

At the close of the millennium, there is a wave of invigorating air sweeping across the African continent. The refreshing breeze can be felt in the form of women smashing the gendered ‘glass ceiling’ in a bid to overcome the cultural and structural barriers that impede their political careers. In this short article, I examine […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

Keywords

Overview

Proverbial statements about women being second-class citizens are familiar in many societies. It is vitally important to challenge the many barriers to full citizenship that confront women, and barriers to women’s human rights in general. Development interventions must help to do this. The denial of equal citizenship to women is a phenomenon familiar in many […]

Journal article

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

Keywords

Overview

Women’s struggle for both equality and national liberation are crucial to democracy: if a democratic state is one in which citizens have the right to participate in society and the way it is governed, women must, automatically, be included in the equation. Yet in many so-called democratic states, women lack full citizenship. This article traces […]

Research report

“Do Our Voices Matter?”: An analysis of women civil society representatives’ meaningful participation at the UN Security Council

17/12/2020

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Peace is made at home, in the streets, in our communities – and on the world stage. In all these spaces, women in all their diversity work to forge the conditions that make peace possible. Perhaps nowhere is this clearer than in conflict-affected countries, where diverse women’s organizations draw attention to human rights violations happening […]

Journal article

Marriage, well-being, and agency among women

01/07/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Marriage, well-being, and agency among women

Keywords

Overview

In a slum in Delhi, married women’s sense of well-being is based on their everyday experience of sexuality, motherhood, and work. While they may not be deliriously happy or content in their lives as married women, they attain respectability and status through marriage and childbearing, and exercise agency in speaking out against the oppressive conditions […]

Case study

Strengthening Women’s Political Participation in Pakistan

24/11/2020

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Strengthening Women’s Political participation initiative built on a long struggle for women’s rights in Pakistan. Raising Her Voice (RHV) was one of the first global campaigns to address both invisible and visible structural causes of gender injustice. It sought to challenge social norms, empower women, increase their political participation and change government policy. In […]

Journal article

Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

01/12/2001

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

Keywords

Overview

Women and men face different risks and vulnerabilities during disaster, and they bring different resources to preparing for and coping with disaster. Less well recognised are the ways in which humanitarian interventions themselves influence the nature of gender relations during crises. A gender-blind humanitarian response which does not address gender-specific issues and does not pay […]

Journal article

A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

09/07/2014

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

Keywords

Overview

This article presents findings from a review of 70 evaluations of development interventions which had direct or indirect impacts on the economic empowerment of women and girls. We defined this as a process whereby women and girls experience transformation in power, agency, and economic advancement. The review distilled knowledge about monitoring, evaluation, and learning methods […]

Case study

Strengthening Governance Programming Through Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls: Raising Her Voice in Nigeria

16/07/2012

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The experiences of the Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme in Nigeria illustrate the power of coalition building for legislative advocacy, reinforced by mass grassroots mobilization. The focus of this case study is on RHV implementing partner, Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA), which works to promote poor and marginalized women’s participation in governance and […]

Journal article

Women’s entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps

23/03/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps

Keywords

Overview

In the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, as part of their efforts to rebuild the national economy, many donor agencies and non-government organisations increased their efforts to support the goal of women’s economic empowerment. However, the share of women-owned businesses in Lebanon has remained low, and women are mostly still limited to work in […]

Journal article

Point of Order, Mr Speaker’: African women claiming their space in parliament

01/11/2000

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Point of Order, Mr Speaker’: African women claiming their space in parliament

Keywords

Overview

At the close of the millennium, there is a wave of invigorating air sweeping across the African continent. The refreshing breeze can be felt in the form of women smashing the gendered ‘glass ceiling’ in a bid to overcome the cultural and structural barriers that impede their political careers. In this short article, I examine […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

Keywords

Overview

Proverbial statements about women being second-class citizens are familiar in many societies. It is vitally important to challenge the many barriers to full citizenship that confront women, and barriers to women’s human rights in general. Development interventions must help to do this. The denial of equal citizenship to women is a phenomenon familiar in many […]

Journal article

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

Keywords

Overview

Women’s struggle for both equality and national liberation are crucial to democracy: if a democratic state is one in which citizens have the right to participate in society and the way it is governed, women must, automatically, be included in the equation. Yet in many so-called democratic states, women lack full citizenship. This article traces […]

Research report

“Do Our Voices Matter?”: An analysis of women civil society representatives’ meaningful participation at the UN Security Council

17/12/2020

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Peace is made at home, in the streets, in our communities – and on the world stage. In all these spaces, women in all their diversity work to forge the conditions that make peace possible. Perhaps nowhere is this clearer than in conflict-affected countries, where diverse women’s organizations draw attention to human rights violations happening […]

Journal article

Marriage, well-being, and agency among women

01/07/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Marriage, well-being, and agency among women

Keywords

Overview

In a slum in Delhi, married women’s sense of well-being is based on their everyday experience of sexuality, motherhood, and work. While they may not be deliriously happy or content in their lives as married women, they attain respectability and status through marriage and childbearing, and exercise agency in speaking out against the oppressive conditions […]

Case study

Strengthening Women’s Political Participation in Pakistan

24/11/2020

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Strengthening Women’s Political participation initiative built on a long struggle for women’s rights in Pakistan. Raising Her Voice (RHV) was one of the first global campaigns to address both invisible and visible structural causes of gender injustice. It sought to challenge social norms, empower women, increase their political participation and change government policy. In […]

Journal article

Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

01/12/2001

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

Keywords

Overview

Women and men face different risks and vulnerabilities during disaster, and they bring different resources to preparing for and coping with disaster. Less well recognised are the ways in which humanitarian interventions themselves influence the nature of gender relations during crises. A gender-blind humanitarian response which does not address gender-specific issues and does not pay […]

Journal article

A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

09/07/2014

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

Keywords

Overview

This article presents findings from a review of 70 evaluations of development interventions which had direct or indirect impacts on the economic empowerment of women and girls. We defined this as a process whereby women and girls experience transformation in power, agency, and economic advancement. The review distilled knowledge about monitoring, evaluation, and learning methods […]

Case study

Strengthening Governance Programming Through Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls: Raising Her Voice in Nigeria

16/07/2012

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The experiences of the Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme in Nigeria illustrate the power of coalition building for legislative advocacy, reinforced by mass grassroots mobilization. The focus of this case study is on RHV implementing partner, Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA), which works to promote poor and marginalized women’s participation in governance and […]

Journal article

Women’s entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps

23/03/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps

Keywords

Overview

In the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, as part of their efforts to rebuild the national economy, many donor agencies and non-government organisations increased their efforts to support the goal of women’s economic empowerment. However, the share of women-owned businesses in Lebanon has remained low, and women are mostly still limited to work in […]

Journal article

Point of Order, Mr Speaker’: African women claiming their space in parliament

01/11/2000

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Point of Order, Mr Speaker’: African women claiming their space in parliament

Keywords

Overview

At the close of the millennium, there is a wave of invigorating air sweeping across the African continent. The refreshing breeze can be felt in the form of women smashing the gendered ‘glass ceiling’ in a bid to overcome the cultural and structural barriers that impede their political careers. In this short article, I examine […]