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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Economic crisis helps to ‘demarginalize’ women

01/05/1998

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

Coffee production was the main source of family income in the North West Province of Cameroon until there was a fall in coffee prices. The author recounts a positive side effect of this potential economic crisis for the province: the empowerment of women. Previously denied land-ownership, due to men’s traditional hold on land and women’s […]

Case study

Empowering Women to Upgrade Their Homes: Mahila Housing SEWA Trust (India)

30/10/2020

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study tells the inspiring story of the Mahila Housing SEWA Trust (MHT) in India, a grassroots NGO originally born from the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). MHT works with women living in urban informal settlements to get access to services such as water, sanitation and electricity and secure tenure rights and property titles. Using […]

Journal article

Fundamentalisms, globalisation and women’s human rights in Senegal

01/05/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fundamentalisms, globalisation and women’s human rights in Senegal

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Overview

One response to the phenomenon of globalisation in politics, economics and culture has been a resurgence of fundamentalist movements. To fundamentalists, women symbolise ethnic and cultural purity, and their rights and status have become an enormous issue. But the links between fundamentalisms, tradition and modernity are very complex. In this article I look at the […]

Research report

Menstrual Hygiene Management Among Syrian Refugee Women in the Bekaa

18/06/2020

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This research paper explores the different challenges related to menstrual hygiene faced by Syrian refugee women residing in Informal Tented Settlements (ITSs) in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon. The piece first looks at women’s distinct lived experiences and practices, focusing on products, safety and health, and delving into the implications of those challenges on paid […]

Journal article

The devil is in the details: a feminist perspective on development, women’s rights, and fundamentalisms

28/03/2017

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

The devil is in the details: a feminist perspective on development, women’s rights, and fundamentalisms

Keywords

Overview

This article presents the Association for Women’s Rights in Development’s (AWID) perspective on the issue of religious fundamentalisms as they affect women’s rights in the world today. Globally and in every religious context there has been a growth in the power and influence of religious fundamentalist actors. Although the violence that they are wreaking on […]

Journal article

Women on the frontline: can a network provide a platform for activists in the volatile MENA region?

28/03/2017

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women on the frontline: can a network provide a platform for activists in the volatile MENA region?

Keywords

Overview

The article shares the experience of Women on the Frontline (WoF), a network of about 30 women’s rights organisations with its origins in the Netherlands, and covering seven countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The organisations participating in WoF all have their own agendas and particular needs, but they share one […]

Journal article

Mama cash: investing in the future of women

01/03/2001

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Mama cash: investing in the future of women

Keywords

Overview

Mama Cash is an independent organisation that is committed to changing and improving the position of women, through providing both financial and moral support to women’s groups and entrepreneurs. Although Mama Cash is relatively small, its feminist vision is broad and worldwide. It aims to support innovative projects that mainstream organisations avoid, and so enable […]

Journal article

Microfinance and women’s empowerment: a lesson from India

01/11/2002

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Microfinance and women’s empowerment: a lesson from India

Keywords

Overview

This article describes an NGO project intended to empower scheduled caste women working in the silk-reeling industry in India through the provision of microfinance. It documents the impact that the project had on their economic and social status over a period of time and highlights the negative consequences of excluding male relatives from playing any […]

Journal article

Re-imagining resilience: supporting feminist women to lead development with transformative practice

18/03/2020

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Re-imagining resilience: supporting feminist women to lead development with transformative practice

Keywords

Overview

A large amount of the international development funding for women’s rights and gender justice goes to supporting women’s representation and leadership in formal decision-making bodies. This support is often about strengthening their technical skills. However, much more is needed to support women engaged in work that is stressful, often abusive and violent, and may even […]

Journal article

Conceptualising women’s empowerment in societies in Cameroon: how does money fit in?

01/03/2001

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Conceptualising women’s empowerment in societies in Cameroon: how does money fit in?

Keywords

Overview

Money is an essential element in household livelihoods, and those who control it have considerable power. However, development projects seeking to alleviate household-level poverty and promote economic growth often speak of the ’empowerment’ of women in relation to promoting women’s access to credit or income-generation. What is the relationship between empowerment and money? Access to […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Economic crisis helps to ‘demarginalize’ women

01/05/1998

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Coffee production was the main source of family income in the North West Province of Cameroon until there was a fall in coffee prices. The author recounts a positive side effect of this potential economic crisis for the province: the empowerment of women. Previously denied land-ownership, due to men’s traditional hold on land and women’s […]

Case study

Empowering Women to Upgrade Their Homes: Mahila Housing SEWA Trust (India)

30/10/2020

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study tells the inspiring story of the Mahila Housing SEWA Trust (MHT) in India, a grassroots NGO originally born from the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). MHT works with women living in urban informal settlements to get access to services such as water, sanitation and electricity and secure tenure rights and property titles. Using […]

Journal article

Fundamentalisms, globalisation and women’s human rights in Senegal

01/05/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fundamentalisms, globalisation and women’s human rights in Senegal

Keywords

Overview

One response to the phenomenon of globalisation in politics, economics and culture has been a resurgence of fundamentalist movements. To fundamentalists, women symbolise ethnic and cultural purity, and their rights and status have become an enormous issue. But the links between fundamentalisms, tradition and modernity are very complex. In this article I look at the […]

Research report

Menstrual Hygiene Management Among Syrian Refugee Women in the Bekaa

18/06/2020

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This research paper explores the different challenges related to menstrual hygiene faced by Syrian refugee women residing in Informal Tented Settlements (ITSs) in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon. The piece first looks at women’s distinct lived experiences and practices, focusing on products, safety and health, and delving into the implications of those challenges on paid […]

Journal article

The devil is in the details: a feminist perspective on development, women’s rights, and fundamentalisms

28/03/2017

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

The devil is in the details: a feminist perspective on development, women’s rights, and fundamentalisms

Keywords

Overview

This article presents the Association for Women’s Rights in Development’s (AWID) perspective on the issue of religious fundamentalisms as they affect women’s rights in the world today. Globally and in every religious context there has been a growth in the power and influence of religious fundamentalist actors. Although the violence that they are wreaking on […]

Journal article

Women on the frontline: can a network provide a platform for activists in the volatile MENA region?

28/03/2017

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women on the frontline: can a network provide a platform for activists in the volatile MENA region?

Keywords

Overview

The article shares the experience of Women on the Frontline (WoF), a network of about 30 women’s rights organisations with its origins in the Netherlands, and covering seven countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The organisations participating in WoF all have their own agendas and particular needs, but they share one […]

Journal article

Mama cash: investing in the future of women

01/03/2001

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Mama cash: investing in the future of women

Keywords

Overview

Mama Cash is an independent organisation that is committed to changing and improving the position of women, through providing both financial and moral support to women’s groups and entrepreneurs. Although Mama Cash is relatively small, its feminist vision is broad and worldwide. It aims to support innovative projects that mainstream organisations avoid, and so enable […]

Journal article

Microfinance and women’s empowerment: a lesson from India

01/11/2002

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Microfinance and women’s empowerment: a lesson from India

Keywords

Overview

This article describes an NGO project intended to empower scheduled caste women working in the silk-reeling industry in India through the provision of microfinance. It documents the impact that the project had on their economic and social status over a period of time and highlights the negative consequences of excluding male relatives from playing any […]

Journal article

Re-imagining resilience: supporting feminist women to lead development with transformative practice

18/03/2020

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Re-imagining resilience: supporting feminist women to lead development with transformative practice

Keywords

Overview

A large amount of the international development funding for women’s rights and gender justice goes to supporting women’s representation and leadership in formal decision-making bodies. This support is often about strengthening their technical skills. However, much more is needed to support women engaged in work that is stressful, often abusive and violent, and may even […]

Journal article

Conceptualising women’s empowerment in societies in Cameroon: how does money fit in?

01/03/2001

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Conceptualising women’s empowerment in societies in Cameroon: how does money fit in?

Keywords

Overview

Money is an essential element in household livelihoods, and those who control it have considerable power. However, development projects seeking to alleviate household-level poverty and promote economic growth often speak of the ’empowerment’ of women in relation to promoting women’s access to credit or income-generation. What is the relationship between empowerment and money? Access to […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Economic crisis helps to ‘demarginalize’ women

01/05/1998

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Coffee production was the main source of family income in the North West Province of Cameroon until there was a fall in coffee prices. The author recounts a positive side effect of this potential economic crisis for the province: the empowerment of women. Previously denied land-ownership, due to men’s traditional hold on land and women’s […]

Case study

Empowering Women to Upgrade Their Homes: Mahila Housing SEWA Trust (India)

30/10/2020

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study tells the inspiring story of the Mahila Housing SEWA Trust (MHT) in India, a grassroots NGO originally born from the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). MHT works with women living in urban informal settlements to get access to services such as water, sanitation and electricity and secure tenure rights and property titles. Using […]

Journal article

Fundamentalisms, globalisation and women’s human rights in Senegal

01/05/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fundamentalisms, globalisation and women’s human rights in Senegal

Keywords

Overview

One response to the phenomenon of globalisation in politics, economics and culture has been a resurgence of fundamentalist movements. To fundamentalists, women symbolise ethnic and cultural purity, and their rights and status have become an enormous issue. But the links between fundamentalisms, tradition and modernity are very complex. In this article I look at the […]

Research report

Menstrual Hygiene Management Among Syrian Refugee Women in the Bekaa

18/06/2020

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This research paper explores the different challenges related to menstrual hygiene faced by Syrian refugee women residing in Informal Tented Settlements (ITSs) in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon. The piece first looks at women’s distinct lived experiences and practices, focusing on products, safety and health, and delving into the implications of those challenges on paid […]

Journal article

The devil is in the details: a feminist perspective on development, women’s rights, and fundamentalisms

28/03/2017

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

The devil is in the details: a feminist perspective on development, women’s rights, and fundamentalisms

Keywords

Overview

This article presents the Association for Women’s Rights in Development’s (AWID) perspective on the issue of religious fundamentalisms as they affect women’s rights in the world today. Globally and in every religious context there has been a growth in the power and influence of religious fundamentalist actors. Although the violence that they are wreaking on […]

Journal article

Women on the frontline: can a network provide a platform for activists in the volatile MENA region?

28/03/2017

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women on the frontline: can a network provide a platform for activists in the volatile MENA region?

Keywords

Overview

The article shares the experience of Women on the Frontline (WoF), a network of about 30 women’s rights organisations with its origins in the Netherlands, and covering seven countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The organisations participating in WoF all have their own agendas and particular needs, but they share one […]

Journal article

Mama cash: investing in the future of women

01/03/2001

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Mama cash: investing in the future of women

Keywords

Overview

Mama Cash is an independent organisation that is committed to changing and improving the position of women, through providing both financial and moral support to women’s groups and entrepreneurs. Although Mama Cash is relatively small, its feminist vision is broad and worldwide. It aims to support innovative projects that mainstream organisations avoid, and so enable […]

Journal article

Microfinance and women’s empowerment: a lesson from India

01/11/2002

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Microfinance and women’s empowerment: a lesson from India

Keywords

Overview

This article describes an NGO project intended to empower scheduled caste women working in the silk-reeling industry in India through the provision of microfinance. It documents the impact that the project had on their economic and social status over a period of time and highlights the negative consequences of excluding male relatives from playing any […]

Journal article

Re-imagining resilience: supporting feminist women to lead development with transformative practice

18/03/2020

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Re-imagining resilience: supporting feminist women to lead development with transformative practice

Keywords

Overview

A large amount of the international development funding for women’s rights and gender justice goes to supporting women’s representation and leadership in formal decision-making bodies. This support is often about strengthening their technical skills. However, much more is needed to support women engaged in work that is stressful, often abusive and violent, and may even […]

Journal article

Conceptualising women’s empowerment in societies in Cameroon: how does money fit in?

01/03/2001

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Conceptualising women’s empowerment in societies in Cameroon: how does money fit in?

Keywords

Overview

Money is an essential element in household livelihoods, and those who control it have considerable power. However, development projects seeking to alleviate household-level poverty and promote economic growth often speak of the ’empowerment’ of women in relation to promoting women’s access to credit or income-generation. What is the relationship between empowerment and money? Access to […]