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Research report

Women’s Collective Action: Unlocking the potential of agricultural markets

27/03/2013

3 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

Development actors are increasingly prioritising ‘investing in women’ to ensure food security and sustainability-as well as equity-in agricultural development. In this context, collective action is a critical but poorly understood way for women small-scale farmers to strengthen their engagement in agricultural markets. This report provides rigorous new evidence, from quantitative and qualitative research carried out […]

Journal article

Gender, conflict, and peacebuilding: how conflict can catalyse positive change for women

12/11/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, conflict, and peacebuilding: how conflict can catalyse positive change for women

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Overview

Although modern-day armed conflict is horrific for women, recent conflict and post-conflict periods have provided women with new platforms and opportunities to bring about change. The roles of women alter and expand during conflict as they participate in the struggles and take on more economic responsibilities and duties as heads of households. The trauma of […]

Journal article

From the private to the public sphere: new research on women’s participation in peace-building

12/11/2013

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

From the private to the public sphere: new research on women’s participation in peace-building

Keywords

Overview

Despite the United Nation’s landmark Security Council Resolution on women, peace and security in 2000 which highlighted the importance of women’s participation in peace-building, only one in 40 peace treaty signatories over the last 25 years has been a woman. Yet evidence from non-government organisations and women’s rights organisations shows that women are active agents of peace, resolving conflicts […]

Journal article

A decolonial feminist inquiry into women’s agency in the urban landscape in 19th-century Iran

19/09/2024

25 pages long

Free access through journal website

A decolonial feminist inquiry into women’s agency in the urban landscape in 19th-century Iran

Keywords

Overview

Proposing a socio-historical and decolonial analytical lens, I challenge the current dominant discourses surrounding Iranian women’s agency in emerging public spaces in the late 19th century. I scrutinise the urban landscape in late 19th-century Iran, drawing from a variety of archival data, such as first-hand memoirs, travelogues, and official reports, to situate Iranian women in […]

Journal article

The importance of being connected: urban poor women’s experience of self-help discourse in Cambodia

01/07/2013

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

The importance of being connected: urban poor women’s experience of self-help discourse in Cambodia

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses and analyses the experience of women involved in a non-government organisation-funded women’s empowerment project in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Women involved in the project encounter ideas about community development and urban poverty reduction – in particular, outsider-imposed notions of self-help group formation, women’s empowerment, and community solidarity. The article explores the ways in […]

Journal article

Towards realistic strategies for women’s political empowerment in Africa

01/11/2000

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Towards realistic strategies for women’s political empowerment in Africa

Keywords

Overview

Current NGO and development agency strategies to support women’s political empowerment are based on two assumptions: firstly, that women’s increased access to resources, especially education, will lead to their increased representation in political positions; and secondly, that governments are genuinely committed to leading national programmes of action for women’s advancement. Both of these assumptions are […]

Journal article

‘I can do women’s work’: reflections on engaging men as allies in women’s economic empowerment

14/03/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘I can do women’s work’: reflections on engaging men as allies in women’s economic empowerment

Keywords

Overview

The benefits of women’s economic empowerment are well-known and documented in the development literature. Few studies and interventions, however, have explored how men react or can be engaged to enhance such interventions. This article presents an evaluation of a pilot project in Rwanda in collaboration with CARE Rwanda’s Village Savings and Loan (VSL) programme that […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Armenia: Impact evaluation of the women’s economic empowerment project in rural communities in Vayots Dzor region

16/03/2017

2 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2015/16, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. The evaluation took place in November 2015 in Vayots Dzor region – Armenia. It intended to evaluate the success of the ‘Women’s economic empowerment in rural communities of Vayots Dzor region’ project in achieving […]

Journal article

Gendered precarious employment in China’s gig economy: exploring women gig drivers’ intersectional vulnerabilities and resistances

07/12/2022

23 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered precarious employment in China’s gig economy: exploring women gig drivers’ intersectional vulnerabilities and resistances

Keywords

Overview

The article offers a timely study of the gendered experience of gig work in China and prioritises the nexus of an intersectional feminist approach to explore women workers’ situated problematics and precarious employment in ride-hailing platforms. Drawing on ‘chatnography’, conducted over a period of 17 months and semi-structured interviews with 30 women platform drivers, this […]

Journal article

New genetic technologies and their impact on women: a feminist perspective

01/05/2003

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

New genetic technologies and their impact on women: a feminist perspective

Keywords

Overview

In wealthy countries such as the United States, new genetic and reproductive technologies, including human reproductive cloning, are being developed. To date, the short- and long- term consequences for women of human reproductive cloning have remained largely unexamined. This article analyses ten common misconceptions about new genetic technologies, especially human reproductive cloning, and shows that […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Women’s Collective Action: Unlocking the potential of agricultural markets

27/03/2013

3 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Development actors are increasingly prioritising ‘investing in women’ to ensure food security and sustainability-as well as equity-in agricultural development. In this context, collective action is a critical but poorly understood way for women small-scale farmers to strengthen their engagement in agricultural markets. This report provides rigorous new evidence, from quantitative and qualitative research carried out […]

Journal article

Gender, conflict, and peacebuilding: how conflict can catalyse positive change for women

12/11/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, conflict, and peacebuilding: how conflict can catalyse positive change for women

Keywords

Overview

Although modern-day armed conflict is horrific for women, recent conflict and post-conflict periods have provided women with new platforms and opportunities to bring about change. The roles of women alter and expand during conflict as they participate in the struggles and take on more economic responsibilities and duties as heads of households. The trauma of […]

Journal article

From the private to the public sphere: new research on women’s participation in peace-building

12/11/2013

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

From the private to the public sphere: new research on women’s participation in peace-building

Keywords

Overview

Despite the United Nation’s landmark Security Council Resolution on women, peace and security in 2000 which highlighted the importance of women’s participation in peace-building, only one in 40 peace treaty signatories over the last 25 years has been a woman. Yet evidence from non-government organisations and women’s rights organisations shows that women are active agents of peace, resolving conflicts […]

Journal article

A decolonial feminist inquiry into women’s agency in the urban landscape in 19th-century Iran

19/09/2024

25 pages long

Free access through journal website

A decolonial feminist inquiry into women’s agency in the urban landscape in 19th-century Iran

Keywords

Overview

Proposing a socio-historical and decolonial analytical lens, I challenge the current dominant discourses surrounding Iranian women’s agency in emerging public spaces in the late 19th century. I scrutinise the urban landscape in late 19th-century Iran, drawing from a variety of archival data, such as first-hand memoirs, travelogues, and official reports, to situate Iranian women in […]

Journal article

The importance of being connected: urban poor women’s experience of self-help discourse in Cambodia

01/07/2013

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

The importance of being connected: urban poor women’s experience of self-help discourse in Cambodia

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses and analyses the experience of women involved in a non-government organisation-funded women’s empowerment project in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Women involved in the project encounter ideas about community development and urban poverty reduction – in particular, outsider-imposed notions of self-help group formation, women’s empowerment, and community solidarity. The article explores the ways in […]

Journal article

Towards realistic strategies for women’s political empowerment in Africa

01/11/2000

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Towards realistic strategies for women’s political empowerment in Africa

Keywords

Overview

Current NGO and development agency strategies to support women’s political empowerment are based on two assumptions: firstly, that women’s increased access to resources, especially education, will lead to their increased representation in political positions; and secondly, that governments are genuinely committed to leading national programmes of action for women’s advancement. Both of these assumptions are […]

Journal article

‘I can do women’s work’: reflections on engaging men as allies in women’s economic empowerment

14/03/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘I can do women’s work’: reflections on engaging men as allies in women’s economic empowerment

Keywords

Overview

The benefits of women’s economic empowerment are well-known and documented in the development literature. Few studies and interventions, however, have explored how men react or can be engaged to enhance such interventions. This article presents an evaluation of a pilot project in Rwanda in collaboration with CARE Rwanda’s Village Savings and Loan (VSL) programme that […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Armenia: Impact evaluation of the women’s economic empowerment project in rural communities in Vayots Dzor region

16/03/2017

2 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2015/16, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. The evaluation took place in November 2015 in Vayots Dzor region – Armenia. It intended to evaluate the success of the ‘Women’s economic empowerment in rural communities of Vayots Dzor region’ project in achieving […]

Journal article

Gendered precarious employment in China’s gig economy: exploring women gig drivers’ intersectional vulnerabilities and resistances

07/12/2022

23 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered precarious employment in China’s gig economy: exploring women gig drivers’ intersectional vulnerabilities and resistances

Keywords

Overview

The article offers a timely study of the gendered experience of gig work in China and prioritises the nexus of an intersectional feminist approach to explore women workers’ situated problematics and precarious employment in ride-hailing platforms. Drawing on ‘chatnography’, conducted over a period of 17 months and semi-structured interviews with 30 women platform drivers, this […]

Journal article

New genetic technologies and their impact on women: a feminist perspective

01/05/2003

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

New genetic technologies and their impact on women: a feminist perspective

Keywords

Overview

In wealthy countries such as the United States, new genetic and reproductive technologies, including human reproductive cloning, are being developed. To date, the short- and long- term consequences for women of human reproductive cloning have remained largely unexamined. This article analyses ten common misconceptions about new genetic technologies, especially human reproductive cloning, and shows that […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Women’s Collective Action: Unlocking the potential of agricultural markets

27/03/2013

3 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Development actors are increasingly prioritising ‘investing in women’ to ensure food security and sustainability-as well as equity-in agricultural development. In this context, collective action is a critical but poorly understood way for women small-scale farmers to strengthen their engagement in agricultural markets. This report provides rigorous new evidence, from quantitative and qualitative research carried out […]

Journal article

Gender, conflict, and peacebuilding: how conflict can catalyse positive change for women

12/11/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, conflict, and peacebuilding: how conflict can catalyse positive change for women

Keywords

Overview

Although modern-day armed conflict is horrific for women, recent conflict and post-conflict periods have provided women with new platforms and opportunities to bring about change. The roles of women alter and expand during conflict as they participate in the struggles and take on more economic responsibilities and duties as heads of households. The trauma of […]

Journal article

From the private to the public sphere: new research on women’s participation in peace-building

12/11/2013

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

From the private to the public sphere: new research on women’s participation in peace-building

Keywords

Overview

Despite the United Nation’s landmark Security Council Resolution on women, peace and security in 2000 which highlighted the importance of women’s participation in peace-building, only one in 40 peace treaty signatories over the last 25 years has been a woman. Yet evidence from non-government organisations and women’s rights organisations shows that women are active agents of peace, resolving conflicts […]

Journal article

A decolonial feminist inquiry into women’s agency in the urban landscape in 19th-century Iran

19/09/2024

25 pages long

Free access through journal website

A decolonial feminist inquiry into women’s agency in the urban landscape in 19th-century Iran

Keywords

Overview

Proposing a socio-historical and decolonial analytical lens, I challenge the current dominant discourses surrounding Iranian women’s agency in emerging public spaces in the late 19th century. I scrutinise the urban landscape in late 19th-century Iran, drawing from a variety of archival data, such as first-hand memoirs, travelogues, and official reports, to situate Iranian women in […]

Journal article

The importance of being connected: urban poor women’s experience of self-help discourse in Cambodia

01/07/2013

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

The importance of being connected: urban poor women’s experience of self-help discourse in Cambodia

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses and analyses the experience of women involved in a non-government organisation-funded women’s empowerment project in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Women involved in the project encounter ideas about community development and urban poverty reduction – in particular, outsider-imposed notions of self-help group formation, women’s empowerment, and community solidarity. The article explores the ways in […]

Journal article

Towards realistic strategies for women’s political empowerment in Africa

01/11/2000

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Towards realistic strategies for women’s political empowerment in Africa

Keywords

Overview

Current NGO and development agency strategies to support women’s political empowerment are based on two assumptions: firstly, that women’s increased access to resources, especially education, will lead to their increased representation in political positions; and secondly, that governments are genuinely committed to leading national programmes of action for women’s advancement. Both of these assumptions are […]

Journal article

‘I can do women’s work’: reflections on engaging men as allies in women’s economic empowerment

14/03/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘I can do women’s work’: reflections on engaging men as allies in women’s economic empowerment

Keywords

Overview

The benefits of women’s economic empowerment are well-known and documented in the development literature. Few studies and interventions, however, have explored how men react or can be engaged to enhance such interventions. This article presents an evaluation of a pilot project in Rwanda in collaboration with CARE Rwanda’s Village Savings and Loan (VSL) programme that […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Armenia: Impact evaluation of the women’s economic empowerment project in rural communities in Vayots Dzor region

16/03/2017

2 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2015/16, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. The evaluation took place in November 2015 in Vayots Dzor region – Armenia. It intended to evaluate the success of the ‘Women’s economic empowerment in rural communities of Vayots Dzor region’ project in achieving […]

Journal article

Gendered precarious employment in China’s gig economy: exploring women gig drivers’ intersectional vulnerabilities and resistances

07/12/2022

23 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered precarious employment in China’s gig economy: exploring women gig drivers’ intersectional vulnerabilities and resistances

Keywords

Overview

The article offers a timely study of the gendered experience of gig work in China and prioritises the nexus of an intersectional feminist approach to explore women workers’ situated problematics and precarious employment in ride-hailing platforms. Drawing on ‘chatnography’, conducted over a period of 17 months and semi-structured interviews with 30 women platform drivers, this […]

Journal article

New genetic technologies and their impact on women: a feminist perspective

01/05/2003

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

New genetic technologies and their impact on women: a feminist perspective

Keywords

Overview

In wealthy countries such as the United States, new genetic and reproductive technologies, including human reproductive cloning, are being developed. To date, the short- and long- term consequences for women of human reproductive cloning have remained largely unexamined. This article analyses ten common misconceptions about new genetic technologies, especially human reproductive cloning, and shows that […]