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Human security and reconstruction efforts in Rwanda: impact on the lives of women

01/11/2003

9 pages long

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Human security and reconstruction efforts in Rwanda: impact on the lives of women

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This paper evaluates the pertinence of interventions sponsored by aid agencies that seek to meet the security needs of women in post-reconstruction Rwanda. Personal security, economic security, and socio-political security are used as the main methodological reference marks and indicators. The information and data used in the paper were gathered during several visits to Rwanda […]

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Trade unions and women’s NGOs: diverse civil society organisations in Iran

01/02/2004

13 pages long

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A comparison of trade unions and NGOs in Iran demonstrates the diverse nature of their activities. Over the last 90 years, trade unions have played important roles in changing the political system in that country. However, unions are largely male-dominated organisations, which explains why some women have begun to organise women’s trade unions. This article […]

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Promoting gender equality? Some development-related uses of ICTs by women

01/11/2006

6 pages long

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Promoting gender equality? Some development-related uses of ICTs by women

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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have created new economic and social opportunities all over the world. Their use, however, continues to be governed by existing power relations whereby women frequently experience relative disadvantage. Amid this inequality are individuals and organisations that are working to use ICTs to further gender equality. These are the issues addressed […]

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Women, gender, and conflict: making the connections

01/06/2006

12 pages long

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Women, gender, and conflict: making the connections

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This review essay explores the need to make the roles of women and of men visible in order to understand the different ways in which they are involved in, and affected by, armed conflict; and also to examine the ways in which gender roles, the relations between women and men, are changed during and as […]

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Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

01/06/2008

7 pages long

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Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

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Women planners in Africa do not constitute a critical mass: their numbers remain negligible and their output unrecognised, while mentors and role models still tend to be male. Women’s experiences are undervalued, and their knowledge is often excluded in policy, project planning, and implementation. This article arises not from systematic academic research but from confessional, […]

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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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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. […]

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Walking together: the journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the women’s movement

01/09/2009

11 pages long

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Walking together: the journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the women’s movement

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Overview

The story of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the way in which women engaged with it, gaining from its overall liberatory calls, as well as its political independence from the UN and other multilateral agencies, is relatively unknown in the world of development and women; and yet it is an important example of multilateral space. […]

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Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

01/02/2010

12 pages long

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Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

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Overview

Water supply and sanitation provision are key elements in progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Women’s participation is considered integral to the sustainability of the projects created to meet these two MDGs. Bringing feminist and geographic critiques to bear on gendered approaches to improving sanitation coverage, the research reported on in this article indicates […]

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Environment and women in Uganda: the way I see it

01/02/1993

3 pages long

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Environment and women in Uganda: the way I see it

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Adoko’s argument is that projects to protect the environment should not be made the responsibility of poor women, particularly since it is not women – or poor people – who are destroying the environment. In the case of tree planting in Uganda, women are burdened with collecting water for saplings, whilst important gender issues such […]

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Conflict and the women of Chad

01/06/1993

3 pages long

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Conflict and the women of Chad

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In times of war, the poorest people in communities – usually women and children – are most affected. The 1979 civil war in Chad plunged many women into poverty, especially in urban areas. Yet at the same time the conflict smashed Chad’s patriarchal social order allowing women to move into traditionally male roles. Their contribution […]

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Journal article

Human security and reconstruction efforts in Rwanda: impact on the lives of women

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Human security and reconstruction efforts in Rwanda: impact on the lives of women

Keywords

Overview

This paper evaluates the pertinence of interventions sponsored by aid agencies that seek to meet the security needs of women in post-reconstruction Rwanda. Personal security, economic security, and socio-political security are used as the main methodological reference marks and indicators. The information and data used in the paper were gathered during several visits to Rwanda […]

Journal article

Trade unions and women’s NGOs: diverse civil society organisations in Iran

01/02/2004

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

A comparison of trade unions and NGOs in Iran demonstrates the diverse nature of their activities. Over the last 90 years, trade unions have played important roles in changing the political system in that country. However, unions are largely male-dominated organisations, which explains why some women have begun to organise women’s trade unions. This article […]

Journal article

Promoting gender equality? Some development-related uses of ICTs by women

01/11/2006

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Promoting gender equality? Some development-related uses of ICTs by women

Keywords

Overview

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have created new economic and social opportunities all over the world. Their use, however, continues to be governed by existing power relations whereby women frequently experience relative disadvantage. Amid this inequality are individuals and organisations that are working to use ICTs to further gender equality. These are the issues addressed […]

Journal article

Women, gender, and conflict: making the connections

01/06/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, gender, and conflict: making the connections

Keywords

Overview

This review essay explores the need to make the roles of women and of men visible in order to understand the different ways in which they are involved in, and affected by, armed conflict; and also to examine the ways in which gender roles, the relations between women and men, are changed during and as […]

Journal article

Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

01/06/2008

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

Keywords

Overview

Women planners in Africa do not constitute a critical mass: their numbers remain negligible and their output unrecognised, while mentors and role models still tend to be male. Women’s experiences are undervalued, and their knowledge is often excluded in policy, project planning, and implementation. This article arises not from systematic academic research but from confessional, […]

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

Walking together: the journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the women’s movement

01/09/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Walking together: the journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the women’s movement

Keywords

Overview

The story of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the way in which women engaged with it, gaining from its overall liberatory calls, as well as its political independence from the UN and other multilateral agencies, is relatively unknown in the world of development and women; and yet it is an important example of multilateral space. […]

Journal article

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

01/02/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

Keywords

Overview

Water supply and sanitation provision are key elements in progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Women’s participation is considered integral to the sustainability of the projects created to meet these two MDGs. Bringing feminist and geographic critiques to bear on gendered approaches to improving sanitation coverage, the research reported on in this article indicates […]

Journal article

Environment and women in Uganda: the way I see it

01/02/1993

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Environment and women in Uganda: the way I see it

Keywords

Overview

Adoko’s argument is that projects to protect the environment should not be made the responsibility of poor women, particularly since it is not women – or poor people – who are destroying the environment. In the case of tree planting in Uganda, women are burdened with collecting water for saplings, whilst important gender issues such […]

Journal article

Conflict and the women of Chad

01/06/1993

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Conflict and the women of Chad

Keywords

Overview

In times of war, the poorest people in communities – usually women and children – are most affected. The 1979 civil war in Chad plunged many women into poverty, especially in urban areas. Yet at the same time the conflict smashed Chad’s patriarchal social order allowing women to move into traditionally male roles. Their contribution […]

Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Human security and reconstruction efforts in Rwanda: impact on the lives of women

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Human security and reconstruction efforts in Rwanda: impact on the lives of women

Keywords

Overview

This paper evaluates the pertinence of interventions sponsored by aid agencies that seek to meet the security needs of women in post-reconstruction Rwanda. Personal security, economic security, and socio-political security are used as the main methodological reference marks and indicators. The information and data used in the paper were gathered during several visits to Rwanda […]

Journal article

Trade unions and women’s NGOs: diverse civil society organisations in Iran

01/02/2004

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

A comparison of trade unions and NGOs in Iran demonstrates the diverse nature of their activities. Over the last 90 years, trade unions have played important roles in changing the political system in that country. However, unions are largely male-dominated organisations, which explains why some women have begun to organise women’s trade unions. This article […]

Journal article

Promoting gender equality? Some development-related uses of ICTs by women

01/11/2006

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Promoting gender equality? Some development-related uses of ICTs by women

Keywords

Overview

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have created new economic and social opportunities all over the world. Their use, however, continues to be governed by existing power relations whereby women frequently experience relative disadvantage. Amid this inequality are individuals and organisations that are working to use ICTs to further gender equality. These are the issues addressed […]

Journal article

Women, gender, and conflict: making the connections

01/06/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, gender, and conflict: making the connections

Keywords

Overview

This review essay explores the need to make the roles of women and of men visible in order to understand the different ways in which they are involved in, and affected by, armed conflict; and also to examine the ways in which gender roles, the relations between women and men, are changed during and as […]

Journal article

Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

01/06/2008

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

Keywords

Overview

Women planners in Africa do not constitute a critical mass: their numbers remain negligible and their output unrecognised, while mentors and role models still tend to be male. Women’s experiences are undervalued, and their knowledge is often excluded in policy, project planning, and implementation. This article arises not from systematic academic research but from confessional, […]

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

Walking together: the journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the women’s movement

01/09/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Walking together: the journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the women’s movement

Keywords

Overview

The story of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the way in which women engaged with it, gaining from its overall liberatory calls, as well as its political independence from the UN and other multilateral agencies, is relatively unknown in the world of development and women; and yet it is an important example of multilateral space. […]

Journal article

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

01/02/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

Keywords

Overview

Water supply and sanitation provision are key elements in progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Women’s participation is considered integral to the sustainability of the projects created to meet these two MDGs. Bringing feminist and geographic critiques to bear on gendered approaches to improving sanitation coverage, the research reported on in this article indicates […]

Journal article

Environment and women in Uganda: the way I see it

01/02/1993

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Environment and women in Uganda: the way I see it

Keywords

Overview

Adoko’s argument is that projects to protect the environment should not be made the responsibility of poor women, particularly since it is not women – or poor people – who are destroying the environment. In the case of tree planting in Uganda, women are burdened with collecting water for saplings, whilst important gender issues such […]

Journal article

Conflict and the women of Chad

01/06/1993

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Conflict and the women of Chad

Keywords

Overview

In times of war, the poorest people in communities – usually women and children – are most affected. The 1979 civil war in Chad plunged many women into poverty, especially in urban areas. Yet at the same time the conflict smashed Chad’s patriarchal social order allowing women to move into traditionally male roles. Their contribution […]