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Implementing gender issues in multilaterals

01/10/1994

7 pages long

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Implementing gender issues in multilaterals

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The World Bank is changing its personnel and policies to reflect its commitment to mainstreaming gender in all its work. Women’s empowerment is vital for long term economic growth, higher living standards and environmental sustainability. The Bank believes that removing barriers to women’s health and productivity will allow women to participate in income generating labour, […]

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The globalisation of the economy

01/10/1994

9 pages long

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Free trade benefits developed nations’ economies to the detriment of developing countries. Southern women’s organisations are uniting to challenge their negative experiences of the global economic system. They want access to policy-making institutions and communicative technologies, to bring about redistribution of wealth, equal access to resources, and their own empowerment. Yet the division is ‘winners/losers’ […]

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Of borders, bridges and sisterhood

01/10/1994

4 pages long

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When Southern women united under the ‘Women’s Linking Project’ (WLP), they found they had as many similarities as differences. Greatest of these was colonial influence. The author shows how development programmes are still imperialistic and continue to subjugate women. Furthermore, she sees poverty in all its forms as a direct result of neo-liberal economic policies […]

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International lobbying for change

01/10/1994

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Obtaining recognition of domestic violence as a rights issue at the recent UN ‘World Conference on Human Rights’, was due largely to activism worldwide. It is hopeful that activism can also secure results in the 1995 ‘World Conference on Women’. Lieshout examines how activism worked for the UN Conference, with a global petition and NGO […]

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NGOs and income-generation projects: Lessons from the Joint Funding Scheme

01/11/1993

12 pages long

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A visit to a number of small enterprise and income-generation projects supported under the ODA’s Joint Funding Scheme in Zimbabwe and Kenya has raised a series of key points which have wider implications for practitioners and donors. The article discusses each point and makes nine ‘recommendations for NGOs and donors who support them. While the […]

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Is liberalisation damaging Albanian women’s health?

01/10/1993

3 pages long

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Is liberalisation damaging Albanian women’s health?

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This article shows how Albanian women are taking active control of daily struggles brought about by an unstable political system and paramount shifts in social and economic structures. How do women take care of the material needs of their family when resources are scarce? How do they cope with no basic health care, lack of […]

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Saptagram opens up windows of opportunity in Bangladesh

01/10/1993

5 pages long

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Saptagram opens up windows of opportunity in Bangladesh

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Yasmin explains how the NGO Saptagram, is challenging gender biases that keep Bangladeshi landless rural women in poverty. Its efforts to empower women by increasing their employment opportunities have met with mixed success. The challenges Saptagram faces are huge: women as much as men do not regard the work they do as ‘real’ work. A […]

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The other side of economic success

01/10/1993

3 pages long

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Chile’s recent move to democracy has not yet brought benefits to women. Under the old military regime, economic liberalisation boosted inequality and poverty. A decline in State welfare and male employment forced women into poorly paid jobs, on top of domestic work. On the other hand, women’s groups played an important role in establishing the […]

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Empowerment through income-generating projects

01/10/1993

3 pages long

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Empowerment through income-generating projects

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Women working in India’s informal and agricultural sectors are being trapped into poverty. ‘Women’s Liberation and Rehabilitation Society’ (WLARS) is helping women is scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in Madhugiri Taluk. The organisation aims to empower women through income generating projects (the income is of secondary importance.) WLARS wants social and economic equality and advocacy […]

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NGOs and gender policy

01/10/1993

5 pages long

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India’s State administration has implemented a gender policy for the country’s silk workers. But Mayoux’s research reveals that gender equality in the industry is far from being a reality. It is especially important to address gender issues in the silk reeling industry, because the industry is both expanding and profitable, offering its workers the potential […]

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