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Gender lost and gender found: BRAC’s Gender Quality Action-Learning Programme

01/05/1998

13 pages long

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Gender lost and gender found: BRAC’s Gender Quality Action-Learning Programme

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The Gender Quality Action-Learning (GQAL) Programme of BRAC, a large rural development NGO in Bangladesh, is described and analysed. This Programme works with male and female field-staff and managers in a process of issue-analysis, action planning, and implementation (the GQAL cycle) to address organizational change and programme quality concerns in a way that is informed […]

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Sanctioned violence: development and the persecution of women as witches in South Bihar

01/05/1998

12 pages long

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Sanctioned violence: development and the persecution of women as witches in South Bihar

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Victimizing women as witches is prevalent in the tribal regions of South Bihar. As a result, from 1991 to 1994, over 60 women are known to have been killed in West Singhbhum district alone. The main reasons behind this persecution are to maintain women in economic and social subjugation, to exploit them sexually, and to […]

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Institutionalizing gender in UK NGOs

01/05/1998

14 pages long

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Drawing on recent research, it has been explored how far and in what ways UK NGOs have tried to incorporate gender into the policies and procedures of their international development work, and how far a formal recognition of gender issues is shaping the way each organization functions. The strengths and weaknesses of different strategies are […]

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Power, institutions and gender relations: can gender training alter the equations?

01/05/1998

9 pages long

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Power, institutions and gender relations: can gender training alter the equations?

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NGOs, like other organisations, are gendered; that is, they reflect society’s power relations between men and women. The author argues that NGOs must begin a process of gender-sensitive institutional change, building equitable practices and attitudes in the long-term, benefiting and empowering NGO staff as well as impacting on their programme work, and strategic objectives. This […]

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Women’s empowerment and micro-finance programmes: strategies for increasing impact

01/05/1998

7 pages long

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Women’s empowerment and micro-finance programmes: strategies for increasing impact

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The Small Enterprise Development Fund of the Department for International Development (DFID) of the British Government commissioned a literature review and held workshops, both co-ordinated by ActionAid UK, to assess the impact of micro-finance schemes on women’s empowerment. Three broad approaches to micro-finance for women are identified as well as the constraints affecting impact in […]

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Gujurati migrants’ search for modernity in Britain

01/03/1998

8 pages long

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Gujurati migrants’ search for modernity in Britain

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In this article we consider international migration by drawing on the life stories of Gujaratis presently living in Wellingborough, to illustrate the varied and complex reasons for migration, and the contrasting experiences of men and women migrants. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this […]

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Mental illness and social stigma: experiences in a Pakistani community in the UK

01/03/1998

7 pages long

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Mental illness and social stigma: experiences in a Pakistani community in the UK

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Through an examination of the role of women in the family, and concepts of mental illness within the Pakistani community and the British context, this article discusses the reasons why the experiences of hospitalisation and subsequent treatment with drug therapy in the community is so stigmatising for Pakistani women. This article is hosted by our […]

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Frustrated and Displaced’: Filipina domestic workers in Canada

01/03/1998

6 pages long

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Frustrated and Displaced’: Filipina domestic workers in Canada

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This article examines the case of Filipina domestic workers in Canada, based on a participatory action research study that the authors carried out with Filipina domestic workers in 1996. The Philippines has been a major supplier of migrant labour, and is one of the principal sources of foreign domestic workers in Canada. This article is […]

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The use and abuse of female domestic workers from Sri Lanka in Lebanon

01/03/1998

5 pages long

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The use and abuse of female domestic workers from Sri Lanka in Lebanon

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In Lebanon today, large numbers of Sri Lankan women are employed as domestic servants, many of whom suffer abuse and violence. This article asks why NGOs in Lebanon do not seem to be concerned about this situation, and suggests what might be done to address the needs of migrants. This article is hosted by our […]

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Food shortages and gender relations in Ikafe Settlement, Uganda

01/03/1998

7 pages long

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Food shortages and gender relations in Ikafe Settlement, Uganda

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Migrating to another country, and settling there as refugees, has practical implications for the lives of men and women, and for social relations. Women face social vulnerability as a result of changed gender relations, despite opportunities to challenge existing stereotypes concerning women’s and men’s roles and identities. This article describes the coping strategies adopted by […]

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