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AFRA confronts gender issues: the process of creating a gender strategy

01/02/1997

6 pages long

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AFRA confronts gender issues: the process of creating a gender strategy

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The process of incorporating a gender strategy for its work was not without problems for AFRA. In the South African context, the issues of race and gender can interact to cause conflict and misunderstanding. This article describes how the organisation dealt with the difficulties that had to be overcome in order to develop a common […]

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Implementing a gender policy in ACORD: strategies, constraints, and challenges

01/02/1997

7 pages long

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Implementing a gender policy in ACORD: strategies, constraints, and challenges

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This short article examines the evolution of ACORD’s approach to gender issues, and summarises the main conclusions emerging from a recent review of the organisation’s gender policy. Some strengths and weaknesses of particular strategies adopted at various levels of the organisation are indicated. The article goes on to discuss future directions for the implementation. This […]

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Promoting women entrepreneurs in Lebanon: the experience of UNIFEM

01/02/1997

5 pages long

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Promoting women entrepreneurs in Lebanon: the experience of UNIFEM

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This article gives a personal perspective on a programme in which UNIFEM has been involved, which aimed to strengthen the capabilities of governmental and non-governmental organisations working on micro-enterprise, and to make the services they provide sensitive to gender concerns. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of […]

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Establishing a feminist culture: the experience of Zimbabwe Women’s Resource Centre and Network

01/02/1997

8 pages long

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Establishing a feminist culture: the experience of Zimbabwe Women’s Resource Centre and Network

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This is an account of the experience of ZWRCN in attempting to establish a feminist organisational culture, analysing the successes, and describing the pitfalls encountered. In order to create such an organisational culture, a shared vision is essential. The author raises critical issues for organisations wishing to question the ways of working of traditional bureaucracies. […]

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Rethinking organisations: a feminist perspective

01/02/1997

7 pages long

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Rethinking organisations: a feminist perspective

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In April 1996, 24 women and men from Asia, Africa, Latin and North America, and Europe met for five days in Canada, to share their experience of helping organisations, especially development organisations, to include women in their programmes, and ensure equitable power relations between women and men. This article gives an account of some of […]

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Making the human development index (HDI) gender-sensitive

01/02/1997

2 pages long

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Making the human development index (HDI) gender-sensitive

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The Human Development Index (HDI) has become a widely used measure for understanding patterns of socio-economic development. This article argues that it could be greatly improved by incorporating sex-disaggregated data, to reveal the different socio-economic contributions and situations of men and women within each country. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. […]

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Introduction

01/02/1997

7 pages long

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website.

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Book

Men and Masculinity

01/01/1997

1 documents

75 pages long

Languages: English

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Masculinity

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What does it mean to be a man today in different cultures? This collection of papers by development practitioners and theorists considers the implications of male gender identities for the rights of both women and men, and for gender-equitable development. The authors, including Kamla Bhasin, Andrea Cornwall, Patrice Engle, and Sarah White, examine the concept […]

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Book

Gender and Poverty in the North

01/01/1997

1 documents

75 pages long

Languages: English

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Livelihoods

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International development policy-makers and practitioners are becoming increasingly involved in debates with governments and NGOs in the industrialised countries of the North, focusing on appropriate methods of understanding and tackling Northern poverty. The articles in this collection examine the phenomenon of the globalisation of poverty and unemployment as it relates to gender identity.

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Book

Gender and Disability: Women’s experiences in the Middle East

01/01/1997

1 documents

104 pages long

Languages: English

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Social protection

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Women with disabilities face a double discrimination, both in terms of gender and also of their particular disability. This book examines the situation of women with various types of disability, in the Middle Eastern context. It provides a general overview of gender and disability and includes several case studies from the Lebanon, Yemen, and the […]

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