India and Gender
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- BRIDGE
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Search BRIDGE's database of gender-focused material
- The BLDS gender collection
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Search for the latest gender-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- How can policy implementation of gender sensitive HIV/AIDS be strengthened?
- Voluntary Service Overseas, 2003
- This report examines how national and international policy implementation of HIV/AIDS can be strengthened. Research was carried out in South Africa, Namibia, India and Cambodia to find out, at national and international levels, the ov...
- Good programs can change gender norms to reduce health risk
- Synergy Project, USAID, 2003
- This review outlines programs in Central America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia that are designed to change social norms related to entrenched gender roles. It explains the methodologies each program employed to achie...
- Conference on social protection for the ageing population
- United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2002
- The UNRISD conference examined the opportunities, problems and challenges of effective social protection for older people, including formal public policies and more informal strategies, such as household support systems. In Ses...
- Comparison of causes of infant and child mortality between Andhra Pradesh and Kerala
- E. Masset; H. White / Young Lives, 2003
- This paper examines the determinants of infant and child mortality in Andhra Pradesh and Kerala and the factors explaining their differential performance. It concludes that raising service levels across India toward the levels ...
- Poverty and gender: the limits of microfinance
- Helen Pankhurst / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- Credit and savings schemes are hailed as blueprints for tackling poverty but their benefits are exaggerated. They fail to address the way gender effects relations of power and inequality within families. Frequently unsustainable, they...
- Lessons to counter gender-blind drylands management
- Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2003
- With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland m...
- How does civil society create spaces for implementing the right to education for all in India?
- U. Devi / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002
- This paper analyses the role of civil society in advocating for the adoption of the Bill on the Right to Education in India. The author argues that recent successes in civil society mobilisation could form a good basis to implementing...
- How do agricultural technologies influence poverty?
- R. Meinzen-Dick; M. Adato; L. Haddad; P. Hazell / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
- This paper examines how agricultural technologies influence and are influenced by the diverse livelihood strategies, vulnerability context, relations of gender and power, and other conditions of the poor. It reports findings o...
- An analysis of developments indicating women's active participation in governance in India
- M. Nussbaum; A. Basu; Y. Tambiah; G.N. Jayal / Human Development Resource Centre, India, 2003
- This book is based on four essays that look at gender and governance in the context of UNDP's efforts to promote development, and women’s role in it. They are based on the question of gendered governance and also analyze developm...
- Gender differences in school enrolment in India: maternal education, gender discrimination and the need to work
- S. Pal / Cardiff Business School, Economics Section, 2003
- This paper considers several possible causes of observed gender differences in child schooling in the Indian states, including differential returns to schooling, household resource constraint, nature of parental preferences and also c...
- Centre for Equity and Inclusion (CEQUIN)
- The Centre for Equity and Inclusion (CEQUIN) is a Non Profit Organization working in India towards the empowerment of marginalized and excluded sections of the population, with a special focus on women.
- The Goodwill Social Work Centre
- The Goodwill Social Work Centre aims to: promote the overall development of children, youth and women in rural and urban areas in India, who are socially and economically deprived provide family-centred home-based intensive services to children, youth and women in dysfunctional families in slums and backward areas in India sensitise rural and ur...
- Kerala Research Programme on Local Development
- Developing scientific research capability in Kerala
- SAHAYOG
- SAHAYOG is a registered non-profit voluntary organisation. It was established in 1992 with the aim of promoting sustainable, participatory rural development. SAHAYOG works in the Hindi-speaking states of north India, with its headquarters in Lucknow which is the capital of Uttar Pradesh. It uses the rights based approach to tackle issues like women’s health and their rights, gender equality, vio...
- Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICCSR)
- Promoting research in Indian social sciences
- Institute of Social Studies Trust, India (ISST)
- Research organisation concerned with the promotion of social justice and gender equity
- Centre for Social Research, India (CSR)
- CSR is a leading women's institution that works at the grassroots, regional and international levels to raise women's awareness of their rights, build inroads into decision-making institutions and eliminate violence against women. The organisation’s key areas of focus include gender and social justice, violence against women, HIV/AIDS awareness, trafficking in women and children. CSR concentrates...
- Mamidipudi Venkatarangaiya Foundation (MVF)
- Action against child labour in India
- Social and Development Research and Action Group (SADRAG)
- Action research and development organisation focusing on gender and socio-economic issues in India
- Sampark, India
- Organization focussing on poverty reduction and women's empowerment in India
