Gender

New BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack on gender and climate change

This Cutting Edge Pack from BRIDGE argues that responses to climate change tend to focus on scientific and economic solutions rather than addressing the vitally significant human and gender dimensions. For climate change responses to be effective, thinking must move beyond these limited approaches to become people-focused, and focus on the challenges and opportunities that climate change presents in the struggle for gender equality. The pack advocates for a transformative approach in which:

Women and men have an equal voice in decision-making on climate change and broader governance processes
Women and men are given equal access to the resources necessary to respond to the negative effects of climate change
Both women’s and men’s needs and knowledge are taken into account and climate change policymaking institutions and processes at all levels are not biased towards men or women
The broad social constraints that limit women’s access to strategic and practical resources no longer exist

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ICT initiatives, women and work in developing countries: reinforcing or changing gender inequalities in south india?: ( S. Arun;R. Heeks;S. Morgan / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester , 2004); This paper argues that ICTs as a form of new technology are socially deterministic, with varied implications for women in terms of employment and empowerment dependent on the context within which the ...
Ensuring female farmers involvement in agricultural extension: ( C.R. Farnworth / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency , 2012); In response to the persistent inequalities of women in farming despite decades of development assistance, Sida has initiated a thematic evaluation of how gender issues are tackled in Sida-supported ag...
Incorporating gender issues into plant breeding approaches: ( Participatory Research and Gender Analysis Program, CGIAR , 2012); This paper aims to analyse methods and approaches currently used within participatory plant breeding (PPB) with respect to gender issues and to draw out the implications of researchers’ exper...
Women, food security and agriculture in a global marketplace: A significant shift: ( R. Mehra;M. Hill Rojas / International Center for Research on Women, USA , 2008); New directions in development assistance and agricultural investments must recognize and support women's involvement in the full agricultural value chain from production to processing to marketing....
The benefits of increasing women’s access to agricultural resources: ( Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2011); Women account for a high proportion of farmers in many developing countries yet often have very little access to the resources they need to support their livelihoods, including land, livestock, techno...
Female sex workers use of sexual health services in Nepal: ( L. Ghimire;W.C.S. Smith;E.R.V. Teijlingen / BioMed Central , 2011); Statistics indicate that more than half of the women with sexually transmitted infections in Nepal sought sexual health services. This study explores female sex workers (FSWs) use of sexual health ...
Maternal health care utilisation among ethnic minority women in China: ( A. Harris;Y. Zhou;H. Liao / Oxford Journals , 2010); A goal of the Chinese government is to improve the quality and use of maternity services. This paper presents a simple descriptive study of maternal health care utilisation (MHCU) among ethnic mino...
Gender-equitable primary health care reforms: ( S. Ravindran / World Health Organization , 2010); The WHO has launched an ambitious course of transforming health systems towards primary health care (PHC), yet integrating a gender perspective within PHC reform is a major challenge. This document...
Innovation for women and children's health: ( D. Altman;H. Fogstad;L. Grønseth / Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway , 2011); Improving the health of women and children contributes extensively to economic development. This report describes business models that innovators have used with success, as well as case studies of ...
Genital mutilation causes high rates of psychiatric disturbances for girls in Iraq: ( J.I. Kizilhan / European Journal of Psychiatry , 2011); Female genital mutilation (FGM) in Iraq has been brought to public attention by several human rights organisations since 2003. This study investigates the mental health status of young girls after ...