Gender
- The significance of gender for strategies promoting employment and sustainable livelihoods
- S. Joekes; R. Masika / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1996
- What is the significance of gender for strategies promoting employment and sustainable livelihoods? What forms of economic activities most enhance women’s position? This report, prepared by BRIDGE for the Swedish International De...
- The livelihoods and voices of the poor
- D. Narayan; R. Patel; K. Schafft / World Bank, 2000
- Narayan underlines the multidimensionality of poverty and explains that households and the social fabric around them are being destroyed while the efforts of the state and NGOs are limited or ineffective. Part of the Consultations wit...
- Gender in Agriculture from a sustainable livelihoods approach
- L. Brown; Y. Lambrou; R. Birner / International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2008
- This extensive resource provides guidance for the development of rural agricultural strategies that effectively promote gender equality and women's empowerment and reduce poverty. The Sourcebook is the outcome of a collabo...
- Planning and managing the impacts of climate change on human migration
- M. Couldrey (ed); M. Herson (ed) / Forced Migration Review, 2008
- In response to growing climate change pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving and adapting. Evidence points towards climate and environmentally induced migration becoming one of the major policy challenges...
- Highlighting the connection between climate change, disaster risk reduction, and gender-focused approaches to development
- UN/ISDR / United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2008
- It is a well-known prediction that women in the developing world will suffer the most from the effects of climate change. What needs equal emphasis is the fact that women also represent an immense source of potential and power to comb...
- Exploring the issues facing women with HIV in India
- Gender and HIV/AIDS Web Portal, UNIFEM, 2006
- This toolkit aims to enable women to explore the issues of HIV/AIDS from the standpoint of personal experiences and to encourage the ownership of the process of engaging with factors which increase their vulnerability to HIV,&nbs...
- Climate change and sub-Saharan Africa: points of vulnerability and potential for adaptation
- H. Connor; L. Mqadi; P. Mukheibir / HELIO International, 2007
- Africa is vulnerable to climate change on two fronts: firstly, because of existing vulnerabilities and secondly, due to capacity limitations for disaster mitigation and inability to adapt to climate change. There is an urgent nee...
- Gender and natural resource management: critical feminist perspectives
- B., P. Resurreccion; R. Elmhirst / International Development Research Centre, 2008
- This book examines the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy, and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender...
- Gender dimensions of adivasi livelihood vulnerability
- S Arun / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2008
- This paper focuses on the livelihood issues of adivasi or the scheduled tribes in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Examining the gendered vulnerability context of adivasi livelihoods, the author argues that the ability of adivasi ...
- Programmes targeting displaced and returning populations in Nepal
- The Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children / Women's Refugee Commission, 2008
- In 1996, an armed Maoist insurgency grew out of the Communist Party of Nepal and resulted in 10 years of conflict, human rights violations perpetrated by both the government and the Maoists, and large-scale displacement that affe...
- The significance of gender for strategies promoting employment and sustainable livelihoods
- S. Joekes; R. Masika / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1996
- What is the significance of gender for strategies promoting employment and sustainable livelihoods? What forms of economic activities most enhance women’s position? This report, prepared by BRIDGE for the Swedish International De...
- The livelihoods and voices of the poor
- D. Narayan; R. Patel; K. Schafft / World Bank, 2000
- Narayan underlines the multidimensionality of poverty and explains that households and the social fabric around them are being destroyed while the efforts of the state and NGOs are limited or ineffective. Part of the Consultations wit...
- Gender in Agriculture from a sustainable livelihoods approach
- L. Brown; Y. Lambrou; R. Birner / International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2008
- This extensive resource provides guidance for the development of rural agricultural strategies that effectively promote gender equality and women's empowerment and reduce poverty. The Sourcebook is the outcome of a collabo...
- Planning and managing the impacts of climate change on human migration
- M. Couldrey (ed); M. Herson (ed) / Forced Migration Review, 2008
- In response to growing climate change pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving and adapting. Evidence points towards climate and environmentally induced migration becoming one of the major policy challenges...
- Highlighting the connection between climate change, disaster risk reduction, and gender-focused approaches to development
- UN/ISDR / United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2008
- It is a well-known prediction that women in the developing world will suffer the most from the effects of climate change. What needs equal emphasis is the fact that women also represent an immense source of potential and power to comb...
- Exploring the issues facing women with HIV in India
- Gender and HIV/AIDS Web Portal, UNIFEM, 2006
- This toolkit aims to enable women to explore the issues of HIV/AIDS from the standpoint of personal experiences and to encourage the ownership of the process of engaging with factors which increase their vulnerability to HIV,&nbs...
- Climate change and sub-Saharan Africa: points of vulnerability and potential for adaptation
- H. Connor; L. Mqadi; P. Mukheibir / HELIO International, 2007
- Africa is vulnerable to climate change on two fronts: firstly, because of existing vulnerabilities and secondly, due to capacity limitations for disaster mitigation and inability to adapt to climate change. There is an urgent nee...
- Gender and natural resource management: critical feminist perspectives
- B., P. Resurreccion; R. Elmhirst / International Development Research Centre, 2008
- This book examines the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy, and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender...
- Gender dimensions of adivasi livelihood vulnerability
- S Arun / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2008
- This paper focuses on the livelihood issues of adivasi or the scheduled tribes in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Examining the gendered vulnerability context of adivasi livelihoods, the author argues that the ability of adivasi ...
- Programmes targeting displaced and returning populations in Nepal
- The Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children / Women's Refugee Commission, 2008
- In 1996, an armed Maoist insurgency grew out of the Communist Party of Nepal and resulted in 10 years of conflict, human rights violations perpetrated by both the government and the Maoists, and large-scale displacement that affe...
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