Latest Documents
- Training guide supporting gender and climate change research in the agriculture and food security sectors
- S. Nelson / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
- It has been estimated that over 100 million people could be lifted out of poverty, if women were granted equal access to and control of resources. However, climate change and gender have yet to be implemented into agricultural develop...
- Combating Poverty and Inequality: structural change, social policy and politics
- Y Bangura / United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2010
- This report explores the causes, dynamics and persistence of poverty, and argues that current approaches to poverty often ignore its root causes. It analyses poverty reduction as part of long-term processes of social,...
- Making Care Visible: Women’s unpaid care work in Nepal, Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya
- D. Budlender; R. Moussie / ActionAid International, 2013
- This report documents Action Aid's multi-country programme on women's unpaid care work. The programme, which is based in Kenya, Nigeria, Nepal and Uganda, recognises that while all women, regardless of class, race, caste and ethn...
- Violence against women and girls in Timor-Leste
- H. Haider / Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2012
- The high prevalence of gender-based violence, particularly domestic violence, in Timor-Leste is considered to be a key challenge for the country. There is recognition that incidents of intimate partner violence and family violence hav...
- Empowering rural women of Alaknanda Valley, Uttarakhand through farmers’ cooperative
- Practice In Participation, 2013
- Empowering Rural Women of Alaknanda Valley, Uttarakhand through Farmers’ Cooperative” narrates the success stories of the rural women of Alaknanda valley in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand; these women, with the help of Hima...
- Gendered subjects, the state and participatory spaces
- Zed Books, 2013
- This chapter from the book, 'Spaces for Change: The Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas' discusses the gendered construction of participation in local institutions created by the state in India to promote develo...
- Social change through the info lady experience
- 2012
- This paper looks at the formation of groups and sustainability through an innovative model of ICT-based rural women's entrepeneurship in Bangladesh, known as the Info Lady Model. It looks at the selection and training of these Info La...
- Review of research on collective action and engaging men to tackle gender based violence
- BRIDGE, 2012
- The aim of this review is to pull together examples of research that: • Shows how collective forms of agency (whether in the form of social movements, coalitions or groups) have made a difference in eliciting positive...
- Women’s political participation in Nepal
- 2013
- It is very rare for women to make it to senior decision making positions within political parties in Nepal. Although political parties are obliged to have a women's wing as part of their organisational structure, their role is limited...
- 'We will teach you a lesson': sexual violence against Tamils by Sri Lankan security forces
- C Hogg / Human Rights Watch, 2013
- The 140-page report provides detailed accounts of 75 cases of alleged rape and sexual abuse that occurred from 2006-2012 in both official and secret detention centers throughout Sri Lanka. In the cases documented men and women reporte...
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