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Innovative approaches to gender and food security: insights, issue 82
Knowledge Services, IDS, 2012This issue of insights shows how development policy and practice can potentially improve food security while supporting women’s empowerment. They can focus on women’s critical role as food producers, consumers and family carers, while transforming gender norms and inequalities within households and communities.DocumentInnovative approaches to gender and food security: insights, issue 82
Knowledge Services, IDS, 2012Gender justice and ending hunger are closely entwined, interdependent goals. Solving hunger now and in the future involves challenging the current global development model which permits – and is driven by – inequality. Gender analysis shows that women are providers of food as producers, processors, traders, cooks and servers.DocumentUrban and Megacities disaster risk reduction: manual of sound practices
Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative, 2007Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is an important component for achieving sustainable development of cities and progress towards the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. This manual is a disaster risk communication tool aimed at facilitating the understanding of disaster vulnerabilities and risk to megacities and large complex urban areas.DocumentGender, ICTs and Agriculture
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2002This report examines the digital divide that exists between developing nations of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific and the rest of the world. The report highlights the following issues:Document‘Our lives matter: sex workers unite for health and rights’
Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2008This report highlights the creative ways in which sex workers in eight countries have organised to defend their human rights and health. The groups featured in this report include:DocumentThe global financial and economic crisis and its impact on women: a human rights perspective
Programme on Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 2011How has the global financial and economic crisis impacted on south Asian countries, and how has it affected women and men differently? Common economic analyses have highlighted the social impact using financial indicators. But this approach ignores those sections of society not counted in traditional economic spheres, including many women.DocumentHIV/AIDS in the south-east Asia region
World Health Organization, 2010This annual progress report, published by the World Health Organisation (WHO), presents key achievements in prevention and control of HIV in the South-East Asia Region and highlights areas where further work is needed.Key findings of this report are:DocumentBanking for the future: savings, security and seeds: a short study of community seed banks in Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Nepal, Thailand, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Development Fund, Norway, 2011The aim of seed banks is to increase food security and contribute to the continued utilisation of locally important genetic diversity. This paper is sought to document the experiences of community seed banks (CSBs) in a number of developing countries. The paper concludes that:DocumentStrengthening the research to policy and practice interface: exploring strategies used by research organisations working on sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS
Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011As part of the Sexual Health and HIV Evidence into Policy (SHHEP) project researchers and communications experts came together to share and analyse the strategies they used to influence policy.DocumentA holistic approach to gender equality and social justice
Gender at Work, 2011The authors of this paper describe the key elements of Gender at Work’s Organisation Strengthening Program: the Integral Framework, Action Learning and Capacitar practices.Pages