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Raising even more clean hands: Advancing health, learning and equity through WASH in Schools
United Nations Children's Fund, 2012This document is a joint call to action for better support and promotion of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in Schools programmes. Supported by a range of case studies, the document argues that these initiatives improve health and learning while enabling children to become ‘agents of change’ for their siblings, parents and wider community.DocumentBRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief, Issue 18, ‘Sexuality’
BRIDGE, 2007Sexuality can bring misery through sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, maternal mortality, female genital mutilation, or marginalisation of those who break the rules, such as non-macho men, single women, widows who re-marry, sex workers, people with same-sex sexualities, and transgender people. Sexuality can also bring joy, affirmation, intimacy and wellbeing.Document‘Sexual Pleasure Empowers Women!’, Contestations, Issue 2
2010In this issue of Contestations the editor argues that images of women as victims are rampant in gender and development and that this is particularly the case in discussions of sexuality, where the world is portrayed as so fraught with danger, it seems almost impossible to imagine women enjoying themselves.DocumentSexuality and Empowerment: An Intimate Connection
Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2011What does sexuality have to do with women’s empowerment? Research from Pathways of Women’s Empowerment shows that sexuality affects women’s political and economic empowerment in a number of important ways.DocumentThe Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index
Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, 2013The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a new survey-based index designed to measure the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agricultural sector. The WEAI was initially developed as a tool to reflect women’s empowerment that may result from the United States government’s Feed the Future Initiative, which commissioned the development of the WEAI.DocumentTransforming Gender Relations in Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Stockholm Environment Institute, 2013As part of a process to better understand the role of gender in agriculture initiated by the Swedish International Development Agency in 2009, this book presents and analyses a number of case studies from Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and Zambia.DocumentThe Overview Report and In Brief bulletin | Gender and Social Movements
BRIDGE, 2013This report provides an in-depth exploration of theory, case studies and key learning and routes to change drawn from the BRIDGE Gender and Social Movements Cutting Edge Programme.DocumentPromoting gender equity in politics through affirmative action measures: Latin American gender quotas
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013Since 1991, fourteen Latin American countries have implemented gender quotas. These have enabled the region to establish one of the highest levels of women’s representation in political decision-making structures around the world.DocumentDoubling digital opportunities: enhancing the inclusion of women & girls in the information society
The Broadband Commission, 2013ICT policy development is often seen merely as a technical issue with little relationship to other development areas. At the same time, many national gender-centered policies do not take into consideration the use of ICTs or broadband as key enablers to expand the reach of those policies to accelerate progress.DocumentMapping potential implementing organisations for girls’ economic empowerment programme
Economic and Private Sector PEAKS, 2013DFID and the Nike Foundation are working in partnership to address constraints to the empowerment of adolescent girls in developing countries.Pages