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    The big deal about the network age: political economy conversations from the CITIGEN project

    IT for Change, 2013
    Profound and rapid changes, ushered in by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), pose new challenges, as well as opportunities, for the feminist project. Understanding the processes that create and reinforce structural exclusions in and through digital space, and framing an appropriate politics of resistance, is both a theoretical and practical imperative at this juncture.
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    An introduction to advocacy: training guide

    Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2013
    While defining problems and exploring alternative solutions have long been used to promote change, the need for systematic and iterative advocacy in this process has been less well understood. Recently, researchers, managers, NGO personnel, and other concerned groups and individuals have found it necessary to become advocates, but they often have little knowledge of or training in the subject.
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    Movement building boot camp e-learning website

    Fahamu, 2013
    Developed through collaboration between Fahamu, the East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative, and individual activists, the Movement Building Boot Camp (MBBC) is an e-learning platform combining a modular guide, resource library, and reflection space, with a focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) activism.
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    AWID economic toolbox

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2012
    The theme of the 12th AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights and Development, celebrated in Istanbul, Turkey (19-22 April 2012) was ‘transforming economic power to advance women’s rights and justice’.
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    Disquiet and despair: the gender sub-texts of the “Arab spring”

    Open Democracy, 2012
    This paper focuses on the gender sub-texts of the 'Arab spring', examining the post-revolution struggle faced by women's movements in the MENA region. It seeks to argue that the seeming fragility of women's rights cannot be fully accounted for with reference to empowered Islamist parties, nor a wider notion of misogyny.
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    Why gender matters in activism: feminism and social justice movements

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2013
    This article previews three case studies developed as part of the BRIDGE Cutting Edge programme on gender and social movements. More than 100 scholars and activists from around the world contributed through debate to discuss the roles, demands, strategies, challenges, and opportunities facing women in social movements.
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    Transforming power: a knotted rope

    Gender at Work, 2012
    This publication is an output from a two-part process with South African authors and their organisations over the course of three years. The first part of the process (October 2008 - February 2010) included an eighteen-month organisational Gender Action Learning (GAL) Process supported by Gender at Work facilitators.
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    Bridging the gaps: citizens, organisations and dissociation. Civil Society Index summary report: 2008-2011

    CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation, 2011
    This report, published by CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation, draws upon their Civil Society Index (CSI) 2008-2011 project to investigate, in a comprehensive but introspective manner, the changing landscape of civil society organisations (CSOs) around the world.
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    Strategies of feminist bureaucrats: United Nations experiences

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    Contributing to research on the nature and challenges of gender mainstreaming in international development organisations, this paper focuses on the challenges and opportunities for feminists working as women’s rights and gender equality specialists in the United Nations (UN).
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    Strategies of feminist bureaucrats: perspective from international NGOs

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    This Institute of Development Studies working paper focuses on the strategies of feminist bureaucrats, from the perspective of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs).

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