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    Policy processes for community based fisheries management in Bangladesh: lessons for change

    J. Keeley / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    What are the dilemmas facing field staff trying to engage with – and influence – policy processes? What successes have there been in implementing Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) approaches in Bangladesh?
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    Employment and sustainable livelihoods: a gender perspective

    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 Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), reviews key debates about the relationship between the economic activities of women and gender equality.
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    Destitution in Ethiopia’s Northeast Highlands: conceptual paper

    S. Devereux / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000
    How can destitution best be analysed? How can the sustainable livelihoods approach be used to open up the causal processes and the nature of destitution?
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    Analysing policy for sustainable livelihoods

    A. Shankland / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000
    How can the Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) approach bridge the gap between macro-level policy analysis and micro-level livelihoods? While top-down policy analysis often ignores the realities of how policies affect people, bottom-up approaches such as sustainable livelihoods analysis often generate information that is too locally-specific to be useful in policymaking.
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    Idealism, realism and the investment climate in developing countries

    M. Moore, H. Schmitz / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    Developing countries that seek to attract increased levels of private investment for growth are commonly advised to reform their investment climates. But how is this to be done and is it always the right thing to do?
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    Building identity while managing disadvantage: Peruvian transgender issues

    G. Campuzano / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    Sexuality issues have gained considerable discursive space in the last two decades in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. However this debate has largely framed men, both homosexual and heterosexual, as the primary sexual actors, whether as agents in sexual relationships or as transmitters of sexual diseases.
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    Bring me my machine gun: Contesting patriarchy and rape culture in the wake of the Jacob Zuma rape trial

    D. Peacock, B. Khumalo / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    In South Africa, only one in nine victims report rape and fewer than ten percent of reported rapes lead to a conviction. This paper draws out key lessons about rape in South Africa pointing to the endemic nature of violence in South Africa and to the impunity with which it is committed.
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    Bring me my machine gun: Contesting patriarchy and rape culture in the wake of the Jacob Zuma rape trial

    D. Peacock, B. Khumalo / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    Opening with a harrowing account of the trauma inflicted by rape on a gender activist in South Africa, and of the barriers she faced in bringing her case to trial, this paper draws out key lessons about rape in South Africa. The paper firstly points to the endemic nature of violence in South Africa and to the impunity with which it is committed.
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    Mainstreaming Gender or ?Streaming? Gender Away: Feminists Marooned in the Development Business

    M. Mukhopadhyay / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    The pursuit of gender equality began as a political project, concerned with transforming power relations between women and men and redistributing resources and opportunities in favour of the disadvantaged.
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    Gender, Myth and Fable: The Perils of Mainstreaming in Sector Bureaucracies

    H. Standing / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    How can advocacy for gender equity goals be strengthened in national and local sector bureaucracies and sustained through their policy processes? While in many countries there is advocacy for gender issues from civil society and grassroots organisations, this is rarely the case in national and local bureaucracies.

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