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The intimate enemy: Gender Violence and Reproductive Health
Panos Institute, London, 1998Gender violence causes more death and disability among women aged 15 to 44 than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents or even war.DocumentToolkit on gender in agriculture
Gendernet, World Bank, 1999Designed to provide tools and know-how to Bank Task Managers in integrating gender issues into their work. They should also be of use to development practitioners outside the Bank. They contain ready-to-use material, including a range of tools for gender analysis and practical “how-to” strategies collected from program and project experience around the world.DocumentThe end of world population growth
Nature [journal], 2001Paper suggests that whilst there has been enormous concern about the consequences of human population growth for the environment and for social and economic development, this growth is likely to come to an end in the foreseeable future.Authors challenge the United Nations predictions, implying that previous forecasts on increasing population numbers have been incorrect.DocumentAftermath: women and women's organisations in post-conflict Cambodia
US Agency for International Development, 2000Despite their small number, this paper finds that the post-conflict emergence of women's organisations in Cambodia have been contributing to the empowerment of women via vocational training and microcredit programs. They are assisting victims of HIV/AIDS, of domestic violence, and of trafficking and forced prostitution.DocumentAssessing the potential of forest product activities to contribute to rural incomes in Africa
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998Large numbers of rural households in Africa continue to generate some of their income from forest product activities. However, much of this involvement is in labour intensive low return activities that help to provide the poor with an income safety net, but which decline once better alternatives become available.DocumentLand tenure reform and the balance of power in eastern and southern Africa
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000This paper examines the current wave of land tenure reform in eastern and southern Africa. It discusses how far tenure reform reflects a shift in powers over property from centre to periphery. A central question is whether tenure reform is designed to deliver to rural smallholders greater security of tenure and greater control over the regulation and transfer of these rights.DocumentGuidelines for the analysis of gender and health
Health Sector Reform Research Work Programme, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 1998How can health practitioners, researchers and managers better develop their gender analysis and learn to work in a more gender-sensitive manner? Researchers from the Gender and Health Group of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have proposed a series of guidelines for improving gender analysis amongst health professionals.DocumentGlobal Social Policy Principles: Human Rights & Social Justice
Department for International Development, UK, 1999Argues that the UN framework is constructed upon the concept of human rights which acknowledges the entitlements and needs of all people on the basis of their common humanity and the obligations of all governments to respect, protect and promote those rights.DocumentOpportunities for Change: response from Friends of the Earth [to UK Government consultation paper on sustainable development policy]
Friends of the Earth, 1998DocumentGenders and generations in urban shantytown development
Global Development Network, 2000Dynamic gender relations interact with other processes of change. These include the evolution of family and household life cycle groups; the development of communities; changing national contexts; and development project cycles. This paper studies a shanty community on the outskirts of Lima to observe gender changes over time.Pages