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  Gender and Climate Change: Giving the ?Latecomer? a Head Start

  F. Denton / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Gender issues have made a slow entry into the climate change debate. This is partly due to the fact that climate change has generally been perceived as a global phenomenon, with little attention being paid to differentiating the potential impacts that women and men might face.
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  Currents of change: exploring relationships between teaching, learning and development: conversations from the Learning and Teaching for Transformation Workshop April 2005

  L. Stackpool-Moore, P. Taylor, J. Pettit, J. Millican / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  Aimed at a educators, this report from the ‘learning and teaching for transformation’ (LTT) initiative outlines the challenges of implementing transformative and participatory learning and looks critically at how development actors learn (and are taught) within institutes of higher learning.The LTT initiative seeks to deepen thinking about pedagogical approaches within higher learning that can
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  Sexuality and Development

  S. Jolly / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  Development has generally treated sexuality as a problem - considering it only in relation to population control, family planning, disease and violence. However, sexuality has far broader impacts on people's well-being and ill-being.
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  Polio vaccines: difficult to swallow: the story of a controversy in northern Nigeria

  M. Yahya / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  This paper analyses the role of global actors and national governments in implementing effective immunisation campaigns. This is done using the case of northern Nigeria’s boycott of the polio vaccination campaign.
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  Revenues and governance in sub-saharan Africa: summary for the African Commission

  M. Moore / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  In this submission to the UK Africa commission the author summarises, with a focus on policy implications, what he believes to be an emerging consensus about governance issues in Africa. He argues that donors must consider the long-term political and governance implications of the receiving country before intervening and consider how an intervention will affect sources of ‘state revenue’.
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  Gender Relations and Environmental Change

  C. Green, S. Joekes, M. Leach / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1995

  Gender relations have a powerful influence on how environments are used and managed, and thus on patterns of ecological change over time. Yet environmental trends and shocks also impact on gender relations - for example, environmental degradation may alter the gender distribution of resources.
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  Microfinance impact and the MDGs: the challenge of scaling-up

  M. Greeley / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  Microfinance can contribute to several MDGs but in order to do so in ways that make a real difference a significant scaling-up of microfinance service provision would be required. In particular, if microfinance organisations want to reach the poorest, most vulnerable groups, they often need to rely on outside funding from donors or commercial lenders.
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  From medical miracles to normal(ised) medicine: AIDS treatment, activism and citizenship in the UK and South Africa

  S. Robins / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper compares and contrasts the cultures of activism and illness and treatment experiences of UK and South African AIDS activists. By the 1990s AIDS public health discourse in the UK, and elsewhere in the West, was reconfiguring AIDS as a manageable chronic illness that could be treated much like diabetes.
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  Managing mobilisation?: participatory processes and dam building in South Africa, the Berg River project

  L. Thompson / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper examines the participatory processes which led to the building of the Berg River Dam in South Africa’s western Cape province.The paper examines how local groupings strengthen, or are strengthened by, the national environmental movement, and to what extent activism on water resource management in local contexts feeds into national and global social movement dynamics.
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  Gender and health equity resource guide

  E. Baume, J. Mercedes, H. Standing / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001

  The purpose of this resource guide, produced by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), is to give an overview of gender sensitive interventions and initiatives directly or indirectly related to health that have been tried at macro and micro levels.

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