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  Water for Production: an Overview of the Main Issues and Collection of Supporting Resources

  E. Bell / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001

  Water is fundamental to the well being of women and men both in the household and productive activities and is key to poverty reduction and development. Water is also a strategic resource in that its control is a source of power. Interventions that change the control, use of and access to water resources inevitably raise gender issues and opportunities.
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  Gender and Trade: Overview Report

  Z. Randriamaro / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  The general assumption is that trade liberalisation (the removal of barriers to cross-border trade) has equal impacts on men and women. However women and men are affected differently by trade due to their different roles in production and reproduction and to imbalances over control of land, power and resources.
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  Gender and Trade: Supporting Resources Collection

  L. Narayanaswamy, C. Sever / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  Over the past few years, greater understanding of the links between gender and trade has led to increased research and advocacy around the impact of trade policies on gender relations. Development policies and interventions at the macro, meso and micro levels are beginning to address the gendered inequalities that affect access to the potential benefits of international trade.
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  The power of pleasure

  S. Jolly, S. Cornwall / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This article, published by the Institute of Development Studies, explores the way that women's sexuality is represented in the context of development programmes and AIDS prevention.
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  Gender and Trade Cutting Edge Pack

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  Trade and trade liberalisation have very different impacts on women and men - which can result in fundamental shifts in gender roles, relationships and inequalities. Moreover increasing claims that countries should be enabled to 'trade their way out of poverty' means that there is an urgent need to address how trade can promote gender equality and development.
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  What is the ?Rights-Based Approach? all about? Perspectives from International Development Agencies

  A. Cornwall, C. Nyamu-Musembi / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Why is human rights thinking now so closely linked to development work? What are the different approaches among development actors and what are the limitations and implications for development policy and practice? This paper looks at the ?rights-based approach - (RBA) as used by multilateral institutions, bilateral agencies and international non-governmental organisations.
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  Social protection and social welfare: African perspective

  S. Devereaux / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This presentation, made at a UNICEF conference, highlights critical issues in the intersections between rising HIV prevalence in Africa and growing interest in providing social protection, to fill the gaps where national social welfare programmes should be.
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  Rights passages from "near death" to "new life": AIDS activism and treatment testimonies in South Africa

  S. Robins / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This IDS working paper explores how the combination of illness experiences and involvement in treatment programmes has dramatically altered the lives, identities and futures of people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) in South Africa.
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  Making cash count: lessons from cash transfer schemes in east and southern Africa for supporting the most vulnerable children and households

  S. Devereux, J. Marshall, J. MacAskill, L. Pelham / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This study reviews unconditional cash transfers in 15 countries of east and southern Africa. It examines four programmes in more depth, in Ethiopia, Lesotho, Mozambique and Zambia, with an emphasis on design issues such as cost-effectiveness, accuracy of targeting, delivery modalities, institutionalisation and potential for scaling up.
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  BRIDGE Report 68: Twenty Key Gender Websites in Chinese

  Y. Feng / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  What are the key gender websites in Chinese? This paper provides an initial selection of twenty sites, made by Beijing gender activist and journalist Feng Yuan. These include official, academic and activist sites from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong and the Chinese diaspora.

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