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Engendering social security and protection: challenges for making social security and protection gender equitable
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2011The on-going negative impacts of the 2007/2008 global economic crisis has underlined the need for, and the role of social protection.DocumentGender assessment of the refugee and migration crisis in Serbia and fYR Macedonia
UN Women, 2016Over one million men, women, and children travelled to Western Europe to claim asylum in 2015, with many transiting through Turkey, Greece, and the Western Baltics on their way north.DocumentGirl Safety Toolkit: A Resource for Practitioners
2014The Girl Safety Toolkit is a comprehensive guide to designing safe programmes specifically for adolescent girls. Designing safe opportunities for girls relies on understanding the experience of different groups in the context in which they are working.DocumentManual for Gender Mainstreaming: Social Inclusion and Social Protection Policies
European Commission, 2007What do EU policy makers need to do to mainstream gender into social inclusion and social protection policies? This manual provides policy makers with a hands-on tool to aid this process. It suggests several factors to consider when designing social protection policies.DocumentMainstreaming Gender in Social Protection for the Informal Economy
Commonwealth Secretariat, 2008How can the money spent on social protection measures make more of a difference to the lives of women workers? This book explores the gendered dimensions of risk, vulnerability and insecurity, and the subsequent need for a gender perspective in the design of social protection measures.DocumentManual for Gender Mainstreaming of Employment Policies
European Commission, 2007Gender equality is a fundamental right, a common value of the European Union (EU), and a necessary condition for the achievement of the EU objectives of growth, employment and social cohesion. So begins this manual outlining a gender mainstreaming approach.DocumentMainstreaming Gender or ?Streaming? Gender Away: Feminists Marooned in the Development Business
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004The 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.DocumentAchieving Women's Economic and Social Rights: Strategies and Lessons from Experience
2006What are the greatest challenges that activists encounter in their efforts to improve economic and social rights for women? This Association of Women in Development (AWID) study, conducted in 2005, aimed to answer this question by interviewing 50 activists working in diverse settings all over the world.DocumentReducing the Burden of HIV and AIDS Care on Women and Girls
Voluntary Services Overseas, 2006Community and home-based care, delivered with little support from the public health system, is currently the key response to the HIV and AIDS pandemic globally. Due to traditional gender norms and unequal gender relations, it is women and girls who generally assume primary responsibility for providing this care, whilst possibly being HIV-positive, and often needing care themselves.DocumentSupporting Potential Women Exporters: A Case Study of the Northern Homebased Workers Network, Thailand
APEC Committee on Trade and Investment, 2004The Thai Northern Homebased Workers' Network (NHWN) was founded in 2000 to support women producers of cotton woven fabrics, basketry, woodcarving and other traditional handicrafts. It is a network of 2400 members, 90 per cent women, from 64 village groups in nine provinces which aims to increase its members' collective bargaining power, skills, business management and leadership.Pages