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62 produkter
Gender in Development Organisations
Häftad, 1997
197 kr
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Over the past decade, organisations working on development issues have taken an increasing interest in women's needs and rights. But working on promoting awareness of women's marginalisation demands more than an equal opportunities policy. This book draws together the experience of organizations …
Gender and Migration
Häftad, 1998
197 kr
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This collection explores the wide range of reasons why women and men decide to move within and outside their native countries, whether it be for employment, upon marriage or in response to conflict. It stresses the importance of seeing an individual migrant in her or his context as a member of a …
Violence against Women
Häftad, 1998
197 kr
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Writers here focus on campaigning and advocacy work as well as work with women who have experienced violence in countries including Russia, Guinea-Bissau and India. It includes accounts of work with women who have been sexually assaulted and those who have undergone cultural practices such as …
Gender, Religion and Spirituality
Häftad, 1998
252 kr
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This collection explores the complex links between social and economic development and religious and spiritual belief. Writers explore the scope for promoting women's rights and needs offered by religious belief and practice and analyse feminist responses to fundamentalist regimes which use …
Gender and Lifecycles
Häftad, 2000
197 kr
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This book links gender issues to the life-courses of women and men. Writers here call for development policy and practice to recognise this vast contribution, and enforce the rights of women of all ages to an equal share of development outcomes.
Gender, Development and Health
Häftad, 2001
171 kr
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What are the differences between women’s and men’s experiences of health, sickness and health care? How does our gender identity affect our physical and mental wellbeing? Despite improvements in health indicators in many countries, developing countries are currently facing a health crisis. New …
Gender, Development, and Climate Change
Av Rachel Masika, Caroline Sweetman
Häftad, 2002
214 kr
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In the face of extreme weather events, desertification and a rise in the sea levels, governments and communities increasingly recognize that the need to adapt and mitigate to climate change is urgent. The global agenda and negotiations focus on what governments, corporations and institutions can do …
Gender, Development and Poverty
Häftad, 2002
252 kr
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This book examines how gender inequalities impact on people's experiences of poverty and demonstrates the importance of integrating gender analysis into development initiatives. Covering a range of issues including macro-level neo-liberal restructuring, poverty reduction strategies, gender budgets, …
Gender, Development, and Marriage
Av Caroline Sweetman, Caroline Sweetman
Häftad, 2003
252 kr
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Marriage is now acknowledged as an institution of key relevance to development policy, practice, and research. The vast majority of women and men get married at least once, and in many places life outside marriage is almost impossible for either sex to contemplate. Yet marriage experienced by men …
Gender, Development, and Trade
Häftad, 2004
252 kr
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This book shows how women are finding ways to influence national and international trade policy agendas in developed countries and are joining forces in global forums to campaign for reforms over trade agreements on agricultural products, intellectual property, and the movement of migrant labour
Gender, Peacebuilding, and Reconstruction
Häftad, 2004
252 kr
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This collection explores conflict prevention through development projects when resources are scarce, and agreements between groups come under strain. Other activities take place to arrest existing conflicts, by forming alliances across warring forces - the authors argue that women play a …
Gender and the Millennium Development Goals
Häftad, 2005
252 kr
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This collection focuses on the Millennium Development Goals from a gender perspective. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of this way of understanding and addressing poverty, and suggests ways of strengthening the approach by using key insights and approaches associated with the struggle to …
Mainstreaming Gender in Development
Av Fenella Porter, Caroline Sweetman
Häftad, 2005
252 kr
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Articles discuss how gender mainstreaming has been understood in different organisations; provide examples of good work, which supports the empowerment of women; and look beyond gender mainstreaming to what new possibilities exist for transformation.
Gender and Lifecycles
E-bok, 2000
332 kr
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This book links gender issues to the life-courses of women and men. Gender-based discrimination is experienced differently according to age, generation, and status in the family. In particular, female children and elderly women perform an enormous amount of the world’s work. endure appalling abuse …
Gender and Migration
E-bok, 1998
343 kr
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The articles in this collection explore the wide range of reasons why women and men decide to move within and outside their native countries, whether it be for employment, upon marriage or in response to conflict. The authors stress the importance of seeing an individual migrant in her or his …
Gender and Technology
E-bok, 1999
332 kr
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The delivery of new technologies to communities in developing countries has been hailed as the key to economic and social progress. However, women’s experiences show that this view is an exaggeration, over-simplifying the potential of technology to deliver `development`. Different technologies in …
Gender and the Millennium Development Goals
E-bok, 2005
446 kr
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This collection of articles focuses on the Millennium Development Goals from a gender perspective. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of this way of understanding and addressing poverty, and suggests ways of strengthening the approach by using key insights and approaches associated with the …
Gender, Development, and Climate Change
E-bok, 2002
446 kr
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In the face of extreme weather events, desertification and a rise in the sea levels, governments and communities increasingly recognize that the need to adapt and mitigate to climate change is urgent. The global agenda and negotiations focus on what governments, corporations and institutions can do …
Gender, Development, and Diversity
E-bok, 2004
446 kr
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Each one of us lives life as a carrier of multiple identities - including gender, race, class and age. The sum of these identities determines our opportunities in life, and empowers or disempowers us, depending on our context. This collection of articles focuses on the implications that this has …
Gender, Development and Health
E-bok, 2001
343 kr
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What are the differences between women’s and men’s experiences of health, sickness and health care? How does our gender identity affect our physical and mental wellbeing? Despite improvements in health indicators in many countries, developing countries are currently facing a health crisis. New …
Gender, Development, and Humanitarian Work
E-bok, 2001
343 kr
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Conflict, displacement and natural disasters are experienced differently by men and women from the different risks and vulnerabilities they face during disasters to their changing roles, relationships, responsibilities and resources in preparing for and coping with crisis. Despite this differences …
Gender, Development and Poverty
E-bok, 2002
446 kr
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Over the past 50 years, billions of dollars and working days have been expended on the development of countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific. The alleviation of poverty is the primary concern of many - though not all - organisations working in the development sector. This book …
Gender, Development, and Trade
E-bok, 2004
432 kr
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Women all over the world are increasingly employed - and exploited - at the far end of the global supply chain. Whether by picking fruit in Chile, processing cashews in Mozambique, sewing in Chinas Export Processing Zones, or providing biotech companies with indigenous knowledge in India, women’s …
Gender in Development Organisations
E-bok, 1997
343 kr
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Over the past decade, organisations working on development issues have taken an increasing interest in women’s needs and rights. But working on promoting awareness of women’s marginalisation demands more than an equal opportunities policy. This book draws together the experience of organizations …
Gender, Peacebuilding, and Reconstruction
E-bok, 2004
446 kr
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Women are active players in reconciliation and post-conflict reconstruction processes. Moreover, sustainable peace depends on equal representation of all citizens in peacetime decision-making.This collection of articles explores conflict prevention through development projects in places where …
Gender, Religion and Spirituality
E-bok, 1998
343 kr
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Religion and spirituality are central to the lives of women and men across the world yet mainstream development policy and practice rarely take account of this fact. This collection of articles explores the complex links between social and economic development and religious and spiritual belief and …
