Strengthening Evidence Based Policy - Empowerment of Women and Girls: Recent submissions
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Connecting Unpaid and Paid Care Work to Progress Gender Equality
(IDS, 2017-03)Globally, paid care work, such as care for children or the elderly is a fast-growing sector of the market economy. Yet, it remains undervalued by governments and citizens in both monetary and societal terms which has ... -
Transforming Care Dynamics: Lessons from Programme and Policy
(IDS, IDRC and Oxfam, 2016-06)The paper and its supporting appendix present evidence to support the four recommendations for transforming care presented in the position statement 'Addressing Unpaid Care for Economic Empowerment of Women and Girls'. ... -
Addressing Unpaid Care for Economic Empowerment of Women and Girls
(IDS, IDRC and Oxfam, 2016-06)This position statement outlines the value of unpaid care and puts forward recommendations for addressing this issue in the light of its marginalisation within economic policy. Key recommendations for transforming the care ... -
Impact of Community-led Total Sanitation on Women’s Health in Urban Slums: A Case Study from Kalyani Municipality
(IDS, 2016-06)This Evidence Report seeks to understand the health and other impacts of slum women’s access to sanitation through the Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach. It also examines the process through which open defecation ... -
The Global Importance of Including Mental Health Carers in Policy
(IDS, 2016-05)Globally, there is growing awareness of the need to prioritise mental health as a development issue, with a historic step achieved by the inclusion of mental health in the Sustainable Development Goals. Less understood is ... -
Therapeutic Activism: Men of Hope Refugee Association Uganda Breaking the Silence over Male Rape in Conflict-related Sexual Violence
(IDS, 2016-03)Men’s experiences as victims of sexual and gender-based violence remain little recognised in research, policy or practice. Mainstream narratives generally continue to depict men as perpetrators of violence and women as ... -
Improving Access to Health for Women and Girls in Low-income Urban Settlements
(IDS, 2016-02)The world is becoming increasingly urbanised. Over one third of urban dwellers now reside in low-income urban settlements, where living conditions are often inadequate and there exist multiple barriers to access to health ... -
Redistributing Unpaid Care Work – Why Tax Matters for Women’s Rights
(IDS, 2016-01)Globally, women perform the great majority of unpaid care work. This unjust distribution of labour has profound impacts on women’s human rights and is both a product and a driver of gender inequality. Despite the obligations ... -
Engaging Men for Effective Activism against Sexual and Gender-based Violence
(IDS, 2016-01)Men are becoming ever more visible as integral partners in tackling sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), holding themselves, peers and power-holders accountable for maintaining harmful gender norms that perpetuate violence. ... -
Building Alliances to Address Sexual and Gender-based Violence
(IDS, 2015-12)It is now widely accepted that effective strategies to end sexual and gender-based violence must engage with men and boys. In practice, however, the relationship between traditional women’s rights movements and organisations ... -
Towards More Inclusive Strategies to Address Gender-Based Violence
(IDS, 2015-11)Sexual and gender-based violence is persistent and devastating, rooted deeply in the lives of men, women, boys and girls globally. Gendered violence does not exist in isolation, and is intertwined with other forms of ... -
‘Who Cares’: Reflections on the International-level Advocacy Work of the Unpaid Care Work Programme (2012–2015)
(IDS, 2015-10)At the end of September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be launched. Building on the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were officially established in 2000, the SDGs will potentially have ... -
‘They Call Me Warrior’: The Legacy of Conflict and the Struggle to End Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Sierra Leone
(IDS, 2015-10)A relatively small country with just over 6 million people, Sierra Leone has been the focus of considerable public and policy attention because of the recent Ebola epidemic and, before that, the decade-long civil war. Given ... -
The New ‘MASVAW Men’: Strategies, Dynamics and Deepening Engagements. A Case Study of a Networked Approach to Challenging Patriarchy Across Institutions in Uttar Pradesh
(IDS, 2015-08)Uttar Pradesh is ranked second among Indian states in ‘crimes against women’, which includes rape, abduction, dowry-related deaths, mental and physical torture and sexual harassment (Government of Uttar Pradesh 2006: 130). ... -
Redistributing Care Work for Gender Equality and Justice – a Training Curriculum
(IDS/ActionAid/Oxfam, 2015-06)People contribute to the economy through their work in many different ways; such as small-scale trading in the local market or as casual labourers in commercial farms. Others are factory workers, miners, teachers, and ... -
Constitutional Reforms and Access to HIV Services for Women in Low-resource Settings in Nairobi, Kenya
(IDS, 2015-06)After more than two decades of agitation for a new constitution, the violence that followed Kenya’s 2007 presidential elections finally led to a reform movement to overhaul the way the country was governed. On 4 August ... -
Unpaid Care Work Programme: Uganda Country Progress Report (2012–2014)
(IDS, 2015-03)Uganda is one of three focus countries within the Unpaid Care Work (UCW) programme of the Accountable Grant. The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is partnering with ActionAid International (AAI) to help each of the ... -
When the Hen Crows: Obstacles that Prevent Indigenous Women from Influencing Health-care Policies – A Case Study of Shillong, Meghalaya, India
(IDS, 2015-02)Meghalaya is a landlocked and largely agrarian state in northeast India with an approximate population of three million. Various government surveys report that roughly half the state lives below the poverty line. Most ... -
Turning the Tide: The Role of Collective Action for Addressing Structural and Gender-based Violence in South Africa
(IDS, 2015-02)The case study discussed in this Evidence Report explores the value and limitations of collective action in challenging the community, political, social and economic institutions that reinforce harmful masculinities and ... -
Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights and Information and Communications Technologies: A Policy Review and Case Study from South Africa
(IDS, 2015-02)This report explores the intersection between sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and technological means of enhancing health. South Africa has a high teenage pregnancy rate. Almost a third of its girl teenagers report ...