Strengthening Evidence Based Policy - Empowerment of Women and Girls: Recent submissions
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Coming Together to End Gender Violence: Report of Deliberative Engagements with Stakeholders on the Issue of Collective Action to Address Sexual and Gender-based Violence, and the Role of Men and Boys, October 2014, Cape Town, South Africa
(IDS, 2015-02)Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) – physical, psychological, sexual, economic, socio-cultural – is a conspicuous and widespread violation of human rights. In South Africa, this violence pervades the political, economic ... -
Engaging Men and Boys to End Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Sierra Leone: A Stakeholder Mapping Report, June 2014
(IDS, 2015-02)Increasingly, engaging with men and boys has emerged as a vital strategy adopted by non-governmental organisations, national governments, women’s organisations, and international agencies for ending sexual and gender-based ... -
MASVAW Movement Mapping Report: Movement Mapping and Critical Reflection with Activists of the Men’s Action to Stop Violence Against Women (MASVAW) Campaign, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, August 2014
(IDS, 2015-02)Engaging men and boys in addressing gender-based violence has grown in attention over the past 20 years. However, the emerging field predominantly focuses on the issues as a problem of individuals, neglecting the role of ... -
Balancing Paid Work and Unpaid Care Work to Achieve Women’s Economic Empowerment
(IDS, 2015-01)It is widely known that women’s economic empowerment can lead to economic growth. However, it is important to understand women’s economic empowerment as not simply about labour force participation, but also about the ... -
Gender-Equitable Public Investment: How Time-Use Surveys Can Help
(IDS, 2014-12)Macroeconomic policy often fails to recognise the disproportionate burden of unpaid care work on women, and as a result reinforces both gender and income inequalities. By providing detailed information on how this burden ... -
Men in Collective Action on SGBV in Kenya: A Case Study
(IDS, 2014-05)This case study examines the ways in which collective action and the involvement of men may influence the prospects of effectively changing community perceptions and values regarding sexual and gender-based violence, and ... -
Maternal Mental Health in the Context of Community-based Home Visiting in a Re-engineered Primary Health Care System: A Case Study of the Philani Mentor Mothers Programme
(IDS, 2014-04)This document constitutes a briefing summary of the case study of a maternal mental health intervention in South Africa, the Philani Mentor Mothers Programme. The case study has been compiled by Professor Mark Tomlinson ... -
The Shifting Roles of Men in Collective Action on SGBV in Kenya: Report of a Movement and Influence Mapping Workshop, Nairobi, 3–5 July 2013
(IDS, 2014-03)Over a decade and a half on from the landmark declarations of the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (UN 1994) and the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing (UN 1995), there is now a growing ... -
Unpaid Care Work Programme: Nepal Progress Report (2012–13)
(IDS, 2014)This report covers the progress of the programme in Nepal over the first year and a half of the four-year programme. For a programme aimed at influencing national policy, it is critical to understand the political economy ... -
Connecting Unpaid Care Work and Childhood Development for Gains in Women and Children’s rights
(IDS, 2014)Women’s rights and children’s rights directly influence each other, yet there have been few successes at tackling the agendas collaboratively thus limiting the quality of policy and practice in both areas. Integrating ... -
Reclaiming the Streets for Women’s Dignity: Effective Initiatives in the Struggle against Gender-Based Violence in between Egypt’s Two Revolutions
(IDS, 2014)This paper is about the struggle to combat gender-based violence in public space in Egypt through the sustained collective action of vigilante groups who organically formed to respond to the increasing encroachment on women ... -
Towards Gender Equality with Care-sensitive Social Protection
(IDS, 2014)Unpaid care work and social protection are intrinsically linked. Women and girls’ uptake of social protection provisions is affected by their unpaid care work responsibilities. Conversely these essential provisions can ... -
Country Progress Report (2012-2013): Nigeria
(Institute of Development Studies (ID), 2013-12)Nigeria is one of four focus countries within the unpaid care work programme of the Accountable Grant. IDS is partnering with ActionAid International (AAI) to help each of the four ActionAid countries to develop and ... -
The Health of Women and Girls in Urban Areas with a Focus on Kenya and South Africa: A Review
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-11)This thematic review focuses on a range of health challenges faced in particular by women and girls living in low-income urban settlements in expanding cities in Kenya and South Africa. The review has been compiled as ... -
A Case Study of Community-Level Intervention for Non-Communicable Diseases in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-09)Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have become a major cause of mortality globally, but especially in low and middle-income countries (LMIC), where nearly 80 per cent of all NCD related deaths occur. There has been a ... -
Database of Collective Actors Involving Men Tackling Gender-Based Violence in Public Space in Post-Mubarak Egypt
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-07)There is a growing literature on the importance of engaging men and boys in interventions on gender-based violence, and the benefits that this engagement brings. The work on collective action in the face of gender-based ... -
Battling with Increased Gender-Based Violence in Egypt’s Transition: Report on the Scoping Workshop held in Cairo, November 2012
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-07)This report is about a scoping workshop held by the Institute of Development Studies in collaboration with the Centre for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance (CEWLA). The aims were to bring together activists to identify the ... -
A Feminist Political Economy Analysis of Public Policies Related to Care: A Thematic Review
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-07)Unpaid care work is directly linked to the economic empowerment of women and girls. There is a large and robust body of evidence about the extent of unpaid care work that women and girls do, and its contributions to both ...