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31 December 2015
Published by: IDS
This scoping exercise is expected to contribute to the development of WFP’s regional social protection strategy. This report on Sudan is one in a series of in-depth country case studies generated for this project.
31 December 2015
Published by: IDS
This report focuses on Jordan’s social safety nets and resilience plans in a country that has received 2–3 million refugees during the past eight years.
31 December 2015
Published by: IDS
This study aims to contribute to the development of WFP’s regional social protection strategy. In-depth country case-studies are being generated for several countries, and desk reviews are being conducted for several others, including Palestine.
31 December 2015
Published by: IDS
This report focuses on Iran’s social protection programs and safety nets and presents an overview of the social insurance programs in Iran that are the major source of social safety nets for its people.
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
Yashodhan Ghorpade will examine the causal effects of long-term exposure to conflict, measured at the micro-level, on households’ receipt of remittances.
1 December 2015
Published by: IDS
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 working on engaging men and boys is an uneasy one.
20 November 2015
Published by: Alianza por la Solidaridad & Action Aid
Following the Israeli military Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014, this reports presents the findings of a study initiated by ActionAid and Alianza por la Solidaridad (Alianza) on violence against women (VAW) in the Gaza Strip.
17 November 2015
Published by: IDS
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 power, privilege and social exclusion.
1 November 2015
Published by: Wiley
The article suggests that a cross-fertilization of prefigurative and contentious politics offers a framework for understanding temporally - and spatially-bound forms of collective political agency.
28 October 2015
Published by: IDS
In many developing countries, sexual rights are commonly depicted as trivial concerns pertaining to wealthy citizens of a ‘developed’ Western world. The ‘developing’ world is often thought to have more pressing problems to deal with, such as poverty, violence and corruption.