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Liberal vs. Liberating Empowerment: A Latin American Feminist Perspective on Conceptualising Women’s Empowerment

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Since the early 1980s, feminists in Latin America have engaged in a range of programmes and activities aimed at promoting women’s...

Holding it Together in a Crisis: Family Strengthening and Embedding Neoliberalism

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

We have begun to recognize the need to base our development approach more solidly on partnership (Nicolas Stern, former World Bank Chief...

The Limits of Women’s Quotas in Brazil

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

In this article, I examine the case of Brazil which, unlike many other Latin American countries, is an example of where quotas are not...

Quotas: A Pathway of Political Empowerment?

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Over the last 20 years, the problem of low levels of representation of women in political office has been mobilising women, and...

ICTs Help Citizens Voice Concerns over Water – Or Do They?

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are widely seen as a new avenue for citizens to hold service providers and government...

Why not Basics for All? Scopes and Challenges of Community-led Total Sanitation

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

The ‘Some for All’ dictum may work well for the water sector but is not appropriate and workable for the sanitation sector. We live...