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Chaired by Thokozile Ruzvidzo, Director, Social Development Policy Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, this side event at the 62nd Commission for the Status of Women, will how host a panel of researchers and NGOs to propose policies ideas for improving life choices for women in rural Africa.
Maputo, the Mozambique city capital, has been experiencing significant changes in its urban morphology.These changes have been pushed by public interventions, linked to the recent Maputo structure plan and the expansion of the city towards new neighbourhoods, or to private-led real estate developments resulting in the mushrooming of numerous high-rise buildings in the wealthier areas of the city.
Panel discussion drawing on the World Social Science Report: Challenging Inequalities: Pathways to a Just World – Implications for Development Studies.
This course is open to a wide audience of policy makers, practitioners, researchers and project managers who are already or will be working in the area of social protection. It aims to provide a platform for strengthening conceptual grounding and for engagement in critical debate about knowledge, practice and evidence on social protection.
A seminar by Professor Melissa Leach, Director of the Institute of Develpment Studies (IDS), University of Sussex
This webinar will explore these questions through the concrete experiences and lessons learnt from working with highly marginalised groups through markets. It will draw on 22 market-based examples that have been building confidence, creating more profitable, predictable and diverse income sources, challenging cultural biases and supporting enabling legislation.
Join us in the Sex, Rights and Pleasure Lab, where teams of students will create new interventions to digitally-mediated gender-based and sexual violence, using a sexual health rights approach that highlights the importance of rights to sexual pleasure as well as freedom.
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is the hot topic in HIV prevention at the moment but so far there has been little heard from women on the subject. This twitter chat, hosted by IDS via @IDS_UK and using #PrEPChat seeks to widen the debate.
Speakers will share insights from the latest research on how LGBT communities experience poverty and suggest ways in which we can partner together to tackle marginalisation.
IDS is excited to offer a FREE, online blended learning course on Mhealth, Health Systems and Development. The 5 week course, convened by Linda Waldman will introduce the student to the concept of mhealth and explore some of the wider debates about the implications of the increasing use of mobile technology in health systems globally.