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Social Protection for Social Justice

Published by: IDS

The articles in this IDS Bulletin are drawn from a conference hosted by the Centre for Social Protection at IDS in April 2011.

Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities

Published by: Zed Books

Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities features an exciting collection of contributions from some of today's leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities and development.

Supporting Pathways of Women’s Empowerment: A Brief Guide for International Development Organisations

Published by: Pathways of Women's Empowerment

This brief by Rosalind Eyben informs the debate around what women's empowerment means and how to best support it with empirical evidence from the five-year international research programme, Pathways of Women's Empowerment.

Contextualising the Economic Pathways of Women’s Empowerment: Findings from a Multi-Country Research Programme

Published by: Pathways of Women's Empowerment

This is a policy paper, based on findings of reserach undertaken by the Pathways of Women's Empowerment research programme in Bangladesh, Egypt and Ghana.

Challenging or Reshaping Heteronormativity with Public Policies? A Case Study from Bogotá, Colombia

Published by: IDS

On 28 December 2007 the then Mayor of Bogotá signed a Decree which established the guidelines of the public policy for the full guarantee of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the city.

Women as Key Players in Climate Change Adaptation, JotoAfrika

Gender often dictates who gains and loses in environmental disasters, so it is vital to take gender issues into account when formulating climate change adaptation practice and policy. Additionally, in Africa, women are closely involved in natural resource management and are a huge source of local knowledge.

The Sustainability and Resilience of Global Water and Food Systems: A Political Analysis of the Interplay Between Security, Resource Scarcity, Political Systems and Global Trade

Published by: Elsevier

In this paper the example of cocoa production in Ghana is used to explore how the narratives portraying African farmers have changed over the last 70 years. These evolving narratives are explored through the notion of a 'good farmer'.

Are Conditions Pro-Women? A Case Study of a Conditional Cash Transfer in Indonesia

Published by: IDS

Following the success of several South American countries, Indonesia has initiated a pilot of a conditional cash transfer programme called Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH), since 2007.

Reimaginings of Development from a Kutchi Village

Published by: IDS

This article asks how the global financial crisis (GFC) affected rural communities in western India that have always lived with crises. A visit to Kutch, a border district in Gujarat, revisited after seven years, revealed that the GFC was not very present in the lives of the general population and there was very little radical reimagining of development.

Bringing Together Pleasure and Politics: Sexuality Workshops in Rural India

Published by: IDS

What are the linkages between sexuality and violence against women - beyond sexual violence? Do poor rural women want to talk about sex?