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1 January 2001
Published by: IDS
This paper analyses the particular approach to participatory development developed by SPEECH, an NGO working in Tamil Nadu, India. We explore the extent to which SPEECH's approach transformed gender relations in the communities where they work.
1 January 2001
Published by: IDS
This paper builds on previous work on Bangladesh that set out the principles of a gendered computable general equilibrium (CGE) approach by accounting for household work and leisure in addition to standard market sectors.
1 January 2001
Kutch, a semi-arid district in the state of Gujarat in western India, is known for its water scarcity. Its panacea is made out to be the...
2 May 2000
Published by: IDS
From work in the reproductive health field involving men, to a concern about rising male unemployment and gender-based violence, men and masculinities are now very firmly on the gender and development agenda (GAD).
1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
This paper presents research findings on livelihood diversification from southern Ethiopia. The history of livelihood diversification is outlined to shown how specific key events can either trigger or inhibit diversification activities.
1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
This Report is from the project 'Gender and Primary Schooling in Africa'. This report focuses on Senegal
1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
This Report is from the project 'Gender and Primary Schooling in Africa'.
1 January 1999
Published by: IDS
This report describes research on Sustainable Rural Livelihoods which was carried out in two villages in Mali, selected to represent the rainfed cereal and cotton producing regions.
1 January 1999
This book develops an analytical framework and a set of tools which can assist planners, as well as trainers, to ensure that gender is systematically integrated into different aspects of their work.
1 January 1998
Published by: Oxford University Press
The 1990s have witnessed the ascendance of a new orthodoxy which asserts that democracy and development are mutually reinforcing. This is in marked contrast to the dominant consensus that held sway for the previous two decades, which stated that developmental progress in poor societies was best assured by strong states, ruled by authoritarian regimes.