Briefings
BRIDGE briefing documents synthesise the key gender and development debates, policies and practice in a selected area.
In Brief, BRIDGE’s popular bulletin, comprises an overview of the Cutting Edge Pack theme and two case-study articles by South-focused practitioners. Short and concise, In Brief keeps busy policymakers and practitioners up to date with cutting edge gender themes in development research, policy and practice, and inspires innovative and effective practice. In Brief is usually published annually in English, French and Spanish and anyone can subscribe to receive free ongoing electronic or print copies .
Briefings (24)
Author:
E Skinner;A Brody;G Aboud,
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, Nov 2011
Climate change is increasingly being recognised as a global crisis, but responses to it have so far been overly focused on scientific and economic solutions. How then do we move ...
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Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, Aug 2001
This issue of in brief traces synergies and tensions between gender and participation in development practice. The lead article reminds development practitioners that institutions need to mainstream gender-aware and participatory ...
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Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, Sep 2002
In Brief is a six page newsletter that aims to stimulate thinking on a priority gender theme. This edition explores gender inequality as a major dynamic when studying the relations ...
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Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, Apr 2009
Governance processes - with their emphasis on principles of accountability, transparency, responsiveness and inclusiveness - should be a means to social transformation. But despite this potential, they are failing to ...
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Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, Feb 2009
Le travail qui consiste à prendre soin des autres peut être une source de satisfactions mais peut aussi constituer un véritable fardeau. Ce rôle familial et social, que la société ...
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Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, Jul 2007
What does a world without gender inequality look like? Realising this vision requires inspiring and mobilising social change. But what would indicate we are on the right track - and ...
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Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, Dec 2006
Sexuality can bring misery through sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, maternal mortality, female genital mutilation, or marginalisation of those who break the rules, such as non-macho men, single women, widows who re-marry, ...
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Author:
S. Jolly,
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, Apr 2006
Development has generally treated sexuality as a problem - considering it only in relation to population control, family planning, disease and violence. However, sexuality has far broader impacts on people's ...
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Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, Dec 2005
Trade and trade liberalisation have very different impacts on women and men - and can result in fundamental shifts in gender roles, relationships and inequalities. What possibilities are there to ...
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Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, Oct 2005
Over the past four decades total numbers of international migrants have more than doubled but the percentage of the world population migrating has remained fairly constant. There are now 175 ...
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