Narrow down by keywords: Gender and diversity, Sub-Saharan Africa
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- The role of religion in women's campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria
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Legal reform is necessary but not sufficient to realise women's rights. This paper compares two campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria: attempts to domesticate the UN Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-07-12 13:52
- Insights from Zambian miners for rethinking development policy and the environment
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The world is at a critical point as humanity contemplates how our own activity is contributing to changes in the earth and atmosphere. Formidable challenges require raising fundamental questions and learning from unlikely sources. Drawing on field researc ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:35
- Women's benefits from agricultural technologies: evidence from poultry production among Nigerian fisherfolk
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In many rural households, women are much more involved than men in poultry production. This article examines the introduction of exotic chickens into communities along the shorelines of Kainji Lake in Nigeria and the consequent impact on women's partici ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-05 15:43
- Using participatory impact diagrams to evaluate a community development project in Kenya
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Participatory approaches for impact assessment are increasingly becoming popular with development organisations for engaging multiple stakeholders. We present our use of participatory impact diagrams as an evaluation tool within a mixed methods impact a ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2013-02-25 16:11
- Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa
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Women planners in Africa do not constitute a critical mass: their numbers remain negligible and their output unrecognised, while mentors and role models still tend to be male. Women’s experiences are undervalued, and their knowledge is often excluded in p ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:35
- Gender mainstreaming in organisational culture and agricultural research processes
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Despite increased attention to gender issues in the international development arena since the rise of feminism in the 1970s, few agricultural research organisations have integrated gender in their problem diagnosis and technology development. Gender mai ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-05 15:50
- Engaging with cultural practices in ways that benefit women in northern Nigeria
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This study explores the intra-household impact of improved dual-purpose cowpea (IDPC) from a gender perspective, in terms of productivity and food, fodder, and income availability, the impact of which is linked to the income thus placed in the women's han ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:35
- When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and the Genocide in Rwanda
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Author: Mamdani, Mahmood Publisher: Oxford: James Currey, 2001, ISBN: 0 85255 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:48
- Attitude counts: engaging with rice farmers in West Africa
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An international project called PADS promoted participatory learning and action research with inland valley rainfed rice farmers in West Africa. All countries received the same training, similar funding, and the same leadership. Although the staff in Gh ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-16 11:31
- Participatory risk assessment: a new approach for safer food in vulnerable African communities
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Women play the major role in food supply in developing countries, but too often their ability to feed their families properly is compromised; the result is high levels of food-borne disease and consequent limited access to higher-value markets. We argue t ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:35
