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This book draws on the experience of organizations working to promote women's full participation in the development process, looking at the obstacles that stand in the way; examining gender auditing; the institutionalization of gender; integrating gender into country programmes; the process of creating a gender strategy and using gender training.

The book lists information that must be gathered before deciding to implement a programme.Technical information on types of seeds and tools, purchase, transport and storage are given and the importance of involving the recipients, especially women at every stage, is stressed as is the need to take a long-term approach to these inventions.

Change and upheaval are a way of life for millions of women and men throughout the world; the articles in this work assert that, while transition creates hardship and trauma, it can give women an opportunity to challenge the negative aspects of relations between the sexes.

Looking at factors as diverse as the pervasiveness of patriarchy, changing family forms, female infanticide, and land reform policies, this collection of articles considers the family from a gender perspective, and how the socially prescribed roles of men and women within the family can constrain women's opportunities.

This book concentrates on gender issues in military and civil strife, and examines the effects of armed conflict on women's lives and the appalling situation of many women refugees and displaced. Women are not passive victims, and it shows how they are in the forefront for peace, security, and equitable gender relations.

This outstanding series provides concise and lively introductions to countries such as El Salvador and the major development issues they face. Packed full of factual information, photographs and maps, the guides also focus on ordinary people and the impact that historical, economic and environmental issues have on their lives.

This text compares the effectiveness of approaches in aiding poverty reduction. The provision of credit and other financial services has become seen as the answer to the problem facing poor people. It emphasizes the importance of studying the local context, and then considering macro-economic factors which may be operating upon the economy.

This outstanding series provides concise and lively introductions to countries such as Senegal and the major development issues they face. Packed full of factual information, photographs and maps, the guides also focus on ordinary people and the impact that historical, economic and environmental issues have on their lives.

The Andes describes how the Andean people, in order to survive, are turning to their old traditions of mutual aid and are finding ways of working together which may lead them in new directions in their long quest for justice.

This book focuses on the principles underlying evaluation, and deals with issues to be considered at the planning stage, the steps involved in carrying out evaluations and the importance of involving people in the evaluation process throughout.

This book relates how structures were established to ensure the representation of all groups, particularly the most vulnerable in refugee settlements. It considers the problems of donor fatigue and the internal stresses created when a disaster-relief operation evolves into a community-development programme in a still-turbulent context.

This book brings together the voices of a variety of women on some of the critical issues of the times: women organising in their own communities, in trade unions and in political organisations, violence against women and personal struggles regarding relationships, lobola, lesbianism and abortion.

'Aid thus becomes a means by which unequal relationships of power are maintained and patronage is fostered.' This reader examines these issues, which are currently being debated in development circles, through a selection of articles by contributors from North and South.

This paper sets out some of the major gender issues arising from considerations of health care and health care provision. It draws on the experience of participants in a workshop in the Philippines to increase understanding of the concepts and issues arising in connection with gender and health, and to develop tools for analysing these issues.

This casebook shows how video can be used by poor and powerless people to represent themselves and communicate directly with the powers that control the world beyond their village.

This outstanding series provides concise and lively introductions to countries such as Burkina-Faso and the major development issues they face. Packed full of factual information, photographs, and maps, the guides also focus on ordinary people and the impact that historical, economic, and environmental issues have on their lives.

In this work, the author examines the case of the Rondonia Natural Resource Management Project (PLANAFLORO) in the Amazon, funded by the World Bank, and considers the frustrations created when local NGOs and communities were effectively excluded from decisions about a project that claimed to be participatory.

Covering a wide range of countries, the articles look at many different aspects of women's lives, the effects of economic policies and how women are adapting and organizing to enable their families and communities to survive.

This book highlights the need for an approach to population control which is based on reproductive rights, and stresses the importance of offering family-planning services and information in the context of women's empowerment.

The familiar image of Nepal is of a remote paradise, an unspoilt and mysterious country of high mountains and traditional culture. Yet Nepal is a complex and rapidly changing society. This book goes beyond the glossy tourist brochures to examine the reality of life in a country which has recently seen major political upheavals and transition to democracy. Trekkers and mountaineers are drawn to Nepal by its superlative scenery; Nepal: New Horizons? explores the social, economic, and environmental impact of the tourist industry. It goes on to describe how communities are working together to safeguard natural resources, and to consider the long-term prospects for the country's future development.

This book looks at co-operation for development: between North, South, and East; women's organizations and funding agencies; development practitioners, academics, and civil society; politicians and economists; and men and women. The book explores how essential it is for Northern funding agencies to foster multiculturalism and gender equality.

This collection of articles by development workers and researchers focuses on learning opportunities for women offered by education and training. There is a continuing imbalance in educational participation - women make up an estimated two-thirds of the world's illiterate people - and writers reflect on the causes and consequences of this.

This volume brings together research on women in South Africa. What emerges is a sharp sense of transition and crisis and a pressing need for women's organization, to ensure that development and legislation are informed by the priorities of women, and that South Africa's land question is treated as a problem of gender transformation.

In many countries in Africa and Asia, rotating savings and credit associations underpin much of the economy. This survey covers the wide range of literature on these associations. Published with Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women.

El derecho a sobrevivir sostiene que el reto humanitario del siglo XXI exige un cambio radical en la cantidad de recursos dedicados a salvar vidas en situaciones de emergencia y en la calidad y la naturaleza de la respuesta humanitaria.

This text studies aspects of urban life from a gender perspective, with social, technical and political aspects of urban life. Articles cover gender-sensitive urban planning; work migration; community urban regeneration schemes; health care for poor urban women; and the dislocation and loss of home experienced by refugees.

International development policy-makers of the industrialized countries are focusing on understanding and tackling northern poverty. The articles in this collection examine the phenomenon of the globalization of poverty and unemployment as it relates to gender identity.

This selection of essays presents an overview of different feminist approaches to peace building and conflict resolution and puts forward concrete policy measures to achieve these ends.

This report is a contribution to the debates among the wider business community, governments, civil-society organisations, and academics who seek to understand how the wealth, employment, and products that a large company creates could bring increased benefits to people living in poverty.

This book explores women's rights: the legal background of human rights legislation; the special human-rights problems of women in situations of conflict or as refugees; violence against women as a human rights violation; the rights of disabled women and the importance of providing information and training to enable women to claim their rights.