Browsing Bora-import by Subject "Gender"
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A balanced view of development as freedom
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)Amartya Sen, in his most recent book Development as Freedom, argues that expansion of human freedom should both be viewed as the primary end and the principle means of development. This paper provides an overview and a ... -
"A woman should not be the boss when a man is present": Gender and poverty in Southern Mozambique
(Research report, Research report, 2010)This is the third and final report in the series “Gender Policies and Feminisation of Poverty in Mozambique”, revealing a curious incongruity between often broad and sweeping statements about gender inequality and the great ... -
Afghanistan: Findings on Education, Environment, Gender, Health, Livelihood and Water and Sanitation. From Multidonor Evaluation of Emergency and Reconstruction Assistance from Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom
(Research report, Research report, 2005)The Chr Michelsen Institute (CMI) (Lead agency), Copenhagen Development Consultants (Copenhagen DC) and the German Association of Development Consultants (AGEG) undertook during 2005 a Multidonor Evaluation of emergency ... -
Decentralisation and Gender Coordination and Cooperation on Maternal Health Issues in Selected District Councils in Tanzania
(Research report, Research report, 2008)This empirical study looks at coordination and cooperation within five district councils in Tanzania with a special focus on efforts to reduce maternal mortality. In what ways do district councils cooperate with local ... -
Discrimination in the Name of Religious Freedom: The Rights of Women and Non-Muslims after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan
(Research report, Research report, 2007)Government policy since independence has by and large disregarded Sudan’s multi-religious character through continuous Islamisation and Arabisation processes that have fuelled the civil war. International considerations ... -
Gendered Citizenship in Sudan: Competing Perceptions of Women's Civil Rights within the Family Laws among Northern and Southern Elites in Khartoum
(CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2007)In classical political thought, citizenship is a gender-neutral abstract personhood. This concept does not travel well when discussing the citizenship of women in the Middle East and Northern Africa. In Sudan, women’s civil ... -
Humanitarian Challenges in Afghanistan: Administrative Structures and Gender and Assistance
(Research report, Research report, 2001)The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has rapidly deteriorated over the last months, as the conflict between the Taliban and the international community has intensified. UN sanctions and isolation has strengthened the ... -
Mid-Term Review of the Angola Programme of Norwegian People's Aid
(Research report, Research report, 2006)The purpose of this review is to assist Norwegian People’s Aid in adapting its Angola programme to reach the objectives it has set for the period from 2004 to 2007. NPA presently works in five provinces and employs more ... -
"Money has no Name": Informalisation, Unemployment and changing Gender Relations in Accara, Ghana
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of work. This informalisation process has gendered consequences. Unemployed people, rural-urban ... -
Palestinian Women: Is there a Unitary Conception of Rights?
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)Palestinian women’s participation in the resistance against the Israeli occupation, most notably during the first Intifada (1987-93), has been characterised as broad and active, particularly at grass roots level. This ... -
Share-tenancy within the household unit
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)Virtually all peasant household models assume efficient allocation of household productive resources between different household activities. In an African context characterised by different plots of land being cultivated ... -
When Men do Women's Work : Structural Adjustment , Unemployment and Changing Gender Relations in the Informal Economy of Accra, Ghana
(Journal article, 2007)Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of work. This informalisation process has gendered consequences. Unemployed people, rural–urban ... -
When women grow wings: Gender relations in the informal economy of Kampala
(Research report, Research report, 2003)In urban Africa, informal employment constitutes 90 per cent of all new jobs. Informal work is characterised by being unrecognised, unprotected or unrecorded by the public authorities, and a larger percentage of women than ...