Browsing Publications by Subject "Gender"
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A Different Yardstick: The Gendered Political Discourse in Malawi
(CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 5, Report, 2016-04-01)The 2014 election campaign in Malawi focussed on gender rather than facts. In this brief we argue that the campaign showed a strong, conservative, culturally driven bias against Banda and other women leaders. the discourse ... -
A mixed bag: Norway's support for women and girls' rights and gender equality in international development
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Candidate selection and informal soft quotas for women: Insights from Zambia
(CMI Brief no. 2020:1, Report, 2020-02-01)What does it take for a female politician to win a party nomination? We still know little about women’s entry into politics in countries without formal gender quotas. Using data from Zambia, we argue that both in ... -
Competing Perceptions of Women's Civil Rights in Sudan
(CMI Brief vol. 6 no. 4, Report, 2007-07-19)During the peace process in Sudan women were merely "guests at the table. The role permitted to women during negotiations was based on a perception of them as passive victims of war, not active players in politics and ... -
Constatações da Realidade em Moçambique 2015. Sub-Relatório, Distrito do Lago
(Reality Checks Mozambique 2011-2015, Research report, 2016-01-01)As Constatações da Realidade em Moçambique são implementadas pela ORGUT Consulting (Suécia) em associação com a Cowi Mozambique e o Chr. Michelsen Institute, em nome da Embaixada da Suécia em Maputo. As Constatações da ... -
Democratic Transitions and Gendered Exceptions. Women's rights under fire in KhyberPakthunkwah
(Others, 2010-01-01)Gendering Asia presentasjon -
Evaluation of Norway's Support to Women's Rights and Gender Equality. Mozambique Case Study Report
(Norad Evaluation Report 2/2015 Annex 7, Research report, 2015-06-01)Purpose of evaluation: This report is the Mozambique case study report for the evaluation of Norway’s support to strengthening women and girls’ rights and gender equality through its development cooperation ... -
Family law reform in Sudan: competing claims for gender justice between sharia and women’s human rights
(CMI Report R 2017:5, Research report, 2017-12-01)This paper focuses on family law reform in Sudan-a country that has been in a state of perpetual conflict that stretches back long before its independence in 1956. The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in ... -
Gender and poverty in Mozambique
(CMI Brief vol. 9 no. 6, Report, 2010-10-01)Gender equality and women’s empowerment are high on the government and donor agendas in Sub-Saharan Africa, but have largely failed to have an impact. Rather than ‘mainstreaming’ gender, more attention to the variations ... -
Gender equality and development in Mozambique
(Background article for the World Development Report 2012, Research report, 2011-01-01)This article outlines some of the main policies and interventions for economic development and gender equality in Mozambique since Independence in 1975, and assesses key implications for the positions of - and relations ... -
Joint Land Certification and Intra-household Decision-making: Towards Empowerment of Wives?
(Centre for Land Tenure Studies Working Paper, Research report, 2013-01-01)We have used gender-disaggregated household panel data from 2007 and 2012 in combination with dictator games and hawk-dove games to assess the effects of joint land certification of husbands and wives on wives’ involvement ... -
Labor-intensive jobs for women and development: Intrahousehold welfare effects and its transmission channels
(CMI Working Paper WP 2015:15, Working paper, 2015-01-01)We examine the welfare impacts of women getting low-skilled jobs and find large positive effects, both at the household and the individual level. However, the women workers, their husbands and their oldest daughters reduced ... -
Legal Pluralism And Indigenous Women’s Rights In Mexico: The Ambiguities Of Recognition
(NYU Journal of International Law and Politics vol. 48 no. 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-06-01)This article explores the effects of the ambiguous recognition of indigenous or “customary” law in Mexico on the struggle of indigenous women to ensure their rights are respected. After outlining the history of legal changes ... -
Monografia de Município de Kalandula
(Relatório Social de Angola 2016, Chapter, 2018-03-01)O Relatório Social de Angola 2016 faz um balanço analítico do que mais relevante ocorreu no sector social, no ano em apreço, a partir da avaliação do comportamento dos seus indicadores-chave. O oitavo ... -
Mozambique Country Case Study: Child Rights
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Reality Checks Mozambique 2015. Sub-report, District of Lago
(Reality Checks Mozambique 2011-2015, Research report, 2016-01-01)This is the sub-report on Lago for the 5 th Reality Check, to be complemented by similar sub-reports from Cuamba and Majune. The focus is on quantitative expressions of poverty and well-being, primarily based on results ... -
Reality Checks Mozambique. Final Report 2011-2015
(Research report, 2016-03-01)This is the Final Report, summing up and analysing the entire Reality Check series of studies. In line with the main objective/idea of the series, is based on qualitative information and data or “poor people’s ... -
Servants of the nation, defenders of la patria: The Bolivarian Militia in Venezuela
(CMI Working Paper WP 2015:13, Working paper, 2015-01-01)In 2008, the government of now-deceased President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela passed a law creating what is known as the Bolivarian militia (Milicia Bolivariana), a reserve force composed by civilian volunteers supplementing ... -
Sudan’s constitutional process: A gender inclusive approach
(Report, 2021-08-01)Research shows that including women in constitutional processes secures more durable and long-lasting outcomes. Yet women have been excluded from the discussions about Sudan’s future. What steps can the transitional ...