IWDA contributed to this toolkit in response to an acknowledgement that although the lack of access to appropriate water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH) is not the root cause of violence, it can lead to increased vulnerabilities to violence of varying forms. Incidences have been reported from a wide range of contexts, often anecdotally but…

Gender Matters is a vehicle for IWDA to share emerging ideas and new research. It comes out at least twice a year, providing insights into gender and development issues from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. Gender Matters 5 focusses on the gender equality and economics, with a look at savings clubs in Solomon…

Gender Matters is a vehicle for IWDA to share emerging ideas and new research. It comes out at least twice a year, providing insights into gender and development issues from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. Gender Matters 4 focusses on the gendered elements of poverty measurement.

Cambodian women with disabilities experience multiple disadvantages resulting from the interplay between gender, disability and poverty. This participatory action research has found that women with disabilities face similar levels of sexual, physical and emotional violence by partners to non-disabled women but endure much higher levels of all forms of family violence. They suffer sexual violence…

Cambodian women with disabilities experience multiple disadvantages resulting from the interplay between gender, disability and poverty. This participatory action research has found that women with disabilities face similar levels of sexual, physical and emotional violence by partners to non-disabled women but endure much higher levels of all forms of family violence. They suffer sexual violence…

Cambodian women with disabilities experience multiple disadvantages resulting from the interplay between gender, disability and poverty. This participatory action research has found that women with disabilities face similar levels of sexual, physical and emotional violence by partners to non-disabled women but endure much higher levels of all forms of family violence. They suffer sexual violence…

Cambodian women with disabilities experience multiple disadvantages resulting from the interplay between gender, disability and poverty. This participatory action research has found that women with disabilities face similar levels of sexual, physical and emotional violence by partners to non-disabled women but endure much higher levels of all forms of family violence. They suffer sexual violence…

Cambodian women with disabilities experience multiple disadvantages resulting from the interplay between gender, disability and poverty. This participatory action research has found that women with disabilities face similar levels of sexual, physical and emotional violence by partners to non-disabled women but endure much higher levels of all forms of family violence. They suffer sexual violence…

IWDA and the State Society & Governance in Melanesia program at the Australian National University are partnering on a research initiative, with funding from the Australian Government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, to understand whether and in what ways economic inclusion and empowerment initiatives affect women’s experience of violence. ‘Do No Harm’…

In May 2013, workshops were held in Chiang Mai and Mae Sot, Thailand, with a number of women’s organisations who represent different ethnic minorities from Burma/Myanmar and who respond to human rights violations. These workshops had two key purposes. Firstly, to share existing narrative ways of working and co-develop with participants new culturally resonant methods…