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‘Implementing Gender Standards’ Toolkit and Learning Paper
This learning paper is a final output of the SINPA Program. Under the program, International Women’s Development Agency and Oxfam led the development of Gender Standards, a set of minimum standards developed to ensure that the work of SINPA partner organisations did not contribute to the perpetuation of gender inequality. This paper provides an overview…
Gender Matters 6: The Beijing Platform for Action – IWDA partner perspectives 20 years on
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 6 focusses on the Beijing Platform for Action and IWDA program partner perspectives 20 years on.
Gender Matters 5: Gender equality is smart economics – but it takes more than money and markets
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 4: Gender really matters – Perspectives from the field and implications for poverty measurement
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.
Gender Matters 3: Triple Jeopardy – Gender-based violence, disability and rights violations amongst women in Cambodia
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 3 focusses on violence, disability and rights violations amongst women in Cambodia.
Gender Matters 2: Rivers and Coconuts – Conceptualising and measuring gender equality in semi-subsistent communities in Melanesia
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 2 focusses on conceptualising and measuring gender equality in semi-subsistent communities in Melanesia.
Gender Matters 1: Towards transformation – Synchronising work with women and men for gender equality
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 1 focusses on the importance of including women and men in working towards gender equality.
Gender and Economy in Melanesian Communities Manual
The economies of Pacific Island nations are changing and these changes are having significant impacts on the nature of rural and urban life. Increasing numbers of people are on the move to the cities and towns of their home countries and beyond. Across the region, new agreements to allow free trade and promote economic growth…
Closing the Gender Gap: Gender in Australian NGOs
This research report seeks to fill a gap in the publicly available evidence regarding factors influencing gender integration in Australian NGOs, and to use this to shape recommendations about the development of gender capacity in the Australian NGO sector, with the aim of accelerating progress towards gender equality. It presents research undertaken between August 2010…
Public Perceptions of Women in Leadership (Fiji)
This study was commissioned under the Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women (FLOW) program, a four year multi-country program funded by the Government of the Netherlands, coordinated in the Pacific by International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA), and implemented in Fiji in partnership with the Fiji Women’s Forum, Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, femLINKPACIFIC, and Commonwealth Local…