Resources
Bougainville Young Women’s Leadership Research Report
The Bougainville Young Women’s Leadership Research is an initiative of Bougainville Women’s Federation in collaboration with its partner, International Women’s Development Agency, and with the support of the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at the Australian National University. Supported by the Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women Program of the Netherlands Government.
Learning Paper: IWDA and women’s economic empowerment
This paper explores IWDA’s women’s economic empowerment program through the viewpoint of three evaluations undertaken in 2011-12. Drawing from the learning in these evaluations and from current literature, this paper highlights strengths of IWDA’s economic empowerment program as well as areas where greater coherence and effectiveness can be achieved.
Aspirations and perceptions for inclusive and sustainable natural resource management in the Solomon Islands
Research of Aspirations and Perceptions toward inclusive and sustainable natural resource management in the Solomon Islands. Conducted in Western, Makira, Rendel and Isabel Province 2009
Violence Gender and Wash Toolkit
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…
Working Effectively With Women And Men In Water, Sanitation And Hygiene Programs, Resource guide
This guide provides ideas about how to make WASH approaches more sensitive and responsive to the views, status, needs and responsibilities of both women and men. It is designed to be used at the same time as other WASH guidance material, as well as improve and build on existing WASH approaches. The material in this…
Now We Feel Like Respected Adults: Positive Changes in Gender Roles and Relations in a Timor-Leste WASH Program
This report describes research that assessed the gendered outcomes of WaterAid’s (WA) water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programming in Timor-Leste. The research was conducted in Datakolo and Manuquibia communities, Liquica district of Timor-Leste, in June 2010 in partnership between WaterAid Australia (WAA), WaterAid in Timor-Leste (WATL) and International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA). WASH issues, in…
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.