Emthonjeni 2 – Come to the Wellspring - Exploring change in a climate-changing world Marilyn Aitken Testimonies about the effectiveness of the materials in this book, from those who know: …
As a contribution to the wider efforts to promote gender integration in relation to climate change interventions (adaptation, migration, development of policies, strategies and action plans), this …
According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, in 2009 over 1 billion people did not have enough to eat, compared with 848 million in 2003. With the continuing economic crisis in 2010/1…
Recent developments have witnessed the emergence of civil society as a major development actor whose potentials and capacity, especially in Africa, are often taken for granted and treated as limitl…
Gender training proliferated in the 1990s and gained ground with the emphasis on gender mainstreaming, a strategy adopted at the 1995 Fourth World Conference of Women in Beijing. At present gender …
Please include a summary of key activities, outputs and results achieved during the reporting period. Analyse the country and regional context, which the project takes place in. Ghana is in West Af…
This is a contribution to development debates on integrating gender issues into development institutions. The writers are from South and North, women and men, working for or with Oxfam GB and other…
Women across the world bear a disproportionate burden of poverty in terms of material deprivation, discrimination, and denial of their basic rights. This means they often have little opportunity to…
This collection of articles critically assesses the degree to which gender inequality has been addressed in the work of development organizations. Contributors scrutinize the efforts of governments…
This review of the literature on demographic aging focuses on the social and health consequences of this population development. "The book explores the complex dimensions of [this] demographic tran…
A new report launched by The Gaia Foundation, African Biodiversity Network (ABN), and allies, exposes the social and ecological atrocities and the toxic legacy of gadgets such as smartphones and la…
The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) is a growing African institution committed to deepening democracy, protecting human rights and enhancing good governance in the region. OSISA…
This chapter takes a look at Ghana’s history, trade relations and its impact on the regional and global stage. This chapter contains interviews with Mahatir Mohammad, former Prime Minister of Mal…
In the Fall of 1998, a small group convened by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change gathered in a hotel meeting room to ponder a simple challenge. Hometown answers to America’s most pressing prob…
The rapid expansion of towns and cities throughout the world in recent years has created huge problems, as governments have been unable to provide adequate housing and services for growing urban po…
This collection of articles by development workers and researchers focuses on learning opportunities for women offered by education and training. There is a continuing imbalance in educational part…
This collection of articles focuses on the Millennium Development Goals from a gender perspective. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of this way of understanding and addressing poverty, and …
In this endnote address delivered at the 11th General Assembly of CODESRIA, held in Maputo in 2005, Sundaram notes that over three decades of economic stagnation, contraction and increased poverty …
Social Watch is an international network of citizens’ organizations in the struggle to eradicate poverty and the causes of poverty, to end all forms of discrimination and racism, to ensure an equ…
Amidst emergent cultural formations in Dakar, Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Kisangani, Jos, Zaria, Cairo, and Marakesh, this collection focuses on diverse ways Africans negotiate novel spatial practices,…