Conventional government schemes and microfinance interventions have struggled to reach the poorest and help them escape the confines of extreme poverty. In response, BRAC, Bangladesh’s largest non-governmental organisation (NGO), developed an innovative approach that...
A gender analysis of poverty and vulnerability makes an important contribution to the task of constructing an inclusive social protection strategy – it draws attention to some of the ways that gender differentiates the...
Clarifying the boundaries of social protection in the South Asian context This paper provides an overview of social protection strategies in the South Asian context, focusing on Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka...
Recent research in Bangladesh highlights an interesting paradox: impressive development outcomes combined with extremely poor quality of governance. The country’s active development NGO sector has been credited with some of the more positive development achievements. The question that this paper...
” Gender and international migration: globalization, development and governance” by Lourdes Beneria, Carmen Diana Deere and Naila Kabeer This contribution examines the connections between gender and international migration around three themes: globalization, national economic development,...
IDRC Highlight: Exploring how to increase women’s labour market participation 26/01/2012, London, UK, Global Events IDRC and the UK Department of International Development (DFID) convened an expert meeting in January 2012, hosted by the...
The Millennium Development Goals are set to expire in 2015. Never before has a group of global goals so galvanized the world to fight poverty, disease and hunger. But What Next? A lively debate...
http://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/Wp387.pdf There is considerable debate about the extent to which gender equality and womens’ rights are universal values. This debate has been particularly heated in Afghanistan where the violation of women’s rights by the...
Concerns with women’s empowerment have their roots in grassroots mobilisations across the world and have always had a focus on the material dimensions of women’s subordination. The idea of women’s economic empowerment speaks directly...
What about proactive versus reactive social protection? Where in the world do you find the answer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soI72UA_cQw