This Guidance Paper provides practical programming guidance to mainstream gender into international efforts in support of peacebuilding and statebuilding processes. It finds that current thinking on the necessary features of state society relations includes the following: making political settlements and political processes more inclusive; strengthening core functions of the ...» more
Library
This e-library contains more than 4500 external publications on governance, social development, conflict and humanitarian issues. It includes academic and grey literature selected for its basis in good quality research and coverage of a range of perspectives. Policy-oriented summaries of each document are provided, plus links to the full text.
Women and peace processes, negotiations, and agreements: operational opportunities and challenges
This policy brief addresses the involvement of women in peace processes, negotiations, and agreements and outlines the shape of contemporary peace processes and their resultant agreements, arguing that they exclude women. A peace process raises new opportunities for women to have their concerns and experience of conflict heard and to play a part in their country’s reform. If ...» more
Not Just a Numbers Game: Increasing Women’s Participation in UN Peacekeeping
The inclusion of female uniformed personnel in national contributions to UN peace operations has fallen short of expectations. By March 2013, women comprised less than 4 percent of UN peacekeepers globally, accounting for about 3 percent of UN military personnel and about 9.7 percent of UN police. The UN is unlikely to reach its goals for gender equality in peacekeeping ...» more
Developmental uses of mobile phones in Kenya and Uganda
This paper explores the benefit derived from having access to a mobile phone. It examines the developmental uses of mobile phones in two East African countries: Kenya and Uganda. It focuses on the relationship between the economic and social upgrading or downgrading that result from the developmental uses of mobile phones, and specifically includes the effect of gender on ...» more
Donor Partnerships with Business for Private Sector Development: What can we Learn from Experience?
This review gives structure to the theme of donor partnerships with business aimed at private sector development. It proposes a focus on key issues that have received little attention so far: assessing additionality, measuring partnership results, and achieving better outcomes based on learning from experience. The report examined evidence from a variety of partnerships between ...» more
Promoting Resilient Livelihoods through Adaptive Social Protection: Lessons from 124 Programmes in South Asia
Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to efforts to integrate social protection (SP), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA). The need to integrate these three domains is now increasingly recognized by practitioners and academics. Relying on 124 agricultural programmes implemented in 5 countries in Asia, this paper considers how these elements are ...» more
What Works and What Does Not: A Discussion of Popular Approaches for the Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation
A range of interventions have been carried out over the past few decades to promote the abandonment of female genital mutilation (FGM). While these efforts have had varied success, the prevalence of FGM is reducing in nearly all the countries in which it is traditionally practiced. In most cases, however, this decrease has been slow, raising questions about the efficacy of ...» more
Democratic Accountability and Service Delivery: A Desk Review
This paper seeks to identify and document how different modalities of democratic accountability are linked to improved service delivery in developing democracies. The aim is to better understand the workings of accountability mechanisms. This paper addresses a double democratic challenge: to strengthen formal and legal mechanisms that allow citizens to articulate and voice ...» more
Measuring Change in Women Entrepreneurs’ Economic Empowerment: A Literature Review
This paper is aimed to support the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) member projects to integrate gender considerations more fully into private sector development (PSD) measurement systems. It takes a first step at bridging the knowledge gap by reviewing current literature for: definitions of women’s economic empowerment; identifying current measures for women’s ...» more
Climate and Environment Assessment: Women’s Economic Empowerment and Growth in Low Income Countries: a Global Research Programme (2013-2018)
This report assesses the environmental impact of a new DFID multilateral research programme, Women’s Economic Empowerment and Growth in Low Income Countries (WEEG). It also looks at how climate change could affect the success of the WEEG programme. The WEEG research programme will help generate and inform policies that promote women’s contribution to economic growth. This will ...» more
Women’s Education Reduces Risk of Gender-Based Violence: Evidence from 33 countries
This paper studies domestic violence against women (VAW) in 33 poor countries, using household survey data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) and the Work, Attitudes and Spending (WAS) survey. The latter of these is a Nigerian national survey of urban and rural households. This paper used information from WAS surveys from 2003 and 2005. The article emphasises that ...» more
Youth Matters: Equipping vulnerable young people with literacy and life skills
This brief looks at how countries are addressing vulnerable youth in their policies and programmes around the world. A multi-country research and policy-dialogue process on ‘Literacy and Life Skills Education for Vulnerable Youth’ was initiated in 2010. Two regional policy forums (one in Bamako, Mali and another in Cairo, Egypt in 2011) were held to gather evidence on how to ...» more
Youth, Waithood, and Protest Movements in Africa
This lecture examines the broad challenges facing young Africans today, particularly those relating to their socioeconomic position, citizenship, and political activism. It was first presented at the Fifth European Conference on African Studies, Lisbon, 28 June 2013. Youth in Africa face unemployment and restricted opportunities, driving many of them to challenge the status ...» more
The African Union’s Mechanisms to Foster Gender Mainstreaming and Ensure Women’s Political Participation and Representation
This paper analyses the African Union’s (AU) mechanisms to foster gender mainstreaming and women’s political participation and representation in supranational/regional decision-making by evaluating the AU’s capabilities and potential, and reflects on areas of cooperation on these issues between the AU, EU and UN. It does so primarily by examining AU constitutional and policy ...» more
I know. I want. I dream. Girls’ insights for building a better world
In 2013, a multi-country research effort was initiated to ensure that girls’ voices would guide the global development agenda. The goal was to create a platform for girls to voice their unique insights, opinions and ideas. More than five hundred girls, ages 10–19, representing the poorest and most vulnerable of their communities, participated in consultation groups spread ...» more
Assessment of the evidence of links between gender equality, peacebuilding and statebuilding: literature review
This report provides an overview of the knowledge base on gender-sensitive approaches to peacebuilding and statebuilding in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS). It uses systematic principles of enquiry to assess the evidence, but is not a systematic review. The assessment included a review of the most relevant sources, identifying the key trends and findings in ...» more
Trading Places: Accessing land in African cities
The developing world is urbanising fast, and new systems of urban land ownership, transfer and governance are emerging. This book tries to explain how these systems work and how they interface with wider markets and with existing land governance regimes, focusing particularly on Africa. The paper states that if African cities are to become economic engines of development, the ...» more
Incrementally Securing Tenure: Promising practices in informal settlement upgrading in southern Africa
Known as the “urbanisation of poverty”, about 62% of people today in towns and cities in sub-Saharan Africa live in informal settlements. This paper finds that land management in these conditions is under extreme pressure, and efforts to secure tenure among the urban poor are dominated by the paradigm of individual title implemented through large-scale titling schemes.The ...» more
Good Global Economic and Social Practices to Promote Gender Equality in the Labor Market
This report provides a review of policy frameworks for gender-equity and/or employment, including social protection measures related to social safety nets. It highlights good practices, drawing on examples from around the world and on Asia and the Pacific in particular.The review’s intended audience is policy makers who may be charged, as part of their duties, to design and ...» more
Gender Equality and the Labor Market. Cambodia, Kazakhstan and the Philippines
This report is drawn from national studies on Cambodia, Kazakhstan, and the Philippines. It comprises a gendered analysis of labour markets, policies, and legislation in each of threedeveloping member countries (DMCs) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and provides recommendations for legislation and policies that have the potential to expand or improve employment and work ...» more
