How Girls Achieve: by Sally A. Nuamah, Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2019, 202 pp., £19.95 (hbk), ISBN: 978-0-674-98022-8
In: Gender and development, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 440-442
ISSN: 1364-9221
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In: Gender and development, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 440-442
ISSN: 1364-9221
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 14, Heft 5, S. 653-666
ISSN: 1099-1328
AbstractDrawing on Save the Children's experience of working with three social fund financed programmes, this paper examines their potential for reducing childhood poverty. Examining direct and indirect effects on children it discusses the relevance and impact of activities supported, the extent to which the these three social fund programmes reached very poor families and children, and the extent of and mechanisms for poor people's participation. The paper situates this analysis within a discussion of the considers some of the broader factors influencing social fund effectiveness. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
In: Chronic Poverty Research Centre Working Paper No. 2008-09
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In: CHIP Working Paper No. 1
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In: Development: journal of the Society for International Development (SID), Band 43, Heft 1, S. 65-72
ISSN: 1461-7072
In: Development: the journal of the Society of International Development, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 65
ISSN: 0020-6555, 1011-6370
In: Development policy review
ISSN: 1467-7679
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 535-554
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 14, Heft 8, S. 1117-1128
ISSN: 1099-1328
AbstractPoverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) are currently at the centre of development assistance and planning in many countries and donor agencies. As such, they are potentially of enormous significance for children living in poverty. Based on a review of PRSP documents, authors' experiences and other evidence, the paper explores the main policies of economic growth and social sector investment laid out in PRSPs and some likely implications for children's lives and equitable development. It examines how far PRSPs recognize childhood poverty as a priority, and the strategies' often limited commitments to tackle it. The paper reflects on changes in policy planning, budgeting and review processes associated with PRSPs and examines their potential to contribute to effective poverty reduction. It concludes that, to date, changes in these processes are the most significant contribution of PRSPs; while the potential for more effective policy is strong, much work is required by all involved before they are a comprehensive or strategic approach to reducing childhood poverty or securing the wellbeing of future generations. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
′Research for Development has become the ′go to′ text for development practitioners, students and researchers alike. This substantially revised second edition is even better: brought fully up to date with many new topics and chapters, this book is comprehensive, authoritative and highly informative′ - David Lewis, Professor of Social Policy and Development, London School of Economics & Political Science.
In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 185
ISSN: 0022-0388
Adolescence, wherever you live, is a potentially turbulent and challenging time and no less so in the four countries where we undertook our work. Here, transitions
through adolescence are fraught with difficulties, in part due to the deeply
embedded gender norms which determine what a girl can and cannot do and how
she must be. Each specific context came with its own factors: multi-ethnic and
multi-religious communities, remoteness, variable services (if any at all) and, sometimes,
a policy and cultural context without recognition of adolescence, where the
transition to adulthood is short or immediate rather than prolonged.
Nevertheless, what we know from biological sciences is that adolescence is a
developmental period – a time when the body and mind changes. These changes
bring with them potential which in the right context, can open new opportunities.
Our interest was in exploring that potential and how gendered norms might truncate
opportunities and limit the development of capabilities which every young
adult could aspire to own – the ability to have a political voice, to be educated,
to be in good health, to have control over one's body, to be free from violence, to
be able to own property and earn a livelihood, to be economically and politically
empowered.
We were intrigued by the very common experiences of adolescent girls across
multiple contexts. This learning and sharing enabled us to explore in much greater depth what norms are and how they operate within political and institutional
spaces at national and community levels. It also allowed us to explore the changing
and different conceptual understandings of gendered social relations, gender equality
and the usage of the term 'norm' to capture embedded, often implicit, informal
rules by which people abide, and which are bound into the values people and societies
accept implicitly, accept reluctantly or actively contest.
In: Gender, conflict and development
In: Bridge Report, No. 35
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