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Eleven Recommendations for Working on Empowerment and Accountability in Fragile, Conflict or Violence-Affected Settings
Published by: IDS
This brief presents eleven key messages about how to work in contexts with deeply circumscribed spaces. It draws on the experiences and insights of the Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) programme, gained from supporting local partners in Egypt, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria and Pakistan.
Lessons learned from Linking Social Protection to Tax Revenue
This rapid evidence review assesses different social protection/social security programmes and how different tax policies and tax...
Empowerment and Accountability in Difficult Settings: What Are We Learning?
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This report highlights key messages emerging from the work of the Action for Empowerment and Accountability Research Programme (A4EA), and the implications for how donors, policy makers and practitioners support strategies for empowerment and accountability in fragile, conflict and violence affected settings.
Masculinities and Transition: Summary Brief
Published by: IDS
Profound social and economic transitions over the past 30 years have shaped women’s lives and opportunities in Egypt, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Ukraine in varying ways. Much less is known about men’s experiences of economic transition and reactions to the diverse changes in women’s circumstances.
Masculinities and Transition in Egypt: Country Brief
Gender and development research in Egypt tends to frame questions about men solely in terms of barriers to women’s economic advancement. Only recently have questions been raised about men’s own gendered experiences and attitudes, and how they experience the changes in gender relations created by women’s empowerment.
Masculinities and Transition: Enduring Privilege?
Published by: IDS
There has been significant progress in gender equality globally over recent decades, such as in school enrolment or in labour force participation rates, and in certain groups of men’s and boys’ attitudes to gender equality; particularly among younger, educated males in urban areas. Yet, historically embedded structural barriers and patriarchal relations seem to counter progress in other areas – such as unpaid care work, or women’s access to property and productive resources.
Negotiating Women in Egypt’s Post-Mubarak Constitutions (2012–2014)
Published by: Cambridge University Press
This paper presents a comparative “gender audit” of Egypt's two constitutions (2012, 2014) developed after a people's uprising in...
Beyond the Religious/Secular Binary Trap: Keeping the Focus on Gender Equality
Published by: IDS
In a global context of deep ideological, political, social and economic polarisations, it is unsurprising that fault lines exist in Western aid circles on how to engage with the role of religion in relation to gender equality.