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Labor-intensive jobs for women and development: Intrahousehold welfare effects and its transmission channels
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2015
We examine the welfare impacts of women getting low-skilled jobs and find large positive effects, both at the household and the individual level. However, ...
salaried employment, wage labor, gender, bargaining, consumption, poverty, hunger
Gender, sex and religious freedom in the context of secular law
Event | 19 Jun 2015
Why and how do discussions about religious freedom and secularism coalesce around questions of gender and sexuality? What is the relationship between the regulation of gender and sexuality and the regulation of religion in modern secular societies?
«Nowadays there are shoot-outs all the time». Women, children, and Police Pacification Units (UPPs) in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro.
CMI Working Paper | Sep 2016
Executive summary
This CMI Working paper explores the implementation of the Brazilian government’s favela (shantytown) policing program, Unidades ...
Favela, Rio de Janeiro, police, Rocinha, women, children, security, Police Pacification Units, UPP, Brazil
Where are the women? Towards gender equality in the ranger workforce
Journal Article | Jan 2021
Where are the women? Towards gender equality in the ranger workforce Seager, Joni, Bowser, Gillian a
Girls need career possibilities
News | 28 Aug 2014
Family planning policies have been implemented around the world for decades, but with limited results. This is also the case in Tanzania where school dropout is a big problem and the majority of girls get pregnant by the age of 20. What are they doing wrong?
The gendered impact of corruption: Who suffers more? men or women?
U4 Brief | Jan 2015
What supports the claim that corruption causes more suffering for women than men? By distinguishing between indirect victimisation and direct victimisation, ...
people's engagement
Switches from quota- to non-quota seats: A comparative study of Tanzania and Uganda
CMI Brief | Apr 2018
Reserved-seat quotas have been used worldwide as a measure to get more women in parliament. However, they are meant to be temporary until women can compete ...
quota- to non-quota seats, women in parliament, Tanzania, Uganda
The Women's Parliamentary Caucus: Promoting Cross-Party Substantive Representation
Book Chapter | Jan 2016
The Women's Parliamentary Caucus: Promoting Cross-Party Substantive Representation Asiyati Lorraine
Sexual violence and gendered subjectivities: indigenous women's search for justice in Guatemala
Book Chapter | Jan 2013
Sexual violence and gendered subjectivities: indigenous women's search for justice in Guatemala Ra
Sexual violence, women, Justice, Guatemala
Gendering Faith
Project | Mar 2011 - Dec 2013
The aim of the project is to examine the nature and causes of the increasing public religiosity of Muslim women of the Occupied Palestinian Territories ...
Palestine, Islamism, Women, Religion, Gender, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Israel
Evaluation of project on prison conditions in Malawi
Project | Oct - Nov 2014
This is an evaluation of a three-year project implemented by a Malawian civil society organisation - Centre for Legal Assistance (CELA). It has sought ...
Malawi, prison conditions, human rights, judiciary
Policing Against Sexual Violence in Haiti
Event | 17 Oct 2016
Jon Christian Møller, the Police Directorate’s section for international police cooperation, and Lisa-Marie Måseidvåg Selvik, ...
Haiti
Afghanistan: A Political Economy Analysis
Report in External Series | Jan 2017
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of Afghanistan, arguing that the Afghan state is fragile, and sustained through constant ...
Exploring the relationship between democratization and quota policies in Africa
Journal Article | Nov 2013
The authors in this special issue on Democratization and Gender Quotas in Africa are in various ways exploring the long-term effects of processes of gendering ...
Gendering the "Arab Spring"
Event | 31 May 2013
During the last couple of years there has been a series of seminar on the events related to the "Arab spring" in Yemen, Syria, Tunisia and Egypt ...
Traditional, but changing, cultural norms: Rural community views on child marriage in Algadaref State, Sudan
Sudan Report | Dec 2017
This report investigates child marriage in Algadaref State, located in Sudan’s eastern region.
Child marriage is a human rights violation affecting ...
child marriage, cultural norms, rural community, Algadaref, Sudan
When women grow wings: Gender relations in the informal economy of Kampala
CMI Report | Jan 2003
In urban Africa, informal employment constitutes 90 per cent of all new jobs. Informal work is characterised by being unrecognised, unprotected or unrecorded ...
Gender, urbanization, micro credit, taxation, Africa: Uganda
Labour-Intensive Jobs for Women and Development: Intra-household Welfare Effects and Its Transmission Channels
Journal Article | Apr 2018
We examine the welfare impacts of poor women getting low-skilled jobs and find large positive income, consumption and poverty effects at household and ...
Jobs, employment, poverty, food security, empowerment, , Ethiopia
Political determinants of sustainable development goals
Journal Article | Dec 2017
We read with interest the article by the GBD 2016 SDG Collaborators1 (Sept 16, p 1423), which presents a comprehensive analysis of the potential ...
Bleak prospects for Afghanistan
News | 10 Jun 2016
The report of a government-appointed commission tasked with evaluating the Norwegian engagement in Afghanistan was presented this week. Entitled A Good ...