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Trade and Gender: What does the new TPPA mean for women in developing countries?
Published in 2018
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The CPTPP, or TPPA-11 as it has been nicknamed, was signed on March 8, 2018 in Chile with the remaining original members of the TPPA bar the US: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. It will come into force when six of its signatories complete domestic ratification procedures, […]
ADDING IT UP: Investing in Contraception and Maternal and Newborn Health, 2017
Published in 2018
Source: Guttmacher Institute
This fact sheet presents estimates for 2017 of the contraceptive, maternal and newborn health care needs of women in developing regions, critical gaps in service coverage, and the costs and benefits of fully meeting these needs.
Sexuality and Poverty Synthesis Report
Published in 2017
Source: Institute of Development Studies
This report synthesises learning from a set of sexuality and poverty audits in 2012-2013 and is part of a larger project that focuses on understanding the links between sexuality, gender plurality, and poverty with the aim of improving socioeconomic policy and programming to support people marginalised because of their sexuality. The research indicated that sexuality […]
Illicit Financial Flows Undermining Gender Justice
Published in 2017
Source: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung,
This paper provides an introductory analysis of the ways in which Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) and gender justice are connected, with a focus on Latin America. It argues that confronting and dismantling the global enablers and secrecy jurisdictions will be beneficial not only for transparency and global equality but also for achieving greater gender equality […]
Feminised Financial Flows: How Gender Affects Remittances in Honduran–US Transnational Families
Published in 2017
Source: Routledge
This article focuses on Honduran immigrants in Alexandria, Virginia USA and their family members in Nacaome, Valle, Honduras. It traces the transfer of remittances from migrants to their families at home, in 20 transnational families. It focuses on six issues: gendered motives for migration, reproductive labour across borders, gender inequalities in the US labour market, […]
Barriers to Achieving The Water and Sanitation-Related Millennium Development Goals in Cancún, Mexico at The Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Published in 2017
Source: International Institute for Environment and Development
This paper discusses some of the barriers faced by the city of Cancún, Mexico, to making progress towards Millennium Development Goal targets on extending safe water and basic sanitation. It analyses the socioeconomic, political, demographic, environmental and land use dimensions that surround problems of access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation services in the […]
Population and Reproductive Health in National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) for Climate Change
Published in 2017
Source: Population Action International
This paper reviews 41 National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) submitted by Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to assess the NAPA process and identify the range of interventions included in countries’ priority adaptation actions. The review addresses how population issues and reproductive health/family planning (RH/FP) are […]
Gender, Water, and Climate Change in Sonora, Mexico: Implications For Policies and Programmes on Agricultural Income-Generation
Published in 2017
Source: Routledge
This article focuses on the sustainability of gendered agricultural income-generating activities in Sonora, near the Mexico/USA border, in the context of climate change. Farming, and fruit and vegetable home-processing enterprises, still predominate in the area. However, several types of fruits can no longer be produced in this area due to warmer temperatures. Climate change has […]
Are We Missing The Point? Particularities of Urbanization, Sustainability and Carbon Emissions in Latin American Cities
Published in 2017
Source: International Institute for Environment and Development
The discourse on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in cities is dominated by ecological modernisation theory, which focuses primarily on technological approaches supported by market mechanisms to curb carbon emissions. This paper draws on empirical evidence from Latin American cities for a critical discussion of the usefulness and limitations of this approach when applied to […]
Promoting More Gender-equitable Norms and Behaviors Among Young Men as an HIV/AIDS Prevention Strategy
Published in 2017
Source: Horizons Program, Instituto Promundo
Few interventions to promote gender-equitable behavior among young men have been systematically implemented or evaluated, and relatively little is known about how best to measure changes in gender norms and their effect on HIV/STI protective and risk behaviors. To address these gaps, the Horizons Program and Instituto Promundo examined the effectiveness of interventions designed to improve […]