ID21News - January 2001 Gender kutatasok Nagy-Britanniaban

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CONTENTS
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LATEST EDITION OF INSIGHTS FROM ID21
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* Do men matter? New horizons in gender and development
* Pillow talk. Changing men's behaviour
* Targeting men for a change
* Breadwinners and homemakers? Children exploregender
* Why men? Why now?
* Men against marital violence. A Nicaraguancampaign
* Boys behaving badly. Challenging sexism in Namibia
* Do weak states undermine masculinities?


OTHER NEWS
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* Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor
* The Gender and Health Equity Resource Folder
* Sustainable livelihoods and political capital:Arguments and evidence from
decentralisation and natural resource management  in India


LATEST EDITION OF INSIGHTS FROM ID21:
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originators using the contact details provided).

Do men matter? New horizons in gender and development
contributor(s): Frances Cleaver - Development and Project Planning Centre,
University of Bradford, UK
08 January 2001

Why do men not feature more in gender and development policy? The shift in
emphasis from Women in Development (WID) to Gender  and Development (GAD),
from enumerating and redressing women's disadvantages to analysing the
social relationships between  men and women, has not led to a recognition
within policy of the need to understand the position of women and men. Is
there a  need for an explicit focus on men in GAD?

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Further information:
Frances Cleaver, Development and Project Planning Centre, University of
Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1274 233 967, Fax: +44 (0) 1274 235 280, Email:
f.d.cleaver at Bradford.ac.uk

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Pillow talk. Changing men's behaviour
contributor(s): Neil Doyle - Care International
08 January 2001

Can men change? Yes and no, suggests research by Care International in
Vietnam. When men are equipped with the right kind of  knowledge and skills
they will improve their behaviour. However the deeper-rooted gendered
inequalities that shape sexual  encounters are more difficult to transform.

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Neil Doyle, CARE International, 91/35 Su Van Hanh Noi Dai, District 10, Ho
Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Tel: +84 8 8629459, Fax: +84 8 8626056, Email: ndoyle at saigonnet.vn

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Targeting men for a change
contributor(s): Janet Bujra, Carolyn Baylies - Department of Peace Studies,
University of
Bradford, UK , Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of
Leeds, UK
08 January 2001

How can women fight against AIDS without the cooperation of men? A recent
global shift towards the recognition that men are  driving the AIDS epidemic
raises two key challenges: to devise campaigns which treat men as
individuals, and secondly to  remember that what needs changing is not
individual men and women but the relations between them..

http://www.id21.org/static/insights35art2.htm

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Further information:
Janet Bujra, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford
BD7 1DP, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1274 232 323, Fax: +44 (0)1274 305 340, Email:
j.m.bujra at bradford.ac.uk

Carolyn Baylies, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of
Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Tel: +44 (0)113 233 4418, Fax: +44 (0)113 233 4415, Email:
c.l.baylies at leeds.ac.uk

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Breadwinners and homemakers? Children explore gender
contributor(s): Marilyn Thomson - Save the Children, UK
08 January 2001

Mum may no longer stay at home while Dad goes off to work but cultural
assumptions still prevail. Boys are often still  expected to be strong,
unemotional, and tough, possibly leading to domestic violence or
irresponsible paternity later in  life.

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Further information:
Marilyn Thomson, Save the Children, 17 Grove Lane, London SE5 8RD, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7703 5400, Fax: +44 (0)20 7793 7630, Email:
m.thomson at scfuk.org.uk

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Why men? Why now?
contributor(s): Sue Smith - Oxfam GB
08 January 2001

Women are still the majority in the poorest groups, according to Oxfam's
work on gender and poverty in the UK and  internationally. But would working
with men have a positive effect on the status of women? Would knowing more
about how women  and men are marginalised contribute significantly to gender
equity?

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Sue Smith, Oxfam GB, 274 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7DZ, UK
Email: ssmith at oxfam.org.uk

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Men against marital violence. A Nicaraguan campaign
contributor(s): Irela Solórzano, Oswaldo Montoya - Fundación Puntos de
Encuentro,
Nicaragua
08 January 2001

A third of women in Nicaragua has been assaulted by her male partner. What
is being done to change men's violent attitudes  and behaviour within the
family? After Hurricane Mitch in 1998 domestic violence worsened. In
response, Puntos de Encuentro  and the Asociación de Hombres Contra la
Violencia launched a campaign encouraging men to respect their partners,
resolve  conflicts peacefully and seek help to avoid domestic violence.

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Further information:
Irela Solórzano, Fundación Puntos de Encuentro, Rotonda El Gueguense 4c
abajo, 1c al lago, Apartado Postal RP-39, Managua,  Nicaragua
Tel: +505 268 1227,Fax: +505 266 630, Email: puntos at puntos.org.ni

Oswaldo Montoya , Asociación de Hombres Contra la Violencia, Residencial El
Dorado, Farmacia Salazar 2c. al sur, Casa #51,  Managua, Nicaragua
Tel: +505 249 4697, Email: ahcv at ibw.com.ni

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Boys behaving badly. Challenging sexism in Namibia
contributor(s): Niki Kandirikirira - ACORD, UK
08 January 2001

Namibians are still coping with the legacies of apartheid ten years after
independence. The social manipulation of black  communities has left its
mark: increased domestic violence, child abuse, rape, self-destructive
behaviour, and dysfunctional  gender relations are being transferred from
the apartheid generation to their children. How can Namibian society create
new  patterns of behaviour that give value to individual rights and
responsibilities? How can young girls and boys achieve  self-esteem and
treat each other with respect?

http://www.id21.org/static/insights35art6.htm

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Further information:
Niki Kandirikirira , ACORD Namibia, 12 Hidas Centre, Klein Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: +264 61 22 00 34, Fax: + 264 61 249819, Email: acordnik at mweb.com.na

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Do weak states undermine masculinities?
contributor(s): Chris Dolan - ACORD, UK
08 January 2001

The study of socially-constructed masculinities and their relationship to
violence reflects a healthy concern not to reduce the equation between men
and violence to simple biological determinism. To suggest that violence is
an inevitable outcome of social constructs of masculinity is also too
static. Can flawed nurturing processes fully explain the capacity of
individuals and indeed whole societies to shift between 'cultures of
violence' and 'cultures of peace'? Or does the state, through its actions or
inactions, shape those cultures and the responses of individuals within
them?

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Further information:
Chris Dolan, ACORD, 52 Horseferry Road,London SW1P 2AF, UK
Tel: +44 (0)207 227 8600, Email: Chris at acord.org.uk

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OTHER NEWS:
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Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor

The UK Parliament's International Development Committee has agreed to
conduct an inquiry into the White Paper "Eliminating  World Poverty: Making
Globalisation Work for the Poor" (Cm 5006) published on 11 December 2000.
The Committee invites  memoranda containing assessments of and responses to
the contents of the White Paper. Memoranda should be sent to the Clerk  of
the Committee by Monday 15 January 2001. Enquiries to William Benson,
Committee Specialist, on: +44 20 7219 1522.

http://www.parliament.uk/commons/selcom/indhome.htm

Further information:
International Development Committee, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London
SW1P 3JA
Tel: +44 20-7219 1223, Fax: +44 20-7219 2891, Email
mailto:indcom at parliament.uk

Read the UK government's White Paper "Eliminating World Poverty: Making
Globalisation Work for the Poor":
http://62.189.42.51/

Read comment and debate from Institute of Development Studies (UK)
researchers:
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/news/glob.html

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The Gender and Health Equity Resource Folder

This resource folder from the IDS Health and Social Policy Team and BRIDGE
gives an overview of gender sensitive  interventions and initiatives,
directly or indirectly related to health, that have been tried at macro and
micro level.  Through mapping experiences, the folder provides information
on lessons learned, results achieved, and the challenges that  have emerged
in promoting gender and health equity.

http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/health/geneqfolder.pdf

Further information:
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE, UK
Tel: +44 1273 606261, Fax: +44 1273 621202/691647 Email:
publications at ids.ac.uk

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Sustainable livelihoods and political capital: Arguments and evidence from
decentralisation and natural resource management  in India

This new Working Paper from the Overseas Development Institute examines the
Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) framework, which has  gained increasing
currency and acceptance in development policy and practice over the last few
years. The commitment to  eliminating poverty by 2015 in the UK Government
White Paper on International Development (1997) led to a rethinking of DFID
strategies which gave SL a central role. Debate now centres on how best to
operationalise the SL approach in its various  dimensions.


http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/summwp136.html

Further information:
Publications, Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road,
London SE1 7JD, UK
Tel:+44 (0)20 7922 0300, Fax:+44 (0)20 7922 0399, Email:
publications at odi.org.uk

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