A Long Way to Go: Influencing Social Norms to Combat Gender-Based Violence in Iraq
Diego Redondo CripovichThere are many social, political, religious, tribal and economic reasons that contribute to defining gender roles throughout the ages, and yet there appears to be a common thread of gender …
Ready to adapt: resilient women entrepreneurs in the pandemic
Aissa Boodhoo, Shekhar Anand and Ahmed ElassalUN Women estimates that during the first month of the pandemic, informal workers lost an average of 60 percent of their income: with losses as high as 81% in sub-Saharan …
Unlocking social entrepreneurship’s transformative potential for gender justice
Francesca El AsmarOn Social and Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, we celebrate the women who are innovating every day to respond to the problems they face in their communities, challenging a system that is …
Lessons in innovative financing for creating employment in the Middle East and North Africa
Ahmed Elassal and Shekhar AnandBackground Emerging market economies face a significant credit gap and access to finance is considered the biggest obstacle for enterprises. Banks have been the traditional source of funding, but the …
The $100 billion dollar question: what does the latest OECD report tell us?
Tracy CartyClimate change is deadly, costly, and those least responsible for causing it are being hardest hit. In 2009 developed countries* committed to mobilise $100 billion per year by 2020 to …
Initial Findings on Emergent Agency in a time of Covid – launch webinar and briefing
Duncan GreenIn September we kicked off a really interesting project on ‘Emergent Agency in a Time of Covid’ asking people if they wanted to be part of a collective effort to share and discuss the grassroots responses to the pandemic and start to explore their longer-term legacy.
Voices of Tajik Women during Covid
Nazira Kurbonovathe stories of three Tajik women, sharing their challenges, their successes and how they persevere, in their own words.
Counting care: Everything you need to know about the new Household Care Survey toolkit
Amber Parkes‘What doesn’t get measured doesn’t get seen’. I’ve heard this phrase so many times but never has it felt truer than when it comes to unpaid care and domestic work. …
Majandra’s Journey: Climate, Covid and Care
Power in the Pandemic Podcast“From an ecofeminist perspective, we understand that the sustainability of life should be at the front and center of our economic system, instead of profit and competition. That means valuing …