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Empowering women’s participation in livestock vaccination in East Africa
Get PDFPeste des petits ruminants (PPR), Rift Valley fever and Newcastle disease, are highly contagious livestock diseases. Vaccinations are available to protect livestock, but women farmers rarely benefit. Barriers include a lack of cold storage, limited veterinary and extension services, and restricted decision-making ability. Women small-scale farmers depend heavily on small livestock for their income. As they are also responsible for caring for diseased animals, they are disproportionately affected (by these livestock diseases). SheVax+ is researching new ways to improve women’s participation, and how they can better benefit from, livestock vaccine value chains (LVVCs) in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda
Protecting healthcare workers during a pandemic : what can a WHO collaborating centre research partnership contribute?
Get PDFObjectives. To ascertain whether and how working as a partnership of two World Health Organization collaborating centres (WHOCCs), based respectively in the Global North and Global South, can add insights on “what works to protect healthcare workers (HCWs) during a pandemic, in what contexts, using what mechanism, to achieve what outcome”. Methods. A realist synthesis of seven projects in this research program was carried out to characterize context (C) (including researcher positionality), mechanism (M) (including service relationships) and outcome (O) in each project. An assessment was then conducted of the role of the WHOCC partnership in each study and overall. Results. The research found that lower-resourced countries with higher economic disparity, including South Africa, incurred greater occupational health risk and had less acceptable measures to protect HCWs at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic than higher-income more-equal counterpart countries. It showed that rigorously adopting occupational health measures can indeed protect the healthcare workforce; training and preventive initiatives can reduce workplace stress; information systems are valued; and HCWs most at-risk (including care aides in the Canadian setting) can be readily identified to trigger adoption of protective actions. The C-M-O analysis showed that various ways of working through a WHOCC partnership not only enabled knowledge sharing, but allowed for triangulating results and, ultimately, initiatives for worker protection. Conclusions. The value of an international partnership on a North-South axis especially lies in providing contextualized global evidence regarding protecting HCWs as a pandemic emerges, particularly with bi-directional cross-jurisdiction participation by researchers working with practitioners.Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR
Case study of clothing design considerations of low-income, menopausal women in Brazil
Get PDFPortuguese version is available in IDRC Digital Library : Um estudo de caso sobre design de roupas; considerações sobre mulheres na menopausa de baixa renda no BrasilAs in many societies, in Brazil, middle-aged and low-income women are subject to marginalization caused by social and gender inequality. This reality underlies the construction of negative stereotypes associated with the devaluation of aging female bodies and beauty. Clothing contributes to the perception of belonging and acceptance in the social environment. When the issues of aging, gender, and economic vulnerability are present, these judgments can further feed the construction of depreciating stereotypes of women. Recognizing the particularities of these women and their demands is essential for the development of clothing products that can contribute to self-esteem and social belonging, democratizing the actions and design solutions. Thus, this investigation had as a main objective: to understand how middle-aged and low-income women perceived the biopsychosocial factors of aging, and how they influence the factors of usability and social representation through the bias of gender construction
Exploring urban care infrastructures to support women’s autonomy in Argentina
Get PDFSpanish version available in IDRC Digital Library : Explorando las infraestructuras urbanas de cuidado para promover la autonomía de las mujeres en ArgentinaThis research addresses the issue of care work as mostly assumed by women and focuses on the unequal distribution of care services and infrastructures in fragmented cities. This project is located in the city of Córdoba, in the underserved neighbourhoods of Marechal, Villa Páez and Alberdi. The project utilized quantitative and qualitative mapping to understand gendered urban experiences related to care, and how these are omitted in current urban planning discourses
Developing innovative urban design strategies to combat gender violence in Mexico
Get PDFSpanish version available in IDRC Digital Library : Desarrollar estrategias de diseño urbano para combatir violencia de género en MéxicoThis project developed seminars with professors, undergraduate, and graduate students from a variety of disciplines in order to come up with innovative design approaches to the issue of gendered violence in Ciudad Juárez. The participants studied the literature on gendered violence in the city and created proposals for designs with gendered violence as the central focus, which included plans for bus stops, experiments in the use of storytelling in design research, and infographics on sexist attitudes among the design students at the university
Marchés publics et autonomisation économique des femmes en Afrique de l’Est : défis et possibilités
Get PDFVersion anglaise disponible dans la Bibliothèque numérique du CRDI : Public procurement and women’s economic empowerment in East Africa : challenges and opportunitiesBill & Melinda Gates FoundationWilliam and Flora Hewlett Foundatio
Is there an NGO to parliament pipeline for Iraqi women?
Get PDFIn the October 2021 parliamentary elections, Iraqi women broke their record for the most seats ever won by female candidates in Iraq’s post-2003 history, reaching 95 seats in a 329-seat legislature. Even more notable is that 57 of these women won their seat without the need for Iraq’s 25% women’s quota to kick in. On the surface, these are respectable gains for a country that has undergone regime change only two decades ago, but deeper analysis reveals that this is a quantitative – but not necessarily qualitative – success
Climate-smart interventions for smallholder farmers in Ethiopia : June 2022 – March 2023 - appendix to final technical report
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COVID-19 responses for equity (core) key issues guide : informality and marginalised groups in crisis response
No full textThe Covid-19 pandemic had ripple effects that extend beyond the domain of health risks into economic, social, and political domains. Informal and migrant workers, and those living in informal settlements, were disproportionately affected by the health and secondary impacts of the pandemic, which further impacted their livelihoods and ability to meet basic needs. Limitations of formal disaster governance mechanisms have been much discussed, with shortcomings being largely connected to the lack of (local) knowledge, contextual understanding, incentives, coordination mechanisms, or flexibility, as well as focusing on infrastructural and technocratic solutions over engaging with existing local resources. Despite this, short-term, single-hazard disaster management approaches still dominate