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Book Launch Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods
With the 20 year review of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development to be held in Brazil in 2012, the book Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods boldly reclaims the concept of sustainable livelihoods for women. Authors from 10 different countries show how women engage in policy decision on climate change and consumptions, managing solidarity economies, farming, micro credit, value chains, and strategies in post-conflict contexts. On 12 June the book will be l...› read more...
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Like a Bridge over Troubled Waters
In the Think Piece LIKE A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS: Dialogues of policy, practitioner and academic knowledges the author Wenny Ho deals with Cross-domain Knowledge Integration (KI) in International Development Cooperation (IDC). KI is understood as processes of knowledge co-creation linking domains particularly those of policy-making, science and practitioners.
Beyond Philanthropy
In 2007, Hivos, an international non-governmental organisation inspired by humanist values, formed a partnership with Logica, a global IT company, and the Mamidipudi Venkatarangaiua Foundation (MVF), an Indian organisation working to abolish child labour. This NGO–business partnership, lasting four years, engaged highly skilled Logica consultants from the Netherlands and India to work with MVF to develop a management information system (MIS) and child monitoring system (CMS). This partnership...
Policy Brief Gender Mainstreaming 2.0
This policy brief aims to deepen our understanding and provide new insights in order to bring gender mainstreaming to the next level. Synthesis papers and cases studies have been produced in four policy areas to learn more about the ways in which GM has been implemented. These range from violence against women to micro-finance, and from value chain development to the aid architecture. In this policy brief we present the experiences in these specific policy domains, share our key insights on g...
Rethinking Development in an age of Scarcity and Uncertainty
04/10/2011 The session, facilitated by Wendy Hartcourt of SID, was conducted as an open discussion on the new publishing arrangements with the coming of the digital age among development journals looking at both the opportunities and the current squeeze for resources.The discussion looked at the new possibilities offered by on-line and digital publishing. The discussed focused on how to ensure scholarship and rigour while using the new open forms of communication through social networking and new...
Report: The role of Intermediaries in Bridging Policy, Research and Practice
04/10/2011 Jon Gregson, Head of IDS Knowledge Services, opened the session by asking participants whether they worked for a knowledge intermediary organisation. Three quarters of the room raised their hands, which suggests in theory that the room was pretty knowledgeable about what an intermediary is. It’s a term that’s very much open to different interpretations so I was interested to see where the session discussion would go. Ananya Raihan from the Development Research Network (D.Net) began...
Synergy
Today the magazine Synergy will be presented to the Dutch Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ben Knapen. This single issue magazine shows how science contributes to sustainable development. It also illustrates that scientific research of this kind is highly challenging and deeply rewarding. You can read Synergy on www.synergymagazine.nl
Theory of Change
30/05/2011 The Theory of Change approach applied to social change processes represents a thinking-action alternative to other more rigid planning approaches and logics. When living in complex and conflictive times, we need to count with more flexible instruments that allow us to plan and monitor our actions in uncertain, emergent, and complex contexts from a flexible and non-rigid logic. As known, this thinking-action approach is also applied to institutional coaching processes and to the design of soci...
Contingent social security schemes for unorganised workers in India
As per the estimates provided by the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS), the unorganised workers constitute 92.37 percent of the Indian workforce – out of which, 86.01 percent eke out their living by performing various activities related to the unorganised sector whereas 6.36 percent work as unorganised workers in the organised segment. Exposure to various vulnerabilities is the common plight of these workers.
Afluence, vulnerability and the provision of social security
09/05/2011 This paper by Varinder Jain is a study in assessing a sub-national state’s concern for the working poor in India. The state that he has selected is the prosperous state of Punjab in North West India. Despite Punjab’s relative prosperity both in rural and urban areas, what Jain finds is the pervasiveness of vulnerable livelihoods among large segments of the working persons and their households. While there are a few state-funded social security schemes in Punjab they hardly address the widespr...