Despite women’s economic empowerment now being considered
an essential component of development programming,
in many parts of the world empowerment has not
This In Brief discusses problems with encouraging entrepreneurialism as a way to solve poverty and reports on what rural women believe will improve their livelihood — specifically co-operatives, as
In May–June 2015, the third Bougainville election
since the establishment of the Autonomous
Bougainville Government (ABG) was held. The
ABG, inaugurated in 2005, is a result of the peace
Bina D’Costa, ‘ “You Cannot Hold Two Watermelons in One Hand”: Gender Justice and Anti-State Local Security Institutions in Pakistan and Afghanistan’, in Hitoshi Nasu and Kim Rubenstein
This In Brief reports on research undertaken in Bougainville
in October 2015 (Eves and Crawford 2014).1 Unlike previous
studies, this research specifically explored the relationship
Mathew Davies, ‘Women and Development, Not Gender and Politics: Explaining ASEAN’s Failure to Engage with the Women, Peace and Security Agenda’, Contemporary Southeast Asia, 38(1) 20
In this, the second in a series of In Briefs considering the success or otherwise of the 2002 reforms to Papua New Guinea's Organic Law on National and L
