What Works for Women (2012)
Women produce around half the world’s food, yet their contribution often goes unrecognised. Compared to men, they generally enjoy less support for their farms and businesses, and have less access to land and other productive resources.
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, closing this ‘gender gap’ in agriculture would increase women’s contribution to food production and enterprise, reducing the number of hungry people in the world by 12-17% or by 100 to 150 million people.
How to do this was the question that brought together nine development agencies with an academic and members of DFID food team in October 2011. They shared their experiences, the experiences of their partners and the communities they work with around the world, and produced a joint paper to capture some of the lessons learned and to influence policy makers towards more gender-sensitive support for smallholders.
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Power and governance: lessons and challenges (2010)
Last year Christian Aid organised a one-day conference to identify lessons, challenges and future priorities for partner organisations supporting communities to influence and hold their governments to account.
Speakers included representatives from Oxford University, the Institute of Development Studies, Minority Rights Group as well as Christian Aid partners funded by the UK’s Department for International Development through its Governance and Transparency Fund.
The resultant report – "Power and Governance: Lessons and Challenges" – draws best practices and recommendations from the conference, and is a useful tool in understanding the challenges of civil society governance work, the complex power relations that affect its implementation, and the importance of reviewing programme activities and objectives through a "power lens."
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J2P: what change? Doing justice to poverty (2009)
This paper sets out Christian Aid's understanding of poverty, which is not simply a matter of people living on less than a dollar a day but much more complex. We see poverty, fundamentally, as a lack of power - economic power, yes, but also personal, social and political power.
Poverty is, at its core, political. We cannot solve poverty by giving people a little more than they have. Instead, we must work as part of a global social movement to create the freedom for people living in poverty to exercise greater power over their own lives. By recognising the true nature of poverty in all our work, we aim to challenge the structural causes.
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From local to global: stopping corruption from stunting development (2008)
Countering corruption is of fundamental importance in the battle against global poverty because of its impact on developing countries. Christian Aid argues that Western governments are not doing enough to champion legitimate business practices.
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'It's time to open up' (2004)
Ten years after the genocide in Rwanda: A Christian Aid report on government accountability, human rights, and freedom of speech.
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