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Research and Case Studies

Here you will find new information about Gender and other related topics including water and sanitation.

New Case Study

Gender, HIV and the Church

Tearfund has recently published a case study on Gender, HIV and the Church. The case study outlines the process and highlights the key successes and challenges faced with working with the church. To access the case study click on this link:

Gender, HIV and the Church

The article has been written by Mandy Marshall, Idrissa Ouedraogo and Maggie Sandilands.

New article

'Sex is a great medicine in our relationship. We can initiate it now without feeling ashamed. The results are fantastic. It's like we're young again.' Wife of a Pastor, Zimbabwe 2008

A follow up article to 'Tackling HIV and AIDS with faith-based communities' November 2006 (See below) written by Mandy Marshall is now available as a pre-print to be published in Gender & Development Volume 17 Issue no.1 (March 2009).

Gender & Development is available on-line at www.informaworld.com/gad and http://www.genderanddevelopment.org/

This report is available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Please click on the link to download the PDF.

Tackling gender-based attitudes in African churches to reduce the spread of HIV (English, 27kB)

S’attaquer aux attitudes liées au sexe dans les églises africaines, afin de réduire la propagation du VIH (Français, 28.1kB)

Cómo enfrentar las actitudes basadas en el género en las iglesias africanas para reducir la propagación del VIH (Español, 27.4kB)

Lidando com atitudes ligadas às questões de gênero nas igrejas africanas para diminuir o contágio com o HIV (Português, 28.8kB)

Tackling HIV and AIDS with faith-based communities report by Mandy Marshall and Nigel Taylor

This report was published in Gender & Development Volume 14 Issue no.3 (November 2006).

This report is available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Please click on the link to download the PDF.

Tackling HIV and AIDS with faith-based communities (English, 84kB)

S’attaquer au problème du VIH et du sida avec les communautés basées sur la foi (Français, 84kB)

Cómo afrontar el VIH y SIDA con comunidades con base en la fe (Español, 84kB)

Lidando com o HIV e a AIDS* com comunidades com base na fé (Português, 84kB)

Gender and sanitation

Gender and sanitation: breaking taboos, improving lives (English, 512kB)

This briefing paper explains the critical importance of good sanitation in improving the lives of women, in terms of health, safety and dignity, and explains why more must be done to ensure access to adequate facilities, and break taboos associated with sanitary health.

Case Studies

ACET Uganda

ACET Uganda is a Christian AIDS charitable service organisation. It is committed to facilitating local community institutions and groups in Uganda and internationally in an endeavour to reduce/curb the HIV infection and to enable the HIV/AIDS infected and affected to cope better with the effects and impact of HIV/AIDS.

Vision:
The overall aim of the existence of the organisation and hence the reason for all that it does is the reduction of HIV infection, and the care of people living with AIDS and the empowerment of individuals and communities to mitigate the impact of HIV AIDS.

ACET’s Mission is to:
ACET desires to see a community that is able to take care of its own people, through individual and collective efforts. ACET believes in the intrinsic capacity of individuals to bring about this change. This stems from the fact that human beings are made in the image of God and hence have a capacity to tap into resources outside of their individual physical limitations.

In so doing ACET shall seek to realisation this through the emphasis of the following as the cardinal facets:

Support the development of appropriate responses to HIV/AIDS initiatives and community development programmes
Increase societal and institutional capacities in handling psycho-social problems associated with HIV/AIDS and adolescent health development;
Empowering communities to manage HIV and AIDS related complexities

click here to access the case study (English, 169kB)

PAG Honduras

Honduran women, especially those in rural areas, face harsh living conditions, including poverty, gender inequality and high rates of domestic violence. This project serves women experiencing domestic violence by providing legal and counseling assistance, and vocational skills and microcredit solutions training. It also works with women and men to improve their knowledge of domestic violence issues and help them reach reconciliation and non-aggression agreements.

To read the whole article, please click here. The article is also available in Spanish.

DFID's Gender Equality Action Plan (2007-2009)

Making faster progress to gender equality

1. What is this action plan for?
1.1 This Gender Equality Action Plan (GEAP) explains how the Department for International Development (DFID) will help developing countries to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment.
1.2 In 2006, DFID published a White Paper, called ‘Eliminating World Poverty: making governance work for the poor’ which committed us to making our work on gender equality and women’s rights more of a priority.
1.3 The Plan explains what action we will now take. It sets out how DFID can better use its partnerships, its money, and the way we manage our staff to make a lasting difference to gender equality and women’s empowerment.

2. Why does gender equality matter?
2.1 Gender equality is a goal in its own right, and has a vital role to play in achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Progress on gender equality is a critical factor in achieving all the Goals. MDG3 specifically commits the international community to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women.

‘It is impossible to realize our goals while discriminating against half the human race.’ (Kofi Annan, 2006)