The July 2011 issue of the international journal Gender & Development, (published for Oxfam GB by Routledge/Taylor and Francis) will focus on Social Protection. For poor women, men, children, and elderly people in developing countries, fear of an unexpected crisis which will spell disaster is the norm, and particular groups of people face chronic poverty simply because they are unable to earn an income. In the wake of the global economic crisis, Social Protection measures which ensure a basic level of support to enable people to survive or stabilise their livelihoods have become still more critical. Social Protection is central to the development challenge of ending poverty. Deadline for an outline: October 10, 2010. Deadline for commissioned articles: December 31, 2010.
This issue of Gender & Development looks at Social Protection from a gender perspective. How do different forms of social protection support gender equality and women's equal rights? How do women's organisations and gender-sensitive development organisations understand the role of Social Protection in alleviating poverty and challenging marginalisation?
Gender & Development invites articles from development activists, advocates, policymakers, practitioners, and feminist activists who are able to share insights about Social Protection from a gender perspective. All G&D's articles are drawn from primary research into the impact of policies on poor women and men in specific countries and communities.
G&D envisages addressing questions including:
* What forms of Social Protection work well from a gender perspective (in particular, to support gender equality, and the care work which forms a part of all societies)?
* What potential have different schemes had for redistributing assets from men to women? Case studies of schemes involving different stakeholders: government, NGOs, research institutions
* What are the pitfalls of Social Protection schemes which fail to consider gender issues?
* What is the impact of Social Protection on gender relations and poverty?
* Women's role in providing informal Social Protection (e.g. women carers for people living with HIV)
If you would like to share your experience of working on any of the above, or have other ideas about articles G&D should commission, please send a paragraph outlining your proposed idea to csweetman@oxfam.org.uk, as soon as possible, and before the commissioning deadline: 10 October 2010. If G&D is able to offer space for your contribution, they will write to you by 15 October to say so.
Commissioned articles will need to be completed for a deadline of 31 December 2010.
G&D particularly welcomes contributions from first-time writers and will provide the necessary support for you to share your development experience and expertise through the journal.
G&D provides a forum for development policymakers, practitioners and researchers, and feminist activists to share insights, analyses and concepts that promote and support dignified, decent and sustainable development, founded on equality between women and men. The journal aims to meet the needs of development policymakers and practitioners for information which enables them to 'do gender' in their work. Published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis for Oxfam GB, the journal has become essential reading for all concerned with gender-fair development. The journal is currently read in over 90 countries.
Please note G&D has an editorial policy of publishing in clear, jargon-free English, in order to be of use to the widest possible readership. Practitioners and activists, as well as researchers, are invited to write for us, and editorial support is available for all writers who would like it.
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