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CALL FOR PAPERS - Gender &
Development: Social Protection
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.
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 our articles are drawn from primary research into the
impact of policies on poor women and men in specific countries and communities.
We would envisage 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 we 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 we are
able to offer space for your contribution, we will write to you by 15 October
to say so.
Commissioned articles will need to be completed for a deadline
of 31 December 2011.
G&D particularly welcomes contributions from first-time
writers and we 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. We
aim 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. We are 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.
For more information about the journal including full
guidelines for contributors, please visit www.genderanddevelopment.org
Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
Dr Caroline Sweetman, Editor, Gender and Development,
Oxfam GB