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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"gender-responsive"”.
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Promoting Gender Equality Through Gender-responsive Public Procurement
This thesis explores the potential of gender-responsive public procurement (GRPP) as a strategic tool to promote gender equality and empower women-owned businesses (WOBs) across public and intergovernmental sectors. Through four interconnected studies, the research examines the evolution of …
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GENDER-RESPONSIVE PROGRAMMING: MEETING THE MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS OF WOMEN IN REENTRY
… imperative need for holistic, fully integrated gender-responsive reentry services. The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand the unique contributions of paraprofessional staff charged with meeting the multi-layered, programmatic needs of women offenders with co-occurring disorders. …
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Gender responsive penality: A feminist abolitionist analysis of official penal discourse post Corston report (2007).
This thesis critically investigates the publication, reception and impact of the Corston Report (2007) on official penal discourse prior to and after its publication. The thesis applies the ideas of Canadian feminist penologist Kelly Hannah-Moffat, who has highlighted the potential mutation of …
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Challenges and successes of gender focal point persons in the context of gender responsive budgeting initiatives in Namibia
… cognisance of the importance of mainstreaming gender at the institutional level. In efforts to promote gender mainstreaming, its cabinet directed all government offices, ministries and agencies (OMAs) to comply with the Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) initiative, in 2014. The implementation …
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Statutory and Non-Statutory service-users experiences of gender-responsive practice in a post-Corston (2007) Women's Centre
… England, functioning as a post-Corston (2007), gender-responsive, non-custodial arena for women serving unpaid work (UW) sentences and women attending voluntarily due to social and structural marginalisation. The former are termed statutory service-users and the latter, non-statutory …
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Gendered lives, constrained choice and young African women's PrEP uptake and persistent use as a gender-responsive approach to HIV prevention
… on the role of agency (personal and relational), gender, and PrEP access and how these facilitated or constrained PrEP use. The research used a multi-method approach, including pharmacy record review, in-depth interviews, and structured surveys. This cohort included 2550 AGYW participants (aged …
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Looking beyond recidivism : a comprehensive exploration of the social determinants of reimprisonment of women with histories of substance-use to inform gender-responsive service provision
… of substance-use in Australia to inform gender-responsive service provision. 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱𝘀 This thesis consisted of three interrelated studies. Study 1: a systematic review evaluating the efficacy of post-release programs aimed at reducing recidivism for women with substance-use disorders …
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Protection of traditional knowledge, an incomplete victory, towards inclusion of gender considerations in traditional knowledge protection: a Zambian perspective
… of protection of traditional knowledge from a gendered perspective. More specifically, it seeks to explore the traditional knowledge protection landscape in Zambia in the context of gender sensitivity and gender responsiveness. It further delves into the role of gender considerations in …
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Examining the quality of gender measurements in criminological and criminal justice research: pervasive apathy or bad research methods?
… has often been criticized for its lack of gender inclusivity and ‘androcentrism,’ particularly by feminist and queer criminologists who note that the field rarely uses separate measures of gender and sex assigned at birth or ones that extend beyond the binary, severely limiting the …
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Beyond the Sum: A Network Analysis of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Behavioral Outcomes in Justice-Involved Youth
<p>This dissertation examines gender-specific patterns of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among justice-involved youth using network analysis. Despite experiencing higher rates of childhood adversity, female youth show lower recidivism rates than males, presenting an empirical paradox. Using a …
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Bridging the Gap Between Punishment and Care: An Ethnographic Study of the Breddon Women's Centre and its Relationship to the State
… a women’s centre in England. Women’s centres are gender-responsive alternatives to incarceration that offer holistic and wraparound support for vulnerable women in England and Wales. By acting as a quasi-caseworker and working closely with clients, co-leading groups in the Centre, and assisting …
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Implementing the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide in South Africa: The challenges of policy implementation
… examines the challenges toward implementing gender-based violence (GBV) interventions under the National Strategic Plan of Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (NSP GBVF) in South Africa. The NSP was introduced in 2020 as a multistakeholder policy to address the high levels of GBV in the …
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The Human Rights Of Syrian Refugee Women: A Comparative Analysis Of Healthcare Access And Educational Opportunities In Turkey And Greece [before doctoral defense]
… despite decades of international commitments to gender-responsive refugee protection. This dissertation investigates the implementation gaps between formal legal entitlements and actual access to healthcare and educational opportunities for Syrian refugee women in Turkey and Greece between 2015 …
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How feminist legal theory can help to safeguard the rights and interests of disadvantaged women and girls during crises: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and South Africa
… resulted in the exacerbation of already-existing gender inequalities, risks and vulnerabilities. This dissertation seeks to investigate South Africa's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study of a crisis and the adverse impact of this response on the rights and interests of disadvantaged …
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Exploring female representation in the entrepreneurship education curriculum and pedagogy in the further education and training phase
… and growth, highlighting the need for a gender-equitable approach in entrepreneurship education (EE). However, pedagogies and a curriculum influences learners’ self-perceptions and entrepreneurial intentions. Basic EE equips learners with entrepreneurial skills; however, specialised EE is …
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Gendered Harm, Legal Remedies and Women's Reintegration: A Case Study of Kenyan Women Returnees from Al Shabaab
… offers an original, granular account of the gendered harms faced by Kenyan women returnees in the prescriptive and programmatic operationalisation of reintegration norms in DDR-P/CVE processes. To do so, this research answers following question: ‘What gendered harms arise in operationalising …
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Refusing Rehabilitation: Outlaw Epistemologies and the Carceral-Therapeutic State in NYC
… the Carceral-Therapeutic State </em>explores how gender, race, and class have been transformed at the intersection of criminal legal system reform and the overdose crisis. I take up how multiracial groups of criminalized women—thrown together by the state, not by choice—refuse forms of state …
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ENHANCING TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING FOR MARGINALISED GIRLS: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF PEDAGOGICAL PROCESSES IN AN ACCELERATED EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN GHANA
… Akan cultural values of respect for elders, gender roles, communalism and spirituality, both facilitated and constrained the transformative shifts experienced by learners. This study reveals that engaging community members, especially religious and traditional leaders, can foster …