“Children” – on misuse and abuse

Recently I was invited to speak at an event on ‘street children’ which brought together practitioners and policy makers for an entire day of presentations and discussions. A facilitator who ran a 4 day workshop in South Africa with teenage girls and boys living and working on the streets was presenting her work and gave us one [...]

Gender and Development – reading list!

I have been getting a number of requests lately for information on gender and development from folks on twitter and so decided to pull together a basic list. These sources are ‘ an introduction to gender and development’ and lay the foundations to most of the work gender advisors do on a day to day basis. I [...]