F Njahîra Wangarî - Book Chapter
Abstract
"This chapter blends African oral and written narratives, lived experiences with a genetic chronic disability and a Roman Catholic upbringing. These will be interrogated to illustrate the role of alternative explanations in influencing advocacy and activism for the lives, wellbeing, dignity and inclusion of persons with disabilities. Particularly, this chapter is an exploration of self-identity and how persons with disabilities are conditioned to view ourselves in specific ways while highlighting alternative perceptions available is presented by the author. It engages the works of several African and African-descendent authors who feature persons with disabilities as characters in their books and relies on narrative prosthesis as the basis for this engagement."
Alok Srivastava - Article in Journal of Generic Medicines
Low cost generic medicines and its socio-economic impact –an empirical study in India, September 16, 2025
Claudy Vouhé shared Publication
Corpus législatif sur la budgétisation sensible au genre (BSG), 2025 - French
"Legislative corpus on gender-responsive budgeting"
It relates strongly to the evaluation of public policies and gender equality by parliaments, as it is about Gender responsive budgeting.
Svetlana Negroustoueva shared Publication
Hooshmand Alizadeh Recently published book
now available from Springer.
In September last year, Itad joined the HeforShe global campaign for gender equality. We took this decision with the intention of strengthening our gender focus, both in our monitoring and evaluation work, and in our internal operations. Since then, we have certainly not been idle!
To map out a way forward, we decided to review how gender currently features in Itad and use this as a basis to build on. We called this process our ‘gender snapshot review’, and what followed was a fascinating process, which took on far greater momentum than we had ever anticipated. We started with fairly modest ambitions, knowing how challenging discussions around gender can be in most organisations, but these evolved and grew as the process took shape.
The Gender Snapshot Review Process
We knew from the outset that the snapshot review was going to be tricky, as it needed to explore who we, Itad, are, as much as what we do. It had to be light touch, but also participatory. We were also aware that it needed to engage people with varying degrees of gender awareness, some already gender specialists, and others who’ve possibly never thought about gender issues before. Building knowledge and awareness of gender had to be part of the review process itself, rather than left as a discrete activity we include in the ensuing action plan.
With the expert guidance of Penny Plowman (an Independent Organisational Development Consultant), our Gender Equality Working Group settled on 4 main strands to the review:
As we took forward the review, two things were most striking. Firstly, staff openness and willingness to engage. For some in the organisation this was the first time they had thought about what gender is and how it shapes their lives. Experienced consultants, confident in their technical area, were suddenly asked to reflect on something that it is so normal that we don’t even notice it – and they weren’t always sure what to say. Thankfully, this didn’t impede their participation. There was an overriding openness amongst all staff to share, learn and see where the process would go. It’s this attitude which has, to a large extent, made the snapshot review such a success.
Secondly, the review process surfaced gender experiences of staff that previously were hidden, or ‘contained’ within private discussions. Suddenly, it was legitimate to talk about gendered experiences, and to ask what is acceptable and appropriate language and behaviour in a values driven organisation like Itad. It felt revolutionary. As one of my colleagues observed “we never [normally] talk about anything personal”.
Our Findings
So what did the review reveal? A number of things…
Our Agreements
Where do we go from here? At the end of the review, we agreed a set of 6 action points which will embed a commitment to gender equality much more centrally with Itad’s work and its operations.
We will:
These agreements are timely, as Itad launches a new business plan which will drive a new phase of growth for Itad. A commitment to gender equality will lie at the heart of this ambitious programme of change. Exciting times ahead!
By Claire Hughes, June 2016
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Thanks for sharing this very useful findings.
Thanks for sharing. I am also looking forward how it worked in mainstreaming the gender.
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Rukmini
This is very exciting, snapshot with tremendous results. What did you include in the Theory of Change?
Thanks Emmeline for sharing this review. Its a great learning for us. How do you plan to measure your progress?
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