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This synthesis draws on evidence from 17 humanitarian evaluations across diverse crisis settings. It identifies key feminist evaluation innovations across four domains - design, methods, analysis, and ethics - illustrating how feminist principles can be embedded throughout the evaluation process. It also surfaces broader shifts required at policy, institutional, and practice levels to realise the transformative potential of feminist approaches in humanitarian contexts.
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Traversing the path with women farmers in their fields and in our reflections/writings, a stark observation was the sheer lack of localized and regional vocabulary and terminology to adequately capture and communicate the understanding of climate change and mitigation strategies, informed by the unique experiences and needs of small and marginal women farmers. This is what propelled our research - to examine how women farmers perceive, express, experience, and respond to climate variability across
Our Research Report centres the lived experiences, generational knowledge, and resilience strategies of small and marginal women farmers from the coastal (Bhavnagar) and hilly (Dahod & Panchmahal) regions i.e two contrasting agro-climatic zones of Gujarat. Through their voices, the study reveals exactly how climate change intersects with gender, land rights, labour burdens, and food security.
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The Skulduggery of pro-management "'workers' unions"
Colombo, January 30 (newsin.asia): Over the last week, the global auto industry witnessed a collapse in operations as thousands of workers in Hungary launched demonstrations against low-wages and disparaging working conditions.
The frustrations and struggles of the workers in Hungary are echoed in two folds as over 70,000 auto-part workers in Matamoros, Mexico digressed into multiple strikes over the course of two weeks demanding a wage hike from the mere 75 cents an hour they are drawing at present.
The strike in Hungary falls in step with a spate of walkouts by Volkswagon workers in Slovakia, Ford workers in Romania and Chrysler workers in Serbia over the past year.
The world is witnessing an unmistakable wave in the rise of the working class which has lost faith in company-led unions who march to the tune of the capitalist owners, and are organizing themselves into ‘authentic’ unions composed of workers committees.
The World Socialist Website and the Socialist Equality Party define these emerging break-away unions as the Coalition of Rank-and-File Committees with the purpose to ““establish lines of communication and collaboration with all workers—including auto parts workers, teachers, Amazon workers, service workers and others—and fight for the unity of American workers with our class brothers and sisters in Canada, Mexico and the rest of the world.” (see: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/01/28/pers-j28.html)
The absence of media coverage of the workers strikes across the world and especially in Matamoros, Mexico, is a rude awakening to the lethargy of mainstream media in drawing attention to the struggles of the working class, and second, the disenchantment over international unions such as the UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) and Unifor (Canadian union birthed through a merger between the Canadian Auto Workers Union and Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Unions). as primary negotiators of workers grievances. (See: https://uaw.org/ and https://www.unifor.org/en)/
Conventional Workers Unions such as the UAW and Unifor are increasingly buckling into corporate manipulations and aligning with political intentions of mainstream parties, as is witnessed through the selling out of the teachers strike in Los Angeles by United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA).
Teachers in America’s second largest school district in Los Angeles commenced a strike in early January 2019, demanding higher pay, smaller class sizes and more education support staff.
However, the resolution agreed on by the UTLA and with the support of International Socialist Organization is mediocre and the teachers are voicing distress at defeating the strike too early.
Rosa Luxemburg observes in ‘Reform or Revolution’ that “people who pronounce themselves in favor of the method of legislative reform in place of and in contradistinction to the conquest of political power and social revolution, do not really choose a more tranquil, calmer and slower road to the same goal, but a different goal. Instead of taking a stand for the establishment of a new society they take a stand for surface modifications of the old society”.
Lankan tea workers strike
The natural ambition of a capitalist social order would be to thwart a revolution through reformist agendas and contractual agreements negotiated by a few selected ‘representatives of the working class’, who are either on corporate payroll to contain workers true grievances or use union efforts to win political mileage.
This observation has proven true in the context of Sri Lanka’s estate workers struggle for an increase in their daily wage.
Lankan Estate Workers
For over three months the estate workers in Sri Lanka have been demanding a minimum daily wage of 1000 LKR, in step with the rising cost of living in the country.
This struggle was willingly adopted by the Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) and estate workers unions.
However, the negotiations of over three months were betrayed on Monday January 28, when a revised agreement was signed at the Prime Minister’s official residence at ‘Temple Trees’ between two trade unions and the planters association, increasing the daily wage from 500 LKR to 700 LKR.
But previously, workers were able to earn up to 730 LKR per day inclusive of incentives, while with this new agreement, the incentives are not included and therefore allowing a maximum daily wage of only 750 LKR.
The President of the All Ceylon Estate Workers Union, Mr. Selvaraj said that the daily wage has only increased by a mere 20 LKR due to this agreement. He rebukes this agreement which was led by politicians who capitalize on the grievances of plantation workers, and that this negotiation has hoodwinked the workers.
(The featured image at the top shows Arumugan Thondaman of Ceylon Workers Congress shaking hands with Plantations Minister Navin Dissanayake after signing a waged agreement with the planters’ association)
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