The BRIDGE website has been archived

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2 July 2020

After more than 25 years offering specialised gender and development research and information services funding for the BRIDGE programme at IDS ended in 2018. The programme website has now been archived and will no longer be updated. Existing content and publications will remain available on the archived site. For more information on continuing work on gender and development at IDS please visit the IDS website. Publications from the BRIDGE programme can alos be found via the IDS OpenDocs repository.

Gender News

New key issues guide: Social protection and the empowerment of girls and women

This new Key Issues Guide, produced by BRIDGE for the Eldis website, brings together key reading for governments, development partners, civil society organisations and researchers to consider in designing, financing and implementing soci
New publication! Gender, Age and Migration: An extended briefing

This new extended briefing from BRIDGE focuses on gender and age, offering an insight into who migrates and who doesn’t, reasons for migrating, experiences of the migration process and what life is like for different groups of migrants a
Four reasons why gender is an essential part of sustainable development

The Commission on the Status of Women is just around the corner and this year’s focus is ‘women’s empowerment and its link to sustainable development.’ These are four of the reasons why.
It’s time to decolonise feminist knowledge

The Rhodes Must Fall campaign has brought the movement to decolonise education out into the open and African gender scholars have a large role to play, professor Signe Arnfred argued at a recent lecture at IDS.
Work with men and boys: What does success look like?

In a new blog series, published in the lead up to the Commission on the Status of Women, people working for gender equality share their experiences.