Parental Challenges In Caregiving For Children With Cancer

The objective of this qualitative study was to explore the experience faced by the caregivers of children with cancer in terms of challenges that the illness brings along and their employed coping strategies. The study was conducted on eight respondents who are primary informal caregivers being purposively selected from Penang Hospital. The selection was based on two criteria, namely a) functional level of the patient and b) ethnic background of the family. The scope of the study includes: a) challenges faced by the caregivers, b) social support received by the caregivers, and c) their coping strategies. Study findings revealed that the caregivers faced similar challenges as those from the literature. However, there are dissimilar opinions from the respondents which were discussed in this study. Among others, the challenges faced by caregivers were not limited to financial, but also involve medical caregiving for their ill child; emotional caregiving for their ill child; and caregiving for the siblings of the ill child. Respondents’ perception towards social support that they received and their coping strategies were also explored to better understand the emotional journey throughout their caregiving trajectory. Findings from this study also points out that adequate social support are vital for the caregivers. Thus, medical social workers have the prospect to reduce the respondents’ negative emotions through relevant interventions

Gender and innovation processes in integrated fish agri-food systems in Bangladesh and the Philippines: Insights from the CGIAR Research Program on FISH

This FISH report provides insights on the interactions between gender norms, agency, and innovation in fish agri-food systems

Chapter 13 Gender and the Political Economy of Fish Agri-Food Systems in the Global South

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture covers major theoretical issues as well as critical empirical shifts in gender and agriculture. Gender relations in agriculture are shifting in most regions of the world with changes in the structure of agriculture, the organization of production, international restructuring of value chains, climate change, the global pandemic, and national and multinational policy changes. This book provides a cutting-edge assessment of the field of gender and agriculture, with contributions from both leading scholars and up-and-coming academics as well as policymakers and practitioners. The handbook is organized into four parts: part 1, institutions, markets, and policies; part 2, land, labor, and agrarian transformations; part 3, knowledge, methods, and access to information; and part 4, farming people and identities. The last chapter is an epilogue from many of the contributors focusing on gender, agriculture, and shifting food systems during the coronavirus pandemic. The chapters address both historical subjects as well as ground-breaking work on gender and agriculture, which will help to chart the future of the field. The handbook has an international focus with contributions examining issues at both the global and local levels with contributors from across the world. With contributions from leading academics, policymakers, and practitioners, and with a global outlook, the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture is an essential reference volume for scholars, students, and practitioners interested in gender and agriculture

Gender-transformative approaches to address inequalities in food, nutrition and economic outcomes in aquatic agricultural systems

Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) uses gender-transformative approaches to help achieve the goal of enhancing development outcomes of resource-poor women and men and their families. This paper details the approaches utilized by the program and their implementation in its five learning hubs (Solomon Islands, Philippines, Cambodia, Bangladesh and Zambia), located in areas where dependence on aquatic agricultural systems is high.Cultivate Africa’s Future Fund (CULTIAF

Gender norms and agricultural innovation: Insights from six villages in Bangladesh

The ability of development interventions to catalyse and support innovation for—and by— women and men is undermined by lack of specific understanding about how gender norms interact with gender relations and what this means for innovation. This is also the case for Bangladesh despite substantive research and development investments in the past decade that have placed emphasis on gender norms, particularly those inhibiting women and girl’s education, women and girl’s health, and women’s economic empowerment. This paper analyses how men and women in South West Bangladesh perceive gender norms to affect their ability to innovate, adopt, and benefit from new technologies in aquaculture, fisheries and agricultural systems. Our qualitative findings from six villages in 2014 confirm that the engagement of women and men smallholders with agricultural innovation and its opportunities is gender-differentiated. We explore further: how gender norms shape these differences; which gender norms are most significant in the given context, when and for whom; and, finally, when and how are some women and men able to innovate in the context of these norms. In doing so, we highlight how gender norms interact with gender relations and wider structural inequalities to constrain and/or enable innovation for different women and men. We conclude that technical organizations seeking to promote innovation need to go beyond itemizing gender ‘gaps’ to engage more closely with underlying gender norms and the way they influence various women’s, and men’s, motivations, spheres of innovation, and valuations of outcomes

Women's Empowerment in Fisheries and Aquaculture Index (WEFI): Guidance Notes

WorldFish, KIT and other partners have created the Women's Empowerment in Fisheries and Aquaculture Index (WEFI) guidance notes and accompanied tools. WEFI measures the empowerment, agency and inclusion of women in fisheries and aquaculture contexts in an effort to identify ways to overcome those obstacles and constraints. The index content and themes have been inspired by the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEFI). It has the quantitative component (the index) and a qualitative component

A technical guideline on integrated aquaculture performance assessment

The aim of this guideline is to provide a methodological approach for an integrated aquaculture performance assessment. It was developed as a deliverable of the Scaling Systems and Partnerships for Accelerating the Adoption of Improved Tilapia Strains by Small-Scale Fish Farmers (SPAITS) project. One of the main outputs of the project is to conduct an integrated performance assessment of improved tilapia strains in participating small-scale fish farming households in Myanmar. The integrated assessment comprises three domains: economic, social and environmental. We use the experience from SPAITS for illustration. The development of this technical guideline also draws on lessons from other projects. More specifically, the guideline focuses on assessing the performance of aquaculture technologies, such as improved fish strains, but it can also be used to assess innovations, such as business models. Section 2 of this report shows the steps to implement and operationalize the assessment together with tools and approaches for data collection. Section 3 illustrates the conceptual framework for a statistical performance assessment and non-statistical/qualitative assessment, focusing on gender scoping. The details of how to analyze the quantitative and qualitative data collected are explained in Section 4