The GDRSC announces the start of Appling in following academic programs:
- PHD in International Development and Gender (Batch 2 En, Batch 2 AR)
- MA in International Development and Gender ( Batch 8 EN , Batch 4 AR )
- The complementary Program (Batch 2)
by Khalid al-Akwa and Tobias Zumbrägel
Between March and September 2020, and again in May through July 2021, Yemen experienced periods of torrential rain that resulted in flash flooding. Flash floods are and will continue to be a recurrent natural phenomenon with destructive consequences in Yemen, which has not yet received broader attention. This Brief thus provides an overall understanding of the social and economic impact and current management of Yemen’s flash floods to improve disaster prevention and mitigation. It stresses the urgency of creating an independent environmental advisory body, comprised of a range of stakeholders and experts, to coordinate environmental reconstruction work and enhance tangible climate action into future strategies and interventions of national governance management and international humanitarian assistance.
by Iman al-Gawfi, Bilkis Zabara and Stacey Philbrick Yadav
Yemeni women are laying foundations for sustainable peace through everyday practices that have the capacity to help transform the landscape of women’s rights in the post-war period. Wider recognition of women’s paid and unpaid work in wartime, and the conditions that enable it, could improve the social cohesion, economic stability, and human security necessary for sustainable peace. Based on research conducted in the summer and fall of 2019, this CARPO/GDRSC Brief reviews variations in women’s experience of conflict and participation in everyday peacebuilding in different parts of the country, advocates for an entitlement-based approach that recognizes women’s agency, supports women’s diverse aims, and works to leverage their existing contributions in support of sustainable peace.
by Fawziah al-Ammar
This CARPO Brief summarizes initial findings of the author’s research among displaced school children in Sana‘a in spring 2016, based on the internationally recognized Child PTSD Symptoms Scale (CPSS). It finds that they have been experiencing severe symptoms of PTSD since the breakout of violent conflict and war and that the rates of PTSD experience are higher compared to results from similar studies in other countries going through con
Narratives of (In)Justice in Contemporary Yemeni Novels
by Osama Ali, Fadhilah Gubari, Julia Gurol and Abdulsalam al-Rubaidi
This Study analyzes narratives of (in)justice in contemporary Yemeni novels. Through a lexical field analysis of nine selected contemporary novels, the paper highlights how (in)justice is framed in narrative literature, both in terms of representations of certain socio-political practices and in terms of normative constructions and the creation of a normative order. It argues that novels represent and discuss the complexities of Yemeni realities, where daily practices and experiences of individuals are entangled with philosophical questions about the meaning of life. It discusses the nexus between the framing of (in)justice and post-conflict reconciliation and provides an original insight into the understanding and constructions of justice and injustice offered to society by Yemeni novelists.
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United State Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion in Yemen 2011-2014
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of International Development and Gender
Gender-Development Research & Studies Center (GDRSC)
Sanaa University
By
Ashwaq Abdulsalam Shuja’a Addin
Under the supervision of professors:
Adnan Yassin Al-Maktary, Head of Political Science Department, Vice Dean for Community Affairs,
Faculty of Commerce and Economic
Sanaa University
2020
ABSTRACT
The research argues the role of USA policy in promoting democracy in Yemen after the Arab Spring uprisings 2011-2014. This topic couldn’t be tackled without taking into consideration the appearance of the MB as a significant variable power effect and affected by the USA policy agenda during the transition period 2011-2014. The study investigates the justifications behind suspending the democracy promotion agenda and the preoccupation of the MB file on America’s priorities agenda. It also explores the underlined reasons beyond the failure of the transition period and the collapse of the MB (Islah party) in Yemen.
The paper studies the mechanism of USA policy formation and the role of think-tank in forming the attitudes of the USA administrations and decision-makers toward Islam which has been reflected in their policies and strategies in the middle east after the Arab Spring Uprising. All these policies have its implications on the democracy agenda, especially after the presence of the MB in the forefront in the post-Arab spring period…and how they cast their dimensions on the MB in Egypt as well as in Yemen. Therefore, It is more comprehensive and logical to tackle the topic of Yemen as a part of the middle east context and referring to the revolutions which have taken place in the region especially the collapse of the MB in Egypt as the spiritual father for the other MB entities in Yemen.
The nature of the research issue imposed the researcher to study many interlinked factors and actors interacting with each other and laid their shadow on the Yemeni context. These elements are the U.S.A foreign policy, democracy promotion, Arab spring, and the MB in addition to the domestic and regional actor’s role. The researcher studied these elements in the light of the Real New Classical Theory (defensive and offensive) which helped in understanding the internal mechanism of the USA policy decision making as well as studying the motivation behind the US behaviors toward the political Islam and democracy agenda. The study indicates also theses of many of the prominent scholars in USA policy affairs which influences USA decision making. The researcher used the Role Analysis Methodology which applied mostly in the field the international relation interaction analysis. This Methodology helped in studying the role of each component, entity, a country at the domestic, regional, and international levels.
The paper comes to that result; the USA policy agenda in the middle east is a comprehensive framework, it may be different in some of the details responding to geopolitical and geographical variables for each country but there is a common core point amplify the main USA classical goals in the middle east. The USA administration favored the interests on principles and never allows any power entity grows in the middle east, regardless to its background or the consequences, the pseudo-democracy promotion agenda in the middle east was only a tool used for creating more divisions in the political and social life of the Yemeni community since the democracy wasn’t come out from the root of the community, and wasn’t accompanied with the institutional social and ideological alteration. Therefore, the democracy agenda was pseudo and fragile, and its outcomes appeared in 2011 and beyond. Finally, the agenda of the USA couldn’t able to pass to Yemen without the regional actors’ role and nothing could be achieved without the domestic tools. The research concluded The Uprising of Arab spring which was supposed to a safe life gate toward democracy alteration, it rather becomes a historical opportunity for the USA to inaugurate its new phase of segmentation and chaos in the middle east and Yemen where the project aspects started to appear obviously in the ground.
THE EFFECT OF MONITORING AND EVALUATION PRACTICES ON DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS’ PERFORMANCE IN YEMEN AND ITS RELATION TO GENDER
“Case Study on The Yemen Social Fund for Development (SFD)”
Lubna Hassan Abdulrahman Jahaf
2020
ABSTRACT
This study aims to examine the effect of monitoring and evaluation practices on the performance of the development projects in Yemen and its relation to gender. It identifies the extent to which monitoring and evaluation practices in the form of (financial resources, staff training, monitoring skills, technical activities, information system, reports and gender) affect the performance of the development projects. It also explores the mediating effect of the management support towards M&E and the performance of the development projects shedding the light on gender. This has been applied following a conceptual framework, in addition to the Result Based Management theory. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher employed descriptive research design in which mixed method approach was used. Qualitative data was gathered through interviews that were conducted with nine Key Informants (KI) from program staff at SFD. Results from the interviews helped further in developing the survey instrument. The sample of the study was 136 from the program staff (project and M&E), Data was collected through close-ended questionnaire and analysed using SPSS (version 25). The data was analysed using Correlation, regression and hierarchical regression. The findings of the study showed that staff with monitoring skills in SFD , who are practicing M&E technical activities, generating M&E reports in timely manner , getting support from management and considering gender in their activities will significantly affect the performance of the development projects. Also, the findings from the hierarchical regression showed that, there is a mediating effect by the management support between gender and the project performance, indicating that the management of SFD is gender sensitive. This study is one of the first studies which has focused on gender relations in the field of M&E.
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