Deadline: 25 July 2014
The Gender & Development (G&D) invites individuals in developing countries to submit articles/papers for its March 2015 issue. Theme of the March 2015 issue is ‘Working on Gender Issues in Urban Areas’. This issue hopes to explore the innovative work which is being done on gender and urbanisation. Development/humanitarian practitioners, researchers, and policymakers with experience to share are invited to submit grounded case studies of real experience from developing countries.
Gender & Development is the journal that specifically focus on international gender and development issues, and explores the connections between gender and development initiatives, and feminist perspectives. The journal is published three times a year, in March, July, and November. themes for July & November issues are – Inequalities and Resilience to Climate Change respectively.
Key Dates
- 25 July 2014 – Idea submission Deadline
- 5 August 2014 – Invitation to authors for Submission
- 31 October 2014 – Article submission deadline
Issue Areas (may be but not limited to)
- Difference on addressing gender in urban areas compared to rural areas
- Community mobilization in poor urban areas
- Community participation and ‘citizenship’ in urban governance
- Transformative approaches to provision of basic services
- Gender and social accountability
- Housing and land
- Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
- Supporting women’s livelihoods in the cities
- Violence and security in the city
- ICTs in urban programming
Eligibility Criteria
- Authors must be development/humanitarian practitioners, researchers, and policymakers from the developing countries with experience to share.
- Submitted article must bring out the policy and practice implications of the research or field experience which forms the focus of the article.
- Submitted article should be previously unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
- Authors should include up to six key words with their article for electronic searches, and write an abstract which outlines the key points in the article to be published at the head of the article.
For more information, please visit Call for Contributions.
