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Tara Patricia Cookson @tpcookson

Canada Research Chair in Gender & Dev @ubcSPPGA | Cofounder @Ladysmith | @Gates_Cambridge Scholar | Author: Unjust Conditions 📕 bit.ly/UnjustConditions

Joined June 2010
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Tara Patricia Cookson@tpcookson
7 Jan 2022
This @UN_women brief is based on research using a global database on national social protection strategies that I conducted w/ brilliant colleagues @silkestaab @CTabbush @RitaMSandoval. Check out how governments envision #socialprotection coverage 👇 #genderdata #SDG5
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@UN_Women
5 Jan 2022
With #COVID19, the need for gender-responsive social protection systems has become more apparent than ever. Looking at 30 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, this brief highlights important gaps as well as good practices: unwo.men/XiTr30s6cuT
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.@LF_Ladysmith you know how to set up a magic book writing retreat!✨ Beyond grateful for this #feminist collaboration 🙌💖
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Tara Patricia Cookson@tpcookson
8 Nov 2023
Feminists & human rights orgs like @UN_Women have been shifting #socialnorms in their work to achieve #genderequality for centuries. So why don't some of the newer approaches to norms change reflect time-tested, feminist strategies? 🤔 🧵
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Feminists & human rights orgs like @UN_Women have been shifting #socialnorms in their work to achieve #genderequality for centuries. So why don't some of the newer approaches to norms change reflect time-tested, feminist strategies? 🤔 🧵
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I dig into the intellectual traditions, historical examples and growing tensions characterizing this rapidly expanding field w/my brilliant @Ladysmith co-authors @LF_Ladysmith, Maria Kuss & Jennifer Bitterly in this new @UN_Women discussion paper 👉 bit.ly/464Y9yU
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Might be of interest✨ @TheSVRI @UNICEF @gatesfoundation @ODI_Global @ALIGN_Gender @Prevent_Collab @UNDP @equimundo_org @Promundo_Brasil @WBG_Gender @melindagates @GAC_Corporate @giz_gmbh @dfat @WAGE_FEGC @FCDOGender @UNICEFInnocenti @GlobalSpotlight @USAID @ubcSPPGA
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Chaudhary Parvez@ChaudharyParvez
19 Aug 2023
There are now more than 15,000 people under evacuation order in British Colombia. #BCWildfires #BCWildfire #Kelownafire #kelownafires #kelownawildfire #Kelowna #BCWildfire #BCWildfires
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Keppler@RadioKeppler
18 Aug 2023
Here’s NB traffic coming out of Kelowna on HWY 97. A local state of emergency declared now. It’s scary. #Kelowna #Okanagan #LakwCountry
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KelownaNow
@KelownaNow
18 Aug 2023
Photos, which are corroborated by eyewitness reports, show that the flames are several feet high. kelownanow.com/watercooler/n…

UPDATE: Evacuation orders expanded for Clifton and McKinley fires

**Coverage of the Kelowna wildfires is continuing at this link on Friday.** (UPDATE: Aug. 18 @ 2:15 am) - The evacuation order for the...

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Kyle Brittain
@BadWeatherKyle
18 Aug 2023
Fire has JUMPED THE LAKE into North Kelowna #bcfire
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Kyle Brittain
@BadWeatherKyle
18 Aug 2023
Fire burning in North Kelowna, just south of McKinley Landing #bcfire
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IPPFAR@IPPFAR
13 May 2023
📣Feminist Opportunities Now (FON), an @AFD_France funded project led by @IPPFAR, has launched its first call for applications to amplify Civil Society Organisations' fight against #GBV in Africa. 👇 @AfricaSexWork @NetworkAthena @ipbfpananetugri @SAAFfund @tfacafrica
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Jason Hickel
@jasonhickel
3 May 2023
I don't know how to say this in a punchy, eloquent way... but the climate and environmentalist movements need to get very serious about creating alliances with labour movements and working-class political formations. And fast...
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Revising a paper on gender norms with the highly gendered behaviour of rooster nine hens as empirical backdrop. 🫣🐓🤔
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Ladysmith@Ladysmith
26 Apr 2023
The brief of our paper is also out! 🔗👩🏻‍💻🤓 The state of evidence and data collection on technology-facilitated violence against women unwomen.org/en/digital-libra… #VAW #GBV #digitaltech #genderdata

Brief: The state of evidence and data collection on technology-facilitated violence against women

In an increasingly digitized world, one of the more concerning dynamics is technology-facilitated violence against women. This brief paper summarizes the scoping review and key recommendations on the...

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Naila Kabeer@N_Kabeer
25 Apr 2023
Last year's blog but enduringly relevant! A fiercely contested omission — or why we need to keep talking about unpaid care wider.unu.edu/publication/fi… via @UNUWIDER

UNU-WIDER : Blog : A fiercely contested omission — or why we need to keep talking about unpaid care

In the late 1950s, the United Nations System of National Accounts was set up to promote the collection of internationally comparable data on productive activity in different countries. The aim was to...

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Amber Peterman@a_peterman
24 Apr 2023
Check out the @TransferProjct's quarterly update for the latest research on cash transfers & national programming in Africa! 👇🏾 Register to get the next newsletter in your inbox bottom R corner here --> transfer.cpc.unc.edu/ us11.campaign-archive.com/?u…
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UBC SPPGA@ubcSPPGA
24 Apr 2023
The limitations of vague human security policies: MPPGA students @pantheappp, @samelghazal, and @johnstonicole explore the disproportionate impact of armed conflict on women bit.ly/3oDhEyF
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socialprotection.org@SP_Gateway
17 Apr 2023
♀️Did you miss the #SPorgWebinar 'Girls Deserve Better: Countering Violence Against Adolescents through Social Protection'? 🎥Watch the recording: youtube.com/watch?v=PnwLJQ29… 🏢Org.: @dfat, @UNICEFSocPolicy, @FCDOGovUK, @STAAR_Facility #sporg #SocialProtection #SDG5 #GBV

Girls Deserve Better: Countering Violence Against Adolescents through...

The first webinar in the joint webinar and podcast series ''Social ...

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socialprotection.org@SP_Gateway
18 Apr 2023
⏰Join a technical exchange on ‘Extending #SocialProtection to workers in the informal economy’ on 19 & 20 April. 👉Register: bit.ly/41lfFNR Organisers: @ilo @unicefsocpolicy @socprotection @eu_social @eu_partnerships, via the SP&PFM Programme and #USP2030.

Extension of social protection to workers in the informal economy

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ILOSocialProtection@soc_protection
18 Apr 2023
📢Today! Join #FfD2023 high-level policy & financing dialogue of the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions to support the: 📍Creation of 400 million decent jobs 📍Extension of #socialprotection to 4 billion people Register bit.ly/3A7RSoH
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