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Guidelines and toolkits

Terms of Reference for Research Template

29 Mar 2019

2 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The Terms of Reference for Research Template should be used in conjunction with the Writing Terms of Reference for Research guidelines. Using these the researcher will be able to produce a Terms of Reference that is comprehensive and effective.

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Discussion paper

Centring Gender and Power in Evaluation and Research: Sharing experiences from Oxfam GB’s quantitative impact evaluations

19 Jul 2021

3 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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Bringing a feminist intent to research, monitoring and evaluation practices leads to defining these as tools to contribute to transforming the lives of women, girls and non-binary people, and to bringing about social justice. This has meant putting gender and power at the centre of our practice, which has in turn shaped the technical choices […]

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Journal article

Feminist Participatory Action Research as a tool for climate justice

10 Dec 2020

22 pages long

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Feminist Participatory Action Research as a tool for climate justice

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The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) uses Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) to strengthen grassroots women’s movements to advocate for an alternative development model – the ‘Feminist Fossil Fuel Free Future’ (5Fs) – to ensure new, gender-just, economic, political, and social relationships in a world free from climate injustices. Grassroots women […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Research Ethics: A practical guide

09 Nov 2020

8 documents

16 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Any research must follow ethical principles, particularly when it involves people as participants and is likely to impact them. This is standard practice in academic research and a legal requirement in medical trials, but also applies to research carried out by Oxfam. Oxfam’s work focuses on vulnerable populations, and takes place under difficult circumstances. When […]

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Research report

The Future of Work: Findings of research commissioned by the Oxfam Empower Youth for Work Program

28 Jul 2020

2 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s Empower Youth for Work program commissioned the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) to conduct research on ‘The Future of Work’. IDS explored the expected changes in work and income-generating activities for young people in rural areas and whether existing policies anticipate the future of work. The research approaches the future of work according to […]

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Journal article

The personal is political: a feminist reflection on a journey into participatory arts-based research with sex worker migrants in South Africa

05 Nov 2019

17 pages long

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The personal is political: a feminist reflection on a journey into participatory arts-based research with sex worker migrants in South Africa

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This article offers a personal reflection of my journey into participatory arts-based research with sex work migrants in South Africa. It begins by sharing some background information of how my own experience as a migrant woman, and my layered (sometimes conflicted) identities, have continued to shape and influence much of my scholarly work, including my […]

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Journal article

Using feminist ‘reflexive practice’ to explore stress and well-being of local researchers in South Sudan

05 Nov 2019

16 pages long

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Using feminist ‘reflexive practice’ to explore stress and well-being of local researchers in South Sudan

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This article discusses using feminist methods of reflexive practice to support and learn about the well-being of researchers working on gender-based violence research in South Sudan. In particular, we focus on the experiences of South Sudanese researchers undertaking this research in their own country. We share key findings and offer personal reflections on and suggestions […]

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Journal article

Bringing about social justice through feminist research for monitoring, evaluation, and learning? A conversation from Oxfam GB

05 Nov 2019

19 pages long

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Bringing about social justice through feminist research for monitoring, evaluation, and learning? A conversation from Oxfam GB

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At Oxfam, we have spent much of the last two years talking about feminist principles. In the context of the #Metoo and #Aidtoo movements, the presence (or absence) of these feminist values and principles is increasingly – and rightly – under the spotlight. In this article, we reflect on what it takes to embed these […]

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Journal article

‘Do you really want to hear about my life?’: doing ‘feminist research’ with women in sex work in Eastern India

05 Nov 2019

16 pages long

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‘Do you really want to hear about my life?’: doing ‘feminist research’ with women in sex work in Eastern India

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This article reflects on insights gathered from doing feminist research during my doctoral studies in international development. My research focused on the lives of women formerly and currently in sex work in Eastern India, and their experiences and resistance of everyday violence. I argue that the adoption of a life-history interviewing method created possibilities to […]

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Journal article

‘Why would I want to be anonymous?’ Questioning ethical principles of anonymity in cross-cultural feminist research

05 Nov 2019

13 pages long

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‘Why would I want to be anonymous?’ Questioning ethical principles of anonymity in cross-cultural feminist research

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This article focuses on anonymity in research, considering it in relation to feminist values. There has been increasing debate in the feminist literature on the universality of ethics, including reflection on principles such as anonymity. However, there has been limited discussion of the specific challenge facing feminist researchers to amplify the voices of women participants, […]

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