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Guidelines and toolkits

Social Norms Diagnostic Tool: Young Women’s Economic Justice

20/12/2021

1 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English

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The tool’s methodology is rooted in a feminist and youth-led participatory action research approach to diagnosing social norms. It uses participatory and transformative methods to engage young people and other community members not just as research participants, but as agents of change identifying solutions to arising issues. The exercises recognize and examine unequal power inequalities […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Rapid Care Analysis Training Modules

26/03/2018

27 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The Rapid Care Analysis (RCA) was designed to be a user-friendly assessment tool that development practitioners could learn through distance training sessions. The purpose of the RCA is to assess who in a community carries out unpaid care, so that where care work is heavy and unequal it can be recognized, reduced and redistributed, and […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Oxfam’s Conceptual Framework on Women’s Economic Empowerment

23/05/2017

3 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Effective economic empowerment for women occurs when women enjoy their rights to control and benefit from: resources assets income their own time the ability to manage risk improve their economic status and wellbeing. However, for this to become real, women must also have the autonomy and self-belief to make changes in their own lives, including […]

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Evaluation report

Factors and Norms Influencing Unpaid Care Work: Household survey evidence from five rural communities in Colombia, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Uganda and Zimbabwe

15/11/2016

4 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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In order to address ‘heavy’ and ‘unequal’ care work and to raise the profile of care as a cross-cutting development issue, Oxfam and its partners implemented a baseline Household Care Survey (HCS) in five countries in which the WE-Care project was active. In November/December 2015, a revised version of the HCS was carried out in […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Participatory Methodology: Rapid Care Analysis

15/11/2016

8 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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The Rapid Care Analysis is a rapid assessment tool to improve the design of a wider programme through gathering evidence to promote the recognition of care work and the identification of practical interventions. A key aim is to reduce the time or labour required for daily housework and caring for people, and thus increase women’s: […]

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Discussion paper

Market systems approaches to enabling women’s economic empowerment through addressing unpaid care work

05/03/2016

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper develops the concept of unpaid care work within the framework of market systems. It shows that unpaid care is a substantial proportion of the work carried out by poor families, especially women, with many heavy, inefficient or unequally distributed tasks limiting productivity and mobility, among other factors, for market work. Thus unpaid care […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Oxfam’s WE-Care Initiative: An overview

20/05/2015

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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This interactive PDF offers a brief overview of Oxfam’s WE-Care initiative. This is a three-year initiative (2014–2017) to address the heavy and unequal responsibilities for care and housework and to improve outcomes for women across Oxfam’s programmes: food security, markets, resilience, political participation and post-disaster recovery. WE-Care activities are embedded within existing Oxfam programmes in […]

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Journal article

Not ‘women’s burden’: how washing clothes and grinding corn became issues of social justice and development

10/11/2014

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Not ‘women’s burden’: how washing clothes and grinding corn became issues of social justice and development

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Women’s heavy and unequal responsibilities for care, long considered ordinary or insignificant by development workers as well as the wider public, are being reframed as issues of social justice through new methodologies for communities to analyse care work and advocate for change. Oxfam and local partners in the Philippines, Honduras, and Bangladesh are piloting two approaches. The first, Rapid […]

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Research report

Meaningful Action: Effective approaches to women’s economic empowerment in agriculture

30/10/2014

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper responds to recent focus in the development sector on creating employment for women. It argues that sustaining women’s economic empowerment depends on employment being decent work, with safeguards, that is accessible to many women. Approaches combine integrated interventions to increase participation in markets with broader investments for social infrastructure, supportive norms and addressing […]

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Case study

Women Dairy Producers in Colombia: Women and dairy sector enterprises leverage private and public sector investment at scale

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study explores a partnership between a private company foundation, Oxfam and farmer cooperatives, which combined targeted training for women, finance, a market opportunity and addressing care work, resulting in increased recognition of women as dairy farmers and demonstrating that smallholders could be commercial suppliers. The success of the project has changed government credit […]

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