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Journal article

Working effectively with non-state actors to deliver education in fragile states

01/06/2010

8 pages long

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This viewpoint uses evaluation reports from Nepal, Afghanistan, and Yemen in order to learn lessons about how donors and governments can work more effectively with non-state actors to deliver education in fragile states. The evaluation framework draws on the Development Assistance Committee principles for good international engagement in fragile states. The analysis concludes that a […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of Community-Based Primary Health Care Project in Hadhramout, Yemen

01/12/2008

2 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s four-year Community-Based Primary Health Care Project in Hadhramout, Yemen (funded by the EC) aimed to improve the health status of poor women, men and children in 24 remote villages in Sah and Sayoun districts. It aimed to achieve this through a variety of approaches including: promoting health awareness, improving the quality of promotion, and […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of ‘Integrated Action on Poverty and Early Marriage’ Programme in Yemen

01/08/2008

2 documents

93 pages long

Languages: English

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The prevalence of early marriage in Yemen is the highest in the Middle East and North Africa region, and is seen as a major barrier to women’s development. Oxfam GB Yemen has been implementing a primarily Danida-funded project entitled ‘Integrated Action on Poverty and Early Marriage’ (IAPEM) over the period 2005-2008, with a total project […]

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Case study

Yemen: Advocacy on Violence against Women

14/06/2008

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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Two Oxfam partner organisations working with women and the law have greatly improved the position of women in custody, prisons or detention centres, and have established a women-only detention centre where women are likely to receive better treatment.

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Journal article

The challenges of incorporating Muslim women’s views into development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen

01/11/2006

12 pages long

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The challenges of incorporating Muslim women’s views into development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen

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This article discusses the Muslim Women and Development Action Research Project (MWDAR), an attempt by the Dutch government to introduce new discourses on Islam and the empowerment of women into their development policy. Based on a discussion of the project in Yemen, an analysis of its evaluation reports, and follow-up research with project participants, we […]

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Book

Gender and Disability: Women’s experiences in the Middle East

01/01/1997

1 documents

104 pages long

Languages: English

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Women with disabilities face a double discrimination, both in terms of gender and also of their particular disability. This book examines the situation of women with various types of disability, in the Middle Eastern context. It provides a general overview of gender and disability and includes several case studies from the Lebanon, Yemen, and the […]

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Book

The Great Health Robbery

01/01/1981

1 documents

59 pages long

Languages: English

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Poor health and poverty often go together – in Britain and in other parts of the world. Yemen is no exception. Here people die from diseases that could be prevented – diarrhoea, TB and so on.

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Working effectively with non-state actors to deliver education in fragile states

Evaluation of Community-Based Primary Health Care Project in Hadhramout, Yemen

Evaluation of ‘Integrated Action on Poverty and Early Marriage’ Programme in Yemen

Yemen: Advocacy on Violence against Women

The challenges of incorporating Muslim women’s views into development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen

Gender and Disability: Women’s experiences in the Middle East

The Great Health Robbery