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Case study

Israel: Advocacy on employment issues for arab women

14/06/2008

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam GB partner Laborer’s Voice defends the rights of unemployed and working poor Arab citizens of Israel. It helps to challenge inequalities and exploitation created by the ‘Wisconsin Plan’ aimed at moving people into work establishment of a Women’s Platform and carrying out a Participatory Needs Assessment led to changes in the Plan to the […]

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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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Evaluation report

Avaliacao: O Forum Nacional de Reforma Urbana: incidencia e exigibilidade pelo direito A cidade

01/06/2008

2 documents

40 pages long

Languages: Portuguese

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Esse artigo analisa a incidencia do Forum Nacional da Reforma Urbana – FNRU no desenho e na implementacao das politicas urbanas nacionais durante o primeiro mandato do Governo Lula (2003-2006) . Nosso objetivo foi avaliar em que medida as propostas presentes na agenda da reforma urbana foram incorporadas pelo governo federal, atraves dos programas e […]

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Journal article

New forms of environmental governance? A case study of Costa Rican environmental NGOs

01/06/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Increasingly development theorists and practitioners view NGOs as catalysts of sustainable development. NGOs have been regarded as champions of democratisation and promoters of new ways of engaging in politics, with considerable influence on the development of civil society and new partnerships in environmental and social advocacy. This article analyses the ways in which Costa Rican […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

GenderWorks toolkit

01/04/2008

3 documents

108 pages long

Languages: English, German, Italian

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The GenderWorks toolkit is a free practical guide to gender equality produced by Oxfam GB for their GenderWorks project. It’s designed to help women’s groups campaign successfully on gender, poverty and social exclusion issues; as well as assist public bodies to meet their obligations under equalities legislation whilst tackling poverty more effectively among women. The […]

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Journal article

The rise and fall of donor funding for advocacy NGOs: understanding the impact

01/03/2008

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

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NGOs in Asian countries often experience fluctuations in funding because of the constantly shifting priorities of their international donors. Without domestic sources, Asian NGOs are forced to re-align their priorities with donor interests in order to compete for funding. In the case of advocacy NGOs, the resulting asymmetry in donor-grantee relations often leads to a […]

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Journal article

Community sustainable-development indicators: a useful participatory technique or another dead end?

01/03/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

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This article undertakes a critical re-evaluation of a DFID-funded project in South Africa which ran between 1998 and 2001. The evaluation sought to test whether the development of community-led indicators would improve governance. Since the project ended, a series of papers have been published that are critical of such participatory methods, arguing particularly that they […]

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Case study

Breaking the Barriers: Sierra Leonean women on the march

07/02/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

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Women in Sierra Leone are under-represented in politics and over-represented among poor people. This paper describes the activities of two projects – the Women In Leadership project and its successor, the Promoting A Culture of Equal Representation project – that have aimed to increase the numbers of women in local and national government. In so […]

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Case study

Women’s Leadership in Economic Change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel

07/02/2008

4 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Arab-Israeli women are one of the most marginalised and invisible groups within Israeli society. Many have been adversely affected by the “Wisconsin Plan” a welfare-to-work programme introduced by the Israeli government in 2005, that Oxfam’s partner, Sawt el-Amel, has been active in opposing. In response to the hardship that the plan has brought to themselves […]

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Case study

Advocacy and National Elections: Women’s political participation in Honduras

07/02/2008

4 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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This paper discusses Oxfam’s advocacy work in Honduras on women’s political rights, and women’s leadership and empowerment in the political sphere. Beginning with an overview of the constraints that women face if they wish to participate in politics, the paper then goes on to discuss Oxfam’s advocacy and campaigning activities during and after the 2005 […]

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