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Evaluation report

Women Engagement Strategy: A case study of Female Food Heroes (FFH) Ethiopia’s Program

30/08/2025

1 documents

58 pages long

Languages: English

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This evaluation of Oxfam’s Female Food Heroes (FFH) Initiative in Ethiopia highlights the critical yet underrecognized role of rural women farmers, who contribute up to 70% of household food production but remain marginalized in policies, services, and decision-making. Since 2012, the FFH Award has celebrated outstanding women farmers, providing them with visibility, leadership training, and […]

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Evaluation report

Analysis of Oxfam’s Female Food Hero Engagement Strategy: A case study of Nigeria’s Obonge Women Program

30/08/2025

1 documents

59 pages long

Languages: English

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This evaluation report analyzes Oxfam’s Female Food Heroes (FFH) Initiative in Nigeria, known locally as Ogbonge Women. Since 2012, the program has celebrated and empowered women smallholder farmers through recognition, training, leadership development, and advocacy. The study confirms that FFH has enhanced women’s participation in agriculture, expanded their economic opportunities, and strengthened their leadership capacity […]

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Discussion paper

A (More) Feminist Approach to Principled Humanitarian Aid

31/03/2025

2 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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Historically there has been very little discussion of feminism within the international humanitarian system. In recent years, some donor governments – including Canada, Mexico, and Germany – have adopted overtly feminist foreign policies and applied these to their strategies and guidance for humanitarian assistance. At the same time, aid actors have started to reconfigure their […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Transforming gender inequalities: Practical guidance for achieving gender transformation in resilient development

15/01/2021

3 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Oxfam believes that resilient development is only possible when gender-based inequalities are transformed and women, men and gender non-conforming people can fully enjoy their rights. However, our evaluations have shown that resilience programmes tend to focus on strengthening absorptive and adaptive capacities without adequately addressing broader structural inequalities and power imbalances. This guide is designed […]

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Book

Narrative Power and Collective Action: Conversations with people working to change narratives for social good – Part 2

21/10/2020

3 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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Deeply held 'truths' are coming undone at the seams. As movements across the globe are challenging 'normal', more and more people are looking for new narratives. Narratives are a form a power, made up of many, many, stories, not always written, made up of online content, offline conversations. They are not something that happens over there, they […]

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Book

Narrative Power and Collective Action: Conversations with people working to change narratives for social good – Part 1

08/07/2020

3 documents

66 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Narratives are a form of power that can mobilize and connect, as well as divide and isolate. Social, public or dominant narratives help to legitimize existing power relationships, prop them up or make them seem natural. As an anthology of perspectives this knowledge offering is one way to amplify different and diverse ways of knowing […]

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Women Engagement Strategy: A case study of Female Food Heroes (FFH) Ethiopia’s Program

Analysis of Oxfam’s Female Food Hero Engagement Strategy: A case study of Nigeria’s Obonge Women Program

A (More) Feminist Approach to Principled Humanitarian Aid

Transforming gender inequalities: Practical guidance for achieving gender transformation in resilient development

Narrative Power and Collective Action: Conversations with people working to change narratives for social good – Part 2

Narrative Power and Collective Action: Conversations with people working to change narratives for social good – Part 1