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Journal article

‘We want that for ourselves’: how girls and young women are using ICTs to counter violence and demand their rights

11/07/2018

14 pages long

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‘We want that for ourselves’: how girls and young women are using ICTs to counter violence and demand their rights

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Established in 2006, Take Back the Tech! is a global campaign that encourages women and girls to use technology to counter gender-based violence. Through interviews with women in the Philippines, South Africa, Kenya, and India, this article explores how, ten years later, girls and young women are ‘taking back’ technology to demand their rights and […]

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Journal article

Youth and ICTs in a ‘new’ India: exploring changing gendered online relationships among young urban men and women

11/07/2018

11 pages long

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Youth and ICTs in a ‘new’ India: exploring changing gendered online relationships among young urban men and women

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Like many countries in the global South, the rise and widespread accessibility of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in India have profoundly changed the lives of young people and impacted the dynamics of their gendered relationships. Millions of young people in India now have access to new opportunities and novel ways of communicating and interacting […]

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Using digital technology to engage and mobilise young people to end violence in intimate relationships: lessons from Bolivia

11/07/2018

17 pages long

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On 14 February 2017, celebrated as St Valentine’s Day in many contexts throughout the world and associated with lovers, a new campaign called ‘ACTÚA, Detén la violencia’, was launched in Bolivia. The campaign aims to tackle violence in young people’s relationships by encouraging individuals to take action in the presence of violence. A little over […]

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Case study

Innovation in the Horn, East and Central Africa (HECA): Perspectives from on-the-ground experiences

04/05/2017

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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Innovation involves applying information, imagination and initiative to get greater or different value from resources, and includes all processes by which new ideas are generated and converted into useful processes or products. These case studies showcase some of the innovative ideas that are being implemented by Oxfam in six countries: Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, […]

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Research report

ICTs in Humanitarian Response: A learning review of a three-year, five-country programme

13/04/2017

8 documents

28 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

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The Scaling Humanitarian ICTs Network (SHINE) funded by Sida, set out with the theory of change that the quality and efficiency of humanitarian aid can be improved in a variety of contexts through the adoption of Information Communications Technologies (ICTs). With applications in Ethiopia, DRC, Mali, Indonesia and Iraq, ICTs were introduced to enable digital […]

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Evaluation report

WE-Care Malawi Programme Report: Linking unpaid care work and mobile value-added services in Malawi

02/11/2016

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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Malawi was one of the six countries in which Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme was implemented. In its first phase (2014-2016), WE-Care aimed to build evidence to influence policy and practice change around the issue of unpaid care work. In Malawi, three research methodologies were used, including qualitative participatory research and quantitative […]

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Research report

Is There a Role for Mobiles to Support Sustainable Agriculture in Africa?

30/07/2014

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper from the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on ICTs for Sustainability (ICT4S 2014) reviews findings from detailed consultation with 50 global experts in Agriculture and Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). The study explores how ICTs (particularly mobile phones) could be used to accelerate the uptake of sustainable agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. The paper […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Incorporating the Use of ICTs into Oxfam’s Markets-based Livelihoods Programmes: A guidance paper

13/05/2014

1 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

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This Guidance Paper considers ways of incorporating ICTs into markets-based livelihoods programmes. It suggests ways to identify and then use the opportunities offered by ICTs particularly in agriculture. These can include information services, value chain linkages, and financial services. The paper presents a pragmatic and strategic approach that minimises time and cost requirements while maximising […]

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Case study

Apprendre à Vivre: Learning about Living

03/05/2012

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

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After the success of Learning for Living in Nigeria, our partner One World UK is implementing this program in Senegal. It offers information for young people on sexual and reproductive health rights in an innovative fashion through ICT and SMS text messaging. In the first six months already 4,000 text messages with questions were sent, […]

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Journal article

Microfinance in online space: a visual analysis of kiva.org

01/08/2011

13 pages long

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Microfinance practices were originally developed in offline contexts. Modern microfinance practices were based on development models for the financial and social empowerment of the poorest of poor in developing countries. Several of these practices drew from existing traditions of money lending within local communities that were reformed to be in sync with rural development and […]

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