Inclusion Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

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No one left behind: Towards disability-inclusive approaches for gender and climate research

21/10/2026

18 pages long

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No one left behind: Towards disability-inclusive approaches for gender and climate research

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Although development programming and research around gender and climate has been increasing over the last decade across the sector, there has been insufficient focus on disability and intersectionality. Further, while locally led development is increasingly seen as best practice in policy and scholarly literature, too often consultation takes place after projects have been designed, rather […]

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Research report

Building Disaster Resilient Communities Through Women’s Leadership

05/03/2026

1 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English

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Women in Nepal and the Philippines, along with those in other Asian countries, suffer disproportionately from disasters caused by natural hazards yet are excluded from leadership in disaster preparedness and response (DPR). Even as women make a crucial contribution to community resilience, they are hindered from DPR participation by restrictive social norms, limited financial resources, […]

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Briefing paper

Oxfam Gender in Emergencies Strategy 2022-25

01/10/2022

8 documents

25 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian

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This Gender in Emergencies (GiE) Strategy for 2022–25 is a framework for more effective humanitarian action that acknowledges and addresses gender in a responsive, appropriate, and equitable manner. It identifies pathways to achieve this for individuals, Oxfam teams and partners, and the confederation as a whole. Oxfam’s 2022-25 Gender in Emergencies (GiE) Strategy is interlinked […]

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Briefing paper

Oxfam in Gender Emergencies Standards 2022-25

01/10/2022

8 documents

24 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian

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Oxfam’s 2022 Gender in Emergencies (GiE) Standards are the key internal tool by which the charity sets out to realise its gender-specific humanitarian ambition in alignment with the 2022–25 GiE Strategy. The GiE Standards cover seven focus areas or ‘building blocks’ where Oxfam’s action needs to be enhanced to allow all actors involved in the […]

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Book

Zahra: A policewoman in Afghanistan

21/12/2020

2 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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As part of Oxfam’s Strategic Partnership project ‘Towards a Worldwide Influencing Network’, the graphic story Zahra: A policewoman in Afghanistan was developed by Jorrit Kamminga, Cristina Durán and Miguel Ángel Giner Bou. The project is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. The graphic story is part of a long-standing Oxfam campaign that […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Fostering Participation in Research

29/03/2019

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Research needs to be more inclusive of the voices of people affected by the issues at hand. This guideline has been written for anyone conducting, commissioning or managing research who thinks it would benefit from being more participatory but is unsure how to do this.

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Journal article

Building capacity for a disability-inclusive response to violence against women and girls: experiences from the W-DARE project in the Philippines

20/07/2016

15 pages long

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Building capacity for a disability-inclusive response to violence against women and girls: experiences from the W-DARE project in the Philippines

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The Philippines has developed a range of national laws, policies, and programmes in response to violence against women and girls (VAWG). However, as elsewhere, the needs and experiences of women with disabilities are rarely considered in government policies or development activities. Yet women with disabilities are more likely to experience violence than their peers without […]

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Journal article

Bridging inequalities through inclusion: women’s rights organisations as the ‘missing link’ in donor government-led participatory policy development and practice

31/07/2015

17 pages long

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Bridging inequalities through inclusion: women’s rights organisations as the ‘missing link’ in donor government-led participatory policy development and practice

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This article focuses on women’s rights organisations and their role in challenging inequality within the development process. Women in poverty are excluded as a result of their unequal societal position, geographic location, and the predominance of ‘topdown’ and piecemeal policymaking processes carried out by donor governments. We argue that in-country women’s rights organisations provide the […]

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Journal article

Writing gender in: reflections on writing middle-school political science textbooks in India

20/03/2014

13 pages long

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Writing gender in: reflections on writing middle-school political science textbooks in India

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Feminists regard schooling as a critical site where children are socialised to adopt gender-based identities, and where the process of internalisation of gender norms – begun within the home and community at the earliest stage of childhood – continues. This process makes gender identities, roles, and power relations appear ‘natural’ and normal. Within the realm […]

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Looking through an equity and inclusion lens in Tanzania: the experience of WaterAid

07/11/2012

12 pages long

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Looking through an equity and inclusion lens in Tanzania: the experience of WaterAid

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Globally, 780 million people still do not have access to safe water and 2.5 billion lack improved sanitation. Since its inception, WaterAid has been deeply committed to issues of equity, choosing to work in some of the poorest countries in Africa and Asia, and within these, to work with people who are marginalised. In Tanzania, […]

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