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Building agency: women vendors and gendered technology in informal markets in Assam

07/12/2022

14 pages long

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Building agency: women vendors and gendered technology in informal markets in Assam

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Demonetisation of the Indian economy in 2016 facilitated significant changes in the lifestyle of people, particularly in adoption of digital transactions in everyday life. While there have been studies on mobile phones and the digital divide even prior to demonetisation, the growing gender disparity in the use of new technologies for secure payment via UPI […]

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Journal article

‘Now I want to use it to learn more’: using mobile phones to further the educational rights of the girl child in Kenya

11/07/2018

12 pages long

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‘Now I want to use it to learn more’: using mobile phones to further the educational rights of the girl child in Kenya

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The Kenyan Constitution states that all children have a right to education. However, over the past 15 years, girls in Kenya have been unable to exercise this right consistently – particularly at the secondary school level. During this same period, there has been greater access to digital technologies within Kenya, and the use of mobile […]

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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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Evaluation report

Using Mobile Phones for Polio Prevention in Somalia: An evaluation of the 2013-14 interactive messaging and mobile voucher system deployed in hard to reach areas in Somalia

20/05/2015

1 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam, UNICEF and local partner Hijra developed a mobile phone based health promotion project in Somalia to support Polio prevention and control which began in November 2013. The project was implemented with two complementary components: pre-emptive community education delivered through interactive SMS on Polio prevention and distribution of water and sanitation items through SMS voucher […]

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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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Research report

New Technologies in Cash Transfer Programming and Humanitarian Assistance

01/01/2011

2 documents

122 pages long

Languages: English, French

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This study was commissioned by the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) to review the current use of new technology in humanitarian cash and voucher programming and the broader implications for humanitarian practice. The research was undertaken to explore (i) preconditions for the use of technological mechanisms identified; (ii) user-friendliness of the technology for the recipient and for the agency; […]

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Building agency: women vendors and gendered technology in informal markets in Assam

‘Now I want to use it to learn more’: using mobile phones to further the educational rights of the girl child in Kenya

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

Using Mobile Phones for Polio Prevention in Somalia: An evaluation of the 2013-14 interactive messaging and mobile voucher system deployed in hard to reach areas in Somalia

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

New Technologies in Cash Transfer Programming and Humanitarian Assistance