Women's economic empowerment Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Evaluation report

Impact Evaluation of Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-CARE) Oxfam 2014-2023

17/10/2025

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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The Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care: Evidence for Influencing (WE-Care) program, launched by Oxfam in 2014, set out to confront one of the most persistent and invisible barriers to gender equality: Unpaid Care and Domestic Work (UCDW). Over nearly a decade, the program sought to recognize, reduce, and redistribute the burden of care work that […]

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Briefing paper

Asia’s Extreme Inequality Crisis: Building back fairer after COVID-19

26/09/2022

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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COVID-19 has exacerbated Asia’s crisis of extreme inequality. This is undermining growth and preventing poverty eradication. Asian governments have done almost nothing to combat this rise in inequality and are constrained in their policy choices as debt burdens grow and post-COVID austerity begins. A few Asian governments have done a lot to fight inequality during […]

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Briefing note

Who cares? The gendered distribution of unpaid care work in Jordan

22/09/2022

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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Pervasive global norms position men as breadwinners and women as caregivers; in every country in the world, women do more unpaid care work than men. This paper explores the gendered distribution of unpaid care work in Jordan, where female labour market participation is among the lowest in the world. It presents the key findings of […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

How Can We Bring About Meaningful Change for Women by Investing Differently in Small Enterprises?

15/07/2022

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Oxfam-supported enterprises have generated high impact and demonstrated strong business performance. Now, the shift to make women’s economic empowerment a more central focus and the opportunity to generate more meaningful impact has put us on track to transition towards a new enterprise investment model. In the future, more attention will be paid to the structural […]

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Briefing paper

Care Policy Scorecard: A tool for assessing country progress towards an enabling policy environment on care

20/09/2021

6 documents

90 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Care work needs to be recognized, shared and invested in now more than ever given that progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 – Achieve Gender Equality – is behind target and COVID-19 has created additional challenges with increases in care work, poverty and precariousness that could reverse gains made in gender equality and poverty […]

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Case study

Towards a Gender-Sensitive Private Sector in the OPT

14/04/2021

1 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English

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This learning paper describes Oxfam's experience of conducting a Participatory Gender Audit with private sector companies in the agriculture sector in the OPT. It highlights issues such as women’s limited access to the labor market, their weak representation both as staff and as decision makers, the absence of gender-sensitive working conditions and policies, and a lack of […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Guide to Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violence in a Context of Women’s Economic Empowerment

13/04/2021

3 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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As development practitioners, we must ensure that programs are implemented in such a way as to minimize gender-based violence risks for all participants. This involves understanding risk and prevention factors and implementing appropriate measures and resources to help mitigate these risks in order to guarantee that women’s economic empowerment programs give women the intended tools […]

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Briefing note

Addressing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work for a Gender-Equal and Inclusive Kenya

13/04/2021

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

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Care work is the heartbeat of every society: it contributes to our wellbeing as a nation and is crucial for our social and economic development. Yet the disproportionate responsibility for unpaid care work results in time poverty and significant opportunity costs, particularly among the poorest and most marginalized women and girls. This policy brief outlines […]

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Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in the Philippines: Impact evaluation of the ‘BASIC START’ project

24/02/2021

3 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English

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This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2018/19 on women’s empowerment. The BASIC START (Building Autonomous and Stable Institutions and Communities through Socially Cohesive, Transparent, Accountable and Responsive Transition) in the Bangsamoro' project was carried out in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in the Philippines between April 2015 and August […]

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Research report

An assessment of overall effectiveness of agricultural multi-stakeholder initiatives with specific attention to smallholder inclusiveness, and recommendations for improvement

31/12/2020

1 documents

79 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam engages with multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) to discover how they can further move sectors towards social, economic and environmental sustainability. The main purpose of this report is to assess the current roles of MSIs on key social and human rights topics and to explore how they can improve their performance on these topics. In addition, […]

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