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Research report

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Agriculture in Ethiopia

29/12/2021

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The gender division of labor in Ethiopia hinders women smallholders’ efforts to improve productivity to close the gap with men’s farms. There is substantial evidence that where women have access to the same inputs and training as men, they can close that gap. The government’s national development plan identifies agriculture as the main driver of […]

Journal article

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

23/05/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

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Overview

In 1996, Guatemala’s Peace Accords were signed, concluding 36 years of war and genocide. However, persisting violence, including violences against women (VAW) and criminalisation of human rights defenders protesting inequalities provoked by postwar extractivism, threatens the democracy promised through formal peace. Specifically, women human rights defenders (WHRDs) play key roles in these struggles, which this […]

Journal article

Extractives vs development sovereignty: building living consent rights for African women

09/11/2017

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Extractives vs development sovereignty: building living consent rights for African women

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Overview

This article focuses on the right of consent for women and their communities in respect of extractives and large-scale (or ‘mega’) infrastructure projects that affect their access to, and control over, land and natural resources indispensable to their lives and livelihoods. As we point out, the right of consent is determined by prevailing deeply unequal […]

Journal article

Social and feminist design in emergency contexts: the Women’s Social Architecture Project, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

11/07/2019

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Social and feminist design in emergency contexts: the Women’s Social Architecture Project, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

The rapid influx of Rohingya refugees into Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, has led to the formation of huge camps, built on difficult terrain, short of space and with high population density. All these factors present numerous challenges to agencies seeking to provide latrines, water points, and bathing facilities. Feedback gathered from women and girls highlighted significant […]

Briefing note

Born to Lead: Recommendations on increasing women’s participation in South Sudan’s peace processes

30/01/2020

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

South Sudanese women have been championing inclusive peace and demanding their meaningful participation at all levels of decision making. However, women continue to confront obstacles to maintaining and increasing space to contribute – particularly in formal decision-making arenas. This brief analyses the modalities of women’s participation and influence in South Sudan’s peace processes that culminated […]

Case study

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Domestic Violence: Links and lessons for practitioners working with intersectional approaches

30/11/2015

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper examines the intersectional elements of the links between women’s increased market-oriented economic activity and women’s experience of domestic violence. Through a literature review, complemented by perspectives from staff working within the Oxfam confederation working on women’s economic empowerment (WEE) and violence against women (VAW), the research discussed in the paper found that WE […]

Journal article

A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

09/07/2014

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

Keywords

Overview

This article presents findings from a review of 70 evaluations of development interventions which had direct or indirect impacts on the economic empowerment of women and girls. We defined this as a process whereby women and girls experience transformation in power, agency, and economic advancement. The review distilled knowledge about monitoring, evaluation, and learning methods […]

Book

Women and Conflict

01/01/1993

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In situations of war or violent conflict, all civilians suffer. However, there are many specific, gender-related human rights issues which organisations involved in relief, development, and emergency work in conflict situations need to address. Women and Conflict concentrates on gender issues in situations of military and civil strife, and examines the effect of armed conflict […]

Journal article

Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

01/03/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

Keywords

Overview

Property grabbing is a new form of gendered violence against women, threatening the security of women across Southern and East Africa. Forced evictions are often accompanied by further acts of violence, including physical and mental harassment, and abuse. Widows are particularly vulnerable, partly as a result of weakened customary practice and social safety nets that […]

Case study

Building Gender Sensitive Resilience Through Women’s Economic Empowerment: Lessons learned from pastoralist women in Ethiopia

30/11/2015

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In addition to ethnicity, age, or disability, gender in the Somali region of Ethiopia strongly intersects with pastoralism, a predominant livelihood in East Africa and the Horn. This paper explores how the overlap of a double marginalized identity produces particular disadvantages for pastoralist women in Ethiopia, and how an Oxfam intervention in the Somali region […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Agriculture in Ethiopia

29/12/2021

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The gender division of labor in Ethiopia hinders women smallholders’ efforts to improve productivity to close the gap with men’s farms. There is substantial evidence that where women have access to the same inputs and training as men, they can close that gap. The government’s national development plan identifies agriculture as the main driver of […]

Journal article

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

23/05/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

Keywords

Overview

In 1996, Guatemala’s Peace Accords were signed, concluding 36 years of war and genocide. However, persisting violence, including violences against women (VAW) and criminalisation of human rights defenders protesting inequalities provoked by postwar extractivism, threatens the democracy promised through formal peace. Specifically, women human rights defenders (WHRDs) play key roles in these struggles, which this […]

Journal article

Extractives vs development sovereignty: building living consent rights for African women

09/11/2017

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Extractives vs development sovereignty: building living consent rights for African women

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the right of consent for women and their communities in respect of extractives and large-scale (or ‘mega’) infrastructure projects that affect their access to, and control over, land and natural resources indispensable to their lives and livelihoods. As we point out, the right of consent is determined by prevailing deeply unequal […]

Journal article

Social and feminist design in emergency contexts: the Women’s Social Architecture Project, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

11/07/2019

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Social and feminist design in emergency contexts: the Women’s Social Architecture Project, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

The rapid influx of Rohingya refugees into Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, has led to the formation of huge camps, built on difficult terrain, short of space and with high population density. All these factors present numerous challenges to agencies seeking to provide latrines, water points, and bathing facilities. Feedback gathered from women and girls highlighted significant […]

Briefing note

Born to Lead: Recommendations on increasing women’s participation in South Sudan’s peace processes

30/01/2020

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

South Sudanese women have been championing inclusive peace and demanding their meaningful participation at all levels of decision making. However, women continue to confront obstacles to maintaining and increasing space to contribute – particularly in formal decision-making arenas. This brief analyses the modalities of women’s participation and influence in South Sudan’s peace processes that culminated […]

Case study

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Domestic Violence: Links and lessons for practitioners working with intersectional approaches

30/11/2015

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper examines the intersectional elements of the links between women’s increased market-oriented economic activity and women’s experience of domestic violence. Through a literature review, complemented by perspectives from staff working within the Oxfam confederation working on women’s economic empowerment (WEE) and violence against women (VAW), the research discussed in the paper found that WE […]

Journal article

A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

09/07/2014

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

Keywords

Overview

This article presents findings from a review of 70 evaluations of development interventions which had direct or indirect impacts on the economic empowerment of women and girls. We defined this as a process whereby women and girls experience transformation in power, agency, and economic advancement. The review distilled knowledge about monitoring, evaluation, and learning methods […]

Book

Women and Conflict

01/01/1993

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In situations of war or violent conflict, all civilians suffer. However, there are many specific, gender-related human rights issues which organisations involved in relief, development, and emergency work in conflict situations need to address. Women and Conflict concentrates on gender issues in situations of military and civil strife, and examines the effect of armed conflict […]

Journal article

Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

01/03/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

Keywords

Overview

Property grabbing is a new form of gendered violence against women, threatening the security of women across Southern and East Africa. Forced evictions are often accompanied by further acts of violence, including physical and mental harassment, and abuse. Widows are particularly vulnerable, partly as a result of weakened customary practice and social safety nets that […]

Case study

Building Gender Sensitive Resilience Through Women’s Economic Empowerment: Lessons learned from pastoralist women in Ethiopia

30/11/2015

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In addition to ethnicity, age, or disability, gender in the Somali region of Ethiopia strongly intersects with pastoralism, a predominant livelihood in East Africa and the Horn. This paper explores how the overlap of a double marginalized identity produces particular disadvantages for pastoralist women in Ethiopia, and how an Oxfam intervention in the Somali region […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Agriculture in Ethiopia

29/12/2021

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The gender division of labor in Ethiopia hinders women smallholders’ efforts to improve productivity to close the gap with men’s farms. There is substantial evidence that where women have access to the same inputs and training as men, they can close that gap. The government’s national development plan identifies agriculture as the main driver of […]

Journal article

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

23/05/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

Keywords

Overview

In 1996, Guatemala’s Peace Accords were signed, concluding 36 years of war and genocide. However, persisting violence, including violences against women (VAW) and criminalisation of human rights defenders protesting inequalities provoked by postwar extractivism, threatens the democracy promised through formal peace. Specifically, women human rights defenders (WHRDs) play key roles in these struggles, which this […]

Journal article

Extractives vs development sovereignty: building living consent rights for African women

09/11/2017

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Extractives vs development sovereignty: building living consent rights for African women

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the right of consent for women and their communities in respect of extractives and large-scale (or ‘mega’) infrastructure projects that affect their access to, and control over, land and natural resources indispensable to their lives and livelihoods. As we point out, the right of consent is determined by prevailing deeply unequal […]

Journal article

Social and feminist design in emergency contexts: the Women’s Social Architecture Project, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

11/07/2019

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Social and feminist design in emergency contexts: the Women’s Social Architecture Project, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

The rapid influx of Rohingya refugees into Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, has led to the formation of huge camps, built on difficult terrain, short of space and with high population density. All these factors present numerous challenges to agencies seeking to provide latrines, water points, and bathing facilities. Feedback gathered from women and girls highlighted significant […]

Briefing note

Born to Lead: Recommendations on increasing women’s participation in South Sudan’s peace processes

30/01/2020

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

South Sudanese women have been championing inclusive peace and demanding their meaningful participation at all levels of decision making. However, women continue to confront obstacles to maintaining and increasing space to contribute – particularly in formal decision-making arenas. This brief analyses the modalities of women’s participation and influence in South Sudan’s peace processes that culminated […]

Case study

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Domestic Violence: Links and lessons for practitioners working with intersectional approaches

30/11/2015

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper examines the intersectional elements of the links between women’s increased market-oriented economic activity and women’s experience of domestic violence. Through a literature review, complemented by perspectives from staff working within the Oxfam confederation working on women’s economic empowerment (WEE) and violence against women (VAW), the research discussed in the paper found that WE […]

Journal article

A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

09/07/2014

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

Keywords

Overview

This article presents findings from a review of 70 evaluations of development interventions which had direct or indirect impacts on the economic empowerment of women and girls. We defined this as a process whereby women and girls experience transformation in power, agency, and economic advancement. The review distilled knowledge about monitoring, evaluation, and learning methods […]

Book

Women and Conflict

01/01/1993

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In situations of war or violent conflict, all civilians suffer. However, there are many specific, gender-related human rights issues which organisations involved in relief, development, and emergency work in conflict situations need to address. Women and Conflict concentrates on gender issues in situations of military and civil strife, and examines the effect of armed conflict […]

Journal article

Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

01/03/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

Keywords

Overview

Property grabbing is a new form of gendered violence against women, threatening the security of women across Southern and East Africa. Forced evictions are often accompanied by further acts of violence, including physical and mental harassment, and abuse. Widows are particularly vulnerable, partly as a result of weakened customary practice and social safety nets that […]

Case study

Building Gender Sensitive Resilience Through Women’s Economic Empowerment: Lessons learned from pastoralist women in Ethiopia

30/11/2015

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In addition to ethnicity, age, or disability, gender in the Somali region of Ethiopia strongly intersects with pastoralism, a predominant livelihood in East Africa and the Horn. This paper explores how the overlap of a double marginalized identity produces particular disadvantages for pastoralist women in Ethiopia, and how an Oxfam intervention in the Somali region […]