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Evaluation report

Making Market Systems Work for Women Farmers in Tajikistan: A final evaluation of Oxfam’s Gendered Enterprise and Markets programme in Tajikistan

06/12/2019

3 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Gendered Enterprise and Markets (GEM) is Oxfam GB’s approach to market systems development. The GEM approach facilitates change in market systems and social norms, with the aim of ensuring more sustainable livelihood opportunities for marginalized women and men. The GEM DFID AidMatch Programme (June 2014–February 2018) worked within the soya, milk and vegetable value chains […]

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 […]

Journal article

Fragmented feminisms: women’s organisations and citizenship in ‘transition’ in Poland

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fragmented feminisms: women’s organisations and citizenship in ‘transition’ in Poland

Keywords

Overview

Both governments and international donors now increasingly recognise women’s organisations as key actors in the promotion of women’s rights, democracy, and citizenship. Yet they remain, on the whole, poorly equipped for this role. The precarious, under-funded, and short-term existence of most women’s organisations does not equate with a flourishing civil society. If women’s organisations are […]

Journal article

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

Keywords

Overview

Proverbial statements about women being second-class citizens are familiar in many societies. It is vitally important to challenge the many barriers to full citizenship that confront women, and barriers to women’s human rights in general. Development interventions must help to do this. The denial of equal citizenship to women is a phenomenon familiar in many […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Best Practice Guide: For community organisations working with sanctuary-seeking women in Wales

01/11/2011

1 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

There are roughly 12,500 refugees and asylum seekers in Wales. Life can be extremely tough for sanctuary seeking women. Many are forced to flee their homes because they have been subjected to serious human rights abuses related to their gender, such as rape, threats of honour killing and domestic violence. This suffering is compounded, once […]

Journal article

Promoting a gender-just peace: the roles of women teachers in peacebuilding and reconstruction

01/11/2004

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Promoting a gender-just peace: the roles of women teachers in peacebuilding and reconstruction

Keywords

Overview

Schools – however temporary and improvised they may be – are often among the first community organisations to start functioning after a crisis. It is important that they set a high standard in encouraging the active participation of women in reconstruction and peacebuilding after conflict. This article examines the potential of women teachers for 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 […]

Journal article

Securing the fruits of their labours: the effect of the crisis on women farm workers in Peru’s Ica valley

01/07/2010

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Securing the fruits of their labours: the effect of the crisis on women farm workers in Peru’s Ica valley

Keywords

Overview

Despite immediate promises of economic recovery by some Latin American governments, women in some regions of the continent are feeling the aftermath of the crisis deeply. This is because of both the interconnectedness of their regions to the export market, and pre-existing economic policies and social factors, including gender inequality that strengthens inequalities. These factors […]

Journal article

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

Keywords

Overview

Women’s struggle for both equality and national liberation are crucial to democracy: if a democratic state is one in which citizens have the right to participate in society and the way it is governed, women must, automatically, be included in the equation. Yet in many so-called democratic states, women lack full citizenship. This article traces […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Evaluation report

Making Market Systems Work for Women Farmers in Tajikistan: A final evaluation of Oxfam’s Gendered Enterprise and Markets programme in Tajikistan

06/12/2019

3 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Gendered Enterprise and Markets (GEM) is Oxfam GB’s approach to market systems development. The GEM approach facilitates change in market systems and social norms, with the aim of ensuring more sustainable livelihood opportunities for marginalized women and men. The GEM DFID AidMatch Programme (June 2014–February 2018) worked within the soya, milk and vegetable value chains […]

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 […]

Journal article

Fragmented feminisms: women’s organisations and citizenship in ‘transition’ in Poland

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fragmented feminisms: women’s organisations and citizenship in ‘transition’ in Poland

Keywords

Overview

Both governments and international donors now increasingly recognise women’s organisations as key actors in the promotion of women’s rights, democracy, and citizenship. Yet they remain, on the whole, poorly equipped for this role. The precarious, under-funded, and short-term existence of most women’s organisations does not equate with a flourishing civil society. If women’s organisations are […]

Journal article

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

Keywords

Overview

Proverbial statements about women being second-class citizens are familiar in many societies. It is vitally important to challenge the many barriers to full citizenship that confront women, and barriers to women’s human rights in general. Development interventions must help to do this. The denial of equal citizenship to women is a phenomenon familiar in many […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Best Practice Guide: For community organisations working with sanctuary-seeking women in Wales

01/11/2011

1 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

There are roughly 12,500 refugees and asylum seekers in Wales. Life can be extremely tough for sanctuary seeking women. Many are forced to flee their homes because they have been subjected to serious human rights abuses related to their gender, such as rape, threats of honour killing and domestic violence. This suffering is compounded, once […]

Journal article

Promoting a gender-just peace: the roles of women teachers in peacebuilding and reconstruction

01/11/2004

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Promoting a gender-just peace: the roles of women teachers in peacebuilding and reconstruction

Keywords

Overview

Schools – however temporary and improvised they may be – are often among the first community organisations to start functioning after a crisis. It is important that they set a high standard in encouraging the active participation of women in reconstruction and peacebuilding after conflict. This article examines the potential of women teachers for 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 […]

Journal article

Securing the fruits of their labours: the effect of the crisis on women farm workers in Peru’s Ica valley

01/07/2010

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Securing the fruits of their labours: the effect of the crisis on women farm workers in Peru’s Ica valley

Keywords

Overview

Despite immediate promises of economic recovery by some Latin American governments, women in some regions of the continent are feeling the aftermath of the crisis deeply. This is because of both the interconnectedness of their regions to the export market, and pre-existing economic policies and social factors, including gender inequality that strengthens inequalities. These factors […]

Journal article

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

Keywords

Overview

Women’s struggle for both equality and national liberation are crucial to democracy: if a democratic state is one in which citizens have the right to participate in society and the way it is governed, women must, automatically, be included in the equation. Yet in many so-called democratic states, women lack full citizenship. This article traces […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Evaluation report

Making Market Systems Work for Women Farmers in Tajikistan: A final evaluation of Oxfam’s Gendered Enterprise and Markets programme in Tajikistan

06/12/2019

3 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Gendered Enterprise and Markets (GEM) is Oxfam GB’s approach to market systems development. The GEM approach facilitates change in market systems and social norms, with the aim of ensuring more sustainable livelihood opportunities for marginalized women and men. The GEM DFID AidMatch Programme (June 2014–February 2018) worked within the soya, milk and vegetable value chains […]

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 […]

Journal article

Fragmented feminisms: women’s organisations and citizenship in ‘transition’ in Poland

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fragmented feminisms: women’s organisations and citizenship in ‘transition’ in Poland

Keywords

Overview

Both governments and international donors now increasingly recognise women’s organisations as key actors in the promotion of women’s rights, democracy, and citizenship. Yet they remain, on the whole, poorly equipped for this role. The precarious, under-funded, and short-term existence of most women’s organisations does not equate with a flourishing civil society. If women’s organisations are […]

Journal article

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

Keywords

Overview

Proverbial statements about women being second-class citizens are familiar in many societies. It is vitally important to challenge the many barriers to full citizenship that confront women, and barriers to women’s human rights in general. Development interventions must help to do this. The denial of equal citizenship to women is a phenomenon familiar in many […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Best Practice Guide: For community organisations working with sanctuary-seeking women in Wales

01/11/2011

1 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

There are roughly 12,500 refugees and asylum seekers in Wales. Life can be extremely tough for sanctuary seeking women. Many are forced to flee their homes because they have been subjected to serious human rights abuses related to their gender, such as rape, threats of honour killing and domestic violence. This suffering is compounded, once […]

Journal article

Promoting a gender-just peace: the roles of women teachers in peacebuilding and reconstruction

01/11/2004

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Promoting a gender-just peace: the roles of women teachers in peacebuilding and reconstruction

Keywords

Overview

Schools – however temporary and improvised they may be – are often among the first community organisations to start functioning after a crisis. It is important that they set a high standard in encouraging the active participation of women in reconstruction and peacebuilding after conflict. This article examines the potential of women teachers for 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 […]

Journal article

Securing the fruits of their labours: the effect of the crisis on women farm workers in Peru’s Ica valley

01/07/2010

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Securing the fruits of their labours: the effect of the crisis on women farm workers in Peru’s Ica valley

Keywords

Overview

Despite immediate promises of economic recovery by some Latin American governments, women in some regions of the continent are feeling the aftermath of the crisis deeply. This is because of both the interconnectedness of their regions to the export market, and pre-existing economic policies and social factors, including gender inequality that strengthens inequalities. These factors […]

Journal article

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

Keywords

Overview

Women’s struggle for both equality and national liberation are crucial to democracy: if a democratic state is one in which citizens have the right to participate in society and the way it is governed, women must, automatically, be included in the equation. Yet in many so-called democratic states, women lack full citizenship. This article traces […]