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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

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

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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 […]

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Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

01/12/2001

11 pages long

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Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

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Overview

Women and men face different risks and vulnerabilities during disaster, and they bring different resources to preparing for and coping with disaster. Less well recognised are the ways in which humanitarian interventions themselves influence the nature of gender relations during crises. A gender-blind humanitarian response which does not address gender-specific issues and does not pay […]

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

09/07/2014

18 pages long

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

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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 […]

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Women’s relationship with the environment

01/02/1993

6 pages long

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Women’s relationship with the environment

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This article examines how women use natural resources in urban and rural areas; how women’s interests have been harmed by environmental changes; and how they are responding. Although women cultivate the land for food and to earn a living intensive farming methods damage soil fertility, making women more prone to poverty. However women’s groups are […]

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Clutching a knifeblade’: human rights and development from Asian women’s perspective

01/06/1993

6 pages long

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Clutching a knifeblade’: human rights and development from Asian women’s perspective

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Overview

In all Asian countries, political repression and lack of economic productivity are affecting women to a far greater degree than men. This article shows why this is so, looking at how women’s rights are violated in different contexts: urban, rural, export processing zones, tourist areas, and by civil war. The author asserts that advocates of […]

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

Women’s status and qualitative perceptions of a cash assistance programme in Raqqa Governorate, Syria

11/07/2019

18 pages long

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Women’s status and qualitative perceptions of a cash assistance programme in Raqqa Governorate, Syria

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Overview

Cash and voucher assistance is an efficient way to deliver assistance in emergency settings, and evidence demonstrates that cash programmes have consistent positive impacts on food security and other health and economic outcomes in these contexts. Nevertheless, while evidence from development settings shows that cash has the potential to reduce intimate partner violence and increase […]

Journal article

Southern women’s networks

01/10/1994

3 pages long

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Southern women’s networks

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Overview

Informal women’s networks often organise into self-aware groups. These can then become political tools as civil society disintegrates and decision-making processes exclude women. Diverse aims are a strength, but women’s groups are weakened by a lack of resources and communication channels, vital for unity with each other and Northern groups. Abantu, a women’s trainers network, […]

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

Facilitating women’s participation in UN conferences

01/10/1994

2 pages long

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Facilitating women’s participation in UN conferences

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Overview

This article outlines why the ‘Women’s Environment and Development Organisation’ (WEDO) was formed, in the context of the end of the Cold War and worsening environmental degradation. WEDO organises women’s caucuses to ensure that the UN addresses the needs of women worldwide. Another major success of caucuses is their inclusion of grassroots women and newly […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

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

Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

01/12/2001

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

Keywords

Overview

Women and men face different risks and vulnerabilities during disaster, and they bring different resources to preparing for and coping with disaster. Less well recognised are the ways in which humanitarian interventions themselves influence the nature of gender relations during crises. A gender-blind humanitarian response which does not address gender-specific issues and does not pay […]

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 […]

Journal article

Women’s relationship with the environment

01/02/1993

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s relationship with the environment

Keywords

Overview

This article examines how women use natural resources in urban and rural areas; how women’s interests have been harmed by environmental changes; and how they are responding. Although women cultivate the land for food and to earn a living intensive farming methods damage soil fertility, making women more prone to poverty. However women’s groups are […]

Journal article

Clutching a knifeblade’: human rights and development from Asian women’s perspective

01/06/1993

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Clutching a knifeblade’: human rights and development from Asian women’s perspective

Keywords

Overview

In all Asian countries, political repression and lack of economic productivity are affecting women to a far greater degree than men. This article shows why this is so, looking at how women’s rights are violated in different contexts: urban, rural, export processing zones, tourist areas, and by civil war. The author asserts that advocates of […]

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

Women’s status and qualitative perceptions of a cash assistance programme in Raqqa Governorate, Syria

11/07/2019

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s status and qualitative perceptions of a cash assistance programme in Raqqa Governorate, Syria

Keywords

Overview

Cash and voucher assistance is an efficient way to deliver assistance in emergency settings, and evidence demonstrates that cash programmes have consistent positive impacts on food security and other health and economic outcomes in these contexts. Nevertheless, while evidence from development settings shows that cash has the potential to reduce intimate partner violence and increase […]

Journal article

Southern women’s networks

01/10/1994

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Southern women’s networks

Keywords

Overview

Informal women’s networks often organise into self-aware groups. These can then become political tools as civil society disintegrates and decision-making processes exclude women. Diverse aims are a strength, but women’s groups are weakened by a lack of resources and communication channels, vital for unity with each other and Northern groups. Abantu, a women’s trainers network, […]

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

Facilitating women’s participation in UN conferences

01/10/1994

2 pages long

Free access through journal website

Facilitating women’s participation in UN conferences

Keywords

Overview

This article outlines why the ‘Women’s Environment and Development Organisation’ (WEDO) was formed, in the context of the end of the Cold War and worsening environmental degradation. WEDO organises women’s caucuses to ensure that the UN addresses the needs of women worldwide. Another major success of caucuses is their inclusion of grassroots women and newly […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

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

Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

01/12/2001

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

Keywords

Overview

Women and men face different risks and vulnerabilities during disaster, and they bring different resources to preparing for and coping with disaster. Less well recognised are the ways in which humanitarian interventions themselves influence the nature of gender relations during crises. A gender-blind humanitarian response which does not address gender-specific issues and does not pay […]

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 […]

Journal article

Women’s relationship with the environment

01/02/1993

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s relationship with the environment

Keywords

Overview

This article examines how women use natural resources in urban and rural areas; how women’s interests have been harmed by environmental changes; and how they are responding. Although women cultivate the land for food and to earn a living intensive farming methods damage soil fertility, making women more prone to poverty. However women’s groups are […]

Journal article

Clutching a knifeblade’: human rights and development from Asian women’s perspective

01/06/1993

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Clutching a knifeblade’: human rights and development from Asian women’s perspective

Keywords

Overview

In all Asian countries, political repression and lack of economic productivity are affecting women to a far greater degree than men. This article shows why this is so, looking at how women’s rights are violated in different contexts: urban, rural, export processing zones, tourist areas, and by civil war. The author asserts that advocates of […]

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

Women’s status and qualitative perceptions of a cash assistance programme in Raqqa Governorate, Syria

11/07/2019

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s status and qualitative perceptions of a cash assistance programme in Raqqa Governorate, Syria

Keywords

Overview

Cash and voucher assistance is an efficient way to deliver assistance in emergency settings, and evidence demonstrates that cash programmes have consistent positive impacts on food security and other health and economic outcomes in these contexts. Nevertheless, while evidence from development settings shows that cash has the potential to reduce intimate partner violence and increase […]

Journal article

Southern women’s networks

01/10/1994

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Southern women’s networks

Keywords

Overview

Informal women’s networks often organise into self-aware groups. These can then become political tools as civil society disintegrates and decision-making processes exclude women. Diverse aims are a strength, but women’s groups are weakened by a lack of resources and communication channels, vital for unity with each other and Northern groups. Abantu, a women’s trainers network, […]

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

Facilitating women’s participation in UN conferences

01/10/1994

2 pages long

Free access through journal website

Facilitating women’s participation in UN conferences

Keywords

Overview

This article outlines why the ‘Women’s Environment and Development Organisation’ (WEDO) was formed, in the context of the end of the Cold War and worsening environmental degradation. WEDO organises women’s caucuses to ensure that the UN addresses the needs of women worldwide. Another major success of caucuses is their inclusion of grassroots women and newly […]