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Discussion paper

Market systems approaches to enabling women’s economic empowerment through addressing unpaid care work

05 Mar 2016

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This paper develops the concept of unpaid care work within the framework of market systems. It shows that unpaid care is a substantial proportion of the work carried out by poor families, especially women, with many heavy, inefficient or unequally distributed tasks limiting productivity and mobility, among other factors, for market work. Thus unpaid care […]

Case study

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

30 Nov 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 […]

Case study

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

30 Nov 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 […]

Research report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care: Evidence for influencing

20 Jul 2015

1 documents

116 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Development actors increasingly identify care responsibilities as a factor restricting women’s empowerment outcomes, yet there is limited evidence on determinants of long hours or gender inequality in care work. To gain a clearer understanding of care work and pathways of change to promote more equitable care provision, Oxfam conducted a Household Care Survey in communities […]

Research report

Meaningful Action: Effective approaches to women’s economic empowerment in agriculture

30 Oct 2014

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper responds to recent focus in the development sector on creating employment for women. It argues that sustaining women’s economic empowerment depends on employment being decent work, with safeguards, that is accessible to many women. Approaches combine integrated interventions to increase participation in markets with broader investments for social infrastructure, supportive norms and addressing […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Safe Age of Marriage and Women’s Economic Empowerment, Yemen

26 Feb 2014

4 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Safe Age of Marriage and Women’s Economic Empowerment project aimed to raise awareness about the negative impacts of early marriage and to reduce its prevalence, as well as to improve the opportunities available to women, through employment and self-employment. The project was implemented by Oxfam in two governorates of Yemen, Hodeidah and Hadramout, in coordination […]

Journal article

‘I can do women’s work’: reflections on engaging men as allies in women’s economic empowerment

14 Mar 2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘I can do women’s work’: reflections on engaging men as allies in women’s economic empowerment

Keywords

Overview

The benefits of women’s economic empowerment are well-known and documented in the development literature. Few studies and interventions, however, have explored how men react or can be engaged to enhance such interventions. This article presents an evaluation of a pilot project in Rwanda in collaboration with CARE Rwanda’s Village Savings and Loan (VSL) programme that […]

Journal article

Women’s economic empowerment through microfinance in Cambodia

01 Nov 2011

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s economic empowerment through microfinance in Cambodia

Keywords

Overview

The use of microfinance to enhance income generation and job opportunities among the poor is a popular tool for governments and non-governmental organisations involved in raising standards of living in developing countries. Providing very poor families with small loans to invest in their micro enterprises, Village Bank empowers them to create their own jobs, increase […]

Journal article

The Markets for Afghan Artisans approach to women’s economic empowerment

23 Mar 2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Markets for Afghan Artisans approach to women’s economic empowerment

Keywords

Overview

This article describes the Markets for Afghan Artisans (MFAA) programme, delivered by Afghan non-government organisation, Zardozi, which has developed an effective approach to facilitating market access for very poor women in the informal, handcrafted garment industry, successfully addressing the multiple barriers faced by women, and developing full business cycle support, customised to their specific needs. […]

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Women’s Economic Empowerment

Seeking to change economic models so that women’s paid and unpaid work is valued and their rights and voices are stronger

Showing 73 matching results from Policy & Practice

Discussion paper

Market systems approaches to enabling women’s economic empowerment through addressing unpaid care work

05 Mar 2016

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper develops the concept of unpaid care work within the framework of market systems. It shows that unpaid care is a substantial proportion of the work carried out by poor families, especially women, with many heavy, inefficient or unequally distributed tasks limiting productivity and mobility, among other factors, for market work. Thus unpaid care […]

Case study

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

30 Nov 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 […]

Case study

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

30 Nov 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 […]

Research report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care: Evidence for influencing

20 Jul 2015

1 documents

116 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Development actors increasingly identify care responsibilities as a factor restricting women’s empowerment outcomes, yet there is limited evidence on determinants of long hours or gender inequality in care work. To gain a clearer understanding of care work and pathways of change to promote more equitable care provision, Oxfam conducted a Household Care Survey in communities […]

Research report

Meaningful Action: Effective approaches to women’s economic empowerment in agriculture

30 Oct 2014

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper responds to recent focus in the development sector on creating employment for women. It argues that sustaining women’s economic empowerment depends on employment being decent work, with safeguards, that is accessible to many women. Approaches combine integrated interventions to increase participation in markets with broader investments for social infrastructure, supportive norms and addressing […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Safe Age of Marriage and Women’s Economic Empowerment, Yemen

26 Feb 2014

4 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Safe Age of Marriage and Women’s Economic Empowerment project aimed to raise awareness about the negative impacts of early marriage and to reduce its prevalence, as well as to improve the opportunities available to women, through employment and self-employment. The project was implemented by Oxfam in two governorates of Yemen, Hodeidah and Hadramout, in coordination […]

Journal article

‘I can do women’s work’: reflections on engaging men as allies in women’s economic empowerment

14 Mar 2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘I can do women’s work’: reflections on engaging men as allies in women’s economic empowerment

Keywords

Overview

The benefits of women’s economic empowerment are well-known and documented in the development literature. Few studies and interventions, however, have explored how men react or can be engaged to enhance such interventions. This article presents an evaluation of a pilot project in Rwanda in collaboration with CARE Rwanda’s Village Savings and Loan (VSL) programme that […]

Journal article

Women’s economic empowerment through microfinance in Cambodia

01 Nov 2011

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s economic empowerment through microfinance in Cambodia

Keywords

Overview

The use of microfinance to enhance income generation and job opportunities among the poor is a popular tool for governments and non-governmental organisations involved in raising standards of living in developing countries. Providing very poor families with small loans to invest in their micro enterprises, Village Bank empowers them to create their own jobs, increase […]

Journal article

The Markets for Afghan Artisans approach to women’s economic empowerment

23 Mar 2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Markets for Afghan Artisans approach to women’s economic empowerment

Keywords

Overview

This article describes the Markets for Afghan Artisans (MFAA) programme, delivered by Afghan non-government organisation, Zardozi, which has developed an effective approach to facilitating market access for very poor women in the informal, handcrafted garment industry, successfully addressing the multiple barriers faced by women, and developing full business cycle support, customised to their specific needs. […]

Webpage

Women’s Economic Empowerment

Seeking to change economic models so that women’s paid and unpaid work is valued and their rights and voices are stronger

Showing 73 matching results from Policy & Practice

Discussion paper

Market systems approaches to enabling women’s economic empowerment through addressing unpaid care work

05 Mar 2016

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper develops the concept of unpaid care work within the framework of market systems. It shows that unpaid care is a substantial proportion of the work carried out by poor families, especially women, with many heavy, inefficient or unequally distributed tasks limiting productivity and mobility, among other factors, for market work. Thus unpaid care […]

Case study

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

30 Nov 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 […]

Case study

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

30 Nov 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 […]

Research report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care: Evidence for influencing

20 Jul 2015

1 documents

116 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Development actors increasingly identify care responsibilities as a factor restricting women’s empowerment outcomes, yet there is limited evidence on determinants of long hours or gender inequality in care work. To gain a clearer understanding of care work and pathways of change to promote more equitable care provision, Oxfam conducted a Household Care Survey in communities […]

Research report

Meaningful Action: Effective approaches to women’s economic empowerment in agriculture

30 Oct 2014

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper responds to recent focus in the development sector on creating employment for women. It argues that sustaining women’s economic empowerment depends on employment being decent work, with safeguards, that is accessible to many women. Approaches combine integrated interventions to increase participation in markets with broader investments for social infrastructure, supportive norms and addressing […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Safe Age of Marriage and Women’s Economic Empowerment, Yemen

26 Feb 2014

4 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Safe Age of Marriage and Women’s Economic Empowerment project aimed to raise awareness about the negative impacts of early marriage and to reduce its prevalence, as well as to improve the opportunities available to women, through employment and self-employment. The project was implemented by Oxfam in two governorates of Yemen, Hodeidah and Hadramout, in coordination […]

Journal article

‘I can do women’s work’: reflections on engaging men as allies in women’s economic empowerment

14 Mar 2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘I can do women’s work’: reflections on engaging men as allies in women’s economic empowerment

Keywords

Overview

The benefits of women’s economic empowerment are well-known and documented in the development literature. Few studies and interventions, however, have explored how men react or can be engaged to enhance such interventions. This article presents an evaluation of a pilot project in Rwanda in collaboration with CARE Rwanda’s Village Savings and Loan (VSL) programme that […]

Journal article

Women’s economic empowerment through microfinance in Cambodia

01 Nov 2011

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s economic empowerment through microfinance in Cambodia

Keywords

Overview

The use of microfinance to enhance income generation and job opportunities among the poor is a popular tool for governments and non-governmental organisations involved in raising standards of living in developing countries. Providing very poor families with small loans to invest in their micro enterprises, Village Bank empowers them to create their own jobs, increase […]

Journal article

The Markets for Afghan Artisans approach to women’s economic empowerment

23 Mar 2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Markets for Afghan Artisans approach to women’s economic empowerment

Keywords

Overview

This article describes the Markets for Afghan Artisans (MFAA) programme, delivered by Afghan non-government organisation, Zardozi, which has developed an effective approach to facilitating market access for very poor women in the informal, handcrafted garment industry, successfully addressing the multiple barriers faced by women, and developing full business cycle support, customised to their specific needs. […]

Webpage

Women’s Economic Empowerment

Seeking to change economic models so that women’s paid and unpaid work is valued and their rights and voices are stronger