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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Where to for women’s movements and the MDGs?

01/03/2005

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Where to for women’s movements and the MDGs?

Keywords

Overview

This article explores different responses of women’s rights activists and organisations, in various regions of the world, to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) agenda and processes. It gives a brief overview of the current state of play regarding the engagement of women’s movements with the MDGs. It then focuses on campaigning and advocacy, and the […]

Research report

Gender-responsive Budgeting in Ghana: An analysis of GRB implementation and its existing and potential impacts on women small-scale farmers

29/10/2020

1 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB), also known as gender budgeting, is an approach to budgeting that takes into account the various needs of a diverse population by using an intersectional gender lens to respond to the different experiences of women, men, and gender-diverse groups. In addition to promoting more equitable budgeting outcomes, GRB requires that the budgeting […]

Journal article

‘Empowerment’ of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa: research about girls, by girls

09/11/2016

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Empowerment’ of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa: research about girls, by girls

Keywords

Overview

In mid-2015, a team of 15 Congolese ‘girl researchers’ were recruited, trained, and mentored by the UK’s Department for International Development-funded La Pépinière programme. They conducted peer-to-peer research to explore the experiences, perceptions, and aspirations of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, in relation to their economic and social empowerment. […]

Case study

Yemen: Advocacy on Violence against Women

14/06/2008

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Two Oxfam partner organisations working with women and the law have greatly improved the position of women in custody, prisons or detention centres, and have established a women-only detention centre where women are likely to receive better treatment.

Journal article

The Global Compact for Migration: what could it mean for women and gender relations?

28/03/2019

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Global Compact for Migration: what could it mean for women and gender relations?

Keywords

Overview

Under half of international migrants throughout the world are women. While large movements of people, human rights and humanitarian crises, and migrant deaths are not new, the public attention given to the arrivals of refugees and migrants to the shores of Europe has compelled governments to engage in a multilateral manner. In September 2016, the […]

Journal article

Gendering platform co-operativism: the rise of women-owned rider co-operatives in Brazil and Spain

07/12/2022

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendering platform co-operativism: the rise of women-owned rider co-operatives in Brazil and Spain

Keywords

Overview

This article analyses the process of gendering platform co-operativism through a case study of two rider co-operatives owned and managed by women: Señoritas Courier in São Paulo, Brazil and Les Mercedes in Barcelona, Spain. While both co-operatives arose in response to similar concerns and have adopted a common approach, one is located in the global […]

Journal article

AIDS, women, land, and natural resources in Africa: current challenges

01/03/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

AIDS, women, land, and natural resources in Africa: current challenges

Keywords

Overview

AIDS-affected households in rural Africa often turn to natural resources as a livelihood safety net. Yet women affected by AIDS have less time for sound resource management, and indigenous knowledge is lost when parents die before educating their children. As demand and inappropriate use grow, resource depletion and land degradation increase. In many countries, widows […]

Journal article

Rural women’s participation in solar-powered irrigation in Niger: lessons from Dimitra Clubs

10/12/2020

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Rural women’s participation in solar-powered irrigation in Niger: lessons from Dimitra Clubs

Keywords

Overview

The relative lack of women’s participation in energy-related development projects around the world to transform agricultural productivity has been a source of significant concern globally. Out of 181 countries, Niger holds the current position for being the second most vulnerable to climate change. Despite the emphasis on women’s participation in solar-powered irrigation initiatives in Niger […]

Journal article

Feminist mobilisation and progressive policy change: why governments take action to combat violence against women

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist mobilisation and progressive policy change: why governments take action to combat violence against women

Keywords

Overview

Some national governments have adopted a wide variety of measures to address violence against women, including legal reform, public education campaigns, and support for shelters and rape crisis centres, but other governments have done little to confront the problem. What accounts for these differences in policy? To answer this question, we analysed policies on violence against women in 70 […]

Journal article

Women and citizenship in global teacher education: The Global-ITE project

01/11/2003

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and citizenship in global teacher education: The Global-ITE project

Keywords

Overview

The Global-ITE (Initial Teacher Education) scheme is a three-year education project. It aims to enable trainee teachers in three teacher-education institutes in India, Kenya, and England to link local and global social issues to each other, and relate them to the school curriculum; and to promote a global perspective on citizenship education. Integral to our […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Where to for women’s movements and the MDGs?

01/03/2005

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Where to for women’s movements and the MDGs?

Keywords

Overview

This article explores different responses of women’s rights activists and organisations, in various regions of the world, to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) agenda and processes. It gives a brief overview of the current state of play regarding the engagement of women’s movements with the MDGs. It then focuses on campaigning and advocacy, and the […]

Research report

Gender-responsive Budgeting in Ghana: An analysis of GRB implementation and its existing and potential impacts on women small-scale farmers

29/10/2020

1 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB), also known as gender budgeting, is an approach to budgeting that takes into account the various needs of a diverse population by using an intersectional gender lens to respond to the different experiences of women, men, and gender-diverse groups. In addition to promoting more equitable budgeting outcomes, GRB requires that the budgeting […]

Journal article

‘Empowerment’ of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa: research about girls, by girls

09/11/2016

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Empowerment’ of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa: research about girls, by girls

Keywords

Overview

In mid-2015, a team of 15 Congolese ‘girl researchers’ were recruited, trained, and mentored by the UK’s Department for International Development-funded La Pépinière programme. They conducted peer-to-peer research to explore the experiences, perceptions, and aspirations of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, in relation to their economic and social empowerment. […]

Case study

Yemen: Advocacy on Violence against Women

14/06/2008

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Two Oxfam partner organisations working with women and the law have greatly improved the position of women in custody, prisons or detention centres, and have established a women-only detention centre where women are likely to receive better treatment.

Journal article

The Global Compact for Migration: what could it mean for women and gender relations?

28/03/2019

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Global Compact for Migration: what could it mean for women and gender relations?

Keywords

Overview

Under half of international migrants throughout the world are women. While large movements of people, human rights and humanitarian crises, and migrant deaths are not new, the public attention given to the arrivals of refugees and migrants to the shores of Europe has compelled governments to engage in a multilateral manner. In September 2016, the […]

Journal article

Gendering platform co-operativism: the rise of women-owned rider co-operatives in Brazil and Spain

07/12/2022

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendering platform co-operativism: the rise of women-owned rider co-operatives in Brazil and Spain

Keywords

Overview

This article analyses the process of gendering platform co-operativism through a case study of two rider co-operatives owned and managed by women: Señoritas Courier in São Paulo, Brazil and Les Mercedes in Barcelona, Spain. While both co-operatives arose in response to similar concerns and have adopted a common approach, one is located in the global […]

Journal article

AIDS, women, land, and natural resources in Africa: current challenges

01/03/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

AIDS, women, land, and natural resources in Africa: current challenges

Keywords

Overview

AIDS-affected households in rural Africa often turn to natural resources as a livelihood safety net. Yet women affected by AIDS have less time for sound resource management, and indigenous knowledge is lost when parents die before educating their children. As demand and inappropriate use grow, resource depletion and land degradation increase. In many countries, widows […]

Journal article

Rural women’s participation in solar-powered irrigation in Niger: lessons from Dimitra Clubs

10/12/2020

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Rural women’s participation in solar-powered irrigation in Niger: lessons from Dimitra Clubs

Keywords

Overview

The relative lack of women’s participation in energy-related development projects around the world to transform agricultural productivity has been a source of significant concern globally. Out of 181 countries, Niger holds the current position for being the second most vulnerable to climate change. Despite the emphasis on women’s participation in solar-powered irrigation initiatives in Niger […]

Journal article

Feminist mobilisation and progressive policy change: why governments take action to combat violence against women

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist mobilisation and progressive policy change: why governments take action to combat violence against women

Keywords

Overview

Some national governments have adopted a wide variety of measures to address violence against women, including legal reform, public education campaigns, and support for shelters and rape crisis centres, but other governments have done little to confront the problem. What accounts for these differences in policy? To answer this question, we analysed policies on violence against women in 70 […]

Journal article

Women and citizenship in global teacher education: The Global-ITE project

01/11/2003

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and citizenship in global teacher education: The Global-ITE project

Keywords

Overview

The Global-ITE (Initial Teacher Education) scheme is a three-year education project. It aims to enable trainee teachers in three teacher-education institutes in India, Kenya, and England to link local and global social issues to each other, and relate them to the school curriculum; and to promote a global perspective on citizenship education. Integral to our […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Where to for women’s movements and the MDGs?

01/03/2005

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Where to for women’s movements and the MDGs?

Keywords

Overview

This article explores different responses of women’s rights activists and organisations, in various regions of the world, to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) agenda and processes. It gives a brief overview of the current state of play regarding the engagement of women’s movements with the MDGs. It then focuses on campaigning and advocacy, and the […]

Research report

Gender-responsive Budgeting in Ghana: An analysis of GRB implementation and its existing and potential impacts on women small-scale farmers

29/10/2020

1 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB), also known as gender budgeting, is an approach to budgeting that takes into account the various needs of a diverse population by using an intersectional gender lens to respond to the different experiences of women, men, and gender-diverse groups. In addition to promoting more equitable budgeting outcomes, GRB requires that the budgeting […]

Journal article

‘Empowerment’ of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa: research about girls, by girls

09/11/2016

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Empowerment’ of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa: research about girls, by girls

Keywords

Overview

In mid-2015, a team of 15 Congolese ‘girl researchers’ were recruited, trained, and mentored by the UK’s Department for International Development-funded La Pépinière programme. They conducted peer-to-peer research to explore the experiences, perceptions, and aspirations of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, in relation to their economic and social empowerment. […]

Case study

Yemen: Advocacy on Violence against Women

14/06/2008

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Two Oxfam partner organisations working with women and the law have greatly improved the position of women in custody, prisons or detention centres, and have established a women-only detention centre where women are likely to receive better treatment.

Journal article

The Global Compact for Migration: what could it mean for women and gender relations?

28/03/2019

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Global Compact for Migration: what could it mean for women and gender relations?

Keywords

Overview

Under half of international migrants throughout the world are women. While large movements of people, human rights and humanitarian crises, and migrant deaths are not new, the public attention given to the arrivals of refugees and migrants to the shores of Europe has compelled governments to engage in a multilateral manner. In September 2016, the […]

Journal article

Gendering platform co-operativism: the rise of women-owned rider co-operatives in Brazil and Spain

07/12/2022

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendering platform co-operativism: the rise of women-owned rider co-operatives in Brazil and Spain

Keywords

Overview

This article analyses the process of gendering platform co-operativism through a case study of two rider co-operatives owned and managed by women: Señoritas Courier in São Paulo, Brazil and Les Mercedes in Barcelona, Spain. While both co-operatives arose in response to similar concerns and have adopted a common approach, one is located in the global […]

Journal article

AIDS, women, land, and natural resources in Africa: current challenges

01/03/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

AIDS, women, land, and natural resources in Africa: current challenges

Keywords

Overview

AIDS-affected households in rural Africa often turn to natural resources as a livelihood safety net. Yet women affected by AIDS have less time for sound resource management, and indigenous knowledge is lost when parents die before educating their children. As demand and inappropriate use grow, resource depletion and land degradation increase. In many countries, widows […]

Journal article

Rural women’s participation in solar-powered irrigation in Niger: lessons from Dimitra Clubs

10/12/2020

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Rural women’s participation in solar-powered irrigation in Niger: lessons from Dimitra Clubs

Keywords

Overview

The relative lack of women’s participation in energy-related development projects around the world to transform agricultural productivity has been a source of significant concern globally. Out of 181 countries, Niger holds the current position for being the second most vulnerable to climate change. Despite the emphasis on women’s participation in solar-powered irrigation initiatives in Niger […]

Journal article

Feminist mobilisation and progressive policy change: why governments take action to combat violence against women

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist mobilisation and progressive policy change: why governments take action to combat violence against women

Keywords

Overview

Some national governments have adopted a wide variety of measures to address violence against women, including legal reform, public education campaigns, and support for shelters and rape crisis centres, but other governments have done little to confront the problem. What accounts for these differences in policy? To answer this question, we analysed policies on violence against women in 70 […]

Journal article

Women and citizenship in global teacher education: The Global-ITE project

01/11/2003

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and citizenship in global teacher education: The Global-ITE project

Keywords

Overview

The Global-ITE (Initial Teacher Education) scheme is a three-year education project. It aims to enable trainee teachers in three teacher-education institutes in India, Kenya, and England to link local and global social issues to each other, and relate them to the school curriculum; and to promote a global perspective on citizenship education. Integral to our […]