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Case study

Advocacy and National Elections: Women’s political participation in Honduras

07/02/2008

4 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This paper discusses Oxfam’s advocacy work in Honduras on women’s political rights, and women’s leadership and empowerment in the political sphere. Beginning with an overview of the constraints that women face if they wish to participate in politics, the paper then goes on to discuss Oxfam’s advocacy and campaigning activities during and after the 2005 […]

Discussion paper

Women in Rural Zaire and Upper Volta: Improving methods of skill acquisition

01/11/1977

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Much has been written and said about the fuller, more equal and less onerous role which rural women, especially in African countries should play in the context of national socio-economic development and about the policies and programmes to be pursued to bring this about. The starting point of this study is the observations and analysis […]

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

Expanding women’s role in Africa’s modern off-grid lighting market: enhancing profitability and improving lives

23/03/2012

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Expanding women’s role in Africa’s modern off-grid lighting market: enhancing profitability and improving lives

Keywords

Overview

Women in Africa are both important beneficiaries and key facilitators of the modern off-grid lighting revolution. Affordable products using technologies like micro-solar power and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) can replace fuel-based lighting – enabling women and men to save money, reduce indoor pollution, and operate their small enterprises with reliable, clean lighting. This article discusses new […]

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 […]

Book

Gender, Development, and Money

01/01/2001

1 documents

99 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Money, value, power, and status are linked in complex ways in the global economic system. Male-biased economic policies and practices fail to give equal pay for equal work in any sector; women are more likely than men to have insecure, informal employment; and unpaid work done mainly in the home by women is not valued […]

Book

Violence Against Women

01/01/1998

1 documents

81 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender-based violence

Overview

This collection of articles from development practitioners and feminist activists places violence against women, both direct and indirect, in the context of development. Violence is both a human-rights issue and an obstacle to women’s participation in development. Writers here focus on campaigning and advocacy as well as on work with women who have experienced violence, […]

Book

Women and the Family

01/01/1996

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Maternal and child health

Overview

Looking at factors as diverse as the pervasiveness of patriarchy, changing family forms, female infanticide, and land reform policies, this collection of articles considers the family from a gender perspective, and how the socially prescribed roles of men and women within the family can constrain women’s opportunities. Women are usually responsible for domestic tasks and […]

Briefing paper

Promises, Power, and Poverty: Corporate land deals and rural women in Africa

09/04/2013

5 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The rush to invest in farmland in Africa is having an immediate impact on women’s land-use options, on their livelihoods, on food availability and the cost of living, and, ultimately, on women’s access to land for food production. These are only the economic impacts. Women’s knowledge, socio-cultural relationship with the land, and stewardship of nature […]

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 […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

Advocacy and National Elections: Women’s political participation in Honduras

07/02/2008

4 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This paper discusses Oxfam’s advocacy work in Honduras on women’s political rights, and women’s leadership and empowerment in the political sphere. Beginning with an overview of the constraints that women face if they wish to participate in politics, the paper then goes on to discuss Oxfam’s advocacy and campaigning activities during and after the 2005 […]

Discussion paper

Women in Rural Zaire and Upper Volta: Improving methods of skill acquisition

01/11/1977

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Much has been written and said about the fuller, more equal and less onerous role which rural women, especially in African countries should play in the context of national socio-economic development and about the policies and programmes to be pursued to bring this about. The starting point of this study is the observations and analysis […]

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

Expanding women’s role in Africa’s modern off-grid lighting market: enhancing profitability and improving lives

23/03/2012

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Expanding women’s role in Africa’s modern off-grid lighting market: enhancing profitability and improving lives

Keywords

Overview

Women in Africa are both important beneficiaries and key facilitators of the modern off-grid lighting revolution. Affordable products using technologies like micro-solar power and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) can replace fuel-based lighting – enabling women and men to save money, reduce indoor pollution, and operate their small enterprises with reliable, clean lighting. This article discusses new […]

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 […]

Book

Gender, Development, and Money

01/01/2001

1 documents

99 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Money, value, power, and status are linked in complex ways in the global economic system. Male-biased economic policies and practices fail to give equal pay for equal work in any sector; women are more likely than men to have insecure, informal employment; and unpaid work done mainly in the home by women is not valued […]

Book

Violence Against Women

01/01/1998

1 documents

81 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender-based violence

Overview

This collection of articles from development practitioners and feminist activists places violence against women, both direct and indirect, in the context of development. Violence is both a human-rights issue and an obstacle to women’s participation in development. Writers here focus on campaigning and advocacy as well as on work with women who have experienced violence, […]

Book

Women and the Family

01/01/1996

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Maternal and child health

Overview

Looking at factors as diverse as the pervasiveness of patriarchy, changing family forms, female infanticide, and land reform policies, this collection of articles considers the family from a gender perspective, and how the socially prescribed roles of men and women within the family can constrain women’s opportunities. Women are usually responsible for domestic tasks and […]

Briefing paper

Promises, Power, and Poverty: Corporate land deals and rural women in Africa

09/04/2013

5 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The rush to invest in farmland in Africa is having an immediate impact on women’s land-use options, on their livelihoods, on food availability and the cost of living, and, ultimately, on women’s access to land for food production. These are only the economic impacts. Women’s knowledge, socio-cultural relationship with the land, and stewardship of nature […]

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 […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

Advocacy and National Elections: Women’s political participation in Honduras

07/02/2008

4 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This paper discusses Oxfam’s advocacy work in Honduras on women’s political rights, and women’s leadership and empowerment in the political sphere. Beginning with an overview of the constraints that women face if they wish to participate in politics, the paper then goes on to discuss Oxfam’s advocacy and campaigning activities during and after the 2005 […]

Discussion paper

Women in Rural Zaire and Upper Volta: Improving methods of skill acquisition

01/11/1977

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Much has been written and said about the fuller, more equal and less onerous role which rural women, especially in African countries should play in the context of national socio-economic development and about the policies and programmes to be pursued to bring this about. The starting point of this study is the observations and analysis […]

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

Expanding women’s role in Africa’s modern off-grid lighting market: enhancing profitability and improving lives

23/03/2012

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Expanding women’s role in Africa’s modern off-grid lighting market: enhancing profitability and improving lives

Keywords

Overview

Women in Africa are both important beneficiaries and key facilitators of the modern off-grid lighting revolution. Affordable products using technologies like micro-solar power and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) can replace fuel-based lighting – enabling women and men to save money, reduce indoor pollution, and operate their small enterprises with reliable, clean lighting. This article discusses new […]

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 […]

Book

Gender, Development, and Money

01/01/2001

1 documents

99 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Money, value, power, and status are linked in complex ways in the global economic system. Male-biased economic policies and practices fail to give equal pay for equal work in any sector; women are more likely than men to have insecure, informal employment; and unpaid work done mainly in the home by women is not valued […]

Book

Violence Against Women

01/01/1998

1 documents

81 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender-based violence

Overview

This collection of articles from development practitioners and feminist activists places violence against women, both direct and indirect, in the context of development. Violence is both a human-rights issue and an obstacle to women’s participation in development. Writers here focus on campaigning and advocacy as well as on work with women who have experienced violence, […]

Book

Women and the Family

01/01/1996

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Maternal and child health

Overview

Looking at factors as diverse as the pervasiveness of patriarchy, changing family forms, female infanticide, and land reform policies, this collection of articles considers the family from a gender perspective, and how the socially prescribed roles of men and women within the family can constrain women’s opportunities. Women are usually responsible for domestic tasks and […]

Briefing paper

Promises, Power, and Poverty: Corporate land deals and rural women in Africa

09/04/2013

5 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The rush to invest in farmland in Africa is having an immediate impact on women’s land-use options, on their livelihoods, on food availability and the cost of living, and, ultimately, on women’s access to land for food production. These are only the economic impacts. Women’s knowledge, socio-cultural relationship with the land, and stewardship of nature […]

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 […]