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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

They Made Me Brave: Reflections on women in leadership

01/02/2011

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

They Made Me Brave: Reflections on women in leadership at CHoiCe Trust (CHoiCe) and the HIV/AIDS Prevention Group (HAPG) came out of a brief from Oxfam to ‘collect and publish the stories of leadership emerging from the program and is intended to build on insights into successful leadership models in development’; in this instance, women […]

Briefing paper

Women and the 1%: How extreme economic inequality and gender inequality must be tackled together

11/04/2016

6 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Recent decades have seen a dramatic rise in extreme economic inequality. Those at the top of the income scale have received a disproportionate share of the gains of global growth. This risks further entrenching gender inequality and funnelling the gains from women’s labour to those already at the top. Too often women are in low […]

Briefing paper

Implementing the PWDVA: Safeguarding women from domestic violence

26/10/2015

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is one of the most widespread, and yet the least recognized, human rights violations across the world. It can manifest in many forms, but the most common form experienced by women globally is physical violence inflicted by an intimate partner. Documenting this continues to be a challenge due to […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Quick Guide to Promoting Women’s Participation

30/01/2014

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Gender mainstreaming is one of the strategies we use to promote gender equality. It is a process of ensuring that all of our work, and the way we do it, contribute to gender equality by transforming the balance of power between women and men. This means ensuring that both women and men are consulted, and […]

Journal article

‘Nenhum passo atrás’ (Not a step back): Brazilian Black women’s resistance in the era of Bolsonaro’s far-right government

07/12/2021

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Nenhum passo atrás’ (Not a step back): Brazilian Black women’s resistance in the era of Bolsonaro’s far-right government

Keywords

Overview

Since 2010, the far-right in Brazil has led the backlash to feminism, sexual and gender diversity, racial equality, and other human rights agendas. In this article, we shed light on the devastating impact of the comeback of conservatism and Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency on the lives of Black women. Next, we draw from the interviews conducted […]

Discussion paper

Political Gender Quotas: Key debates and values for Myanmar

04/06/2016

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women are increasingly visible in politics around the world but there is still a yawning gap in their political representation compared with men. In Myanmar, gender inequality and women’s rights are major challenges across economic, social and political spheres. Myanmar’s historic election in November 2015 saw a big increase in the numbers of women candidates […]

Briefing note

Fisherwomen’s Cooperative in Odisha Promotes Transformative Leadership of Women’s Rights

30/07/2016

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam India is part of a global movement working to fight poverty, injustice and inequality. In India, it works in six states. Oxfam India’s programme on Gender Justice aims to address the deeply entrenched gender-biased social norms that are responsible for the poor status of women and girls in the society. Oxfam India’s effort to […]

Research report

A Leap of Faith: Conversations with funders of women’s organizations

01/07/2019

1 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Investment in women and girls is growing: as we see the launch of new funds dedicated to work in this area and an increasing discussion among funders around gender (in)equality, how can we maximize this momentum? Private philanthropy offers a huge opportunity to offer creative solutions to chronically underfunded issues. Through conversations with Trusts, Foundations […]

Journal article

‘We want that for ourselves’: how girls and young women are using ICTs to counter violence and demand their rights

11/07/2018

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘We want that for ourselves’: how girls and young women are using ICTs to counter violence and demand their rights

Keywords

Overview

Established in 2006, Take Back the Tech! is a global campaign that encourages women and girls to use technology to counter gender-based violence. Through interviews with women in the Philippines, South Africa, Kenya, and India, this article explores how, ten years later, girls and young women are ‘taking back’ technology to demand their rights and […]

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

Case study

They Made Me Brave: Reflections on women in leadership

01/02/2011

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

They Made Me Brave: Reflections on women in leadership at CHoiCe Trust (CHoiCe) and the HIV/AIDS Prevention Group (HAPG) came out of a brief from Oxfam to ‘collect and publish the stories of leadership emerging from the program and is intended to build on insights into successful leadership models in development’; in this instance, women […]

Briefing paper

Women and the 1%: How extreme economic inequality and gender inequality must be tackled together

11/04/2016

6 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Recent decades have seen a dramatic rise in extreme economic inequality. Those at the top of the income scale have received a disproportionate share of the gains of global growth. This risks further entrenching gender inequality and funnelling the gains from women’s labour to those already at the top. Too often women are in low […]

Briefing paper

Implementing the PWDVA: Safeguarding women from domestic violence

26/10/2015

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is one of the most widespread, and yet the least recognized, human rights violations across the world. It can manifest in many forms, but the most common form experienced by women globally is physical violence inflicted by an intimate partner. Documenting this continues to be a challenge due to […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Quick Guide to Promoting Women’s Participation

30/01/2014

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Gender mainstreaming is one of the strategies we use to promote gender equality. It is a process of ensuring that all of our work, and the way we do it, contribute to gender equality by transforming the balance of power between women and men. This means ensuring that both women and men are consulted, and […]

Journal article

‘Nenhum passo atrás’ (Not a step back): Brazilian Black women’s resistance in the era of Bolsonaro’s far-right government

07/12/2021

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Nenhum passo atrás’ (Not a step back): Brazilian Black women’s resistance in the era of Bolsonaro’s far-right government

Keywords

Overview

Since 2010, the far-right in Brazil has led the backlash to feminism, sexual and gender diversity, racial equality, and other human rights agendas. In this article, we shed light on the devastating impact of the comeback of conservatism and Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency on the lives of Black women. Next, we draw from the interviews conducted […]

Discussion paper

Political Gender Quotas: Key debates and values for Myanmar

04/06/2016

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women are increasingly visible in politics around the world but there is still a yawning gap in their political representation compared with men. In Myanmar, gender inequality and women’s rights are major challenges across economic, social and political spheres. Myanmar’s historic election in November 2015 saw a big increase in the numbers of women candidates […]

Briefing note

Fisherwomen’s Cooperative in Odisha Promotes Transformative Leadership of Women’s Rights

30/07/2016

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam India is part of a global movement working to fight poverty, injustice and inequality. In India, it works in six states. Oxfam India’s programme on Gender Justice aims to address the deeply entrenched gender-biased social norms that are responsible for the poor status of women and girls in the society. Oxfam India’s effort to […]

Research report

A Leap of Faith: Conversations with funders of women’s organizations

01/07/2019

1 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Investment in women and girls is growing: as we see the launch of new funds dedicated to work in this area and an increasing discussion among funders around gender (in)equality, how can we maximize this momentum? Private philanthropy offers a huge opportunity to offer creative solutions to chronically underfunded issues. Through conversations with Trusts, Foundations […]

Journal article

‘We want that for ourselves’: how girls and young women are using ICTs to counter violence and demand their rights

11/07/2018

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘We want that for ourselves’: how girls and young women are using ICTs to counter violence and demand their rights

Keywords

Overview

Established in 2006, Take Back the Tech! is a global campaign that encourages women and girls to use technology to counter gender-based violence. Through interviews with women in the Philippines, South Africa, Kenya, and India, this article explores how, ten years later, girls and young women are ‘taking back’ technology to demand their rights and […]

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

Case study

They Made Me Brave: Reflections on women in leadership

01/02/2011

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

They Made Me Brave: Reflections on women in leadership at CHoiCe Trust (CHoiCe) and the HIV/AIDS Prevention Group (HAPG) came out of a brief from Oxfam to ‘collect and publish the stories of leadership emerging from the program and is intended to build on insights into successful leadership models in development’; in this instance, women […]

Briefing paper

Women and the 1%: How extreme economic inequality and gender inequality must be tackled together

11/04/2016

6 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Recent decades have seen a dramatic rise in extreme economic inequality. Those at the top of the income scale have received a disproportionate share of the gains of global growth. This risks further entrenching gender inequality and funnelling the gains from women’s labour to those already at the top. Too often women are in low […]

Briefing paper

Implementing the PWDVA: Safeguarding women from domestic violence

26/10/2015

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is one of the most widespread, and yet the least recognized, human rights violations across the world. It can manifest in many forms, but the most common form experienced by women globally is physical violence inflicted by an intimate partner. Documenting this continues to be a challenge due to […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Quick Guide to Promoting Women’s Participation

30/01/2014

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Gender mainstreaming is one of the strategies we use to promote gender equality. It is a process of ensuring that all of our work, and the way we do it, contribute to gender equality by transforming the balance of power between women and men. This means ensuring that both women and men are consulted, and […]

Journal article

‘Nenhum passo atrás’ (Not a step back): Brazilian Black women’s resistance in the era of Bolsonaro’s far-right government

07/12/2021

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Nenhum passo atrás’ (Not a step back): Brazilian Black women’s resistance in the era of Bolsonaro’s far-right government

Keywords

Overview

Since 2010, the far-right in Brazil has led the backlash to feminism, sexual and gender diversity, racial equality, and other human rights agendas. In this article, we shed light on the devastating impact of the comeback of conservatism and Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency on the lives of Black women. Next, we draw from the interviews conducted […]

Discussion paper

Political Gender Quotas: Key debates and values for Myanmar

04/06/2016

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women are increasingly visible in politics around the world but there is still a yawning gap in their political representation compared with men. In Myanmar, gender inequality and women’s rights are major challenges across economic, social and political spheres. Myanmar’s historic election in November 2015 saw a big increase in the numbers of women candidates […]

Briefing note

Fisherwomen’s Cooperative in Odisha Promotes Transformative Leadership of Women’s Rights

30/07/2016

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam India is part of a global movement working to fight poverty, injustice and inequality. In India, it works in six states. Oxfam India’s programme on Gender Justice aims to address the deeply entrenched gender-biased social norms that are responsible for the poor status of women and girls in the society. Oxfam India’s effort to […]

Research report

A Leap of Faith: Conversations with funders of women’s organizations

01/07/2019

1 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Investment in women and girls is growing: as we see the launch of new funds dedicated to work in this area and an increasing discussion among funders around gender (in)equality, how can we maximize this momentum? Private philanthropy offers a huge opportunity to offer creative solutions to chronically underfunded issues. Through conversations with Trusts, Foundations […]

Journal article

‘We want that for ourselves’: how girls and young women are using ICTs to counter violence and demand their rights

11/07/2018

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘We want that for ourselves’: how girls and young women are using ICTs to counter violence and demand their rights

Keywords

Overview

Established in 2006, Take Back the Tech! is a global campaign that encourages women and girls to use technology to counter gender-based violence. Through interviews with women in the Philippines, South Africa, Kenya, and India, this article explores how, ten years later, girls and young women are ‘taking back’ technology to demand their rights and […]

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 […]