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Do women’s rights organisations need ‘femocrats’? The negotiation of the Peruvian–Spanish agreement for development co-operation 2013–2016

07/12/2021

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Do women’s rights organisations need ‘femocrats’? The negotiation of the Peruvian–Spanish agreement for development co-operation 2013–2016

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Overview

In 2005, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) approved the aid effectiveness principles for improving the impact of Official Development Assistance (ODA). Donor countries such as Spain understood this agenda as an opportunity to promote gender equality in their development co-operation policy. However, gender equality almost disappeared as a priority in most of […]

Journal article

‘Localising’ humanitarian action: reflections on delivering women’s rights-based and feminist services in an ongoing crisis

11/07/2019

15 pages long

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‘Localising’ humanitarian action: reflections on delivering women’s rights-based and feminist services in an ongoing crisis

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Overview

This article shares the experiences of Women Now for Development, a women’s organisation working with Syrian women in Syria and neighbouring countries. The key questions under consideration are whether important policy commitments to empower local actors are bearing fruit in practice and identify some of the challenges that still frustrate working with women and girls […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Promoting Women’s Rights Across Africa: Raising Her Voice Pan Africa

06/12/2013

3 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Promoting Women’s Rights Across Africa’ (Pan-Africa) project forms part of the Oxfam GB Raising her Voice (RHV) programme portfolio, which aims to support and strengthen women’s roles in shaping policy and local governance. Through the Pan Africa project, RHV committed to support the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights Coalition (SOAWR) secretariat in Kenya as […]

Discussion paper

Macroeconomic Policy and Women’s Economic Empowerment

01/09/2017

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

At its core, the economic empowerment of women – to succeed and advance economically and to make and act on economic decisions – depends on the quantity and quality of paid employment, the provision or absence of public services, the amount of unpaid care work borne by women, as well as coverage or lack thereof […]

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

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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

‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

23/05/2023

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

Keywords

Overview

Gender-based harms experienced in conflict constitute a threat to the right of women and girls to live with dignity. However, transitional justice processes to manage the delicate nexus between peace and justice often do not consider these harms, resulting in adverse outcomes for women and girls in post-conflict societies. At the frontlines of the fight […]

Annual report

Making Care Count: An Overview of the Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care Initiative

18/11/2020

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Across the globe, unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW) sustains communities and economies, provides essential care for children, sick and elderly people and those living with disabilities, and keeps households clean and families fed. Without unpaid care, the global economy as we know it would grind to a halt. Yet this work falls disproportionately on […]

Journal article

Employment and environmental hazard: women workers and strategies of resistance in Northern Thailand

01/10/1996

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Employment and environmental hazard: women workers and strategies of resistance in Northern Thailand

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Overview

This article explores women’s experience of employment within the electronics industry’s export processing zones (EPZs) of northern Thailand. Is the preference shown by many employers for women really ‘good for women’? Does the increasing feminisation of labour open up new opportunities for women, or is it simply exploitation? This article is hosted by our co-publisher […]

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. […]

Research report

South Sudan Gender Analysis: A snapshot situation analysis of the differential impact of the humanitarian crisis on women, girls, men and boys in South Sudan

06/03/2017

1 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The continuing conflict in South Sudan, which began in December 2013, is having a devastating impact on the lives and livelihoods of millions of South Sudanese women, men, boys and girls, with the result that South Sudan is now one of the most food-insecure countries in the world. Women and men of all ages are […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Do women’s rights organisations need ‘femocrats’? The negotiation of the Peruvian–Spanish agreement for development co-operation 2013–2016

07/12/2021

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Do women’s rights organisations need ‘femocrats’? The negotiation of the Peruvian–Spanish agreement for development co-operation 2013–2016

Keywords

Overview

In 2005, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) approved the aid effectiveness principles for improving the impact of Official Development Assistance (ODA). Donor countries such as Spain understood this agenda as an opportunity to promote gender equality in their development co-operation policy. However, gender equality almost disappeared as a priority in most of […]

Journal article

‘Localising’ humanitarian action: reflections on delivering women’s rights-based and feminist services in an ongoing crisis

11/07/2019

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Localising’ humanitarian action: reflections on delivering women’s rights-based and feminist services in an ongoing crisis

Keywords

Overview

This article shares the experiences of Women Now for Development, a women’s organisation working with Syrian women in Syria and neighbouring countries. The key questions under consideration are whether important policy commitments to empower local actors are bearing fruit in practice and identify some of the challenges that still frustrate working with women and girls […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Promoting Women’s Rights Across Africa: Raising Her Voice Pan Africa

06/12/2013

3 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Promoting Women’s Rights Across Africa’ (Pan-Africa) project forms part of the Oxfam GB Raising her Voice (RHV) programme portfolio, which aims to support and strengthen women’s roles in shaping policy and local governance. Through the Pan Africa project, RHV committed to support the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights Coalition (SOAWR) secretariat in Kenya as […]

Discussion paper

Macroeconomic Policy and Women’s Economic Empowerment

01/09/2017

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

At its core, the economic empowerment of women – to succeed and advance economically and to make and act on economic decisions – depends on the quantity and quality of paid employment, the provision or absence of public services, the amount of unpaid care work borne by women, as well as coverage or lack thereof […]

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

‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

23/05/2023

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

Keywords

Overview

Gender-based harms experienced in conflict constitute a threat to the right of women and girls to live with dignity. However, transitional justice processes to manage the delicate nexus between peace and justice often do not consider these harms, resulting in adverse outcomes for women and girls in post-conflict societies. At the frontlines of the fight […]

Annual report

Making Care Count: An Overview of the Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care Initiative

18/11/2020

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Across the globe, unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW) sustains communities and economies, provides essential care for children, sick and elderly people and those living with disabilities, and keeps households clean and families fed. Without unpaid care, the global economy as we know it would grind to a halt. Yet this work falls disproportionately on […]

Journal article

Employment and environmental hazard: women workers and strategies of resistance in Northern Thailand

01/10/1996

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Employment and environmental hazard: women workers and strategies of resistance in Northern Thailand

Keywords

Overview

This article explores women’s experience of employment within the electronics industry’s export processing zones (EPZs) of northern Thailand. Is the preference shown by many employers for women really ‘good for women’? Does the increasing feminisation of labour open up new opportunities for women, or is it simply exploitation? This article is hosted by our co-publisher […]

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. […]

Research report

South Sudan Gender Analysis: A snapshot situation analysis of the differential impact of the humanitarian crisis on women, girls, men and boys in South Sudan

06/03/2017

1 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The continuing conflict in South Sudan, which began in December 2013, is having a devastating impact on the lives and livelihoods of millions of South Sudanese women, men, boys and girls, with the result that South Sudan is now one of the most food-insecure countries in the world. Women and men of all ages are […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Do women’s rights organisations need ‘femocrats’? The negotiation of the Peruvian–Spanish agreement for development co-operation 2013–2016

07/12/2021

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Do women’s rights organisations need ‘femocrats’? The negotiation of the Peruvian–Spanish agreement for development co-operation 2013–2016

Keywords

Overview

In 2005, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) approved the aid effectiveness principles for improving the impact of Official Development Assistance (ODA). Donor countries such as Spain understood this agenda as an opportunity to promote gender equality in their development co-operation policy. However, gender equality almost disappeared as a priority in most of […]

Journal article

‘Localising’ humanitarian action: reflections on delivering women’s rights-based and feminist services in an ongoing crisis

11/07/2019

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Localising’ humanitarian action: reflections on delivering women’s rights-based and feminist services in an ongoing crisis

Keywords

Overview

This article shares the experiences of Women Now for Development, a women’s organisation working with Syrian women in Syria and neighbouring countries. The key questions under consideration are whether important policy commitments to empower local actors are bearing fruit in practice and identify some of the challenges that still frustrate working with women and girls […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Promoting Women’s Rights Across Africa: Raising Her Voice Pan Africa

06/12/2013

3 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Promoting Women’s Rights Across Africa’ (Pan-Africa) project forms part of the Oxfam GB Raising her Voice (RHV) programme portfolio, which aims to support and strengthen women’s roles in shaping policy and local governance. Through the Pan Africa project, RHV committed to support the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights Coalition (SOAWR) secretariat in Kenya as […]

Discussion paper

Macroeconomic Policy and Women’s Economic Empowerment

01/09/2017

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

At its core, the economic empowerment of women – to succeed and advance economically and to make and act on economic decisions – depends on the quantity and quality of paid employment, the provision or absence of public services, the amount of unpaid care work borne by women, as well as coverage or lack thereof […]

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

‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

23/05/2023

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

Keywords

Overview

Gender-based harms experienced in conflict constitute a threat to the right of women and girls to live with dignity. However, transitional justice processes to manage the delicate nexus between peace and justice often do not consider these harms, resulting in adverse outcomes for women and girls in post-conflict societies. At the frontlines of the fight […]

Annual report

Making Care Count: An Overview of the Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care Initiative

18/11/2020

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Across the globe, unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW) sustains communities and economies, provides essential care for children, sick and elderly people and those living with disabilities, and keeps households clean and families fed. Without unpaid care, the global economy as we know it would grind to a halt. Yet this work falls disproportionately on […]

Journal article

Employment and environmental hazard: women workers and strategies of resistance in Northern Thailand

01/10/1996

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Employment and environmental hazard: women workers and strategies of resistance in Northern Thailand

Keywords

Overview

This article explores women’s experience of employment within the electronics industry’s export processing zones (EPZs) of northern Thailand. Is the preference shown by many employers for women really ‘good for women’? Does the increasing feminisation of labour open up new opportunities for women, or is it simply exploitation? This article is hosted by our co-publisher […]

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. […]

Research report

South Sudan Gender Analysis: A snapshot situation analysis of the differential impact of the humanitarian crisis on women, girls, men and boys in South Sudan

06/03/2017

1 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The continuing conflict in South Sudan, which began in December 2013, is having a devastating impact on the lives and livelihoods of millions of South Sudanese women, men, boys and girls, with the result that South Sudan is now one of the most food-insecure countries in the world. Women and men of all ages are […]