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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Advancing Equality for Men and Women: Response to government proposals to introduce a public sector duty to promote gender equality

13/02/2006

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam warmly welcomes the proposed introduction of a public sector duty to promote gender equality as the most significant change in legislation underpinning gender equality since the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts of the 1970s. In this submission, we address Oxfam’s key concerns, including: the importance of a strategic approach; issues of structural inequality […]

Journal article

Using rights-based and gender-analysis arguments for land rights for women: some initial reflections from Nicaragua

01/03/2008

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using rights-based and gender-analysis arguments for land rights for women: some initial reflections from Nicaragua

Keywords

Overview

The purpose of this article is to revisit the issue of land, and explain why it is still critical to women’s empowerment. This is done by looking at it from a rights-based approach and a gender and development perspective. The article draws on case studies of an NGO working on enhancing women’s land rights in […]

Journal article

Feminist mobilisation for policy change on violence against women: insights from Asia

20/07/2016

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist mobilisation for policy change on violence against women: insights from Asia

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how women’s movements in China, India, and Indonesia have mobilised to influence processes of legal reform on violence against women and girls (VAWG). Legal change is a complex and iterative process, in which both state and non-state actors negotiate and bargain over the content of law in the ‘policy space’, bringing different […]

Discussion paper

Using Internal Evaluations to Measure Organizational Impact: A meta-analysis of Oxfam’s women’s empowerment projects

27/09/2017

2 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper presents the results of a meta-analysis examining the overall impact of women’s empowerment projects evaluated as part of Oxfam GB’s Effectiveness Reviews. Results show a positive and significant impact on the Women’s Empowerment Index and mixed results with its individual indicators. We found a statistically significant effect on opinions on women’s economic role […]

Case study

Honduras: Analysis of the impact of the Collective of Honduran Women (CODEMUH) on workers’ rights and occupational health, 2002 to 2005

14/06/2008

2 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Collective of Honduran Women (CODEMUH) is a feminist organisation which defends women’s rights in Honduras through capacity building, legal action, and public campaigning. This paper describes CODEMUH’s public campaign in support of women’s labour rights and occupational health, focusing on export garment industries. Efforts to increase Honduran manufacturing productivity in the context of global […]

Journal article

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

01/03/2008

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

Keywords

Overview

About 70 per cent of the population in Southern Africa depends on agriculture as the main source of food, income, and employment. Women produce an estimated 70 per cent of the food in the region. Recent studies have pointed to governments’ failure to invest in women farmers as one of the major contributing factors to […]

Journal article

The challenges of incorporating Muslim women’s views into development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen

01/11/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

The challenges of incorporating Muslim women’s views into development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the Muslim Women and Development Action Research Project (MWDAR), an attempt by the Dutch government to introduce new discourses on Islam and the empowerment of women into their development policy. Based on a discussion of the project in Yemen, an analysis of its evaluation reports, and follow-up research with project participants, we […]

Journal article

Empowered Leaders’? perspectives on women heading households in Latin America and Southern Africa

01/11/2000

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Empowered Leaders’? perspectives on women heading households in Latin America and Southern Africa

Keywords

Overview

Although development research, policy, and practice have focused extensively on women-headed households, the subject is rarely couched in terms of leadership. Drawing on case studies from Guatemala and Botswana, this paper focuses on perceptions of women heads of households in wider society; the extent to which positive images of female leadership have filtered to the […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Guide to Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violence in a Context of Women’s Economic Empowerment

13/04/2021

3 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

As development practitioners, we must ensure that programs are implemented in such a way as to minimize gender-based violence risks for all participants. This involves understanding risk and prevention factors and implementing appropriate measures and resources to help mitigate these risks in order to guarantee that women’s economic empowerment programs give women the intended tools […]

Journal article

Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

10/12/2020

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

Keywords

Overview

As a new debt crisis is hitting the global South, aggravated by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and economies will face growing difficulties and challenges to deal with climate emergencies, adaptation, and mitigation. As we have seen in the past, debt crises tend to have a negative impact on women’s rights and […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Advancing Equality for Men and Women: Response to government proposals to introduce a public sector duty to promote gender equality

13/02/2006

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam warmly welcomes the proposed introduction of a public sector duty to promote gender equality as the most significant change in legislation underpinning gender equality since the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts of the 1970s. In this submission, we address Oxfam’s key concerns, including: the importance of a strategic approach; issues of structural inequality […]

Journal article

Using rights-based and gender-analysis arguments for land rights for women: some initial reflections from Nicaragua

01/03/2008

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using rights-based and gender-analysis arguments for land rights for women: some initial reflections from Nicaragua

Keywords

Overview

The purpose of this article is to revisit the issue of land, and explain why it is still critical to women’s empowerment. This is done by looking at it from a rights-based approach and a gender and development perspective. The article draws on case studies of an NGO working on enhancing women’s land rights in […]

Journal article

Feminist mobilisation for policy change on violence against women: insights from Asia

20/07/2016

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist mobilisation for policy change on violence against women: insights from Asia

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how women’s movements in China, India, and Indonesia have mobilised to influence processes of legal reform on violence against women and girls (VAWG). Legal change is a complex and iterative process, in which both state and non-state actors negotiate and bargain over the content of law in the ‘policy space’, bringing different […]

Discussion paper

Using Internal Evaluations to Measure Organizational Impact: A meta-analysis of Oxfam’s women’s empowerment projects

27/09/2017

2 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper presents the results of a meta-analysis examining the overall impact of women’s empowerment projects evaluated as part of Oxfam GB’s Effectiveness Reviews. Results show a positive and significant impact on the Women’s Empowerment Index and mixed results with its individual indicators. We found a statistically significant effect on opinions on women’s economic role […]

Case study

Honduras: Analysis of the impact of the Collective of Honduran Women (CODEMUH) on workers’ rights and occupational health, 2002 to 2005

14/06/2008

2 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Collective of Honduran Women (CODEMUH) is a feminist organisation which defends women’s rights in Honduras through capacity building, legal action, and public campaigning. This paper describes CODEMUH’s public campaign in support of women’s labour rights and occupational health, focusing on export garment industries. Efforts to increase Honduran manufacturing productivity in the context of global […]

Journal article

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

01/03/2008

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

Keywords

Overview

About 70 per cent of the population in Southern Africa depends on agriculture as the main source of food, income, and employment. Women produce an estimated 70 per cent of the food in the region. Recent studies have pointed to governments’ failure to invest in women farmers as one of the major contributing factors to […]

Journal article

The challenges of incorporating Muslim women’s views into development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen

01/11/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

The challenges of incorporating Muslim women’s views into development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the Muslim Women and Development Action Research Project (MWDAR), an attempt by the Dutch government to introduce new discourses on Islam and the empowerment of women into their development policy. Based on a discussion of the project in Yemen, an analysis of its evaluation reports, and follow-up research with project participants, we […]

Journal article

Empowered Leaders’? perspectives on women heading households in Latin America and Southern Africa

01/11/2000

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Empowered Leaders’? perspectives on women heading households in Latin America and Southern Africa

Keywords

Overview

Although development research, policy, and practice have focused extensively on women-headed households, the subject is rarely couched in terms of leadership. Drawing on case studies from Guatemala and Botswana, this paper focuses on perceptions of women heads of households in wider society; the extent to which positive images of female leadership have filtered to the […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Guide to Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violence in a Context of Women’s Economic Empowerment

13/04/2021

3 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

As development practitioners, we must ensure that programs are implemented in such a way as to minimize gender-based violence risks for all participants. This involves understanding risk and prevention factors and implementing appropriate measures and resources to help mitigate these risks in order to guarantee that women’s economic empowerment programs give women the intended tools […]

Journal article

Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

10/12/2020

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

Keywords

Overview

As a new debt crisis is hitting the global South, aggravated by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and economies will face growing difficulties and challenges to deal with climate emergencies, adaptation, and mitigation. As we have seen in the past, debt crises tend to have a negative impact on women’s rights and […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Advancing Equality for Men and Women: Response to government proposals to introduce a public sector duty to promote gender equality

13/02/2006

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam warmly welcomes the proposed introduction of a public sector duty to promote gender equality as the most significant change in legislation underpinning gender equality since the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts of the 1970s. In this submission, we address Oxfam’s key concerns, including: the importance of a strategic approach; issues of structural inequality […]

Journal article

Using rights-based and gender-analysis arguments for land rights for women: some initial reflections from Nicaragua

01/03/2008

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using rights-based and gender-analysis arguments for land rights for women: some initial reflections from Nicaragua

Keywords

Overview

The purpose of this article is to revisit the issue of land, and explain why it is still critical to women’s empowerment. This is done by looking at it from a rights-based approach and a gender and development perspective. The article draws on case studies of an NGO working on enhancing women’s land rights in […]

Journal article

Feminist mobilisation for policy change on violence against women: insights from Asia

20/07/2016

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist mobilisation for policy change on violence against women: insights from Asia

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how women’s movements in China, India, and Indonesia have mobilised to influence processes of legal reform on violence against women and girls (VAWG). Legal change is a complex and iterative process, in which both state and non-state actors negotiate and bargain over the content of law in the ‘policy space’, bringing different […]

Discussion paper

Using Internal Evaluations to Measure Organizational Impact: A meta-analysis of Oxfam’s women’s empowerment projects

27/09/2017

2 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper presents the results of a meta-analysis examining the overall impact of women’s empowerment projects evaluated as part of Oxfam GB’s Effectiveness Reviews. Results show a positive and significant impact on the Women’s Empowerment Index and mixed results with its individual indicators. We found a statistically significant effect on opinions on women’s economic role […]

Case study

Honduras: Analysis of the impact of the Collective of Honduran Women (CODEMUH) on workers’ rights and occupational health, 2002 to 2005

14/06/2008

2 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Collective of Honduran Women (CODEMUH) is a feminist organisation which defends women’s rights in Honduras through capacity building, legal action, and public campaigning. This paper describes CODEMUH’s public campaign in support of women’s labour rights and occupational health, focusing on export garment industries. Efforts to increase Honduran manufacturing productivity in the context of global […]

Journal article

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

01/03/2008

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

Keywords

Overview

About 70 per cent of the population in Southern Africa depends on agriculture as the main source of food, income, and employment. Women produce an estimated 70 per cent of the food in the region. Recent studies have pointed to governments’ failure to invest in women farmers as one of the major contributing factors to […]

Journal article

The challenges of incorporating Muslim women’s views into development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen

01/11/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

The challenges of incorporating Muslim women’s views into development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the Muslim Women and Development Action Research Project (MWDAR), an attempt by the Dutch government to introduce new discourses on Islam and the empowerment of women into their development policy. Based on a discussion of the project in Yemen, an analysis of its evaluation reports, and follow-up research with project participants, we […]

Journal article

Empowered Leaders’? perspectives on women heading households in Latin America and Southern Africa

01/11/2000

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Empowered Leaders’? perspectives on women heading households in Latin America and Southern Africa

Keywords

Overview

Although development research, policy, and practice have focused extensively on women-headed households, the subject is rarely couched in terms of leadership. Drawing on case studies from Guatemala and Botswana, this paper focuses on perceptions of women heads of households in wider society; the extent to which positive images of female leadership have filtered to the […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Guide to Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violence in a Context of Women’s Economic Empowerment

13/04/2021

3 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

As development practitioners, we must ensure that programs are implemented in such a way as to minimize gender-based violence risks for all participants. This involves understanding risk and prevention factors and implementing appropriate measures and resources to help mitigate these risks in order to guarantee that women’s economic empowerment programs give women the intended tools […]

Journal article

Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

10/12/2020

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

Keywords

Overview

As a new debt crisis is hitting the global South, aggravated by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and economies will face growing difficulties and challenges to deal with climate emergencies, adaptation, and mitigation. As we have seen in the past, debt crises tend to have a negative impact on women’s rights and […]