Search results for

women%2525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252527s%2525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252Beconomic%2525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252Bempowerment

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: The women of Lokichar, Turkana, gain access to clean, reliable water

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The women of Nakalale Naduat-Lokichar village used to face long journeys to collect water from ‘scoop holes’ in riverbeds. They could carry just enough back with them for drinking and watering their goats, and had little time to look for food or work. Under the SWIFT programme, Oxfam worked with the women to install a […]

Webpage

Food & Livelihoods

Securing people’s rights to food, income security and decent work is critical to eradicating extreme poverty

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 […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Uganda: Impact evaluation of the project ‘Piloting gender sensitive livelihoods in Karamoja’

18/12/2015

3 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2014/15, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation carried out in August 2014 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the project ‘Piloting gender sensitive livelihoods in Karamoja’. The […]

Briefing paper

Not in This Together: How supermarkets became pandemic winners while women workers are losing out

22/06/2021

6 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English, French, Urdu

Keywords

Overview

Inequality is worsening and exploitation of women is endemic across the global economy. While inequality of power and value was already deeply unfair before the pandemic, it has now reached shocking proportions. COVID-19 has cost global workers $3.7 trillion in lost income, and women and young workers have been hardest hit, as they are often […]

Journal article

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

27/03/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

Keywords

Overview

Women living in marginalised urban neighbourhoods are often excluded from the economic, political, and social resources available to other city dwellers. The focus on the decentralisation of services and resource provision in urban areas presents an opportunity to citizens, including women, to organise to hold local government to account. This article builds on case studies […]

Journal article

Trade unions and women’s empowerment in North-East Brazil

01/07/2009

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Trade unions and women’s empowerment in North-East Brazil

Keywords

Overview

An important feature of contemporary globalisation has been the ‘feminisation of agriculture’ across the global south, as numerous new regions of export horticulture emerge to supply global retailers. Much literature details the poor conditions faced by women workers. This article details the formation and expansion of a highly globally integrated export horticulture sector in north-east […]

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

A rural support programme exit strategy: women filling vacated spaces and excelling in community development

01/04/2012

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

A rural support programme exit strategy: women filling vacated spaces and excelling in community development

Keywords

Overview

Rural support programmes in Pakistan are major players in rural development, with significant outreach. Owing to funding constraints, they are currently exploring an exit strategy whereby they facilitate the formation of multi-tier local support organisations (LSOs), including those exclusively run by women. The present article focuses on the impact of this exit strategy on rural […]

Journal article

Beyond participation: making enterprise development really work for women

23/03/2012

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Beyond participation: making enterprise development really work for women

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam has been involved in sustainable livelihoods and enterprise development since the 1960s, gaining practical experience in setting up businesses that deliver social as well as economic development. Since we believe that gender inequality is one of the greatest barriers to poverty eradication worldwide, over the last three years we have been piloting an innovative […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: The women of Lokichar, Turkana, gain access to clean, reliable water

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The women of Nakalale Naduat-Lokichar village used to face long journeys to collect water from ‘scoop holes’ in riverbeds. They could carry just enough back with them for drinking and watering their goats, and had little time to look for food or work. Under the SWIFT programme, Oxfam worked with the women to install a […]

Webpage

Food & Livelihoods

Securing people’s rights to food, income security and decent work is critical to eradicating extreme poverty

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 […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Uganda: Impact evaluation of the project ‘Piloting gender sensitive livelihoods in Karamoja’

18/12/2015

3 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2014/15, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation carried out in August 2014 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the project ‘Piloting gender sensitive livelihoods in Karamoja’. The […]

Briefing paper

Not in This Together: How supermarkets became pandemic winners while women workers are losing out

22/06/2021

6 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English, French, Urdu

Keywords

Overview

Inequality is worsening and exploitation of women is endemic across the global economy. While inequality of power and value was already deeply unfair before the pandemic, it has now reached shocking proportions. COVID-19 has cost global workers $3.7 trillion in lost income, and women and young workers have been hardest hit, as they are often […]

Journal article

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

27/03/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

Keywords

Overview

Women living in marginalised urban neighbourhoods are often excluded from the economic, political, and social resources available to other city dwellers. The focus on the decentralisation of services and resource provision in urban areas presents an opportunity to citizens, including women, to organise to hold local government to account. This article builds on case studies […]

Journal article

Trade unions and women’s empowerment in North-East Brazil

01/07/2009

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Trade unions and women’s empowerment in North-East Brazil

Keywords

Overview

An important feature of contemporary globalisation has been the ‘feminisation of agriculture’ across the global south, as numerous new regions of export horticulture emerge to supply global retailers. Much literature details the poor conditions faced by women workers. This article details the formation and expansion of a highly globally integrated export horticulture sector in north-east […]

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

A rural support programme exit strategy: women filling vacated spaces and excelling in community development

01/04/2012

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

A rural support programme exit strategy: women filling vacated spaces and excelling in community development

Keywords

Overview

Rural support programmes in Pakistan are major players in rural development, with significant outreach. Owing to funding constraints, they are currently exploring an exit strategy whereby they facilitate the formation of multi-tier local support organisations (LSOs), including those exclusively run by women. The present article focuses on the impact of this exit strategy on rural […]

Journal article

Beyond participation: making enterprise development really work for women

23/03/2012

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Beyond participation: making enterprise development really work for women

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam has been involved in sustainable livelihoods and enterprise development since the 1960s, gaining practical experience in setting up businesses that deliver social as well as economic development. Since we believe that gender inequality is one of the greatest barriers to poverty eradication worldwide, over the last three years we have been piloting an innovative […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: The women of Lokichar, Turkana, gain access to clean, reliable water

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The women of Nakalale Naduat-Lokichar village used to face long journeys to collect water from ‘scoop holes’ in riverbeds. They could carry just enough back with them for drinking and watering their goats, and had little time to look for food or work. Under the SWIFT programme, Oxfam worked with the women to install a […]

Webpage

Food & Livelihoods

Securing people’s rights to food, income security and decent work is critical to eradicating extreme poverty

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 […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Uganda: Impact evaluation of the project ‘Piloting gender sensitive livelihoods in Karamoja’

18/12/2015

3 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2014/15, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation carried out in August 2014 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the project ‘Piloting gender sensitive livelihoods in Karamoja’. The […]

Briefing paper

Not in This Together: How supermarkets became pandemic winners while women workers are losing out

22/06/2021

6 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English, French, Urdu

Keywords

Overview

Inequality is worsening and exploitation of women is endemic across the global economy. While inequality of power and value was already deeply unfair before the pandemic, it has now reached shocking proportions. COVID-19 has cost global workers $3.7 trillion in lost income, and women and young workers have been hardest hit, as they are often […]

Journal article

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

27/03/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

Keywords

Overview

Women living in marginalised urban neighbourhoods are often excluded from the economic, political, and social resources available to other city dwellers. The focus on the decentralisation of services and resource provision in urban areas presents an opportunity to citizens, including women, to organise to hold local government to account. This article builds on case studies […]

Journal article

Trade unions and women’s empowerment in North-East Brazil

01/07/2009

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Trade unions and women’s empowerment in North-East Brazil

Keywords

Overview

An important feature of contemporary globalisation has been the ‘feminisation of agriculture’ across the global south, as numerous new regions of export horticulture emerge to supply global retailers. Much literature details the poor conditions faced by women workers. This article details the formation and expansion of a highly globally integrated export horticulture sector in north-east […]

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

A rural support programme exit strategy: women filling vacated spaces and excelling in community development

01/04/2012

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

A rural support programme exit strategy: women filling vacated spaces and excelling in community development

Keywords

Overview

Rural support programmes in Pakistan are major players in rural development, with significant outreach. Owing to funding constraints, they are currently exploring an exit strategy whereby they facilitate the formation of multi-tier local support organisations (LSOs), including those exclusively run by women. The present article focuses on the impact of this exit strategy on rural […]

Journal article

Beyond participation: making enterprise development really work for women

23/03/2012

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Beyond participation: making enterprise development really work for women

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam has been involved in sustainable livelihoods and enterprise development since the 1960s, gaining practical experience in setting up businesses that deliver social as well as economic development. Since we believe that gender inequality is one of the greatest barriers to poverty eradication worldwide, over the last three years we have been piloting an innovative […]