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Case study

The Raising Her Voice Pakistan Programme

16/01/2015

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Well known for its highly articulate and influential women, Pakistan is also notorious for the severe restrictions placed on women’s personal and political liberties. The Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme started working on this very complex and sensitive issue by building a country-level partnership with the Aurat Foundation (AF), which for the past 26 years […]

Journal article

Organisational strategy in India and diverse identities of women: bridging the gap

01/05/2004

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Organisational strategy in India and diverse identities of women: bridging the gap

Keywords

Overview

Some differences among Indian women are well known – for example, those based on class, ethnicity, caste, and religion. There is also a range of other differences – arising from marital status, position within the family, the sex of a woman’s children, whether she has a disability – which are less widely noted. There is […]

Journal article

Still learning: a critical reflection on three years of measuring women’s empowerment in Oxfam

09/07/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Still learning: a critical reflection on three years of measuring women’s empowerment in Oxfam

Keywords

Overview

In 2011, as part of a broader effort to understand organisational effectiveness, a team within Oxfam GB began implementing impact evaluations on a small sample of projects largely focused on women’s empowerment. The resulting ‘Women’s Empowerment Effectiveness Reviews’ employ a quasi-experimental evaluation design, and have been undertaken in more than a dozen sites over three […]

Journal article

Navigating the digital informal economy during the COVID-19 pandemic: vignettes of Sri Lankan micro- and small-scale entrepreneurs

07/12/2022

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Navigating the digital informal economy during the COVID-19 pandemic: vignettes of Sri Lankan micro- and small-scale entrepreneurs

Keywords

Overview

Globally, women have been disproportionally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the impact has varied between groups of women, women in the informal sector, mainly those managing micro- and small-scale businesses, have been severely affected. Drawing on the case of urban Sri Lanka, this paper explores the challenges that women owners of micro- and small-scale […]

Journal article

The effects of resource extraction on Inuit women and their families: evidence from Canada

09/11/2017

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

The effects of resource extraction on Inuit women and their families: evidence from Canada

Keywords

Overview

This article presents the findings from research conducted by Pauktuutit,an Inuit women’s organisation, and the University of British Colombiainto the gendered social impacts of resource extraction inQamani’tuaq, Nunavut Territory, Canada. The research used a range ofdifferent methods and contributes to a growing body of globalevidence on the social impacts of resource extraction on indigenouswomen and […]

Journal article

Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

07/12/2021

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the relationships between violences against women (VAW) and rural development in the context of postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip region (FTN). How might we understand the relationships between postwar development, its gendered implications, and VAW in this context? What are the implications of these entanglements for feminist activism? The article explores this […]

Journal article

Policy advocacy for women’s unpaid care work: comparing approaches and strategies in Nepal and Nigeria

10/11/2014

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Policy advocacy for women’s unpaid care work: comparing approaches and strategies in Nepal and Nigeria

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on policy advocacy programmes in Nepal and Nigeria, instigated by ActionAid International with local women’s rights organisations and non-government organisations, and supported by the Institute of Development Studies, UK. These programmes aimed to challenge women’s unequal responsibility for care work and to influence policymakers to understand the importance of providing services to support them. One of the […]

Journal article

Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

01/07/2009

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the issue of women providing unpaid care for family members living with HIV in South Africa and Zimbabwe. State policies rely on women providing home-based care, in the context of failing health systems. This has the effect of impoverishing women, and reinforcing gender stereotypes. Recommendations will be given on how to make […]

Journal article

Development practice and violence against women

01/11/1998

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Development practice and violence against women

Keywords

Overview

Development practitioners and organisations are increasingly addressing violence against women, partly because it is seen to hinder development- constraining the efficiency of projects, limiting women’s participation, and denying them their human rights. However, it is wrong to simply portray gender-based violence as an aspect of underdevelopment, Sen argues, and stresses the need for strong, visible […]

Case study

Women’s Leadership and Participation: Overview

07/02/2008

4 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The right to participate in decision-making at the local, national, and international level is one which women are often denied, whether as active citizens or as leaders. In particular, women living in poverty often have very little opportunity to influence decisions and policies that will have a direct influence on their lives and livelihoods, and […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

The Raising Her Voice Pakistan Programme

16/01/2015

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Well known for its highly articulate and influential women, Pakistan is also notorious for the severe restrictions placed on women’s personal and political liberties. The Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme started working on this very complex and sensitive issue by building a country-level partnership with the Aurat Foundation (AF), which for the past 26 years […]

Journal article

Organisational strategy in India and diverse identities of women: bridging the gap

01/05/2004

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Organisational strategy in India and diverse identities of women: bridging the gap

Keywords

Overview

Some differences among Indian women are well known – for example, those based on class, ethnicity, caste, and religion. There is also a range of other differences – arising from marital status, position within the family, the sex of a woman’s children, whether she has a disability – which are less widely noted. There is […]

Journal article

Still learning: a critical reflection on three years of measuring women’s empowerment in Oxfam

09/07/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Still learning: a critical reflection on three years of measuring women’s empowerment in Oxfam

Keywords

Overview

In 2011, as part of a broader effort to understand organisational effectiveness, a team within Oxfam GB began implementing impact evaluations on a small sample of projects largely focused on women’s empowerment. The resulting ‘Women’s Empowerment Effectiveness Reviews’ employ a quasi-experimental evaluation design, and have been undertaken in more than a dozen sites over three […]

Journal article

Navigating the digital informal economy during the COVID-19 pandemic: vignettes of Sri Lankan micro- and small-scale entrepreneurs

07/12/2022

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Navigating the digital informal economy during the COVID-19 pandemic: vignettes of Sri Lankan micro- and small-scale entrepreneurs

Keywords

Overview

Globally, women have been disproportionally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the impact has varied between groups of women, women in the informal sector, mainly those managing micro- and small-scale businesses, have been severely affected. Drawing on the case of urban Sri Lanka, this paper explores the challenges that women owners of micro- and small-scale […]

Journal article

The effects of resource extraction on Inuit women and their families: evidence from Canada

09/11/2017

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

The effects of resource extraction on Inuit women and their families: evidence from Canada

Keywords

Overview

This article presents the findings from research conducted by Pauktuutit,an Inuit women’s organisation, and the University of British Colombiainto the gendered social impacts of resource extraction inQamani’tuaq, Nunavut Territory, Canada. The research used a range ofdifferent methods and contributes to a growing body of globalevidence on the social impacts of resource extraction on indigenouswomen and […]

Journal article

Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

07/12/2021

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the relationships between violences against women (VAW) and rural development in the context of postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip region (FTN). How might we understand the relationships between postwar development, its gendered implications, and VAW in this context? What are the implications of these entanglements for feminist activism? The article explores this […]

Journal article

Policy advocacy for women’s unpaid care work: comparing approaches and strategies in Nepal and Nigeria

10/11/2014

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Policy advocacy for women’s unpaid care work: comparing approaches and strategies in Nepal and Nigeria

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on policy advocacy programmes in Nepal and Nigeria, instigated by ActionAid International with local women’s rights organisations and non-government organisations, and supported by the Institute of Development Studies, UK. These programmes aimed to challenge women’s unequal responsibility for care work and to influence policymakers to understand the importance of providing services to support them. One of the […]

Journal article

Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

01/07/2009

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the issue of women providing unpaid care for family members living with HIV in South Africa and Zimbabwe. State policies rely on women providing home-based care, in the context of failing health systems. This has the effect of impoverishing women, and reinforcing gender stereotypes. Recommendations will be given on how to make […]

Journal article

Development practice and violence against women

01/11/1998

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Development practice and violence against women

Keywords

Overview

Development practitioners and organisations are increasingly addressing violence against women, partly because it is seen to hinder development- constraining the efficiency of projects, limiting women’s participation, and denying them their human rights. However, it is wrong to simply portray gender-based violence as an aspect of underdevelopment, Sen argues, and stresses the need for strong, visible […]

Case study

Women’s Leadership and Participation: Overview

07/02/2008

4 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The right to participate in decision-making at the local, national, and international level is one which women are often denied, whether as active citizens or as leaders. In particular, women living in poverty often have very little opportunity to influence decisions and policies that will have a direct influence on their lives and livelihoods, and […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

The Raising Her Voice Pakistan Programme

16/01/2015

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Well known for its highly articulate and influential women, Pakistan is also notorious for the severe restrictions placed on women’s personal and political liberties. The Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme started working on this very complex and sensitive issue by building a country-level partnership with the Aurat Foundation (AF), which for the past 26 years […]

Journal article

Organisational strategy in India and diverse identities of women: bridging the gap

01/05/2004

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Organisational strategy in India and diverse identities of women: bridging the gap

Keywords

Overview

Some differences among Indian women are well known – for example, those based on class, ethnicity, caste, and religion. There is also a range of other differences – arising from marital status, position within the family, the sex of a woman’s children, whether she has a disability – which are less widely noted. There is […]

Journal article

Still learning: a critical reflection on three years of measuring women’s empowerment in Oxfam

09/07/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Still learning: a critical reflection on three years of measuring women’s empowerment in Oxfam

Keywords

Overview

In 2011, as part of a broader effort to understand organisational effectiveness, a team within Oxfam GB began implementing impact evaluations on a small sample of projects largely focused on women’s empowerment. The resulting ‘Women’s Empowerment Effectiveness Reviews’ employ a quasi-experimental evaluation design, and have been undertaken in more than a dozen sites over three […]

Journal article

Navigating the digital informal economy during the COVID-19 pandemic: vignettes of Sri Lankan micro- and small-scale entrepreneurs

07/12/2022

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Navigating the digital informal economy during the COVID-19 pandemic: vignettes of Sri Lankan micro- and small-scale entrepreneurs

Keywords

Overview

Globally, women have been disproportionally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the impact has varied between groups of women, women in the informal sector, mainly those managing micro- and small-scale businesses, have been severely affected. Drawing on the case of urban Sri Lanka, this paper explores the challenges that women owners of micro- and small-scale […]

Journal article

The effects of resource extraction on Inuit women and their families: evidence from Canada

09/11/2017

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

The effects of resource extraction on Inuit women and their families: evidence from Canada

Keywords

Overview

This article presents the findings from research conducted by Pauktuutit,an Inuit women’s organisation, and the University of British Colombiainto the gendered social impacts of resource extraction inQamani’tuaq, Nunavut Territory, Canada. The research used a range ofdifferent methods and contributes to a growing body of globalevidence on the social impacts of resource extraction on indigenouswomen and […]

Journal article

Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

07/12/2021

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the relationships between violences against women (VAW) and rural development in the context of postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip region (FTN). How might we understand the relationships between postwar development, its gendered implications, and VAW in this context? What are the implications of these entanglements for feminist activism? The article explores this […]

Journal article

Policy advocacy for women’s unpaid care work: comparing approaches and strategies in Nepal and Nigeria

10/11/2014

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Policy advocacy for women’s unpaid care work: comparing approaches and strategies in Nepal and Nigeria

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on policy advocacy programmes in Nepal and Nigeria, instigated by ActionAid International with local women’s rights organisations and non-government organisations, and supported by the Institute of Development Studies, UK. These programmes aimed to challenge women’s unequal responsibility for care work and to influence policymakers to understand the importance of providing services to support them. One of the […]

Journal article

Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

01/07/2009

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the issue of women providing unpaid care for family members living with HIV in South Africa and Zimbabwe. State policies rely on women providing home-based care, in the context of failing health systems. This has the effect of impoverishing women, and reinforcing gender stereotypes. Recommendations will be given on how to make […]

Journal article

Development practice and violence against women

01/11/1998

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Development practice and violence against women

Keywords

Overview

Development practitioners and organisations are increasingly addressing violence against women, partly because it is seen to hinder development- constraining the efficiency of projects, limiting women’s participation, and denying them their human rights. However, it is wrong to simply portray gender-based violence as an aspect of underdevelopment, Sen argues, and stresses the need for strong, visible […]

Case study

Women’s Leadership and Participation: Overview

07/02/2008

4 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The right to participate in decision-making at the local, national, and international level is one which women are often denied, whether as active citizens or as leaders. In particular, women living in poverty often have very little opportunity to influence decisions and policies that will have a direct influence on their lives and livelihoods, and […]