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Women’s Empowerment in Rwanda: Evaluation of women’s economic leadership through horticulture planting material business

26/03/2015

3 documents

61 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental evaluation carried out in March 2014 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the ‘Women’s Economic Leadership through Horticulture Planting-Material Business’ project.This project […]

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The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

01/11/2000

9 pages long

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The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

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Overview

In October 1999, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Optional Protocol to the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (otherwise known as the Women’s Convention). As of September 2000, 62 states have signed the Optional Protocol, and nine of these have ratified it. Women’s rights activists hope that […]

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Reinvigorating resilience: violence against women, land rights, and the women’s peace movement in Myanmar

23/11/2015

16 pages long

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Reinvigorating resilience: violence against women, land rights, and the women’s peace movement in Myanmar

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Overview

In Myanmar, movements for gender justice strive to foster personal and collective security, vibrant livelihoods, and political engagement during a period of rapid and uncertain transition. This article draws from the experience of the Gender Equality Network (GEN), a coalition of over 100 organisations in Myanmar. It examines three cases in which GEN sought to […]

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Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

01/10/1994

4 pages long

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Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

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Overview

We women of the South, chosen by regional meetings of the Women to Women Linking Project in Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East to participate in the Global Meeting of Women Linking for Change, held in Bangkok from 20-23 February 1994 are concerned that there is an increasing concentration of […]

Research report

Women’s Land Rights Scorecard: The failure of land policy and legal reforms in securing women’s land rights in Africa

24/11/2020

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The realization of women’s land rights often tends to get no further than the level of action plans and policies that are rarely implemented, due to a lack of real political commitment and the patriarchal values that still predominate in Africa. To realize full gender equality (Goal 17), the implementation plan of the African Union […]

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Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

01/07/2013

16 pages long

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Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

Keywords

Overview

A wide range of development actors play a major role in initiating, supporting, and promoting collective action of various forms, which aims to secure economic and wider benefits to women, through improving their engagement in markets. But there is limited understanding of what works for rural women in terms of their participation in collective action, […]

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Using the master’s tools: feminism, media and ending violence against women

01/05/2003

3 pages long

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Using the master’s tools: feminism, media and ending violence against women

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Overview

Worldwide, women are harnessing the power of mainstream media to change minds and hearts about women’s human rights. In particular, they are focusing on ending violence against women as depicted in the media. Violence against women is here understood in two ways – not only as violence against women in society, but as violence committed […]

Journal article

Bridging inequalities through inclusion: women’s rights organisations as the ‘missing link’ in donor government-led participatory policy development and practice

31/07/2015

17 pages long

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Bridging inequalities through inclusion: women’s rights organisations as the ‘missing link’ in donor government-led participatory policy development and practice

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on women’s rights organisations and their role in challenging inequality within the development process. Women in poverty are excluded as a result of their unequal societal position, geographic location, and the predominance of ‘topdown’ and piecemeal policymaking processes carried out by donor governments. We argue that in-country women’s rights organisations provide the […]

Research report

Women’s Collective Action: Unlocking the potential of agricultural markets

27/03/2013

3 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Development actors are increasingly prioritising ‘investing in women’ to ensure food security and sustainability-as well as equity-in agricultural development. In this context, collective action is a critical but poorly understood way for women small-scale farmers to strengthen their engagement in agricultural markets. This report provides rigorous new evidence, from quantitative and qualitative research carried out […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Rwanda: Evaluation of women’s economic leadership through horticulture planting material business

26/03/2015

3 documents

61 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental evaluation carried out in March 2014 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the ‘Women’s Economic Leadership through Horticulture Planting-Material Business’ project.This project […]

Journal article

The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

01/11/2000

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

Keywords

Overview

In October 1999, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Optional Protocol to the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (otherwise known as the Women’s Convention). As of September 2000, 62 states have signed the Optional Protocol, and nine of these have ratified it. Women’s rights activists hope that […]

Journal article

Reinvigorating resilience: violence against women, land rights, and the women’s peace movement in Myanmar

23/11/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reinvigorating resilience: violence against women, land rights, and the women’s peace movement in Myanmar

Keywords

Overview

In Myanmar, movements for gender justice strive to foster personal and collective security, vibrant livelihoods, and political engagement during a period of rapid and uncertain transition. This article draws from the experience of the Gender Equality Network (GEN), a coalition of over 100 organisations in Myanmar. It examines three cases in which GEN sought to […]

Journal article

Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

01/10/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

Keywords

Overview

We women of the South, chosen by regional meetings of the Women to Women Linking Project in Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East to participate in the Global Meeting of Women Linking for Change, held in Bangkok from 20-23 February 1994 are concerned that there is an increasing concentration of […]

Research report

Women’s Land Rights Scorecard: The failure of land policy and legal reforms in securing women’s land rights in Africa

24/11/2020

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The realization of women’s land rights often tends to get no further than the level of action plans and policies that are rarely implemented, due to a lack of real political commitment and the patriarchal values that still predominate in Africa. To realize full gender equality (Goal 17), the implementation plan of the African Union […]

Journal article

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

Keywords

Overview

A wide range of development actors play a major role in initiating, supporting, and promoting collective action of various forms, which aims to secure economic and wider benefits to women, through improving their engagement in markets. But there is limited understanding of what works for rural women in terms of their participation in collective action, […]

Webpage

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Access knowledge, evidence and ideas from the work of Oxfam and communities and organisations we partner with around the world

Journal article

Using the master’s tools: feminism, media and ending violence against women

01/05/2003

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using the master’s tools: feminism, media and ending violence against women

Keywords

Overview

Worldwide, women are harnessing the power of mainstream media to change minds and hearts about women’s human rights. In particular, they are focusing on ending violence against women as depicted in the media. Violence against women is here understood in two ways – not only as violence against women in society, but as violence committed […]

Journal article

Bridging inequalities through inclusion: women’s rights organisations as the ‘missing link’ in donor government-led participatory policy development and practice

31/07/2015

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Bridging inequalities through inclusion: women’s rights organisations as the ‘missing link’ in donor government-led participatory policy development and practice

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on women’s rights organisations and their role in challenging inequality within the development process. Women in poverty are excluded as a result of their unequal societal position, geographic location, and the predominance of ‘topdown’ and piecemeal policymaking processes carried out by donor governments. We argue that in-country women’s rights organisations provide the […]

Research report

Women’s Collective Action: Unlocking the potential of agricultural markets

27/03/2013

3 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Development actors are increasingly prioritising ‘investing in women’ to ensure food security and sustainability-as well as equity-in agricultural development. In this context, collective action is a critical but poorly understood way for women small-scale farmers to strengthen their engagement in agricultural markets. This report provides rigorous new evidence, from quantitative and qualitative research carried out […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Rwanda: Evaluation of women’s economic leadership through horticulture planting material business

26/03/2015

3 documents

61 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental evaluation carried out in March 2014 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the ‘Women’s Economic Leadership through Horticulture Planting-Material Business’ project.This project […]

Journal article

The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

01/11/2000

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

Keywords

Overview

In October 1999, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Optional Protocol to the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (otherwise known as the Women’s Convention). As of September 2000, 62 states have signed the Optional Protocol, and nine of these have ratified it. Women’s rights activists hope that […]

Journal article

Reinvigorating resilience: violence against women, land rights, and the women’s peace movement in Myanmar

23/11/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reinvigorating resilience: violence against women, land rights, and the women’s peace movement in Myanmar

Keywords

Overview

In Myanmar, movements for gender justice strive to foster personal and collective security, vibrant livelihoods, and political engagement during a period of rapid and uncertain transition. This article draws from the experience of the Gender Equality Network (GEN), a coalition of over 100 organisations in Myanmar. It examines three cases in which GEN sought to […]

Journal article

Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

01/10/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

Keywords

Overview

We women of the South, chosen by regional meetings of the Women to Women Linking Project in Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East to participate in the Global Meeting of Women Linking for Change, held in Bangkok from 20-23 February 1994 are concerned that there is an increasing concentration of […]

Research report

Women’s Land Rights Scorecard: The failure of land policy and legal reforms in securing women’s land rights in Africa

24/11/2020

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The realization of women’s land rights often tends to get no further than the level of action plans and policies that are rarely implemented, due to a lack of real political commitment and the patriarchal values that still predominate in Africa. To realize full gender equality (Goal 17), the implementation plan of the African Union […]

Journal article

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

Keywords

Overview

A wide range of development actors play a major role in initiating, supporting, and promoting collective action of various forms, which aims to secure economic and wider benefits to women, through improving their engagement in markets. But there is limited understanding of what works for rural women in terms of their participation in collective action, […]

Webpage

Home

Access knowledge, evidence and ideas from the work of Oxfam and communities and organisations we partner with around the world

Journal article

Using the master’s tools: feminism, media and ending violence against women

01/05/2003

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using the master’s tools: feminism, media and ending violence against women

Keywords

Overview

Worldwide, women are harnessing the power of mainstream media to change minds and hearts about women’s human rights. In particular, they are focusing on ending violence against women as depicted in the media. Violence against women is here understood in two ways – not only as violence against women in society, but as violence committed […]

Journal article

Bridging inequalities through inclusion: women’s rights organisations as the ‘missing link’ in donor government-led participatory policy development and practice

31/07/2015

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Bridging inequalities through inclusion: women’s rights organisations as the ‘missing link’ in donor government-led participatory policy development and practice

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on women’s rights organisations and their role in challenging inequality within the development process. Women in poverty are excluded as a result of their unequal societal position, geographic location, and the predominance of ‘topdown’ and piecemeal policymaking processes carried out by donor governments. We argue that in-country women’s rights organisations provide the […]

Research report

Women’s Collective Action: Unlocking the potential of agricultural markets

27/03/2013

3 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Development actors are increasingly prioritising ‘investing in women’ to ensure food security and sustainability-as well as equity-in agricultural development. In this context, collective action is a critical but poorly understood way for women small-scale farmers to strengthen their engagement in agricultural markets. This report provides rigorous new evidence, from quantitative and qualitative research carried out […]