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Violence Against Women and Girls in Emergencies

29/11/2013

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In every humanitarian crisis, humanitarian agencies, donors, and governments should seek to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls (VAWG) and gender-based violence (GBV) in emergencies. This includes reducing risks across humanitarian programmes, increasing access to services for survivors, tackling the root causes of violence, and promoting women’s rights. Oxfam is committed to […]

Journal article

Promoting gender equality? Some development-related uses of ICTs by women

01/11/2006

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Promoting gender equality? Some development-related uses of ICTs by women

Keywords

Overview

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have created new economic and social opportunities all over the world. Their use, however, continues to be governed by existing power relations whereby women frequently experience relative disadvantage. Amid this inequality are individuals and organisations that are working to use ICTs to further gender equality. These are the issues addressed […]

Journal article

Lesbian and bisexual women in Cuba: family, rights, and policy

20/03/2018

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article draws on interviews with 17 self-identified lesbian and bisexual women living in Havana, Cuba, focusing on state support for their family relationships. It examines some of the tensions and contradictions between international and national policy, and societal norms, some of which support LGBT people, and some of which do not. In many ways, […]

Journal article

Women, gender, and conflict: making the connections

01/06/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, gender, and conflict: making the connections

Keywords

Overview

This review essay explores the need to make the roles of women and of men visible in order to understand the different ways in which they are involved in, and affected by, armed conflict; and also to examine the ways in which gender roles, the relations between women and men, are changed during and as […]

Journal article

Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

01/06/2008

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

Keywords

Overview

Women planners in Africa do not constitute a critical mass: their numbers remain negligible and their output unrecognised, while mentors and role models still tend to be male. Women’s experiences are undervalued, and their knowledge is often excluded in policy, project planning, and implementation. This article arises not from systematic academic research but from confessional, […]

Journal article

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

01/06/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

Keywords

Overview

This article offers strategies for women’s empowerment in conservative, tribal, and religious environments, based on an innovative programme in Pakistan. Mainstreaming Gender and Development (MGD) encouraged participants to build on their communities’ strengths, minimised resistance among families and communities by including them in the development process, and succeeded in building a cadre of women activists. […]

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

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

Walking together: the journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the women’s movement

01/09/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Walking together: the journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the women’s movement

Keywords

Overview

The story of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the way in which women engaged with it, gaining from its overall liberatory calls, as well as its political independence from the UN and other multilateral agencies, is relatively unknown in the world of development and women; and yet it is an important example of multilateral space. […]

Journal article

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

01/02/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

Keywords

Overview

Water supply and sanitation provision are key elements in progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Women’s participation is considered integral to the sustainability of the projects created to meet these two MDGs. Bringing feminist and geographic critiques to bear on gendered approaches to improving sanitation coverage, the research reported on in this article indicates […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Policy position

Violence Against Women and Girls in Emergencies

29/11/2013

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In every humanitarian crisis, humanitarian agencies, donors, and governments should seek to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls (VAWG) and gender-based violence (GBV) in emergencies. This includes reducing risks across humanitarian programmes, increasing access to services for survivors, tackling the root causes of violence, and promoting women’s rights. Oxfam is committed to […]

Journal article

Promoting gender equality? Some development-related uses of ICTs by women

01/11/2006

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Promoting gender equality? Some development-related uses of ICTs by women

Keywords

Overview

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have created new economic and social opportunities all over the world. Their use, however, continues to be governed by existing power relations whereby women frequently experience relative disadvantage. Amid this inequality are individuals and organisations that are working to use ICTs to further gender equality. These are the issues addressed […]

Journal article

Lesbian and bisexual women in Cuba: family, rights, and policy

20/03/2018

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article draws on interviews with 17 self-identified lesbian and bisexual women living in Havana, Cuba, focusing on state support for their family relationships. It examines some of the tensions and contradictions between international and national policy, and societal norms, some of which support LGBT people, and some of which do not. In many ways, […]

Journal article

Women, gender, and conflict: making the connections

01/06/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, gender, and conflict: making the connections

Keywords

Overview

This review essay explores the need to make the roles of women and of men visible in order to understand the different ways in which they are involved in, and affected by, armed conflict; and also to examine the ways in which gender roles, the relations between women and men, are changed during and as […]

Journal article

Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

01/06/2008

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

Keywords

Overview

Women planners in Africa do not constitute a critical mass: their numbers remain negligible and their output unrecognised, while mentors and role models still tend to be male. Women’s experiences are undervalued, and their knowledge is often excluded in policy, project planning, and implementation. This article arises not from systematic academic research but from confessional, […]

Journal article

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

01/06/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

Keywords

Overview

This article offers strategies for women’s empowerment in conservative, tribal, and religious environments, based on an innovative programme in Pakistan. Mainstreaming Gender and Development (MGD) encouraged participants to build on their communities’ strengths, minimised resistance among families and communities by including them in the development process, and succeeded in building a cadre of women activists. […]

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

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

Walking together: the journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the women’s movement

01/09/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Walking together: the journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the women’s movement

Keywords

Overview

The story of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the way in which women engaged with it, gaining from its overall liberatory calls, as well as its political independence from the UN and other multilateral agencies, is relatively unknown in the world of development and women; and yet it is an important example of multilateral space. […]

Journal article

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

01/02/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

Keywords

Overview

Water supply and sanitation provision are key elements in progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Women’s participation is considered integral to the sustainability of the projects created to meet these two MDGs. Bringing feminist and geographic critiques to bear on gendered approaches to improving sanitation coverage, the research reported on in this article indicates […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Policy position

Violence Against Women and Girls in Emergencies

29/11/2013

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In every humanitarian crisis, humanitarian agencies, donors, and governments should seek to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls (VAWG) and gender-based violence (GBV) in emergencies. This includes reducing risks across humanitarian programmes, increasing access to services for survivors, tackling the root causes of violence, and promoting women’s rights. Oxfam is committed to […]

Journal article

Promoting gender equality? Some development-related uses of ICTs by women

01/11/2006

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Promoting gender equality? Some development-related uses of ICTs by women

Keywords

Overview

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have created new economic and social opportunities all over the world. Their use, however, continues to be governed by existing power relations whereby women frequently experience relative disadvantage. Amid this inequality are individuals and organisations that are working to use ICTs to further gender equality. These are the issues addressed […]

Journal article

Lesbian and bisexual women in Cuba: family, rights, and policy

20/03/2018

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article draws on interviews with 17 self-identified lesbian and bisexual women living in Havana, Cuba, focusing on state support for their family relationships. It examines some of the tensions and contradictions between international and national policy, and societal norms, some of which support LGBT people, and some of which do not. In many ways, […]

Journal article

Women, gender, and conflict: making the connections

01/06/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, gender, and conflict: making the connections

Keywords

Overview

This review essay explores the need to make the roles of women and of men visible in order to understand the different ways in which they are involved in, and affected by, armed conflict; and also to examine the ways in which gender roles, the relations between women and men, are changed during and as […]

Journal article

Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

01/06/2008

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

Keywords

Overview

Women planners in Africa do not constitute a critical mass: their numbers remain negligible and their output unrecognised, while mentors and role models still tend to be male. Women’s experiences are undervalued, and their knowledge is often excluded in policy, project planning, and implementation. This article arises not from systematic academic research but from confessional, […]

Journal article

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

01/06/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

Keywords

Overview

This article offers strategies for women’s empowerment in conservative, tribal, and religious environments, based on an innovative programme in Pakistan. Mainstreaming Gender and Development (MGD) encouraged participants to build on their communities’ strengths, minimised resistance among families and communities by including them in the development process, and succeeded in building a cadre of women activists. […]

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

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

Walking together: the journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the women’s movement

01/09/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Walking together: the journey of the Non-Aligned Movement and the women’s movement

Keywords

Overview

The story of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the way in which women engaged with it, gaining from its overall liberatory calls, as well as its political independence from the UN and other multilateral agencies, is relatively unknown in the world of development and women; and yet it is an important example of multilateral space. […]

Journal article

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

01/02/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Combining sanitation and women’s participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

Keywords

Overview

Water supply and sanitation provision are key elements in progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Women’s participation is considered integral to the sustainability of the projects created to meet these two MDGs. Bringing feminist and geographic critiques to bear on gendered approaches to improving sanitation coverage, the research reported on in this article indicates […]