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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Building capacity to measure long-term impact on women’s empowerment: CARE’s Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative

09/07/2014

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Building capacity to measure long-term impact on women’s empowerment: CARE’s Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative

Keywords

Overview

From 2010 to 2012, CARE USA implemented the Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative (WEIMI) to develop the necessary capacity, tools, guidance, and practice to measure and demonstrate the impact of its work on women’s empowerment. The lessons and experiences from this initiative have been transformed into an online guidance tool being utilised throughout CARE to […]

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

Young Couples in Good Times and in Bad: Social norms that perpetuate violence against women and girls among young Tunisians in peri-urban areas

12/07/2017

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Around half of women in Tunisia have experienced some form of violence in their life. Over 90% of the population thinks women should be discreet to avoid violence in public spaces. From the perspective of Oxfam and dozens of women’s rights organisations, social norms that legitimise gender inequality and violence are rooted in the deeply […]

Journal article

Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programmes in Western Nepal

13/07/2017

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programmes in Western Nepal

Keywords

Overview

Water security has become the new buzzword for water and development programmes in the rural South. The concept has potential to focus policymakers and practitioners on the inequalities and injustices that lie behind lack of access to affordable, safe, and clean water. The concept of women’s empowerment also provides an opportunity to do this. However, […]

Journal article

Women with Self-esteem are Healthy Women’: community development in an urban settlement of Guayaquil

01/02/1996

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women with Self-esteem are Healthy Women’: community development in an urban settlement of Guayaquil

Keywords

Overview

CEPAM is an Ecuadorian women’s NGO, which has an integrated approach to work with poor urban women on health issues, legal advice, and group formation, based on a gender analysis of life in the area. This account of its work in a poor urban settlement in Guayaquil describes how women came to understand that their […]

Journal article

Deprived of an individual identity: citizenship and women in Nepal

01/11/2003

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Deprived of an individual identity: citizenship and women in Nepal

Keywords

Overview

Development organisations aiming to end violence against women, and to promote women’s empowerment in societies such as Nepal, need to pay attention to the question of women’s citizenship, and its links to empowerment and independence. In Nepal, citizenship rights are still accorded to women through male relatives, rather than in their own right. Many women […]

Annual report

Oxfam GB’s Gender Pay Gap Report for 5 April 2017

28/03/2018

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam GB’s overall median gender pay gap is 12.5%. The national average is 18.4%. We take our gender pay gap seriously and have made a range of commitments to address the issue. The gender pay gap shows the difference in the average pay between all men and women working for an organization, irrespective of their […]

Case study

Women’s Economic Empowerment: supporting women-led business

18/01/2019

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women’s economic empowerment is not solely about economic growth. Achieving meaningful economic empowerment requires transformative and systemic change for women across social, political and economic domains. Oxfam in OPT supports the development of small and medium-sized enterprises to increase their processing capacity and profit. This includes skills training, material support, improving access to markets and […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Armenia: Impact evaluation of the women’s economic empowerment project in rural communities in Vayots Dzor region

16/03/2017

2 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2015/16, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. The evaluation took place in November 2015 in Vayots Dzor region – Armenia. It intended to evaluate the success of the ‘Women’s economic empowerment in rural communities of Vayots Dzor region’ project in achieving […]

Journal article

How is eye care seeking affected by intersectional experiences? A study of ageing women in the Indian Sundarbans

23/03/2021

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

How is eye care seeking affected by intersectional experiences? A study of ageing women in the Indian Sundarbans

Keywords

Overview

Old age often marks a period of changed socioeconomic position and physical infirmity. Older adults make up a large and complex population sub-group where several identities and characteristics coalesce to create intersectional experiences. Visual impairment can be prevented or cured to a large extent. Globally, women’s access to eye care is lower than that for […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Building capacity to measure long-term impact on women’s empowerment: CARE’s Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative

09/07/2014

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Building capacity to measure long-term impact on women’s empowerment: CARE’s Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative

Keywords

Overview

From 2010 to 2012, CARE USA implemented the Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative (WEIMI) to develop the necessary capacity, tools, guidance, and practice to measure and demonstrate the impact of its work on women’s empowerment. The lessons and experiences from this initiative have been transformed into an online guidance tool being utilised throughout CARE to […]

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

Young Couples in Good Times and in Bad: Social norms that perpetuate violence against women and girls among young Tunisians in peri-urban areas

12/07/2017

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Around half of women in Tunisia have experienced some form of violence in their life. Over 90% of the population thinks women should be discreet to avoid violence in public spaces. From the perspective of Oxfam and dozens of women’s rights organisations, social norms that legitimise gender inequality and violence are rooted in the deeply […]

Journal article

Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programmes in Western Nepal

13/07/2017

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programmes in Western Nepal

Keywords

Overview

Water security has become the new buzzword for water and development programmes in the rural South. The concept has potential to focus policymakers and practitioners on the inequalities and injustices that lie behind lack of access to affordable, safe, and clean water. The concept of women’s empowerment also provides an opportunity to do this. However, […]

Journal article

Women with Self-esteem are Healthy Women’: community development in an urban settlement of Guayaquil

01/02/1996

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women with Self-esteem are Healthy Women’: community development in an urban settlement of Guayaquil

Keywords

Overview

CEPAM is an Ecuadorian women’s NGO, which has an integrated approach to work with poor urban women on health issues, legal advice, and group formation, based on a gender analysis of life in the area. This account of its work in a poor urban settlement in Guayaquil describes how women came to understand that their […]

Journal article

Deprived of an individual identity: citizenship and women in Nepal

01/11/2003

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Deprived of an individual identity: citizenship and women in Nepal

Keywords

Overview

Development organisations aiming to end violence against women, and to promote women’s empowerment in societies such as Nepal, need to pay attention to the question of women’s citizenship, and its links to empowerment and independence. In Nepal, citizenship rights are still accorded to women through male relatives, rather than in their own right. Many women […]

Annual report

Oxfam GB’s Gender Pay Gap Report for 5 April 2017

28/03/2018

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam GB’s overall median gender pay gap is 12.5%. The national average is 18.4%. We take our gender pay gap seriously and have made a range of commitments to address the issue. The gender pay gap shows the difference in the average pay between all men and women working for an organization, irrespective of their […]

Case study

Women’s Economic Empowerment: supporting women-led business

18/01/2019

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women’s economic empowerment is not solely about economic growth. Achieving meaningful economic empowerment requires transformative and systemic change for women across social, political and economic domains. Oxfam in OPT supports the development of small and medium-sized enterprises to increase their processing capacity and profit. This includes skills training, material support, improving access to markets and […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Armenia: Impact evaluation of the women’s economic empowerment project in rural communities in Vayots Dzor region

16/03/2017

2 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2015/16, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. The evaluation took place in November 2015 in Vayots Dzor region – Armenia. It intended to evaluate the success of the ‘Women’s economic empowerment in rural communities of Vayots Dzor region’ project in achieving […]

Journal article

How is eye care seeking affected by intersectional experiences? A study of ageing women in the Indian Sundarbans

23/03/2021

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

How is eye care seeking affected by intersectional experiences? A study of ageing women in the Indian Sundarbans

Keywords

Overview

Old age often marks a period of changed socioeconomic position and physical infirmity. Older adults make up a large and complex population sub-group where several identities and characteristics coalesce to create intersectional experiences. Visual impairment can be prevented or cured to a large extent. Globally, women’s access to eye care is lower than that for […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Building capacity to measure long-term impact on women’s empowerment: CARE’s Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative

09/07/2014

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Building capacity to measure long-term impact on women’s empowerment: CARE’s Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative

Keywords

Overview

From 2010 to 2012, CARE USA implemented the Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative (WEIMI) to develop the necessary capacity, tools, guidance, and practice to measure and demonstrate the impact of its work on women’s empowerment. The lessons and experiences from this initiative have been transformed into an online guidance tool being utilised throughout CARE to […]

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

Young Couples in Good Times and in Bad: Social norms that perpetuate violence against women and girls among young Tunisians in peri-urban areas

12/07/2017

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Around half of women in Tunisia have experienced some form of violence in their life. Over 90% of the population thinks women should be discreet to avoid violence in public spaces. From the perspective of Oxfam and dozens of women’s rights organisations, social norms that legitimise gender inequality and violence are rooted in the deeply […]

Journal article

Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programmes in Western Nepal

13/07/2017

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programmes in Western Nepal

Keywords

Overview

Water security has become the new buzzword for water and development programmes in the rural South. The concept has potential to focus policymakers and practitioners on the inequalities and injustices that lie behind lack of access to affordable, safe, and clean water. The concept of women’s empowerment also provides an opportunity to do this. However, […]

Journal article

Women with Self-esteem are Healthy Women’: community development in an urban settlement of Guayaquil

01/02/1996

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women with Self-esteem are Healthy Women’: community development in an urban settlement of Guayaquil

Keywords

Overview

CEPAM is an Ecuadorian women’s NGO, which has an integrated approach to work with poor urban women on health issues, legal advice, and group formation, based on a gender analysis of life in the area. This account of its work in a poor urban settlement in Guayaquil describes how women came to understand that their […]

Journal article

Deprived of an individual identity: citizenship and women in Nepal

01/11/2003

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Deprived of an individual identity: citizenship and women in Nepal

Keywords

Overview

Development organisations aiming to end violence against women, and to promote women’s empowerment in societies such as Nepal, need to pay attention to the question of women’s citizenship, and its links to empowerment and independence. In Nepal, citizenship rights are still accorded to women through male relatives, rather than in their own right. Many women […]

Annual report

Oxfam GB’s Gender Pay Gap Report for 5 April 2017

28/03/2018

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam GB’s overall median gender pay gap is 12.5%. The national average is 18.4%. We take our gender pay gap seriously and have made a range of commitments to address the issue. The gender pay gap shows the difference in the average pay between all men and women working for an organization, irrespective of their […]

Case study

Women’s Economic Empowerment: supporting women-led business

18/01/2019

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women’s economic empowerment is not solely about economic growth. Achieving meaningful economic empowerment requires transformative and systemic change for women across social, political and economic domains. Oxfam in OPT supports the development of small and medium-sized enterprises to increase their processing capacity and profit. This includes skills training, material support, improving access to markets and […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Armenia: Impact evaluation of the women’s economic empowerment project in rural communities in Vayots Dzor region

16/03/2017

2 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2015/16, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. The evaluation took place in November 2015 in Vayots Dzor region – Armenia. It intended to evaluate the success of the ‘Women’s economic empowerment in rural communities of Vayots Dzor region’ project in achieving […]

Journal article

How is eye care seeking affected by intersectional experiences? A study of ageing women in the Indian Sundarbans

23/03/2021

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

How is eye care seeking affected by intersectional experiences? A study of ageing women in the Indian Sundarbans

Keywords

Overview

Old age often marks a period of changed socioeconomic position and physical infirmity. Older adults make up a large and complex population sub-group where several identities and characteristics coalesce to create intersectional experiences. Visual impairment can be prevented or cured to a large extent. Globally, women’s access to eye care is lower than that for […]