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Case study

Girls’ Education in South Asia

19/12/2006

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Girls' education

Overview

Because of deep-rooted gender inequalities, and because of the large population of South Asia, the region has the highest number of out-of-school girls in the world. This paper outlines some of the issues confronting practitioners, policy makers, and researchers in girls’ education in South Asia, and explores what they can do to move towards high-quality […]

Case study

Beyond Access for Girls and Boys: How to achieve good-quality, gender-equitable education

01/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This is the first of nine papers in a series on Education and Gender Equality, which have been developed from the work of the Beyond Access: Gender, Education, and Development, project.1 The focus of the series is on how to ensure not only equal access to a basic education for boys and girls, but that […]

Case study

A Life with Dignity: Honduran women raising voices to improve labour standards

01/11/2008

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This paper shows how CODEMUH (Colectiva de Mujeres Hondureñas), a grassroots women’s collective in Honduras, mobilised a popular movement around labour rights in the country’s textile factories, or maquilas. Focusing on occupational health, CODEMUH ran a campaign which included research, training, and advocacy workshops for the women themselves, building alliances locally, nationally, and internationally, and […]

Briefing paper

Better Returns in a Better World: Responsible investment – overcoming the barriers and seeing the returns

18/11/2010

4 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Corporate responsibility

Overview

This paper summarises a two-year research engagement project with the investment community on their role in contributing to poverty reduction and sustainable development. Oxfam undertook this research because we recognise the enormous influence investors have on poverty and development both as capital allocators – where and in what they invest – and as major influencers […]

Book

Transitional Settlement, Displaced Populations

13/06/2005

1 documents

240 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

It is often the national or regional coordinators of organisations who make decisions about whether to support the building of a refugee camp or to support refugees living with host families. Technical specialists, such as physical planners, are not always available until later on in the emergency. Compared with other sectors of response, there has […]

Book

Beyond Access: Transforming policy and practice for gender equality in education

01/09/2005

1 documents

266 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In a world in which poverty, social prejudice, and poor-quality provision cause an estimated 100 million girls to drop out of school before completing their primary education, it is not enough for governments to pledge themselves to increase girls’ access to school. This book presents a vision of a transformational education which would promote social […]

Book

Social Survey Methods: A field guide for development workers

01/01/1991

2 documents

132 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Well-organised and cost-effective surveys provide vital information for planning development projects. Social Survey Methods uses straightforward language to guide the reader through the choice of an appropriate, affordable research method, the implementation of the research, and how to communicate the findings to key decision-makers, community organisations and other interested parties.

Book

A Guide to Gender-Analysis Frameworks

01/01/1999

1 documents

144 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

A variety of frameworks to analyse gender relations are used in development work. They can be helpful tools in planning gender-sensitive research projects, or in designing development interventions which address gender inequalities. Drawing on the experience of trainers and practitioners, this book contains step-by-step instructions for using different gender-analysis frameworks, and summaries of their advantages […]

Briefing note

What Happened at the G20? Initial analysis of the London summit

03/04/2009

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Financial crisis

Overview

G20 leaders met for the second time in London on 2 April, as the global economic crisis began to crash across the borders of poor countries with ever-greater severity. Oxfam’s research shows rising human impacts in the shape of job losses, falling remittances to the families of migrant workers and a particularly severe impact on […]

Briefing paper

Truth or Consequences: Why the EU and the USA must reform their subsidies, or pay the price

30/11/2005

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The USA and the EU are currently blocking a deal to make trade fair in the Doha Development Round. In the wake of findings by the WTO that US cotton subsidies and EU sugar subsidies are illegal, this paper presents powerful new research detailing a slew of other rich country subsidies of $13bn that are […]

Showing 838 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

Girls’ Education in South Asia

19/12/2006

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Girls' education

Overview

Because of deep-rooted gender inequalities, and because of the large population of South Asia, the region has the highest number of out-of-school girls in the world. This paper outlines some of the issues confronting practitioners, policy makers, and researchers in girls’ education in South Asia, and explores what they can do to move towards high-quality […]

Case study

Beyond Access for Girls and Boys: How to achieve good-quality, gender-equitable education

01/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This is the first of nine papers in a series on Education and Gender Equality, which have been developed from the work of the Beyond Access: Gender, Education, and Development, project.1 The focus of the series is on how to ensure not only equal access to a basic education for boys and girls, but that […]

Case study

A Life with Dignity: Honduran women raising voices to improve labour standards

01/11/2008

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This paper shows how CODEMUH (Colectiva de Mujeres Hondureñas), a grassroots women’s collective in Honduras, mobilised a popular movement around labour rights in the country’s textile factories, or maquilas. Focusing on occupational health, CODEMUH ran a campaign which included research, training, and advocacy workshops for the women themselves, building alliances locally, nationally, and internationally, and […]

Briefing paper

Better Returns in a Better World: Responsible investment – overcoming the barriers and seeing the returns

18/11/2010

4 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Corporate responsibility

Overview

This paper summarises a two-year research engagement project with the investment community on their role in contributing to poverty reduction and sustainable development. Oxfam undertook this research because we recognise the enormous influence investors have on poverty and development both as capital allocators – where and in what they invest – and as major influencers […]

Book

Transitional Settlement, Displaced Populations

13/06/2005

1 documents

240 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

It is often the national or regional coordinators of organisations who make decisions about whether to support the building of a refugee camp or to support refugees living with host families. Technical specialists, such as physical planners, are not always available until later on in the emergency. Compared with other sectors of response, there has […]

Book

Beyond Access: Transforming policy and practice for gender equality in education

01/09/2005

1 documents

266 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In a world in which poverty, social prejudice, and poor-quality provision cause an estimated 100 million girls to drop out of school before completing their primary education, it is not enough for governments to pledge themselves to increase girls’ access to school. This book presents a vision of a transformational education which would promote social […]

Book

Social Survey Methods: A field guide for development workers

01/01/1991

2 documents

132 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Well-organised and cost-effective surveys provide vital information for planning development projects. Social Survey Methods uses straightforward language to guide the reader through the choice of an appropriate, affordable research method, the implementation of the research, and how to communicate the findings to key decision-makers, community organisations and other interested parties.

Book

A Guide to Gender-Analysis Frameworks

01/01/1999

1 documents

144 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

A variety of frameworks to analyse gender relations are used in development work. They can be helpful tools in planning gender-sensitive research projects, or in designing development interventions which address gender inequalities. Drawing on the experience of trainers and practitioners, this book contains step-by-step instructions for using different gender-analysis frameworks, and summaries of their advantages […]

Briefing note

What Happened at the G20? Initial analysis of the London summit

03/04/2009

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Financial crisis

Overview

G20 leaders met for the second time in London on 2 April, as the global economic crisis began to crash across the borders of poor countries with ever-greater severity. Oxfam’s research shows rising human impacts in the shape of job losses, falling remittances to the families of migrant workers and a particularly severe impact on […]

Briefing paper

Truth or Consequences: Why the EU and the USA must reform their subsidies, or pay the price

30/11/2005

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The USA and the EU are currently blocking a deal to make trade fair in the Doha Development Round. In the wake of findings by the WTO that US cotton subsidies and EU sugar subsidies are illegal, this paper presents powerful new research detailing a slew of other rich country subsidies of $13bn that are […]

Showing 838 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

Girls’ Education in South Asia

19/12/2006

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Girls' education

Overview

Because of deep-rooted gender inequalities, and because of the large population of South Asia, the region has the highest number of out-of-school girls in the world. This paper outlines some of the issues confronting practitioners, policy makers, and researchers in girls’ education in South Asia, and explores what they can do to move towards high-quality […]

Case study

Beyond Access for Girls and Boys: How to achieve good-quality, gender-equitable education

01/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This is the first of nine papers in a series on Education and Gender Equality, which have been developed from the work of the Beyond Access: Gender, Education, and Development, project.1 The focus of the series is on how to ensure not only equal access to a basic education for boys and girls, but that […]

Case study

A Life with Dignity: Honduran women raising voices to improve labour standards

01/11/2008

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This paper shows how CODEMUH (Colectiva de Mujeres Hondureñas), a grassroots women’s collective in Honduras, mobilised a popular movement around labour rights in the country’s textile factories, or maquilas. Focusing on occupational health, CODEMUH ran a campaign which included research, training, and advocacy workshops for the women themselves, building alliances locally, nationally, and internationally, and […]

Briefing paper

Better Returns in a Better World: Responsible investment – overcoming the barriers and seeing the returns

18/11/2010

4 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Corporate responsibility

Overview

This paper summarises a two-year research engagement project with the investment community on their role in contributing to poverty reduction and sustainable development. Oxfam undertook this research because we recognise the enormous influence investors have on poverty and development both as capital allocators – where and in what they invest – and as major influencers […]

Book

Transitional Settlement, Displaced Populations

13/06/2005

1 documents

240 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

It is often the national or regional coordinators of organisations who make decisions about whether to support the building of a refugee camp or to support refugees living with host families. Technical specialists, such as physical planners, are not always available until later on in the emergency. Compared with other sectors of response, there has […]

Book

Beyond Access: Transforming policy and practice for gender equality in education

01/09/2005

1 documents

266 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In a world in which poverty, social prejudice, and poor-quality provision cause an estimated 100 million girls to drop out of school before completing their primary education, it is not enough for governments to pledge themselves to increase girls’ access to school. This book presents a vision of a transformational education which would promote social […]

Book

Social Survey Methods: A field guide for development workers

01/01/1991

2 documents

132 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Well-organised and cost-effective surveys provide vital information for planning development projects. Social Survey Methods uses straightforward language to guide the reader through the choice of an appropriate, affordable research method, the implementation of the research, and how to communicate the findings to key decision-makers, community organisations and other interested parties.

Book

A Guide to Gender-Analysis Frameworks

01/01/1999

1 documents

144 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

A variety of frameworks to analyse gender relations are used in development work. They can be helpful tools in planning gender-sensitive research projects, or in designing development interventions which address gender inequalities. Drawing on the experience of trainers and practitioners, this book contains step-by-step instructions for using different gender-analysis frameworks, and summaries of their advantages […]

Briefing note

What Happened at the G20? Initial analysis of the London summit

03/04/2009

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Financial crisis

Overview

G20 leaders met for the second time in London on 2 April, as the global economic crisis began to crash across the borders of poor countries with ever-greater severity. Oxfam’s research shows rising human impacts in the shape of job losses, falling remittances to the families of migrant workers and a particularly severe impact on […]

Briefing paper

Truth or Consequences: Why the EU and the USA must reform their subsidies, or pay the price

30/11/2005

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The USA and the EU are currently blocking a deal to make trade fair in the Doha Development Round. In the wake of findings by the WTO that US cotton subsidies and EU sugar subsidies are illegal, this paper presents powerful new research detailing a slew of other rich country subsidies of $13bn that are […]