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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Going underground in South African platinum mines to explore women miners’ experiences

09/11/2017

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Going underground in South African platinum mines to explore women miners’ experiences

Keywords

Overview

Women have worked underground in South African mines since 2003. Their inclusion has been lauded by some as a step in the right direction – that is, towards gender equality in employment, as well as challenging gender stereotypes about work and women’s abilities. This dominant narrative, however, fails to acknowledge and address the challenges faced […]

Case study

Women Dairy Producers in Colombia: Women and dairy sector enterprises leverage private and public sector investment at scale

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study explores a partnership between a private company foundation, Oxfam and farmer cooperatives, which combined targeted training for women, finance, a market opportunity and addressing care work, resulting in increased recognition of women as dairy farmers and demonstrating that smallholders could be commercial suppliers. The success of the project has changed government credit […]

Briefing paper

Getting Women into Local Strategic Partnerships: Knowing your community, improving public services

18/12/2009

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women in the UK are poorer than men: women working part-time earn nearly 40 per cent less than men, while the incomes of female pensioners are 40 per cent lower than those of male pensioners. Research commissioned by Oxfam in 2007 revealed that on Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPS), increasingly responsible for much decision-making on local […]

Journal article

Leadership for women’s health in Africa: the parliamentarians for women’s health project

01/11/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Leadership for women’s health in Africa: the parliamentarians for women’s health project

Keywords

Overview

This article describes the achievements, challenges, and lessons emerging from the Parliamentarians for Women’s Health (PWH) project. This ground-breaking pilot project has been implemented in Southern and East Africa. It attempted to support a different expression, or redefinition, of leadership – at the level of both parliamentarians and community members. It did this through facilitating […]

Case study

Women’s Collective Action in the Vegetable Sector in Tanzania

27/03/2013

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women’s collective action (WCA) has provided significant opportunities for women to increase their role in vegetable markets in Tanzania, and enhances the benefits which they derive from this sector. Women already perform much of the labour needed to grow vegetables, whether in their own households or as casual labourers. However, men own most of the […]

Briefing note

Close the Gap: How to eliminate violence against women beyond 2015

11/03/2014

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

At least one in three women worldwide will experience some form of violence during their lifetime, often perpetrated by an intimate partner. Violence against women and girls is a fundamental human rights issue and a central challenge to development, democracy and peace. Oxfam is very concerned that efforts to eliminate violence against women do not […]

Issue briefing

Women, Peace and Security in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Factsheet

17/02/2016

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Political upheaval, instability and conflict have been on the rise in the Middle East and North Africa following the uprisings that swept the region in 2011. Women and girls face particular challenges to their basic human rights. This factsheet gives an overview of the status of women in the region, focusing on two key themes: […]

Journal article

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

07/12/2022

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

Keywords

Overview

Using the feminist lens of women economic empowerment and the concepts of resources, agency, and achievements, and the inter-related concepts of power, this article shares the experience of women beauty workers and women cab drivers working on different types of platform models in India. While beauty work is essentially a feminised sector of work in […]

Journal article

Women’s empowerment for disaster risk reduction and emergency response in Nepal

25/06/2012

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s empowerment for disaster risk reduction and emergency response in Nepal

Keywords

Overview

It is generally accepted that women overall are more vulnerable to disaster risk and have specific needs during a crisis. But in Nepal, social taboos and norms restrict women’s freedom to express their needs to humanitarian workers in times of crisis, as these are normally strangers to the community deputed by humanitarian agencies or state […]

Journal article

Researching women’s leadership in Asia and the Pacific – reflections on feminist research approaches in design and in practice

05/11/2019

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Researching women’s leadership in Asia and the Pacific – reflections on feminist research approaches in design and in practice

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) and partners have navigated the complexities and, sometimes competing, priorities, of feminist research methodology and values, in our practice. It demonstrates how, ultimately, decision-making processes along the way have been guided by the feminist values that underpin the research designs and the assertion that the […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Going underground in South African platinum mines to explore women miners’ experiences

09/11/2017

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Going underground in South African platinum mines to explore women miners’ experiences

Keywords

Overview

Women have worked underground in South African mines since 2003. Their inclusion has been lauded by some as a step in the right direction – that is, towards gender equality in employment, as well as challenging gender stereotypes about work and women’s abilities. This dominant narrative, however, fails to acknowledge and address the challenges faced […]

Case study

Women Dairy Producers in Colombia: Women and dairy sector enterprises leverage private and public sector investment at scale

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study explores a partnership between a private company foundation, Oxfam and farmer cooperatives, which combined targeted training for women, finance, a market opportunity and addressing care work, resulting in increased recognition of women as dairy farmers and demonstrating that smallholders could be commercial suppliers. The success of the project has changed government credit […]

Briefing paper

Getting Women into Local Strategic Partnerships: Knowing your community, improving public services

18/12/2009

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women in the UK are poorer than men: women working part-time earn nearly 40 per cent less than men, while the incomes of female pensioners are 40 per cent lower than those of male pensioners. Research commissioned by Oxfam in 2007 revealed that on Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPS), increasingly responsible for much decision-making on local […]

Journal article

Leadership for women’s health in Africa: the parliamentarians for women’s health project

01/11/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Leadership for women’s health in Africa: the parliamentarians for women’s health project

Keywords

Overview

This article describes the achievements, challenges, and lessons emerging from the Parliamentarians for Women’s Health (PWH) project. This ground-breaking pilot project has been implemented in Southern and East Africa. It attempted to support a different expression, or redefinition, of leadership – at the level of both parliamentarians and community members. It did this through facilitating […]

Case study

Women’s Collective Action in the Vegetable Sector in Tanzania

27/03/2013

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women’s collective action (WCA) has provided significant opportunities for women to increase their role in vegetable markets in Tanzania, and enhances the benefits which they derive from this sector. Women already perform much of the labour needed to grow vegetables, whether in their own households or as casual labourers. However, men own most of the […]

Briefing note

Close the Gap: How to eliminate violence against women beyond 2015

11/03/2014

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

At least one in three women worldwide will experience some form of violence during their lifetime, often perpetrated by an intimate partner. Violence against women and girls is a fundamental human rights issue and a central challenge to development, democracy and peace. Oxfam is very concerned that efforts to eliminate violence against women do not […]

Issue briefing

Women, Peace and Security in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Factsheet

17/02/2016

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Political upheaval, instability and conflict have been on the rise in the Middle East and North Africa following the uprisings that swept the region in 2011. Women and girls face particular challenges to their basic human rights. This factsheet gives an overview of the status of women in the region, focusing on two key themes: […]

Journal article

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

07/12/2022

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

Keywords

Overview

Using the feminist lens of women economic empowerment and the concepts of resources, agency, and achievements, and the inter-related concepts of power, this article shares the experience of women beauty workers and women cab drivers working on different types of platform models in India. While beauty work is essentially a feminised sector of work in […]

Journal article

Women’s empowerment for disaster risk reduction and emergency response in Nepal

25/06/2012

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s empowerment for disaster risk reduction and emergency response in Nepal

Keywords

Overview

It is generally accepted that women overall are more vulnerable to disaster risk and have specific needs during a crisis. But in Nepal, social taboos and norms restrict women’s freedom to express their needs to humanitarian workers in times of crisis, as these are normally strangers to the community deputed by humanitarian agencies or state […]

Journal article

Researching women’s leadership in Asia and the Pacific – reflections on feminist research approaches in design and in practice

05/11/2019

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Researching women’s leadership in Asia and the Pacific – reflections on feminist research approaches in design and in practice

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) and partners have navigated the complexities and, sometimes competing, priorities, of feminist research methodology and values, in our practice. It demonstrates how, ultimately, decision-making processes along the way have been guided by the feminist values that underpin the research designs and the assertion that the […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Going underground in South African platinum mines to explore women miners’ experiences

09/11/2017

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Going underground in South African platinum mines to explore women miners’ experiences

Keywords

Overview

Women have worked underground in South African mines since 2003. Their inclusion has been lauded by some as a step in the right direction – that is, towards gender equality in employment, as well as challenging gender stereotypes about work and women’s abilities. This dominant narrative, however, fails to acknowledge and address the challenges faced […]

Case study

Women Dairy Producers in Colombia: Women and dairy sector enterprises leverage private and public sector investment at scale

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study explores a partnership between a private company foundation, Oxfam and farmer cooperatives, which combined targeted training for women, finance, a market opportunity and addressing care work, resulting in increased recognition of women as dairy farmers and demonstrating that smallholders could be commercial suppliers. The success of the project has changed government credit […]

Briefing paper

Getting Women into Local Strategic Partnerships: Knowing your community, improving public services

18/12/2009

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women in the UK are poorer than men: women working part-time earn nearly 40 per cent less than men, while the incomes of female pensioners are 40 per cent lower than those of male pensioners. Research commissioned by Oxfam in 2007 revealed that on Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPS), increasingly responsible for much decision-making on local […]

Journal article

Leadership for women’s health in Africa: the parliamentarians for women’s health project

01/11/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Leadership for women’s health in Africa: the parliamentarians for women’s health project

Keywords

Overview

This article describes the achievements, challenges, and lessons emerging from the Parliamentarians for Women’s Health (PWH) project. This ground-breaking pilot project has been implemented in Southern and East Africa. It attempted to support a different expression, or redefinition, of leadership – at the level of both parliamentarians and community members. It did this through facilitating […]

Case study

Women’s Collective Action in the Vegetable Sector in Tanzania

27/03/2013

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women’s collective action (WCA) has provided significant opportunities for women to increase their role in vegetable markets in Tanzania, and enhances the benefits which they derive from this sector. Women already perform much of the labour needed to grow vegetables, whether in their own households or as casual labourers. However, men own most of the […]

Briefing note

Close the Gap: How to eliminate violence against women beyond 2015

11/03/2014

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

At least one in three women worldwide will experience some form of violence during their lifetime, often perpetrated by an intimate partner. Violence against women and girls is a fundamental human rights issue and a central challenge to development, democracy and peace. Oxfam is very concerned that efforts to eliminate violence against women do not […]

Issue briefing

Women, Peace and Security in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Factsheet

17/02/2016

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Political upheaval, instability and conflict have been on the rise in the Middle East and North Africa following the uprisings that swept the region in 2011. Women and girls face particular challenges to their basic human rights. This factsheet gives an overview of the status of women in the region, focusing on two key themes: […]

Journal article

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

07/12/2022

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

Keywords

Overview

Using the feminist lens of women economic empowerment and the concepts of resources, agency, and achievements, and the inter-related concepts of power, this article shares the experience of women beauty workers and women cab drivers working on different types of platform models in India. While beauty work is essentially a feminised sector of work in […]

Journal article

Women’s empowerment for disaster risk reduction and emergency response in Nepal

25/06/2012

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s empowerment for disaster risk reduction and emergency response in Nepal

Keywords

Overview

It is generally accepted that women overall are more vulnerable to disaster risk and have specific needs during a crisis. But in Nepal, social taboos and norms restrict women’s freedom to express their needs to humanitarian workers in times of crisis, as these are normally strangers to the community deputed by humanitarian agencies or state […]

Journal article

Researching women’s leadership in Asia and the Pacific – reflections on feminist research approaches in design and in practice

05/11/2019

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Researching women’s leadership in Asia and the Pacific – reflections on feminist research approaches in design and in practice

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) and partners have navigated the complexities and, sometimes competing, priorities, of feminist research methodology and values, in our practice. It demonstrates how, ultimately, decision-making processes along the way have been guided by the feminist values that underpin the research designs and the assertion that the […]