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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Raising Poor and Marginalised Women’s Voices, Liberia

22/11/2012

4 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Raising Poor and Marginalised Women’s Voices in Liberia’ project is part Oxfam’s global Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme, which seeks to promote the rights and capacity of poor women to engage effectively in governance at all levels through increased voice and influence and more effective institutional accountability. Oxfam Liberia, with two local partners, Women […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Oxfam’s Conceptual Framework on Women’s Economic Empowerment

23/05/2017

3 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Effective economic empowerment for women occurs when women enjoy their rights to control and benefit from: resources assets income their own time the ability to manage risk improve their economic status and wellbeing. However, for this to become real, women must also have the autonomy and self-belief to make changes in their own lives, including […]

Journal article

A voice of our own: advocacy by women with disability in Australia and the Pacific

01/11/2005

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

A voice of our own: advocacy by women with disability in Australia and the Pacific

Keywords

Overview

Women with disability do not generally benefit from international human-rights laws and agreements, or from development discourse and practice. The interconnection between disability and gender identity is largely invisible within women’s rights, disability rights, and development agendas. For women with disability in the Asia and Pacific region, this is particularly evident for Pacific women; within […]

Journal article

When a movement moves within a movement: Black women’s feminist activism within trade unions

07/12/2021

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

When a movement moves within a movement: Black women’s feminist activism within trade unions

Keywords

Overview

Trade unions exist to harness workers’ collective action as a means of challenging the dominant power structures that seek to exploit their labour. This article highlights the experiences of Black women trade unionists in different parts of the world who were motivated to join trade unions in order to defend workers’ rights and to advance […]

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 […]

Journal article

Women targeted and women negated

01/05/1996

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women targeted and women negated

Keywords

Overview

In Bangladesh, government organisations and non-governmental organisations are implementing programmes and energy-saving projects in an effort to save the environment. This article examines such programmes in the specific area of improved stove technology. It shows that inadequate assessment of the environment by environmentalists and development practitioners has led them to select inappropriate technology that has […]

Journal article

Women’s voluntary work in the community: a question of recognition and rewards

31/08/2022

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s voluntary work in the community: a question of recognition and rewards

Keywords

Overview

In South Korea, the state has played a minimal role in social provisioning, and as such, care provisions have been dependent on women's unpaid labour. Women's unpaid labour, especially in terms of voluntary activities, has played an important role in the sustenance of the community. However, women's voluntary work is often devalued as a free […]

Journal article

Men’s violence against women in rural Bangladesh: undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes?

01/05/1998

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Men’s violence against women in rural Bangladesh: undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes?

Keywords

Overview

Using data from a recent ethnographic study in rural Bangladesh to explore relationships between men’s violence against women in the home, women’s economic and social dependence on men, and microcredit programmes, this paper suggests that microcredit programmes have a varied effect on men’s violence against women. They can reduce women’s vulnerability to men’s violence by […]

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 […]

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

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Raising Poor and Marginalised Women’s Voices, Liberia

22/11/2012

4 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Raising Poor and Marginalised Women’s Voices in Liberia’ project is part Oxfam’s global Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme, which seeks to promote the rights and capacity of poor women to engage effectively in governance at all levels through increased voice and influence and more effective institutional accountability. Oxfam Liberia, with two local partners, Women […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Oxfam’s Conceptual Framework on Women’s Economic Empowerment

23/05/2017

3 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Effective economic empowerment for women occurs when women enjoy their rights to control and benefit from: resources assets income their own time the ability to manage risk improve their economic status and wellbeing. However, for this to become real, women must also have the autonomy and self-belief to make changes in their own lives, including […]

Journal article

A voice of our own: advocacy by women with disability in Australia and the Pacific

01/11/2005

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

A voice of our own: advocacy by women with disability in Australia and the Pacific

Keywords

Overview

Women with disability do not generally benefit from international human-rights laws and agreements, or from development discourse and practice. The interconnection between disability and gender identity is largely invisible within women’s rights, disability rights, and development agendas. For women with disability in the Asia and Pacific region, this is particularly evident for Pacific women; within […]

Journal article

When a movement moves within a movement: Black women’s feminist activism within trade unions

07/12/2021

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

When a movement moves within a movement: Black women’s feminist activism within trade unions

Keywords

Overview

Trade unions exist to harness workers’ collective action as a means of challenging the dominant power structures that seek to exploit their labour. This article highlights the experiences of Black women trade unionists in different parts of the world who were motivated to join trade unions in order to defend workers’ rights and to advance […]

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 […]

Journal article

Women targeted and women negated

01/05/1996

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women targeted and women negated

Keywords

Overview

In Bangladesh, government organisations and non-governmental organisations are implementing programmes and energy-saving projects in an effort to save the environment. This article examines such programmes in the specific area of improved stove technology. It shows that inadequate assessment of the environment by environmentalists and development practitioners has led them to select inappropriate technology that has […]

Journal article

Women’s voluntary work in the community: a question of recognition and rewards

31/08/2022

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s voluntary work in the community: a question of recognition and rewards

Keywords

Overview

In South Korea, the state has played a minimal role in social provisioning, and as such, care provisions have been dependent on women's unpaid labour. Women's unpaid labour, especially in terms of voluntary activities, has played an important role in the sustenance of the community. However, women's voluntary work is often devalued as a free […]

Journal article

Men’s violence against women in rural Bangladesh: undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes?

01/05/1998

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Men’s violence against women in rural Bangladesh: undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes?

Keywords

Overview

Using data from a recent ethnographic study in rural Bangladesh to explore relationships between men’s violence against women in the home, women’s economic and social dependence on men, and microcredit programmes, this paper suggests that microcredit programmes have a varied effect on men’s violence against women. They can reduce women’s vulnerability to men’s violence by […]

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 […]

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

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Raising Poor and Marginalised Women’s Voices, Liberia

22/11/2012

4 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Raising Poor and Marginalised Women’s Voices in Liberia’ project is part Oxfam’s global Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme, which seeks to promote the rights and capacity of poor women to engage effectively in governance at all levels through increased voice and influence and more effective institutional accountability. Oxfam Liberia, with two local partners, Women […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Oxfam’s Conceptual Framework on Women’s Economic Empowerment

23/05/2017

3 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Effective economic empowerment for women occurs when women enjoy their rights to control and benefit from: resources assets income their own time the ability to manage risk improve their economic status and wellbeing. However, for this to become real, women must also have the autonomy and self-belief to make changes in their own lives, including […]

Journal article

A voice of our own: advocacy by women with disability in Australia and the Pacific

01/11/2005

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

A voice of our own: advocacy by women with disability in Australia and the Pacific

Keywords

Overview

Women with disability do not generally benefit from international human-rights laws and agreements, or from development discourse and practice. The interconnection between disability and gender identity is largely invisible within women’s rights, disability rights, and development agendas. For women with disability in the Asia and Pacific region, this is particularly evident for Pacific women; within […]

Journal article

When a movement moves within a movement: Black women’s feminist activism within trade unions

07/12/2021

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

When a movement moves within a movement: Black women’s feminist activism within trade unions

Keywords

Overview

Trade unions exist to harness workers’ collective action as a means of challenging the dominant power structures that seek to exploit their labour. This article highlights the experiences of Black women trade unionists in different parts of the world who were motivated to join trade unions in order to defend workers’ rights and to advance […]

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 […]

Journal article

Women targeted and women negated

01/05/1996

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women targeted and women negated

Keywords

Overview

In Bangladesh, government organisations and non-governmental organisations are implementing programmes and energy-saving projects in an effort to save the environment. This article examines such programmes in the specific area of improved stove technology. It shows that inadequate assessment of the environment by environmentalists and development practitioners has led them to select inappropriate technology that has […]

Journal article

Women’s voluntary work in the community: a question of recognition and rewards

31/08/2022

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s voluntary work in the community: a question of recognition and rewards

Keywords

Overview

In South Korea, the state has played a minimal role in social provisioning, and as such, care provisions have been dependent on women's unpaid labour. Women's unpaid labour, especially in terms of voluntary activities, has played an important role in the sustenance of the community. However, women's voluntary work is often devalued as a free […]

Journal article

Men’s violence against women in rural Bangladesh: undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes?

01/05/1998

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Men’s violence against women in rural Bangladesh: undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes?

Keywords

Overview

Using data from a recent ethnographic study in rural Bangladesh to explore relationships between men’s violence against women in the home, women’s economic and social dependence on men, and microcredit programmes, this paper suggests that microcredit programmes have a varied effect on men’s violence against women. They can reduce women’s vulnerability to men’s violence by […]

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 […]

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 […]