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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

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Evaluation report

Resilience in Iraq: Impact Evaluation of the ‘Safe access to resilient livelihoods opportunities for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Kirkuk’ project

06/04/2022

3 documents

72 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

Between May 2016 and March 2018, Oxfam in Iraq, together with the Iraqi Al Amal Association (IAA), collaborated on the ‘Safe access to resilient livelihoods opportunities for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Kirkuk’ project. Funded by UN Women, the project marked the first collaboration between Oxfam and IAA (a women’s rights organization working in Kirkuk). The […]

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

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

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 […]

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 […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

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

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Evaluation report

Resilience in Iraq: Impact Evaluation of the ‘Safe access to resilient livelihoods opportunities for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Kirkuk’ project

06/04/2022

3 documents

72 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

Between May 2016 and March 2018, Oxfam in Iraq, together with the Iraqi Al Amal Association (IAA), collaborated on the ‘Safe access to resilient livelihoods opportunities for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Kirkuk’ project. Funded by UN Women, the project marked the first collaboration between Oxfam and IAA (a women’s rights organization working in Kirkuk). The […]

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

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

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 […]

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 […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

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

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Evaluation report

Resilience in Iraq: Impact Evaluation of the ‘Safe access to resilient livelihoods opportunities for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Kirkuk’ project

06/04/2022

3 documents

72 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

Between May 2016 and March 2018, Oxfam in Iraq, together with the Iraqi Al Amal Association (IAA), collaborated on the ‘Safe access to resilient livelihoods opportunities for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Kirkuk’ project. Funded by UN Women, the project marked the first collaboration between Oxfam and IAA (a women’s rights organization working in Kirkuk). The […]

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

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

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 […]

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 […]