Institute of Development Studies Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Case study

Understanding Governance from the Margins: What Does It Mean In Practice?

29/11/2021

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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What does governance look like ‘from below’ – from the perspectives of poor and marginalised households? How do patterns of conflict affect that? These were the questions at the heart of the Governance at the Margins research project. Over three years from 2017-2020 we worked to explore this through in-depth study in conflict-affected areas of […]

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Research report

The Future of Work: Findings of research commissioned by the Oxfam Empower Youth for Work Program

28/07/2020

2 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s Empower Youth for Work program commissioned the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) to conduct research on ‘The Future of Work’. IDS explored the expected changes in work and income-generating activities for young people in rural areas and whether existing policies anticipate the future of work. The research approaches the future of work according to […]

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Discussion paper

Market systems approaches to enabling women’s economic empowerment through addressing unpaid care work

05/03/2016

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper develops the concept of unpaid care work within the framework of market systems. It shows that unpaid care is a substantial proportion of the work carried out by poor families, especially women, with many heavy, inefficient or unequally distributed tasks limiting productivity and mobility, among other factors, for market work. Thus unpaid care […]

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Research report

Delicious, Disgusting, Dangerous: Eating in a time of food price volatility

03/11/2015

1 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English

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The third year results of the study ‘Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility’ uncover the realities of what people on low and precarious incomes are eating. For the consumer, there are undeniable benefits from the integration of world food trade: more stable supply and wider choice. Changes in food habits mean people are […]

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Discussion paper

A Common Sense Approach to the Right to Food

25/06/2015

1 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English

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Despite the growing activism and debate around the right to food in the past decade, there has been little exploration of what the right means in everyday life and in the routine encounters between states and citizens. This paper draws together original qualitative research in nine African, Asian and Latin American countries on how people […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Redistributing Care Work for Gender Equality and Justice: A training curriculum

15/06/2015

1 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

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People contribute to the economy through their work in many different ways. Women and men contribute to the productive economy by producing goods and services that people use every day. It is this work that is counted and measured by governments. Yet the work of social reproduction ‘ which refers to the activities needed to […]

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Understanding Governance from the Margins: What Does It Mean In Practice?

The Future of Work: Findings of research commissioned by the Oxfam Empower Youth for Work Program

Market systems approaches to enabling women’s economic empowerment through addressing unpaid care work

Delicious, Disgusting, Dangerous: Eating in a time of food price volatility

A Common Sense Approach to the Right to Food

Redistributing Care Work for Gender Equality and Justice: A training curriculum