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Using the Social Relations Approach to capture complexity in women’s empowerment: using gender analysis in the Fish on Farms project in Cambodia

09/07/2014

17 pages long

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Using the Social Relations Approach to capture complexity in women’s empowerment: using gender analysis in the Fish on Farms project in Cambodia

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Gender-analysis frameworks and tools provide a pre-designed methodology which can be used for the purposes of monitoring, evaluation, and learning, as well as for research undertaken for other reasons by planners, practitioners, and academic researchers. This article focuses on the use of Naila Kabeer’s concept, the Social Relations Approach, to frame a baseline gender analysis […]

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Gender inequality and inter-household economic inequality in emerging economies: exploring the relationship

03/08/2015

18 pages long

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Gender inequality and inter-household economic inequality in emerging economies: exploring the relationship

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While most emerging economies have been characterised by persistence/growth of interhousehold economic inequality in recent decades, and simultaneous poor performance on gender equality, the intersecting relationship between these two trends so far has not received much attention. This article is an initial attempt look at this relationship, showing how gender inequality has both contributed to, and been affected by, […]

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Mainstreaming gender in WASH: lessons learned from Oxfam’s experience of Ebola

13/07/2017

15 pages long

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Mainstreaming gender in WASH: lessons learned from Oxfam’s experience of Ebola

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Overview

Within Oxfam, we continue to question how we could have better integrated gender equality in the Ebola response, and how to improve our gender mainstreaming in future emergencies. Why did gender mainstreaming in the Ebola response prove particularly challenging? How did the Ebola response differ from previous emergencies? What did we need to know to […]

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Feminised financial flows: how gender affects remittances in Honduran–US transnational families

01/03/2011

15 pages long

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Feminised financial flows: how gender affects remittances in Honduran–US transnational families

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This article focuses on Honduran immigrants in Alexandria, Virginia USA and their family members in Nacaome, Valle, Honduras. It traces the transfer of remittances from migrants to their families at home, in 20 transnational families. It focuses on six issues: gendered motives for migration, reproductive labour across borders, gender inequalities in the US labour market, […]

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African women challenging neo-liberal economic orthodoxy: the conception and mission of the GERA programme

01/05/2003

8 pages long

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African women challenging neo-liberal economic orthodoxy: the conception and mission of the GERA programme

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Overview

Despite the many international commitments to gender equality, much remains to be done in terms of mainstreaming commitment to gender equality into development. It seems that the major global development institutions appear currently to be more concerned with mainstreaming trade into development. For example, the outcomes of the major international conferences, from the International Conference […]

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Gender lost and gender found: BRAC’s Gender Quality Action-Learning Programme

01/05/1998

13 pages long

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Gender lost and gender found: BRAC’s Gender Quality Action-Learning Programme

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Overview

The Gender Quality Action-Learning (GQAL) Programme of BRAC, a large rural development NGO in Bangladesh, is described and analysed. This Programme works with male and female field-staff and managers in a process of issue-analysis, action planning, and implementation (the GQAL cycle) to address organizational change and programme quality concerns in a way that is informed […]

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Mainstreaming’ HIV in Papua New Guinea: putting gender equity first

01/03/2006

10 pages long

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Mainstreaming’ HIV in Papua New Guinea: putting gender equity first

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Overview

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a rapidly worsening HIV and AIDS epidemic. Gender-based violence is common and is, in part, fuelling the spread of HIV. We argue that the situation in PNG illustrates very clearly why ‘mainstreaming’ HIV into all aspects of development simply cannot happen without serious attention to gender inequities. We describe a […]

Journal article

Better than the sum of our parts? Reflections on gender mainstreaming in a confederation

07/11/2012

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Better than the sum of our parts? Reflections on gender mainstreaming in a confederation

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Overview

This article looks at some realities and lessons from Oxfam as a confederation of non-government organisations, working together on gender inequality. It looks at how the individual affiliates have gone about strengthening our collective contribution to transformation of gender and power relations in the different environments we work in, and reflects on learning that can […]

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Lessons, challenges, and successes while working on the ‘Triangle’ of education, gender, and sexual and reproductive health

20/03/2014

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Lessons, challenges, and successes while working on the ‘Triangle’ of education, gender, and sexual and reproductive health

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Overview

This article focuses on the lessons, challenges, and successes Oxfam has observed while working on the ‘Triangle’ of quality education, gender justice, and sexual and reproductive health. The article argues that linking education, gender, and sexual and reproductive health can be effective. However, to ensure we work effectively and sustainably on the Triangle, we need […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Transforming gender inequalities: Practical guidance for achieving gender transformation in resilient development

15/01/2021

3 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam believes that resilient development is only possible when gender-based inequalities are transformed and women, men and gender non-conforming people can fully enjoy their rights. However, our evaluations have shown that resilience programmes tend to focus on strengthening absorptive and adaptive capacities without adequately addressing broader structural inequalities and power imbalances. This guide is designed […]

Showing 352 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Using the Social Relations Approach to capture complexity in women’s empowerment: using gender analysis in the Fish on Farms project in Cambodia

09/07/2014

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using the Social Relations Approach to capture complexity in women’s empowerment: using gender analysis in the Fish on Farms project in Cambodia

Keywords

Overview

Gender-analysis frameworks and tools provide a pre-designed methodology which can be used for the purposes of monitoring, evaluation, and learning, as well as for research undertaken for other reasons by planners, practitioners, and academic researchers. This article focuses on the use of Naila Kabeer’s concept, the Social Relations Approach, to frame a baseline gender analysis […]

Journal article

Gender inequality and inter-household economic inequality in emerging economies: exploring the relationship

03/08/2015

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender inequality and inter-household economic inequality in emerging economies: exploring the relationship

Keywords

Overview

While most emerging economies have been characterised by persistence/growth of interhousehold economic inequality in recent decades, and simultaneous poor performance on gender equality, the intersecting relationship between these two trends so far has not received much attention. This article is an initial attempt look at this relationship, showing how gender inequality has both contributed to, and been affected by, […]

Journal article

Mainstreaming gender in WASH: lessons learned from Oxfam’s experience of Ebola

13/07/2017

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Mainstreaming gender in WASH: lessons learned from Oxfam’s experience of Ebola

Keywords

Overview

Within Oxfam, we continue to question how we could have better integrated gender equality in the Ebola response, and how to improve our gender mainstreaming in future emergencies. Why did gender mainstreaming in the Ebola response prove particularly challenging? How did the Ebola response differ from previous emergencies? What did we need to know to […]

Journal article

Feminised financial flows: how gender affects remittances in Honduran–US transnational families

01/03/2011

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminised financial flows: how gender affects remittances in Honduran–US transnational families

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on Honduran immigrants in Alexandria, Virginia USA and their family members in Nacaome, Valle, Honduras. It traces the transfer of remittances from migrants to their families at home, in 20 transnational families. It focuses on six issues: gendered motives for migration, reproductive labour across borders, gender inequalities in the US labour market, […]

Journal article

African women challenging neo-liberal economic orthodoxy: the conception and mission of the GERA programme

01/05/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

African women challenging neo-liberal economic orthodoxy: the conception and mission of the GERA programme

Keywords

Overview

Despite the many international commitments to gender equality, much remains to be done in terms of mainstreaming commitment to gender equality into development. It seems that the major global development institutions appear currently to be more concerned with mainstreaming trade into development. For example, the outcomes of the major international conferences, from the International Conference […]

Journal article

Gender lost and gender found: BRAC’s Gender Quality Action-Learning Programme

01/05/1998

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender lost and gender found: BRAC’s Gender Quality Action-Learning Programme

Keywords

Overview

The Gender Quality Action-Learning (GQAL) Programme of BRAC, a large rural development NGO in Bangladesh, is described and analysed. This Programme works with male and female field-staff and managers in a process of issue-analysis, action planning, and implementation (the GQAL cycle) to address organizational change and programme quality concerns in a way that is informed […]

Journal article

Mainstreaming’ HIV in Papua New Guinea: putting gender equity first

01/03/2006

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Mainstreaming’ HIV in Papua New Guinea: putting gender equity first

Keywords

Overview

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a rapidly worsening HIV and AIDS epidemic. Gender-based violence is common and is, in part, fuelling the spread of HIV. We argue that the situation in PNG illustrates very clearly why ‘mainstreaming’ HIV into all aspects of development simply cannot happen without serious attention to gender inequities. We describe a […]

Journal article

Better than the sum of our parts? Reflections on gender mainstreaming in a confederation

07/11/2012

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Better than the sum of our parts? Reflections on gender mainstreaming in a confederation

Keywords

Overview

This article looks at some realities and lessons from Oxfam as a confederation of non-government organisations, working together on gender inequality. It looks at how the individual affiliates have gone about strengthening our collective contribution to transformation of gender and power relations in the different environments we work in, and reflects on learning that can […]

Journal article

Lessons, challenges, and successes while working on the ‘Triangle’ of education, gender, and sexual and reproductive health

20/03/2014

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Lessons, challenges, and successes while working on the ‘Triangle’ of education, gender, and sexual and reproductive health

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the lessons, challenges, and successes Oxfam has observed while working on the ‘Triangle’ of quality education, gender justice, and sexual and reproductive health. The article argues that linking education, gender, and sexual and reproductive health can be effective. However, to ensure we work effectively and sustainably on the Triangle, we need […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Transforming gender inequalities: Practical guidance for achieving gender transformation in resilient development

15/01/2021

3 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam believes that resilient development is only possible when gender-based inequalities are transformed and women, men and gender non-conforming people can fully enjoy their rights. However, our evaluations have shown that resilience programmes tend to focus on strengthening absorptive and adaptive capacities without adequately addressing broader structural inequalities and power imbalances. This guide is designed […]

Showing 352 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Using the Social Relations Approach to capture complexity in women’s empowerment: using gender analysis in the Fish on Farms project in Cambodia

09/07/2014

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using the Social Relations Approach to capture complexity in women’s empowerment: using gender analysis in the Fish on Farms project in Cambodia

Keywords

Overview

Gender-analysis frameworks and tools provide a pre-designed methodology which can be used for the purposes of monitoring, evaluation, and learning, as well as for research undertaken for other reasons by planners, practitioners, and academic researchers. This article focuses on the use of Naila Kabeer’s concept, the Social Relations Approach, to frame a baseline gender analysis […]

Journal article

Gender inequality and inter-household economic inequality in emerging economies: exploring the relationship

03/08/2015

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender inequality and inter-household economic inequality in emerging economies: exploring the relationship

Keywords

Overview

While most emerging economies have been characterised by persistence/growth of interhousehold economic inequality in recent decades, and simultaneous poor performance on gender equality, the intersecting relationship between these two trends so far has not received much attention. This article is an initial attempt look at this relationship, showing how gender inequality has both contributed to, and been affected by, […]

Journal article

Mainstreaming gender in WASH: lessons learned from Oxfam’s experience of Ebola

13/07/2017

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Mainstreaming gender in WASH: lessons learned from Oxfam’s experience of Ebola

Keywords

Overview

Within Oxfam, we continue to question how we could have better integrated gender equality in the Ebola response, and how to improve our gender mainstreaming in future emergencies. Why did gender mainstreaming in the Ebola response prove particularly challenging? How did the Ebola response differ from previous emergencies? What did we need to know to […]

Journal article

Feminised financial flows: how gender affects remittances in Honduran–US transnational families

01/03/2011

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminised financial flows: how gender affects remittances in Honduran–US transnational families

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on Honduran immigrants in Alexandria, Virginia USA and their family members in Nacaome, Valle, Honduras. It traces the transfer of remittances from migrants to their families at home, in 20 transnational families. It focuses on six issues: gendered motives for migration, reproductive labour across borders, gender inequalities in the US labour market, […]

Journal article

African women challenging neo-liberal economic orthodoxy: the conception and mission of the GERA programme

01/05/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

African women challenging neo-liberal economic orthodoxy: the conception and mission of the GERA programme

Keywords

Overview

Despite the many international commitments to gender equality, much remains to be done in terms of mainstreaming commitment to gender equality into development. It seems that the major global development institutions appear currently to be more concerned with mainstreaming trade into development. For example, the outcomes of the major international conferences, from the International Conference […]

Journal article

Gender lost and gender found: BRAC’s Gender Quality Action-Learning Programme

01/05/1998

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender lost and gender found: BRAC’s Gender Quality Action-Learning Programme

Keywords

Overview

The Gender Quality Action-Learning (GQAL) Programme of BRAC, a large rural development NGO in Bangladesh, is described and analysed. This Programme works with male and female field-staff and managers in a process of issue-analysis, action planning, and implementation (the GQAL cycle) to address organizational change and programme quality concerns in a way that is informed […]

Journal article

Mainstreaming’ HIV in Papua New Guinea: putting gender equity first

01/03/2006

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Mainstreaming’ HIV in Papua New Guinea: putting gender equity first

Keywords

Overview

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a rapidly worsening HIV and AIDS epidemic. Gender-based violence is common and is, in part, fuelling the spread of HIV. We argue that the situation in PNG illustrates very clearly why ‘mainstreaming’ HIV into all aspects of development simply cannot happen without serious attention to gender inequities. We describe a […]

Journal article

Better than the sum of our parts? Reflections on gender mainstreaming in a confederation

07/11/2012

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Better than the sum of our parts? Reflections on gender mainstreaming in a confederation

Keywords

Overview

This article looks at some realities and lessons from Oxfam as a confederation of non-government organisations, working together on gender inequality. It looks at how the individual affiliates have gone about strengthening our collective contribution to transformation of gender and power relations in the different environments we work in, and reflects on learning that can […]

Journal article

Lessons, challenges, and successes while working on the ‘Triangle’ of education, gender, and sexual and reproductive health

20/03/2014

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Lessons, challenges, and successes while working on the ‘Triangle’ of education, gender, and sexual and reproductive health

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the lessons, challenges, and successes Oxfam has observed while working on the ‘Triangle’ of quality education, gender justice, and sexual and reproductive health. The article argues that linking education, gender, and sexual and reproductive health can be effective. However, to ensure we work effectively and sustainably on the Triangle, we need […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Transforming gender inequalities: Practical guidance for achieving gender transformation in resilient development

15/01/2021

3 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam believes that resilient development is only possible when gender-based inequalities are transformed and women, men and gender non-conforming people can fully enjoy their rights. However, our evaluations have shown that resilience programmes tend to focus on strengthening absorptive and adaptive capacities without adequately addressing broader structural inequalities and power imbalances. This guide is designed […]