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Journal article

More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in micro-finance in Ghana

01/03/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in micro-finance in Ghana

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Overview

This article reports on research into the impacts of micro-finance on gender roles, the extent to which socio-cultural factors influence these changes, and how such changes affect the well-being of rural Bogoso households in the Wassa West District of Ghana. Findings indicated that micro-finance has changed men’s and women’s control over decisions and resource allocations, […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction: A training pack

08/07/2011

5 documents

84 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Understanding how gender relations shape women’s and men’s lives is critical to disaster risk reduction (DRR). This is because women’s and men’s different roles, responsibilities, and access to resources influence how each will be affected by different hazards, and how they will cope with and recover from disaster. Unequal power relations between women and men […]

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 […]

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

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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 […]

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 […]

Evaluation report

Improving Program Quality in International Development: Lessons from Oxfam’s Program Standards Self-Assessment Year 1 main report

14/07/2014

3 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s Program Standards are a mandatory benchmark for its rights-based work. To be accountable for adherence to these standards, and to ensure improved practice over time, Oxfam has developed a learning process which helps staff critically to assess their practice against these program standards, and to improve delivery. Between April 2012 and December 2013, 62 […]

Research report

Understanding the Effectiveness of Agricultural Training for Women: A desk review of indicators, methods and best practices

16/02/2016

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This desk review provides an introduction to some of the indicators, methods, tools, challenges and best practices that will help development practitioners measure the effectiveness of agricultural training, specifically as it relates to women and women’s economic empowerment. Contracted by Oxfam, it is part of ongoing work to improve monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for […]

Journal article

Women’s status and qualitative perceptions of a cash assistance programme in Raqqa Governorate, Syria

11/07/2019

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s status and qualitative perceptions of a cash assistance programme in Raqqa Governorate, Syria

Keywords

Overview

Cash and voucher assistance is an efficient way to deliver assistance in emergency settings, and evidence demonstrates that cash programmes have consistent positive impacts on food security and other health and economic outcomes in these contexts. Nevertheless, while evidence from development settings shows that cash has the potential to reduce intimate partner violence and increase […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Terms of Reference for Protection Focal Points

17/09/2021

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This is an example tool provided by Oxfam’s Protection Team in Lebanon as part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses accountability, capacity strengthening, community protection structures, empowerment of women, evaluation, material support, monitoring and coaching, roles and responsibilities, selection of volunteers and sustainability.

Case study

Azul Positivo’s Community Response Strategy during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zulia

17/09/2021

3 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This is a case study produced by Andrea Pacheco, Protection Officer at Oxfam in Venezuela, and Yordy Bermúdez, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Officer at Azul Positivo, as part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses access to services, community identification, COVID-19, negative coping strategies, referrals and service mapping.

Showing 72 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in micro-finance in Ghana

01/03/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in micro-finance in Ghana

Keywords

Overview

This article reports on research into the impacts of micro-finance on gender roles, the extent to which socio-cultural factors influence these changes, and how such changes affect the well-being of rural Bogoso households in the Wassa West District of Ghana. Findings indicated that micro-finance has changed men’s and women’s control over decisions and resource allocations, […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction: A training pack

08/07/2011

5 documents

84 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Understanding how gender relations shape women’s and men’s lives is critical to disaster risk reduction (DRR). This is because women’s and men’s different roles, responsibilities, and access to resources influence how each will be affected by different hazards, and how they will cope with and recover from disaster. Unequal power relations between women and men […]

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 […]

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 […]

Evaluation report

Improving Program Quality in International Development: Lessons from Oxfam’s Program Standards Self-Assessment Year 1 main report

14/07/2014

3 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s Program Standards are a mandatory benchmark for its rights-based work. To be accountable for adherence to these standards, and to ensure improved practice over time, Oxfam has developed a learning process which helps staff critically to assess their practice against these program standards, and to improve delivery. Between April 2012 and December 2013, 62 […]

Research report

Understanding the Effectiveness of Agricultural Training for Women: A desk review of indicators, methods and best practices

16/02/2016

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This desk review provides an introduction to some of the indicators, methods, tools, challenges and best practices that will help development practitioners measure the effectiveness of agricultural training, specifically as it relates to women and women’s economic empowerment. Contracted by Oxfam, it is part of ongoing work to improve monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for […]

Journal article

Women’s status and qualitative perceptions of a cash assistance programme in Raqqa Governorate, Syria

11/07/2019

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s status and qualitative perceptions of a cash assistance programme in Raqqa Governorate, Syria

Keywords

Overview

Cash and voucher assistance is an efficient way to deliver assistance in emergency settings, and evidence demonstrates that cash programmes have consistent positive impacts on food security and other health and economic outcomes in these contexts. Nevertheless, while evidence from development settings shows that cash has the potential to reduce intimate partner violence and increase […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Terms of Reference for Protection Focal Points

17/09/2021

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This is an example tool provided by Oxfam’s Protection Team in Lebanon as part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses accountability, capacity strengthening, community protection structures, empowerment of women, evaluation, material support, monitoring and coaching, roles and responsibilities, selection of volunteers and sustainability.

Case study

Azul Positivo’s Community Response Strategy during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zulia

17/09/2021

3 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This is a case study produced by Andrea Pacheco, Protection Officer at Oxfam in Venezuela, and Yordy Bermúdez, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Officer at Azul Positivo, as part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses access to services, community identification, COVID-19, negative coping strategies, referrals and service mapping.

Showing 72 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in micro-finance in Ghana

01/03/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in micro-finance in Ghana

Keywords

Overview

This article reports on research into the impacts of micro-finance on gender roles, the extent to which socio-cultural factors influence these changes, and how such changes affect the well-being of rural Bogoso households in the Wassa West District of Ghana. Findings indicated that micro-finance has changed men’s and women’s control over decisions and resource allocations, […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction: A training pack

08/07/2011

5 documents

84 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Understanding how gender relations shape women’s and men’s lives is critical to disaster risk reduction (DRR). This is because women’s and men’s different roles, responsibilities, and access to resources influence how each will be affected by different hazards, and how they will cope with and recover from disaster. Unequal power relations between women and men […]

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 […]

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 […]

Evaluation report

Improving Program Quality in International Development: Lessons from Oxfam’s Program Standards Self-Assessment Year 1 main report

14/07/2014

3 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s Program Standards are a mandatory benchmark for its rights-based work. To be accountable for adherence to these standards, and to ensure improved practice over time, Oxfam has developed a learning process which helps staff critically to assess their practice against these program standards, and to improve delivery. Between April 2012 and December 2013, 62 […]

Research report

Understanding the Effectiveness of Agricultural Training for Women: A desk review of indicators, methods and best practices

16/02/2016

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This desk review provides an introduction to some of the indicators, methods, tools, challenges and best practices that will help development practitioners measure the effectiveness of agricultural training, specifically as it relates to women and women’s economic empowerment. Contracted by Oxfam, it is part of ongoing work to improve monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for […]

Journal article

Women’s status and qualitative perceptions of a cash assistance programme in Raqqa Governorate, Syria

11/07/2019

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s status and qualitative perceptions of a cash assistance programme in Raqqa Governorate, Syria

Keywords

Overview

Cash and voucher assistance is an efficient way to deliver assistance in emergency settings, and evidence demonstrates that cash programmes have consistent positive impacts on food security and other health and economic outcomes in these contexts. Nevertheless, while evidence from development settings shows that cash has the potential to reduce intimate partner violence and increase […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Terms of Reference for Protection Focal Points

17/09/2021

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This is an example tool provided by Oxfam’s Protection Team in Lebanon as part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses accountability, capacity strengthening, community protection structures, empowerment of women, evaluation, material support, monitoring and coaching, roles and responsibilities, selection of volunteers and sustainability.

Case study

Azul Positivo’s Community Response Strategy during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zulia

17/09/2021

3 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This is a case study produced by Andrea Pacheco, Protection Officer at Oxfam in Venezuela, and Yordy Bermúdez, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Officer at Azul Positivo, as part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses access to services, community identification, COVID-19, negative coping strategies, referrals and service mapping.