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Devising gender-responsive transport policies in South Asia

31/08/2022

18 pages long

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Devising gender-responsive transport policies in South Asia

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Over time, the transport sector has grown more cognisant of gender differences in planning and policy. Yet, extant literature on transport shows that challenges, such as sexual harassment of women still prevail. The value of this study is its contribution towards gender-responsive transport policies with a focus on women by highlighting (1) the spectrum of […]

Journal article

‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

23/05/2023

18 pages long

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‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

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Overview

Gender-based harms experienced in conflict constitute a threat to the right of women and girls to live with dignity. However, transitional justice processes to manage the delicate nexus between peace and justice often do not consider these harms, resulting in adverse outcomes for women and girls in post-conflict societies. At the frontlines of the fight […]

Discussion paper

Market Analysis of Pilot Run Fortified Parboiled Rice in Burkina Faso

01/06/2023

2 documents

82 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

This research documents the results of the piloting of an innovative technology with a limited-water fortification parboiling method developed by the University of Arkansas with eleven women rice parboiling cooperatives in Burkina Faso. The technology is easily adaptable to the parboiling method currently used in Burkina Faso (with some modifications), reduces water use and cost […]

Case study

Barriers to Reporting Misconduct: Understanding power, intersectionality and context

18/08/2023

4 documents

31 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

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Overview

This report concludes Oxfam’s research project on Factors Influencing Misconduct Reporting, which began in 2019–20 by identifying specific barriers in Myanmar, Iraq and Ghana. To test the integration of recommendations from this research, Oxfam then conducted two pilot projects in Iraq and Ghana from May 2021 to September 2022. Oxfam in Iraq focused on survivors’ […]

Journal article

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

12/12/2023

20 pages long

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Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

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Overview

Recognition and preservation of local knowledge, practices, and ways of being are tenets of decolonial practices. However, understanding how, in which ways, and – mainly – who does the decolonial work is still unclear. The Education, Land, and Reconciliation Project (EDUCARE in Spanish) is an action-research initiative co-created between former guerrilla members who are reincorporating into Colombian society while […]

Journal article

Reclaiming Public Spaces: Experiences of social exclusion of female sanitary workers in public spaces in Lahore, Pakistan

19/09/2024

21 pages long

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Reclaiming Public Spaces: Experiences of social exclusion of female sanitary workers in public spaces in Lahore, Pakistan

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Overview

This research explores the challenges faced by female Christian sanitary workers in the public spaces of Lahore, Pakistan, utilising Nancy Fraser’s analytical framework of redistribution, recognition, and representation to uncover multifaceted factors contributing to their societal marginalisation. Through in-depth interviews with 19 participants, the study sheds light on significant economic, sociocultural, and political barriers, including […]

Journal article

‘Muipuri pacoa, ketimaha romiiri’: The women in the Tukano Oriental Shamanism

08/05/2025

25 pages long

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‘Muipuri pacoa, ketimaha romiiri’: The women in the Tukano Oriental Shamanism

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Overview

A group of Tukano Oriental Indigenous women in the Colombian Amazon undertook a research initiative implementing a biocultural monitoring methodology for the strengthening of the traditional management of their territory. The initial results revealed that, as the elders had anticipated, crops nurtured by the elders and, notably, by the wise women are the most diverse. […]

Briefing paper

Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster

29/10/2025

10 documents

73 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Ahead of the major international climate conference COP30 in Belem, Brazil, new Oxfam research finds that the high-carbon lifestyles of the super-rich are blowing through the world’s remaining carbon budget - the amount of CO2 that can be emitted while avoiding climate disaster. The research also details how billionaires are using their political and economic influence to keep […]

Journal article

Depatriarchalisation and Bolivian women leadership: transforming politics across international, local, and everyday

18/09/2025

18 pages long

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Depatriarchalisation and Bolivian women leadership: transforming politics across international, local, and everyday

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Overview

This article explores the significant role of Bolivian women’s social movements in shaping political alternatives to foreign policy and domestic governance through the lens of depatriarchalisation. The early 21st century has seen women’s movements as pivotal actors in a critical transformation in Bolivia’s political landscape, challenging entrenched patriarchal norms and advocating for gender justice within […]

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Voices from the margins: the role of decolonial feminism in transforming leadership in the global South

18/09/2025

20 pages long

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Voices from the margins: the role of decolonial feminism in transforming leadership in the global South

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Overview

This paper investigates the potential for decolonial feminism to disrupt norms of leadership and resound diverse voices from countries in the global South. Unlike Western-centric approaches to leadership that often oversimplify intersections, decolonial feminism emphasises their complexity and offers a more nuanced understanding. This perspective also underscores the importance of collective agency rooted in anti-colonial […]

Showing 461 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Devising gender-responsive transport policies in South Asia

31/08/2022

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Devising gender-responsive transport policies in South Asia

Keywords

Overview

Over time, the transport sector has grown more cognisant of gender differences in planning and policy. Yet, extant literature on transport shows that challenges, such as sexual harassment of women still prevail. The value of this study is its contribution towards gender-responsive transport policies with a focus on women by highlighting (1) the spectrum of […]

Journal article

‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

23/05/2023

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

Keywords

Overview

Gender-based harms experienced in conflict constitute a threat to the right of women and girls to live with dignity. However, transitional justice processes to manage the delicate nexus between peace and justice often do not consider these harms, resulting in adverse outcomes for women and girls in post-conflict societies. At the frontlines of the fight […]

Discussion paper

Market Analysis of Pilot Run Fortified Parboiled Rice in Burkina Faso

01/06/2023

2 documents

82 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

This research documents the results of the piloting of an innovative technology with a limited-water fortification parboiling method developed by the University of Arkansas with eleven women rice parboiling cooperatives in Burkina Faso. The technology is easily adaptable to the parboiling method currently used in Burkina Faso (with some modifications), reduces water use and cost […]

Case study

Barriers to Reporting Misconduct: Understanding power, intersectionality and context

18/08/2023

4 documents

31 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

Keywords

Overview

This report concludes Oxfam’s research project on Factors Influencing Misconduct Reporting, which began in 2019–20 by identifying specific barriers in Myanmar, Iraq and Ghana. To test the integration of recommendations from this research, Oxfam then conducted two pilot projects in Iraq and Ghana from May 2021 to September 2022. Oxfam in Iraq focused on survivors’ […]

Journal article

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

12/12/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

Keywords

Overview

Recognition and preservation of local knowledge, practices, and ways of being are tenets of decolonial practices. However, understanding how, in which ways, and – mainly – who does the decolonial work is still unclear. The Education, Land, and Reconciliation Project (EDUCARE in Spanish) is an action-research initiative co-created between former guerrilla members who are reincorporating into Colombian society while […]

Journal article

Reclaiming Public Spaces: Experiences of social exclusion of female sanitary workers in public spaces in Lahore, Pakistan

19/09/2024

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reclaiming Public Spaces: Experiences of social exclusion of female sanitary workers in public spaces in Lahore, Pakistan

Keywords

Overview

This research explores the challenges faced by female Christian sanitary workers in the public spaces of Lahore, Pakistan, utilising Nancy Fraser’s analytical framework of redistribution, recognition, and representation to uncover multifaceted factors contributing to their societal marginalisation. Through in-depth interviews with 19 participants, the study sheds light on significant economic, sociocultural, and political barriers, including […]

Journal article

‘Muipuri pacoa, ketimaha romiiri’: The women in the Tukano Oriental Shamanism

08/05/2025

25 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Muipuri pacoa, ketimaha romiiri’: The women in the Tukano Oriental Shamanism

Keywords

Overview

A group of Tukano Oriental Indigenous women in the Colombian Amazon undertook a research initiative implementing a biocultural monitoring methodology for the strengthening of the traditional management of their territory. The initial results revealed that, as the elders had anticipated, crops nurtured by the elders and, notably, by the wise women are the most diverse. […]

Briefing paper

Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster

29/10/2025

10 documents

73 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Ahead of the major international climate conference COP30 in Belem, Brazil, new Oxfam research finds that the high-carbon lifestyles of the super-rich are blowing through the world’s remaining carbon budget - the amount of CO2 that can be emitted while avoiding climate disaster. The research also details how billionaires are using their political and economic influence to keep […]

Journal article

Depatriarchalisation and Bolivian women leadership: transforming politics across international, local, and everyday

18/09/2025

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Depatriarchalisation and Bolivian women leadership: transforming politics across international, local, and everyday

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the significant role of Bolivian women’s social movements in shaping political alternatives to foreign policy and domestic governance through the lens of depatriarchalisation. The early 21st century has seen women’s movements as pivotal actors in a critical transformation in Bolivia’s political landscape, challenging entrenched patriarchal norms and advocating for gender justice within […]

Journal article

Voices from the margins: the role of decolonial feminism in transforming leadership in the global South

18/09/2025

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Voices from the margins: the role of decolonial feminism in transforming leadership in the global South

Keywords

Overview

This paper investigates the potential for decolonial feminism to disrupt norms of leadership and resound diverse voices from countries in the global South. Unlike Western-centric approaches to leadership that often oversimplify intersections, decolonial feminism emphasises their complexity and offers a more nuanced understanding. This perspective also underscores the importance of collective agency rooted in anti-colonial […]

Showing 461 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Devising gender-responsive transport policies in South Asia

31/08/2022

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Devising gender-responsive transport policies in South Asia

Keywords

Overview

Over time, the transport sector has grown more cognisant of gender differences in planning and policy. Yet, extant literature on transport shows that challenges, such as sexual harassment of women still prevail. The value of this study is its contribution towards gender-responsive transport policies with a focus on women by highlighting (1) the spectrum of […]

Journal article

‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

23/05/2023

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

Keywords

Overview

Gender-based harms experienced in conflict constitute a threat to the right of women and girls to live with dignity. However, transitional justice processes to manage the delicate nexus between peace and justice often do not consider these harms, resulting in adverse outcomes for women and girls in post-conflict societies. At the frontlines of the fight […]

Discussion paper

Market Analysis of Pilot Run Fortified Parboiled Rice in Burkina Faso

01/06/2023

2 documents

82 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

This research documents the results of the piloting of an innovative technology with a limited-water fortification parboiling method developed by the University of Arkansas with eleven women rice parboiling cooperatives in Burkina Faso. The technology is easily adaptable to the parboiling method currently used in Burkina Faso (with some modifications), reduces water use and cost […]

Case study

Barriers to Reporting Misconduct: Understanding power, intersectionality and context

18/08/2023

4 documents

31 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

Keywords

Overview

This report concludes Oxfam’s research project on Factors Influencing Misconduct Reporting, which began in 2019–20 by identifying specific barriers in Myanmar, Iraq and Ghana. To test the integration of recommendations from this research, Oxfam then conducted two pilot projects in Iraq and Ghana from May 2021 to September 2022. Oxfam in Iraq focused on survivors’ […]

Journal article

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

12/12/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

Keywords

Overview

Recognition and preservation of local knowledge, practices, and ways of being are tenets of decolonial practices. However, understanding how, in which ways, and – mainly – who does the decolonial work is still unclear. The Education, Land, and Reconciliation Project (EDUCARE in Spanish) is an action-research initiative co-created between former guerrilla members who are reincorporating into Colombian society while […]

Journal article

Reclaiming Public Spaces: Experiences of social exclusion of female sanitary workers in public spaces in Lahore, Pakistan

19/09/2024

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reclaiming Public Spaces: Experiences of social exclusion of female sanitary workers in public spaces in Lahore, Pakistan

Keywords

Overview

This research explores the challenges faced by female Christian sanitary workers in the public spaces of Lahore, Pakistan, utilising Nancy Fraser’s analytical framework of redistribution, recognition, and representation to uncover multifaceted factors contributing to their societal marginalisation. Through in-depth interviews with 19 participants, the study sheds light on significant economic, sociocultural, and political barriers, including […]

Journal article

‘Muipuri pacoa, ketimaha romiiri’: The women in the Tukano Oriental Shamanism

08/05/2025

25 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Muipuri pacoa, ketimaha romiiri’: The women in the Tukano Oriental Shamanism

Keywords

Overview

A group of Tukano Oriental Indigenous women in the Colombian Amazon undertook a research initiative implementing a biocultural monitoring methodology for the strengthening of the traditional management of their territory. The initial results revealed that, as the elders had anticipated, crops nurtured by the elders and, notably, by the wise women are the most diverse. […]

Briefing paper

Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster

29/10/2025

10 documents

73 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Ahead of the major international climate conference COP30 in Belem, Brazil, new Oxfam research finds that the high-carbon lifestyles of the super-rich are blowing through the world’s remaining carbon budget - the amount of CO2 that can be emitted while avoiding climate disaster. The research also details how billionaires are using their political and economic influence to keep […]

Journal article

Depatriarchalisation and Bolivian women leadership: transforming politics across international, local, and everyday

18/09/2025

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Depatriarchalisation and Bolivian women leadership: transforming politics across international, local, and everyday

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the significant role of Bolivian women’s social movements in shaping political alternatives to foreign policy and domestic governance through the lens of depatriarchalisation. The early 21st century has seen women’s movements as pivotal actors in a critical transformation in Bolivia’s political landscape, challenging entrenched patriarchal norms and advocating for gender justice within […]

Journal article

Voices from the margins: the role of decolonial feminism in transforming leadership in the global South

18/09/2025

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Voices from the margins: the role of decolonial feminism in transforming leadership in the global South

Keywords

Overview

This paper investigates the potential for decolonial feminism to disrupt norms of leadership and resound diverse voices from countries in the global South. Unlike Western-centric approaches to leadership that often oversimplify intersections, decolonial feminism emphasises their complexity and offers a more nuanced understanding. This perspective also underscores the importance of collective agency rooted in anti-colonial […]