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Diasporas as ‘agents of development’: transforming brain drain into brain gain? The Dutch example

01/06/2007

6 pages long

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This article is based on research that explored and analysed the potential role of diasporas in development aid in the Netherlands. The research adopted the hypothesis that development agencies could benefit from the knowledge, skills, and views of diasporas as ‘agents of development’ and thereby make aid more effective and sustainable. Data were derived from […]

Evaluation report

WE-Care Malawi Programme Report: Linking unpaid care work and mobile value-added services in Malawi

02/11/2016

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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Malawi was one of the six countries in which Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme was implemented. In its first phase (2014-2016), WE-Care aimed to build evidence to influence policy and practice change around the issue of unpaid care work. In Malawi, three research methodologies were used, including qualitative participatory research and quantitative […]

Book

Social Survey Methods: A field guide for development workers

01/01/1991

2 documents

132 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Well-organised and cost-effective surveys provide vital information for planning development projects. Social Survey Methods uses straightforward language to guide the reader through the choice of an appropriate, affordable research method, the implementation of the research, and how to communicate the findings to key decision-makers, community organisations and other interested parties.

Briefing paper

Made in Myanmar: Entrenched poverty or decent jobs for garment workers?

09/12/2015

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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In Myanmar, the garment industry is booming thanks to an upsurge in investment by international brands, but garment workers are facing tough conditions. According to new research from Oxfam and labour rights groups in Myanmar, garment workers are working up to 11 hours a day, six days a week, but remain trapped in poverty. Following […]

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Using digital storytelling as a source of empowerment for rural women in Benin

05/11/2019

13 pages long

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Using digital storytelling as a source of empowerment for rural women in Benin

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Digital storytelling offers a combination of traditional storytelling and new technologies that is attracting attention from feminist researchers aiming to co-create research in empowering ways for participants, allowing them to collaborate, build shared awareness of issues, and share their priority issues with decision-makers and power-holders. This article focuses on digital storytelling in research into the […]

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Gender violence in schools: taking the ‘girls-as-victims’ discourse forward

01/03/2007

15 pages long

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Gender violence in schools: taking the ‘girls-as-victims’ discourse forward

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This paper draws attention to the gendered nature of violence in schools. Recent recognition that schools can be violent places has tended to ignore the fact that many such acts originate in unequal and antagonistic gender relations, which are tolerated and ‘normalised’ by everyday school structures and processes. After examining some key concepts and definitions, […]

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‘Show the world to women and they can do it’: Southern Fair Trade Enterprises as agents of empowerment

23/03/2012

14 pages long

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‘Show the world to women and they can do it’: Southern Fair Trade Enterprises as agents of empowerment

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This article draws on research with women handicraft producers in Bangladesh in order to analyse processes of empowerment. It explores the practices and social relationships embedded in the activities of four Southern Fair Trade Enterprises (SFTEs). Attention is drawn to the kinds of change which the women producers feel they are achieving and how such […]

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Population policy and reproductive choice in South Asia

01/05/1993

2 pages long

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Population policy and reproductive choice in South Asia

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In September 1992 a workshop was held in Oxford, bringing together activists, researchers and academics with the joint aims of sharing diverse perspectives on South Asia’s population policies as well as revising a research proposal on all aspects of women’s reproductive health. The most tangible outcome of the workshop was a proposal for a project […]

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We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

01/03/2000

10 pages long

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We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

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A team of researchers talked to people living in poverty in Ethiopia to ascertain what stops them from gaining access to affordable, good quality basic health-care services, reproductive health-care services, and primary education. The research findings shed new light on the linkages between limited access to basic services and poverty, low incomes, insecure livelihoods, and […]

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Engendering adaptation to climate variability in Gujarat, India

01/03/2009

17 pages long

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Engendering adaptation to climate variability in Gujarat, India

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Most policy makers and practitioners have now started to recognise the different ways in which climate change impacts on poor, vulnerable, and socially excluded women and men. However, making adaptation policies and programmes sensitive to gender issues does not simply mean ‘adding on’ a concern for women. It also requires a nuanced understanding of gendered […]

Showing 463 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Diasporas as ‘agents of development’: transforming brain drain into brain gain? The Dutch example

01/06/2007

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article is based on research that explored and analysed the potential role of diasporas in development aid in the Netherlands. The research adopted the hypothesis that development agencies could benefit from the knowledge, skills, and views of diasporas as ‘agents of development’ and thereby make aid more effective and sustainable. Data were derived from […]

Evaluation report

WE-Care Malawi Programme Report: Linking unpaid care work and mobile value-added services in Malawi

02/11/2016

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Malawi was one of the six countries in which Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme was implemented. In its first phase (2014-2016), WE-Care aimed to build evidence to influence policy and practice change around the issue of unpaid care work. In Malawi, three research methodologies were used, including qualitative participatory research and quantitative […]

Book

Social Survey Methods: A field guide for development workers

01/01/1991

2 documents

132 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Well-organised and cost-effective surveys provide vital information for planning development projects. Social Survey Methods uses straightforward language to guide the reader through the choice of an appropriate, affordable research method, the implementation of the research, and how to communicate the findings to key decision-makers, community organisations and other interested parties.

Briefing paper

Made in Myanmar: Entrenched poverty or decent jobs for garment workers?

09/12/2015

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In Myanmar, the garment industry is booming thanks to an upsurge in investment by international brands, but garment workers are facing tough conditions. According to new research from Oxfam and labour rights groups in Myanmar, garment workers are working up to 11 hours a day, six days a week, but remain trapped in poverty. Following […]

Journal article

Using digital storytelling as a source of empowerment for rural women in Benin

05/11/2019

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using digital storytelling as a source of empowerment for rural women in Benin

Keywords

Overview

Digital storytelling offers a combination of traditional storytelling and new technologies that is attracting attention from feminist researchers aiming to co-create research in empowering ways for participants, allowing them to collaborate, build shared awareness of issues, and share their priority issues with decision-makers and power-holders. This article focuses on digital storytelling in research into the […]

Journal article

Gender violence in schools: taking the ‘girls-as-victims’ discourse forward

01/03/2007

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender violence in schools: taking the ‘girls-as-victims’ discourse forward

Keywords

Overview

This paper draws attention to the gendered nature of violence in schools. Recent recognition that schools can be violent places has tended to ignore the fact that many such acts originate in unequal and antagonistic gender relations, which are tolerated and ‘normalised’ by everyday school structures and processes. After examining some key concepts and definitions, […]

Journal article

‘Show the world to women and they can do it’: Southern Fair Trade Enterprises as agents of empowerment

23/03/2012

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Show the world to women and they can do it’: Southern Fair Trade Enterprises as agents of empowerment

Keywords

Overview

This article draws on research with women handicraft producers in Bangladesh in order to analyse processes of empowerment. It explores the practices and social relationships embedded in the activities of four Southern Fair Trade Enterprises (SFTEs). Attention is drawn to the kinds of change which the women producers feel they are achieving and how such […]

Journal article

Population policy and reproductive choice in South Asia

01/05/1993

2 pages long

Free access through journal website

Population policy and reproductive choice in South Asia

Keywords

Overview

In September 1992 a workshop was held in Oxford, bringing together activists, researchers and academics with the joint aims of sharing diverse perspectives on South Asia’s population policies as well as revising a research proposal on all aspects of women’s reproductive health. The most tangible outcome of the workshop was a proposal for a project […]

Journal article

We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

01/03/2000

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

Keywords

Overview

A team of researchers talked to people living in poverty in Ethiopia to ascertain what stops them from gaining access to affordable, good quality basic health-care services, reproductive health-care services, and primary education. The research findings shed new light on the linkages between limited access to basic services and poverty, low incomes, insecure livelihoods, and […]

Journal article

Engendering adaptation to climate variability in Gujarat, India

01/03/2009

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Engendering adaptation to climate variability in Gujarat, India

Keywords

Overview

Most policy makers and practitioners have now started to recognise the different ways in which climate change impacts on poor, vulnerable, and socially excluded women and men. However, making adaptation policies and programmes sensitive to gender issues does not simply mean ‘adding on’ a concern for women. It also requires a nuanced understanding of gendered […]

Showing 463 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Diasporas as ‘agents of development’: transforming brain drain into brain gain? The Dutch example

01/06/2007

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article is based on research that explored and analysed the potential role of diasporas in development aid in the Netherlands. The research adopted the hypothesis that development agencies could benefit from the knowledge, skills, and views of diasporas as ‘agents of development’ and thereby make aid more effective and sustainable. Data were derived from […]

Evaluation report

WE-Care Malawi Programme Report: Linking unpaid care work and mobile value-added services in Malawi

02/11/2016

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Malawi was one of the six countries in which Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme was implemented. In its first phase (2014-2016), WE-Care aimed to build evidence to influence policy and practice change around the issue of unpaid care work. In Malawi, three research methodologies were used, including qualitative participatory research and quantitative […]

Book

Social Survey Methods: A field guide for development workers

01/01/1991

2 documents

132 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Well-organised and cost-effective surveys provide vital information for planning development projects. Social Survey Methods uses straightforward language to guide the reader through the choice of an appropriate, affordable research method, the implementation of the research, and how to communicate the findings to key decision-makers, community organisations and other interested parties.

Briefing paper

Made in Myanmar: Entrenched poverty or decent jobs for garment workers?

09/12/2015

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In Myanmar, the garment industry is booming thanks to an upsurge in investment by international brands, but garment workers are facing tough conditions. According to new research from Oxfam and labour rights groups in Myanmar, garment workers are working up to 11 hours a day, six days a week, but remain trapped in poverty. Following […]

Journal article

Using digital storytelling as a source of empowerment for rural women in Benin

05/11/2019

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using digital storytelling as a source of empowerment for rural women in Benin

Keywords

Overview

Digital storytelling offers a combination of traditional storytelling and new technologies that is attracting attention from feminist researchers aiming to co-create research in empowering ways for participants, allowing them to collaborate, build shared awareness of issues, and share their priority issues with decision-makers and power-holders. This article focuses on digital storytelling in research into the […]

Journal article

Gender violence in schools: taking the ‘girls-as-victims’ discourse forward

01/03/2007

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender violence in schools: taking the ‘girls-as-victims’ discourse forward

Keywords

Overview

This paper draws attention to the gendered nature of violence in schools. Recent recognition that schools can be violent places has tended to ignore the fact that many such acts originate in unequal and antagonistic gender relations, which are tolerated and ‘normalised’ by everyday school structures and processes. After examining some key concepts and definitions, […]

Journal article

‘Show the world to women and they can do it’: Southern Fair Trade Enterprises as agents of empowerment

23/03/2012

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Show the world to women and they can do it’: Southern Fair Trade Enterprises as agents of empowerment

Keywords

Overview

This article draws on research with women handicraft producers in Bangladesh in order to analyse processes of empowerment. It explores the practices and social relationships embedded in the activities of four Southern Fair Trade Enterprises (SFTEs). Attention is drawn to the kinds of change which the women producers feel they are achieving and how such […]

Journal article

Population policy and reproductive choice in South Asia

01/05/1993

2 pages long

Free access through journal website

Population policy and reproductive choice in South Asia

Keywords

Overview

In September 1992 a workshop was held in Oxford, bringing together activists, researchers and academics with the joint aims of sharing diverse perspectives on South Asia’s population policies as well as revising a research proposal on all aspects of women’s reproductive health. The most tangible outcome of the workshop was a proposal for a project […]

Journal article

We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

01/03/2000

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

Keywords

Overview

A team of researchers talked to people living in poverty in Ethiopia to ascertain what stops them from gaining access to affordable, good quality basic health-care services, reproductive health-care services, and primary education. The research findings shed new light on the linkages between limited access to basic services and poverty, low incomes, insecure livelihoods, and […]

Journal article

Engendering adaptation to climate variability in Gujarat, India

01/03/2009

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Engendering adaptation to climate variability in Gujarat, India

Keywords

Overview

Most policy makers and practitioners have now started to recognise the different ways in which climate change impacts on poor, vulnerable, and socially excluded women and men. However, making adaptation policies and programmes sensitive to gender issues does not simply mean ‘adding on’ a concern for women. It also requires a nuanced understanding of gendered […]