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Women’s Collective Action in Agricultural Markets: Synthesis of preliminary findings from Ethiopia, Mali, and Tanzania

01/10/2011

1 documents

57 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This paper presents an analytical framework and preliminary findings from the second phase of the Researching Women’s Collective Action project. It documents participatory field research in Ethiopia, Mali, and Tanzania, covering 15 agricultural sub-sectors. Findings are reported on women smallholders’ motivations and capacities to engage in collective action, as well as on gender-based patterns and […]

Journal article

Social capital, NGOs, and development: a Guatemalan case study

01/04/2004

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Social researchers continue to grasp for critical factors that foster or impede the development of social capital. This article highlights some of these factors based on an investigation of a low-income urban settlement in Guatemala. Community activists and leaders, elected representatives, regional government service providers, local residents, NGO directors and staff, and other key informants […]

Research report

Measuring Social Norms on Unpaid Care Work: Insights from Oxfam’s household care surveys

12/10/2021

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This paper describes the approach to measuring social norms related to unpaid care work in Oxfam’s Household Care Survey (HCS), and discusses benefits and limitations of this approach. The HCS is a quantitative research tool developed through Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme. It measures adults’ and children’s time spent on unpaid care work […]

Journal article

Global food-price shocks and poor people – an overview

02/06/2011

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

Hunger has been on the rise since the mid-1990s, due to a variety of factors, including a lack of policy attention and a sense of complacency generated by long-term real declines in food prices. Food prices rose sharply after 2006, and there is considerable controversy over the reasons why. Analysts have pointed to a number of […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Finding Ways Together to Build Resilience: The Vulnerability and Risk Assessment methodology

15/01/2016

1 documents

53 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s Vulnerability and Risk Assessment (VRA) tool develops a holistic, landscape-wide understanding of vulnerability and links up actors across various levels of governance to jointly identify and analyse root causes of vulnerabilities for distinct social groups and later design programmes and risk reduction initiatives accordingly, ensuring that they are equitable, gender-sensitive and effective. Attention to […]

Research report

Youth Participation and Global Citizenship: Challenges and Recommendations for Future Youth School Forums

08/11/2016

1 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

National analyses show that youth participation is often diminished within the policy and practice of education. In both formal and informal education there are few opportunities for developing skills in leadership, motivation, engagement, self-expression, creativity, or entrepreneurship. It is also noticeable in a number of countries that there are no opportunities for teacher training on […]

Journal article

Building assets to reduce vulnerability: microfinance provision by a rural working people’s union in Mexico

01/04/2004

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Proyecto Tequisquiapan (PT) provides protective microfinance services in a small region of rural Mexico, including, importantly, open access to deposit facilities. The authors report on new research which examined PT’s record in enabling people with different degrees of vulnerability to build assets and protect themselves from both sudden shocks and more predictable demands for lump […]

Discussion paper

Gender Training for Development Policy Implementers

01/01/1999

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The failure of many projects to address gender inequalities has led development organisations to provide gender training courses for staff, as a strategy for addressing the problem. This paper is based on the findings of research commissioned by the Department for International Development (DFID) into gender training in some UK-based development organisations. This paper gives […]

Journal article

Images and icons: harnessing the power of the media to reduce sex-selective abortion in India

01/11/2007

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Images and icons: harnessing the power of the media to reduce sex-selective abortion in India

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Overview

Sex-selective abortion is an increasing problem in India. Previous awareness-raising efforts on the issue have focused largely on the act of abortion, without substantively addressing the context that creates a demand for sex selection. The BBC World Service Trust conducted a research study on how best to use the media to address the issue, and […]

Journal article

Food crisis, small-scale farmers, and markets in the Andes

12/06/2011

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

In the Andean region, national policy responses to the 2007–08 food-price crisis emphasised reducing pressures on consumers, and particularly on urban populations. In Bolivia, the prices of all domestic and imported food tubers and grains rose dramatically in major markets. Unexpectedly, evidence from focus groups and field research demonstrates that even in remote regions where […]

Showing 462 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Women’s Collective Action in Agricultural Markets: Synthesis of preliminary findings from Ethiopia, Mali, and Tanzania

01/10/2011

1 documents

57 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper presents an analytical framework and preliminary findings from the second phase of the Researching Women’s Collective Action project. It documents participatory field research in Ethiopia, Mali, and Tanzania, covering 15 agricultural sub-sectors. Findings are reported on women smallholders’ motivations and capacities to engage in collective action, as well as on gender-based patterns and […]

Journal article

Social capital, NGOs, and development: a Guatemalan case study

01/04/2004

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Social researchers continue to grasp for critical factors that foster or impede the development of social capital. This article highlights some of these factors based on an investigation of a low-income urban settlement in Guatemala. Community activists and leaders, elected representatives, regional government service providers, local residents, NGO directors and staff, and other key informants […]

Research report

Measuring Social Norms on Unpaid Care Work: Insights from Oxfam’s household care surveys

12/10/2021

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper describes the approach to measuring social norms related to unpaid care work in Oxfam’s Household Care Survey (HCS), and discusses benefits and limitations of this approach. The HCS is a quantitative research tool developed through Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme. It measures adults’ and children’s time spent on unpaid care work […]

Journal article

Global food-price shocks and poor people – an overview

02/06/2011

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Hunger has been on the rise since the mid-1990s, due to a variety of factors, including a lack of policy attention and a sense of complacency generated by long-term real declines in food prices. Food prices rose sharply after 2006, and there is considerable controversy over the reasons why. Analysts have pointed to a number of […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Finding Ways Together to Build Resilience: The Vulnerability and Risk Assessment methodology

15/01/2016

1 documents

53 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s Vulnerability and Risk Assessment (VRA) tool develops a holistic, landscape-wide understanding of vulnerability and links up actors across various levels of governance to jointly identify and analyse root causes of vulnerabilities for distinct social groups and later design programmes and risk reduction initiatives accordingly, ensuring that they are equitable, gender-sensitive and effective. Attention to […]

Research report

Youth Participation and Global Citizenship: Challenges and Recommendations for Future Youth School Forums

08/11/2016

1 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

National analyses show that youth participation is often diminished within the policy and practice of education. In both formal and informal education there are few opportunities for developing skills in leadership, motivation, engagement, self-expression, creativity, or entrepreneurship. It is also noticeable in a number of countries that there are no opportunities for teacher training on […]

Journal article

Building assets to reduce vulnerability: microfinance provision by a rural working people’s union in Mexico

01/04/2004

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Proyecto Tequisquiapan (PT) provides protective microfinance services in a small region of rural Mexico, including, importantly, open access to deposit facilities. The authors report on new research which examined PT’s record in enabling people with different degrees of vulnerability to build assets and protect themselves from both sudden shocks and more predictable demands for lump […]

Discussion paper

Gender Training for Development Policy Implementers

01/01/1999

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The failure of many projects to address gender inequalities has led development organisations to provide gender training courses for staff, as a strategy for addressing the problem. This paper is based on the findings of research commissioned by the Department for International Development (DFID) into gender training in some UK-based development organisations. This paper gives […]

Journal article

Images and icons: harnessing the power of the media to reduce sex-selective abortion in India

01/11/2007

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Images and icons: harnessing the power of the media to reduce sex-selective abortion in India

Keywords

Overview

Sex-selective abortion is an increasing problem in India. Previous awareness-raising efforts on the issue have focused largely on the act of abortion, without substantively addressing the context that creates a demand for sex selection. The BBC World Service Trust conducted a research study on how best to use the media to address the issue, and […]

Journal article

Food crisis, small-scale farmers, and markets in the Andes

12/06/2011

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In the Andean region, national policy responses to the 2007–08 food-price crisis emphasised reducing pressures on consumers, and particularly on urban populations. In Bolivia, the prices of all domestic and imported food tubers and grains rose dramatically in major markets. Unexpectedly, evidence from focus groups and field research demonstrates that even in remote regions where […]

Showing 462 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Women’s Collective Action in Agricultural Markets: Synthesis of preliminary findings from Ethiopia, Mali, and Tanzania

01/10/2011

1 documents

57 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper presents an analytical framework and preliminary findings from the second phase of the Researching Women’s Collective Action project. It documents participatory field research in Ethiopia, Mali, and Tanzania, covering 15 agricultural sub-sectors. Findings are reported on women smallholders’ motivations and capacities to engage in collective action, as well as on gender-based patterns and […]

Journal article

Social capital, NGOs, and development: a Guatemalan case study

01/04/2004

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Social researchers continue to grasp for critical factors that foster or impede the development of social capital. This article highlights some of these factors based on an investigation of a low-income urban settlement in Guatemala. Community activists and leaders, elected representatives, regional government service providers, local residents, NGO directors and staff, and other key informants […]

Research report

Measuring Social Norms on Unpaid Care Work: Insights from Oxfam’s household care surveys

12/10/2021

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper describes the approach to measuring social norms related to unpaid care work in Oxfam’s Household Care Survey (HCS), and discusses benefits and limitations of this approach. The HCS is a quantitative research tool developed through Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme. It measures adults’ and children’s time spent on unpaid care work […]

Journal article

Global food-price shocks and poor people – an overview

02/06/2011

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Hunger has been on the rise since the mid-1990s, due to a variety of factors, including a lack of policy attention and a sense of complacency generated by long-term real declines in food prices. Food prices rose sharply after 2006, and there is considerable controversy over the reasons why. Analysts have pointed to a number of […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Finding Ways Together to Build Resilience: The Vulnerability and Risk Assessment methodology

15/01/2016

1 documents

53 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s Vulnerability and Risk Assessment (VRA) tool develops a holistic, landscape-wide understanding of vulnerability and links up actors across various levels of governance to jointly identify and analyse root causes of vulnerabilities for distinct social groups and later design programmes and risk reduction initiatives accordingly, ensuring that they are equitable, gender-sensitive and effective. Attention to […]

Research report

Youth Participation and Global Citizenship: Challenges and Recommendations for Future Youth School Forums

08/11/2016

1 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

National analyses show that youth participation is often diminished within the policy and practice of education. In both formal and informal education there are few opportunities for developing skills in leadership, motivation, engagement, self-expression, creativity, or entrepreneurship. It is also noticeable in a number of countries that there are no opportunities for teacher training on […]

Journal article

Building assets to reduce vulnerability: microfinance provision by a rural working people’s union in Mexico

01/04/2004

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Proyecto Tequisquiapan (PT) provides protective microfinance services in a small region of rural Mexico, including, importantly, open access to deposit facilities. The authors report on new research which examined PT’s record in enabling people with different degrees of vulnerability to build assets and protect themselves from both sudden shocks and more predictable demands for lump […]

Discussion paper

Gender Training for Development Policy Implementers

01/01/1999

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The failure of many projects to address gender inequalities has led development organisations to provide gender training courses for staff, as a strategy for addressing the problem. This paper is based on the findings of research commissioned by the Department for International Development (DFID) into gender training in some UK-based development organisations. This paper gives […]

Journal article

Images and icons: harnessing the power of the media to reduce sex-selective abortion in India

01/11/2007

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Images and icons: harnessing the power of the media to reduce sex-selective abortion in India

Keywords

Overview

Sex-selective abortion is an increasing problem in India. Previous awareness-raising efforts on the issue have focused largely on the act of abortion, without substantively addressing the context that creates a demand for sex selection. The BBC World Service Trust conducted a research study on how best to use the media to address the issue, and […]

Journal article

Food crisis, small-scale farmers, and markets in the Andes

12/06/2011

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In the Andean region, national policy responses to the 2007–08 food-price crisis emphasised reducing pressures on consumers, and particularly on urban populations. In Bolivia, the prices of all domestic and imported food tubers and grains rose dramatically in major markets. Unexpectedly, evidence from focus groups and field research demonstrates that even in remote regions where […]