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Case study

Beyond Access for Girls and Boys: How to achieve good-quality, gender-equitable education

01/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This is the first of nine papers in a series on Education and Gender Equality, which have been developed from the work of the Beyond Access: Gender, Education, and Development, project.1 The focus of the series is on how to ensure not only equal access to a basic education for boys and girls, but that […]

Case study

Girls’ Education in South Asia

19/12/2006

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Girls' education

Overview

Because of deep-rooted gender inequalities, and because of the large population of South Asia, the region has the highest number of out-of-school girls in the world. This paper outlines some of the issues confronting practitioners, policy makers, and researchers in girls’ education in South Asia, and explores what they can do to move towards high-quality […]

Discussion paper

Women in Rural Zaire and Upper Volta: Improving methods of skill acquisition

01/11/1977

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Much has been written and said about the fuller, more equal and less onerous role which rural women, especially in African countries should play in the context of national socio-economic development and about the policies and programmes to be pursued to bring this about. The starting point of this study is the observations and analysis […]

Discussion paper

Pastoral Livelihoods in Danger: Cattle disease, drought, and wildlife conservation in Mursiland, south-western Ethiopia

01/01/1995

1 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report is the outcome of a field study carried out with cattle herders in northern Mursiland, Ethiopia, on behalf of Oxfam GB. Its immediate purpose was to seek the views of local herd-owners on how the pastoral economy could be strengthened, without external intervention, in a remote area prone to cattle disease and drought. […]

Book

Video for Development: A casebook from Vietnam

01/01/1998

1 documents

113 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In an experiment in Vietnam in 1995, a team of NGO workers were trained in the use of video for participatory community development. The team then collaborated with local people to make three programmes about issues which the villagers identified themselves. The process of developing programmes, from research to filming and editing, encouraged the villagers […]

Book

Cities of Hunger: Urban malnutrition in developing countries

01/01/1988

1 documents

128 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

By the end of the century, half the world’s population will live in cities, so the need to improve the conditions of life of the urban poor is becoming increasingly urgent. A specific problem for poor city-dwellers, which to date has been under-researched, is that of providing sufficient food for themselves and their children. Cities […]

Book

Gender, Education, and Training

01/01/2004

1 documents

83 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This collection of articles by development workers and researchers focuses on learning opportunities for women offered by education and training. There is a continuing imbalance in educational participation – women make up an estimated two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people – and writers reflect on the causes and consequences of this. While this lack of […]

Book

Gender, Development, and Marriage

01/01/2003

1 documents

105 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Marriage is now acknowledged as an institution of key relevance to development policy, practice, and research. The vast majority of women and men get married at least once, and in many places life outside marriage is almost impossible for either sex to contemplate. Yet marriage as experienced by men is very different from marriage for […]

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 […]

Discussion paper

Access to Health and Education Services in Ethiopia: Supply, demand, and government policy

01/01/2001

1 documents

105 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report analyses the findings of an extensive research project conducted by Oxfam in Ethiopia. In the context of Ethiopia’s rising external debt, and the new decentralised system of regional governance, members of four communities, both rural and urban, were interviewed in depth about the problems that they encounter in trying to access basic health […]

Showing 455 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

Beyond Access for Girls and Boys: How to achieve good-quality, gender-equitable education

01/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This is the first of nine papers in a series on Education and Gender Equality, which have been developed from the work of the Beyond Access: Gender, Education, and Development, project.1 The focus of the series is on how to ensure not only equal access to a basic education for boys and girls, but that […]

Case study

Girls’ Education in South Asia

19/12/2006

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Girls' education

Overview

Because of deep-rooted gender inequalities, and because of the large population of South Asia, the region has the highest number of out-of-school girls in the world. This paper outlines some of the issues confronting practitioners, policy makers, and researchers in girls’ education in South Asia, and explores what they can do to move towards high-quality […]

Discussion paper

Women in Rural Zaire and Upper Volta: Improving methods of skill acquisition

01/11/1977

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Much has been written and said about the fuller, more equal and less onerous role which rural women, especially in African countries should play in the context of national socio-economic development and about the policies and programmes to be pursued to bring this about. The starting point of this study is the observations and analysis […]

Discussion paper

Pastoral Livelihoods in Danger: Cattle disease, drought, and wildlife conservation in Mursiland, south-western Ethiopia

01/01/1995

1 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report is the outcome of a field study carried out with cattle herders in northern Mursiland, Ethiopia, on behalf of Oxfam GB. Its immediate purpose was to seek the views of local herd-owners on how the pastoral economy could be strengthened, without external intervention, in a remote area prone to cattle disease and drought. […]

Book

Video for Development: A casebook from Vietnam

01/01/1998

1 documents

113 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In an experiment in Vietnam in 1995, a team of NGO workers were trained in the use of video for participatory community development. The team then collaborated with local people to make three programmes about issues which the villagers identified themselves. The process of developing programmes, from research to filming and editing, encouraged the villagers […]

Book

Cities of Hunger: Urban malnutrition in developing countries

01/01/1988

1 documents

128 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

By the end of the century, half the world’s population will live in cities, so the need to improve the conditions of life of the urban poor is becoming increasingly urgent. A specific problem for poor city-dwellers, which to date has been under-researched, is that of providing sufficient food for themselves and their children. Cities […]

Book

Gender, Education, and Training

01/01/2004

1 documents

83 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This collection of articles by development workers and researchers focuses on learning opportunities for women offered by education and training. There is a continuing imbalance in educational participation – women make up an estimated two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people – and writers reflect on the causes and consequences of this. While this lack of […]

Book

Gender, Development, and Marriage

01/01/2003

1 documents

105 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Marriage is now acknowledged as an institution of key relevance to development policy, practice, and research. The vast majority of women and men get married at least once, and in many places life outside marriage is almost impossible for either sex to contemplate. Yet marriage as experienced by men is very different from marriage for […]

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 […]

Discussion paper

Access to Health and Education Services in Ethiopia: Supply, demand, and government policy

01/01/2001

1 documents

105 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report analyses the findings of an extensive research project conducted by Oxfam in Ethiopia. In the context of Ethiopia’s rising external debt, and the new decentralised system of regional governance, members of four communities, both rural and urban, were interviewed in depth about the problems that they encounter in trying to access basic health […]

Showing 455 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

Beyond Access for Girls and Boys: How to achieve good-quality, gender-equitable education

01/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This is the first of nine papers in a series on Education and Gender Equality, which have been developed from the work of the Beyond Access: Gender, Education, and Development, project.1 The focus of the series is on how to ensure not only equal access to a basic education for boys and girls, but that […]

Case study

Girls’ Education in South Asia

19/12/2006

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Girls' education

Overview

Because of deep-rooted gender inequalities, and because of the large population of South Asia, the region has the highest number of out-of-school girls in the world. This paper outlines some of the issues confronting practitioners, policy makers, and researchers in girls’ education in South Asia, and explores what they can do to move towards high-quality […]

Discussion paper

Women in Rural Zaire and Upper Volta: Improving methods of skill acquisition

01/11/1977

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Much has been written and said about the fuller, more equal and less onerous role which rural women, especially in African countries should play in the context of national socio-economic development and about the policies and programmes to be pursued to bring this about. The starting point of this study is the observations and analysis […]

Discussion paper

Pastoral Livelihoods in Danger: Cattle disease, drought, and wildlife conservation in Mursiland, south-western Ethiopia

01/01/1995

1 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report is the outcome of a field study carried out with cattle herders in northern Mursiland, Ethiopia, on behalf of Oxfam GB. Its immediate purpose was to seek the views of local herd-owners on how the pastoral economy could be strengthened, without external intervention, in a remote area prone to cattle disease and drought. […]

Book

Video for Development: A casebook from Vietnam

01/01/1998

1 documents

113 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In an experiment in Vietnam in 1995, a team of NGO workers were trained in the use of video for participatory community development. The team then collaborated with local people to make three programmes about issues which the villagers identified themselves. The process of developing programmes, from research to filming and editing, encouraged the villagers […]

Book

Cities of Hunger: Urban malnutrition in developing countries

01/01/1988

1 documents

128 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

By the end of the century, half the world’s population will live in cities, so the need to improve the conditions of life of the urban poor is becoming increasingly urgent. A specific problem for poor city-dwellers, which to date has been under-researched, is that of providing sufficient food for themselves and their children. Cities […]

Book

Gender, Education, and Training

01/01/2004

1 documents

83 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This collection of articles by development workers and researchers focuses on learning opportunities for women offered by education and training. There is a continuing imbalance in educational participation – women make up an estimated two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people – and writers reflect on the causes and consequences of this. While this lack of […]

Book

Gender, Development, and Marriage

01/01/2003

1 documents

105 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Marriage is now acknowledged as an institution of key relevance to development policy, practice, and research. The vast majority of women and men get married at least once, and in many places life outside marriage is almost impossible for either sex to contemplate. Yet marriage as experienced by men is very different from marriage for […]

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 […]

Discussion paper

Access to Health and Education Services in Ethiopia: Supply, demand, and government policy

01/01/2001

1 documents

105 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report analyses the findings of an extensive research project conducted by Oxfam in Ethiopia. In the context of Ethiopia’s rising external debt, and the new decentralised system of regional governance, members of four communities, both rural and urban, were interviewed in depth about the problems that they encounter in trying to access basic health […]