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Discussion paper

Men’s Involvement in Gender and Development Policy and Practice: Beyond rhetoric

01/01/2001

1 documents

85 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In what sectors and contexts should work on gender and development involve men as beneficiaries? And what are the issues confronting men who work in development projects that are committed to promoting gender equality? These questions were addressed by contributors to a seminar hosted by Oxfam GB, with the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women […]

Briefing note

Born to Lead: Recommendations on increasing women’s participation in South Sudan’s peace processes

30/01/2020

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

South Sudanese women have been championing inclusive peace and demanding their meaningful participation at all levels of decision making. However, women continue to confront obstacles to maintaining and increasing space to contribute – particularly in formal decision-making arenas. This brief analyses the modalities of women’s participation and influence in South Sudan’s peace processes that culminated […]

Journal article

Gender and the global food-price crisis

05/06/2011

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender and the global food-price crisis

Keywords

Overview

This article argues that it is imperative to take gender into consideration when evaluating the impact of the global food-price crisis and developing crisis-related policies. Consideration of gender is important, given the key role that women play in agriculture, the disproportionate impact that the crisis has on women, and the potential role that women can […]

Technical briefing

WASH in Schools: Liberia’s first step to recovery from Ebola

02/03/2015

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Schools are gradually reopening in Liberia after having been closed for six months in an attempt to curb the spread of Ebola. However, the dire lack of clean water and sanitation (WASH) in educational facilities is a major concern for Liberia’s government. At the request of President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a ‘WASH in […]

Journal article

Gender, efficiency, poverty reduction, and empowerment: reflections from an agriculture and credit programme in Tamil Nadu, India

01/03/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, efficiency, poverty reduction, and empowerment: reflections from an agriculture and credit programme in Tamil Nadu, India

Keywords

Overview

Through an analysis of the impact of two phases of a bio-agriculture and credit project of M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) in southern India, this article argues that there is no automatic link between agriculture and credit projects’ goals of increasing women’s efficiency, reducing women’s poverty, and women’s empowerment. It posits that these links […]

Guidelines and toolkits

The Climate Forecast Model: Lessons from ACCRA Uganda

10/09/2014

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In Uganda, roughly 70 percent of households are dependent on rain-fed agriculture. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization determined that the drop in the growth of the Ugandan economy from 6.6 percent in 2004–05 to 5.3 percent in 2005–06 was largely due to the variability of the weather, specifically its impact on agriculture. It is […]

Evaluation report

The Power of Local Action: Learning and Exploring Possibilities for Local Humanitarian Leadership

29/04/2020

3 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Power of Local Action is an Oxfam learning compendium on local humanitarian leadership (LHL) that arose out of learning events and global meetings held in 2019 in Nairobi, Mexico City, Jakarta and Istanbul, and draws from the recommendations of partners and Oxfam staff as well as more recent research. The aim is to provide, for […]

Briefing paper

Ending the R&D Crisis in Public Health: Promoting pro-poor medical innovation

13/11/2008

6 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Spanish

Keywords

Access to medicines

Overview

Diseases that disproportionately affect the developing world cause immense suffering and ill health. Medical innovation has the potential to deliver new medicines, vaccines, and diagnostics to overcome these diseases, yet few treatments have emerged. Current efforts to resolve the crisis are inadequate: financing for research and development (R&D) is insufficient, uncoordinated, and mostly tied to […]

Journal article

Matching services with local preferences: managing primary education services in a rural district of India

01/02/1999

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In India, the pressing concern in education is with bringing in at least 32 million children estimated to be out of school, to meet the goal of Universal Elementary Education (UEE). Support for decentralisation of public services is widespread because of the equity and efficiency benefits associated with it. In particular, decentralisation is seen to […]

Journal article

Remarriage after spousal death: options facing widows and implications for livelihood security

01/03/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Remarriage after spousal death: options facing widows and implications for livelihood security

Keywords

Overview

Remarriage following the death of a spouse has important implications for individual and household livelihoods in rural areas. Research in the Caprivi Region of Namibia found that while widowers commonly remarry, the ‘traditional’ option open to women through widow inheritance has been outlawed. While forcing widows off the land is now prohibited, socio-cultural pressures, the […]

Showing 462 matching results from Policy & Practice

Discussion paper

Men’s Involvement in Gender and Development Policy and Practice: Beyond rhetoric

01/01/2001

1 documents

85 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In what sectors and contexts should work on gender and development involve men as beneficiaries? And what are the issues confronting men who work in development projects that are committed to promoting gender equality? These questions were addressed by contributors to a seminar hosted by Oxfam GB, with the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women […]

Briefing note

Born to Lead: Recommendations on increasing women’s participation in South Sudan’s peace processes

30/01/2020

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

South Sudanese women have been championing inclusive peace and demanding their meaningful participation at all levels of decision making. However, women continue to confront obstacles to maintaining and increasing space to contribute – particularly in formal decision-making arenas. This brief analyses the modalities of women’s participation and influence in South Sudan’s peace processes that culminated […]

Journal article

Gender and the global food-price crisis

05/06/2011

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender and the global food-price crisis

Keywords

Overview

This article argues that it is imperative to take gender into consideration when evaluating the impact of the global food-price crisis and developing crisis-related policies. Consideration of gender is important, given the key role that women play in agriculture, the disproportionate impact that the crisis has on women, and the potential role that women can […]

Technical briefing

WASH in Schools: Liberia’s first step to recovery from Ebola

02/03/2015

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Schools are gradually reopening in Liberia after having been closed for six months in an attempt to curb the spread of Ebola. However, the dire lack of clean water and sanitation (WASH) in educational facilities is a major concern for Liberia’s government. At the request of President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a ‘WASH in […]

Journal article

Gender, efficiency, poverty reduction, and empowerment: reflections from an agriculture and credit programme in Tamil Nadu, India

01/03/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, efficiency, poverty reduction, and empowerment: reflections from an agriculture and credit programme in Tamil Nadu, India

Keywords

Overview

Through an analysis of the impact of two phases of a bio-agriculture and credit project of M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) in southern India, this article argues that there is no automatic link between agriculture and credit projects’ goals of increasing women’s efficiency, reducing women’s poverty, and women’s empowerment. It posits that these links […]

Guidelines and toolkits

The Climate Forecast Model: Lessons from ACCRA Uganda

10/09/2014

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In Uganda, roughly 70 percent of households are dependent on rain-fed agriculture. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization determined that the drop in the growth of the Ugandan economy from 6.6 percent in 2004–05 to 5.3 percent in 2005–06 was largely due to the variability of the weather, specifically its impact on agriculture. It is […]

Evaluation report

The Power of Local Action: Learning and Exploring Possibilities for Local Humanitarian Leadership

29/04/2020

3 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Power of Local Action is an Oxfam learning compendium on local humanitarian leadership (LHL) that arose out of learning events and global meetings held in 2019 in Nairobi, Mexico City, Jakarta and Istanbul, and draws from the recommendations of partners and Oxfam staff as well as more recent research. The aim is to provide, for […]

Briefing paper

Ending the R&D Crisis in Public Health: Promoting pro-poor medical innovation

13/11/2008

6 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Spanish

Keywords

Access to medicines

Overview

Diseases that disproportionately affect the developing world cause immense suffering and ill health. Medical innovation has the potential to deliver new medicines, vaccines, and diagnostics to overcome these diseases, yet few treatments have emerged. Current efforts to resolve the crisis are inadequate: financing for research and development (R&D) is insufficient, uncoordinated, and mostly tied to […]

Journal article

Matching services with local preferences: managing primary education services in a rural district of India

01/02/1999

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In India, the pressing concern in education is with bringing in at least 32 million children estimated to be out of school, to meet the goal of Universal Elementary Education (UEE). Support for decentralisation of public services is widespread because of the equity and efficiency benefits associated with it. In particular, decentralisation is seen to […]

Journal article

Remarriage after spousal death: options facing widows and implications for livelihood security

01/03/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Remarriage after spousal death: options facing widows and implications for livelihood security

Keywords

Overview

Remarriage following the death of a spouse has important implications for individual and household livelihoods in rural areas. Research in the Caprivi Region of Namibia found that while widowers commonly remarry, the ‘traditional’ option open to women through widow inheritance has been outlawed. While forcing widows off the land is now prohibited, socio-cultural pressures, the […]

Showing 462 matching results from Policy & Practice

Discussion paper

Men’s Involvement in Gender and Development Policy and Practice: Beyond rhetoric

01/01/2001

1 documents

85 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In what sectors and contexts should work on gender and development involve men as beneficiaries? And what are the issues confronting men who work in development projects that are committed to promoting gender equality? These questions were addressed by contributors to a seminar hosted by Oxfam GB, with the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women […]

Briefing note

Born to Lead: Recommendations on increasing women’s participation in South Sudan’s peace processes

30/01/2020

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

South Sudanese women have been championing inclusive peace and demanding their meaningful participation at all levels of decision making. However, women continue to confront obstacles to maintaining and increasing space to contribute – particularly in formal decision-making arenas. This brief analyses the modalities of women’s participation and influence in South Sudan’s peace processes that culminated […]

Journal article

Gender and the global food-price crisis

05/06/2011

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender and the global food-price crisis

Keywords

Overview

This article argues that it is imperative to take gender into consideration when evaluating the impact of the global food-price crisis and developing crisis-related policies. Consideration of gender is important, given the key role that women play in agriculture, the disproportionate impact that the crisis has on women, and the potential role that women can […]

Technical briefing

WASH in Schools: Liberia’s first step to recovery from Ebola

02/03/2015

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Schools are gradually reopening in Liberia after having been closed for six months in an attempt to curb the spread of Ebola. However, the dire lack of clean water and sanitation (WASH) in educational facilities is a major concern for Liberia’s government. At the request of President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a ‘WASH in […]

Journal article

Gender, efficiency, poverty reduction, and empowerment: reflections from an agriculture and credit programme in Tamil Nadu, India

01/03/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, efficiency, poverty reduction, and empowerment: reflections from an agriculture and credit programme in Tamil Nadu, India

Keywords

Overview

Through an analysis of the impact of two phases of a bio-agriculture and credit project of M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) in southern India, this article argues that there is no automatic link between agriculture and credit projects’ goals of increasing women’s efficiency, reducing women’s poverty, and women’s empowerment. It posits that these links […]

Guidelines and toolkits

The Climate Forecast Model: Lessons from ACCRA Uganda

10/09/2014

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In Uganda, roughly 70 percent of households are dependent on rain-fed agriculture. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization determined that the drop in the growth of the Ugandan economy from 6.6 percent in 2004–05 to 5.3 percent in 2005–06 was largely due to the variability of the weather, specifically its impact on agriculture. It is […]

Evaluation report

The Power of Local Action: Learning and Exploring Possibilities for Local Humanitarian Leadership

29/04/2020

3 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Power of Local Action is an Oxfam learning compendium on local humanitarian leadership (LHL) that arose out of learning events and global meetings held in 2019 in Nairobi, Mexico City, Jakarta and Istanbul, and draws from the recommendations of partners and Oxfam staff as well as more recent research. The aim is to provide, for […]

Briefing paper

Ending the R&D Crisis in Public Health: Promoting pro-poor medical innovation

13/11/2008

6 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Spanish

Keywords

Access to medicines

Overview

Diseases that disproportionately affect the developing world cause immense suffering and ill health. Medical innovation has the potential to deliver new medicines, vaccines, and diagnostics to overcome these diseases, yet few treatments have emerged. Current efforts to resolve the crisis are inadequate: financing for research and development (R&D) is insufficient, uncoordinated, and mostly tied to […]

Journal article

Matching services with local preferences: managing primary education services in a rural district of India

01/02/1999

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In India, the pressing concern in education is with bringing in at least 32 million children estimated to be out of school, to meet the goal of Universal Elementary Education (UEE). Support for decentralisation of public services is widespread because of the equity and efficiency benefits associated with it. In particular, decentralisation is seen to […]

Journal article

Remarriage after spousal death: options facing widows and implications for livelihood security

01/03/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Remarriage after spousal death: options facing widows and implications for livelihood security

Keywords

Overview

Remarriage following the death of a spouse has important implications for individual and household livelihoods in rural areas. Research in the Caprivi Region of Namibia found that while widowers commonly remarry, the ‘traditional’ option open to women through widow inheritance has been outlawed. While forcing widows off the land is now prohibited, socio-cultural pressures, the […]