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Implementing ILO child labour convention 182: lessons from the gold-mining sector in Burkina Faso

01/02/2005

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

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This article explores the implementation of Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour in the mining sector in Burkina Faso. It highlights key lessons from a project funded by DFID and Save the Children UK and implemented by COBUFADE, a Burkinabe NGO. Children were found to be important and capable actors in the […]

Research report

Explorer les effets des initiatives d’autonomisation économique des femmes sur la violence domestique

12/09/2019

2 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Cette revue des écrits scientifiques s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une initiative de recherche portant sur l’analyse des effets de la participation à des initiatives d’autonomisation économique des femmes sur l’augmentation ou la diminution de la violence domestique. Ce projet est le fruit d’une collaboration entre Oxfam et le CRI-VIFF et vise plus particulièrement à documenter […]

Journal article

Artisanal gold mining: both a woman’s and a man’s world. A Uganda case study

09/11/2017

16 pages long

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Artisanal gold mining: both a woman’s and a man’s world. A Uganda case study

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Overview

This article is based on ActionAid research exploring the livelihoods of women artisanal miners in the Kampala Camp in Kiltumbi Sub County, Mubende District in Uganda. It shows the different ways in which mining shapes women’s lives and gender relations. The article focuses on women’s strategies in response to their situation. ActionAid has supported and […]

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

Attacking social exclusion: combining rehabilitative and preventive approaches to leprosy in Bangladesh

01/08/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Based on primary research on the applicability of social exclusion frameworks to the experiences of people with leprosy in Bangladesh, this article compares two means of intervention: health education of society, and socio-economic rehabilitation of individual patients. These interventions commonly remain distinct, but it is concluded that only by integrating the two approaches can deep-seated […]

Guidelines and toolkits

How to Analyse Change Processes

18/09/2019

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Stories of change are crucial in informing our work as activists. Yet often they are too simplistic, Robin Hood-style morality tales that exclude the messiness and accident of real life. Alternatively, they are too complex, full of caveats and impenetrable language, making it hard to read or digest lessons from them. This research guideline suggests […]

Journal article

Managing ethical standards: When rhetoric meets reality

01/06/2005

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

In the last two decades, the private sector has been placed under intensifying pressure to ensure it operates in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. Companies have moved through various phases of response, starting with a ‘deny and defend’ position, moving to ‘paying penance’ through donations and philanthropy, and currently settling on risk management through […]

Research report

Gender and Technology: A rights-based and intersectional analysis of key trends

05/05/2021

1 documents

100 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report employs an intersectional feminist framework to identify and analyze key trends related to gender and technology. It aims to provide a holistic picture of how gender and technology are embedded in and influenced by a myriad of intersecting issues and challenges that complicate how ICT for development (ICT4D) initiatives concretely impact women’s lives. […]

Briefing paper

A Europe For the Many, Not the Few: Time to reverse the course of inequality and poverty in Europe

09/09/2015

8 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Europe is facing unacceptable levels of poverty and inequality. Instead of putting people first, policy decision making is increasingly influenced by wealthy elites who bend the rules to their advantage, worsening poverty and economic inequality, while steadily and significantly eroding democratic institutions. Austerity measures and unfair tax systems across Europe are skewed in favour of […]

Journal article

Indigenous floating cultivation: a sustainable agricultural practice in the wetlands of Bangladesh

01/02/2007

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Floating-bed cultivation has proved a successful means to produce agricultural crops in various wetland areas of the world. In freshwater lakes and wetlands, vegetables, flowers, and seedlings are grown in Bangladesh using this floating cultivation technique, without any additional irrigation or chemical fertiliser. No detailed study of this indigenous cultivation technique has been published to […]

Showing 467 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Implementing ILO child labour convention 182: lessons from the gold-mining sector in Burkina Faso

01/02/2005

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the implementation of Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour in the mining sector in Burkina Faso. It highlights key lessons from a project funded by DFID and Save the Children UK and implemented by COBUFADE, a Burkinabe NGO. Children were found to be important and capable actors in the […]

Research report

Explorer les effets des initiatives d’autonomisation économique des femmes sur la violence domestique

12/09/2019

2 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Cette revue des écrits scientifiques s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une initiative de recherche portant sur l’analyse des effets de la participation à des initiatives d’autonomisation économique des femmes sur l’augmentation ou la diminution de la violence domestique. Ce projet est le fruit d’une collaboration entre Oxfam et le CRI-VIFF et vise plus particulièrement à documenter […]

Journal article

Artisanal gold mining: both a woman’s and a man’s world. A Uganda case study

09/11/2017

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Artisanal gold mining: both a woman’s and a man’s world. A Uganda case study

Keywords

Overview

This article is based on ActionAid research exploring the livelihoods of women artisanal miners in the Kampala Camp in Kiltumbi Sub County, Mubende District in Uganda. It shows the different ways in which mining shapes women’s lives and gender relations. The article focuses on women’s strategies in response to their situation. ActionAid has supported and […]

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

Attacking social exclusion: combining rehabilitative and preventive approaches to leprosy in Bangladesh

01/08/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Based on primary research on the applicability of social exclusion frameworks to the experiences of people with leprosy in Bangladesh, this article compares two means of intervention: health education of society, and socio-economic rehabilitation of individual patients. These interventions commonly remain distinct, but it is concluded that only by integrating the two approaches can deep-seated […]

Guidelines and toolkits

How to Analyse Change Processes

18/09/2019

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Stories of change are crucial in informing our work as activists. Yet often they are too simplistic, Robin Hood-style morality tales that exclude the messiness and accident of real life. Alternatively, they are too complex, full of caveats and impenetrable language, making it hard to read or digest lessons from them. This research guideline suggests […]

Journal article

Managing ethical standards: When rhetoric meets reality

01/06/2005

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In the last two decades, the private sector has been placed under intensifying pressure to ensure it operates in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. Companies have moved through various phases of response, starting with a ‘deny and defend’ position, moving to ‘paying penance’ through donations and philanthropy, and currently settling on risk management through […]

Research report

Gender and Technology: A rights-based and intersectional analysis of key trends

05/05/2021

1 documents

100 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report employs an intersectional feminist framework to identify and analyze key trends related to gender and technology. It aims to provide a holistic picture of how gender and technology are embedded in and influenced by a myriad of intersecting issues and challenges that complicate how ICT for development (ICT4D) initiatives concretely impact women’s lives. […]

Briefing paper

A Europe For the Many, Not the Few: Time to reverse the course of inequality and poverty in Europe

09/09/2015

8 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Europe is facing unacceptable levels of poverty and inequality. Instead of putting people first, policy decision making is increasingly influenced by wealthy elites who bend the rules to their advantage, worsening poverty and economic inequality, while steadily and significantly eroding democratic institutions. Austerity measures and unfair tax systems across Europe are skewed in favour of […]

Journal article

Indigenous floating cultivation: a sustainable agricultural practice in the wetlands of Bangladesh

01/02/2007

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Floating-bed cultivation has proved a successful means to produce agricultural crops in various wetland areas of the world. In freshwater lakes and wetlands, vegetables, flowers, and seedlings are grown in Bangladesh using this floating cultivation technique, without any additional irrigation or chemical fertiliser. No detailed study of this indigenous cultivation technique has been published to […]

Showing 467 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Implementing ILO child labour convention 182: lessons from the gold-mining sector in Burkina Faso

01/02/2005

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the implementation of Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour in the mining sector in Burkina Faso. It highlights key lessons from a project funded by DFID and Save the Children UK and implemented by COBUFADE, a Burkinabe NGO. Children were found to be important and capable actors in the […]

Research report

Explorer les effets des initiatives d’autonomisation économique des femmes sur la violence domestique

12/09/2019

2 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Cette revue des écrits scientifiques s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une initiative de recherche portant sur l’analyse des effets de la participation à des initiatives d’autonomisation économique des femmes sur l’augmentation ou la diminution de la violence domestique. Ce projet est le fruit d’une collaboration entre Oxfam et le CRI-VIFF et vise plus particulièrement à documenter […]

Journal article

Artisanal gold mining: both a woman’s and a man’s world. A Uganda case study

09/11/2017

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Artisanal gold mining: both a woman’s and a man’s world. A Uganda case study

Keywords

Overview

This article is based on ActionAid research exploring the livelihoods of women artisanal miners in the Kampala Camp in Kiltumbi Sub County, Mubende District in Uganda. It shows the different ways in which mining shapes women’s lives and gender relations. The article focuses on women’s strategies in response to their situation. ActionAid has supported and […]

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

Attacking social exclusion: combining rehabilitative and preventive approaches to leprosy in Bangladesh

01/08/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Based on primary research on the applicability of social exclusion frameworks to the experiences of people with leprosy in Bangladesh, this article compares two means of intervention: health education of society, and socio-economic rehabilitation of individual patients. These interventions commonly remain distinct, but it is concluded that only by integrating the two approaches can deep-seated […]

Guidelines and toolkits

How to Analyse Change Processes

18/09/2019

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Stories of change are crucial in informing our work as activists. Yet often they are too simplistic, Robin Hood-style morality tales that exclude the messiness and accident of real life. Alternatively, they are too complex, full of caveats and impenetrable language, making it hard to read or digest lessons from them. This research guideline suggests […]

Journal article

Managing ethical standards: When rhetoric meets reality

01/06/2005

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In the last two decades, the private sector has been placed under intensifying pressure to ensure it operates in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. Companies have moved through various phases of response, starting with a ‘deny and defend’ position, moving to ‘paying penance’ through donations and philanthropy, and currently settling on risk management through […]

Research report

Gender and Technology: A rights-based and intersectional analysis of key trends

05/05/2021

1 documents

100 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report employs an intersectional feminist framework to identify and analyze key trends related to gender and technology. It aims to provide a holistic picture of how gender and technology are embedded in and influenced by a myriad of intersecting issues and challenges that complicate how ICT for development (ICT4D) initiatives concretely impact women’s lives. […]

Briefing paper

A Europe For the Many, Not the Few: Time to reverse the course of inequality and poverty in Europe

09/09/2015

8 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Europe is facing unacceptable levels of poverty and inequality. Instead of putting people first, policy decision making is increasingly influenced by wealthy elites who bend the rules to their advantage, worsening poverty and economic inequality, while steadily and significantly eroding democratic institutions. Austerity measures and unfair tax systems across Europe are skewed in favour of […]

Journal article

Indigenous floating cultivation: a sustainable agricultural practice in the wetlands of Bangladesh

01/02/2007

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Floating-bed cultivation has proved a successful means to produce agricultural crops in various wetland areas of the world. In freshwater lakes and wetlands, vegetables, flowers, and seedlings are grown in Bangladesh using this floating cultivation technique, without any additional irrigation or chemical fertiliser. No detailed study of this indigenous cultivation technique has been published to […]