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Measuring Unpaid Care Work in Household Surveys

06/06/2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Caring for people and domestic work, such as cooking, cleaning and fetching water, is essential for personal wellbeing and survival. But across the world, care work is overwhelmingly done by women, which restricts their opportunities for education, employment, political engagement and leisure. This research case study discusses the successes and challenges of the time use […]

Briefing paper

Women and the 1%: How extreme economic inequality and gender inequality must be tackled together

11/04/2016

6 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Recent decades have seen a dramatic rise in extreme economic inequality. Those at the top of the income scale have received a disproportionate share of the gains of global growth. This risks further entrenching gender inequality and funnelling the gains from women’s labour to those already at the top. Too often women are in low […]

Journal article

Civil society and reconciliation in Southern Africa

01/06/2007

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

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This article presents some of the key findings of the Southern African Reconciliation Project (SARP). The SARP was a collaborative research project involving five Southern African NGOs in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It examined how the concept of reconciliation was understood in political and community contexts in Southern Africa and investigated the […]

Journal article

Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC’s Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh

01/06/2007

13 pages long

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Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC’s Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh

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Overview

This article draws preliminary lessons from the experience of engaging village elites in support of a BRAC programme for ultra-poor women in rural Bangladesh. It describes the origins, aims, and operation of this programme, which provides comprehensive livelihood support and productive assets to the extreme poor. Based on field research in the rural north-west, the […]

Journal article

Resistance as creation: a new sociability in Argentina

01/11/2007

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

While everyday forms of resistance are not new in Argentina, the spontaneity that characterised the insurrection on 19 and 20 December 2001 was unprecedented. It showed how the absence of leadership, co-ordination, and promise might open the doors to powerful forms of mobilisation and radical practices in direct democracy. The author suggests that in challenging […]

Journal article

Factors and motivations contributing to community volunteers’ participation in a nursery feeding project in Malawi

01/06/2008

8 pages long

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This article reports on a study to explore the factors and motivations that contribute to community volunteers’ participation in a nursery feeding project in Malawi. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with community volunteers in 14 of the 32 sites in the programme. The findings pointed to a mix of intrinsic motivations, namely a deep concern for […]

Journal article

Insights from Zambian miners for rethinking development policy and the environment

01/06/2008

8 pages long

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The world is at a critical point as humanity contemplates how its own activity is contributing to changes in the earth and atmosphere. Formidable challenges require raising fundamental questions and learning from unlikely sources. Drawing on field research conducted on the Zambian Copperbelt, this article explores how public conversations concerning differing views of reality can […]

Briefing paper

Water Dilemmas: The cascading impacts of water insecurity in a heating world

29/09/2023

5 documents

19 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

Keywords

Overview

This briefing paper presents findings from Oxfam’s recently commissioned research on climate predictions for 2040 and 2050 in the Middle East, the Horn, East and Central Africa (HECA), West Africa and Asia regions. Analyses show how temperature increases will influence water insecurity in these regions and the potential impacts on food security, the spread of […]

Briefing paper

Financing Women Farmers: The need to increase and redirect agriculture and climate adaptation resources

13/10/2017

4 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam analysis finds that governments and donors are failing to provide women farmers with relevant and adequate support for farming and adapting to climate change. Oxfam conducted research on government and donor investments in Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Tanzania. It found that funding in these countries is significantly lower than commitments that […]

Journal article

What could Development Studies be?

01/11/2008

11 pages long

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Overview

Over the past 10-15 years there has been an expansion of interest in the subject of Development Studies (DS). There are now significantly more taught courses focused on DS, and research funds are booming. However, over the same period, DS has faced sustained critiques about its essential nature. This has led us to ask: what […]

Showing 467 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Measuring Unpaid Care Work in Household Surveys

06/06/2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Caring for people and domestic work, such as cooking, cleaning and fetching water, is essential for personal wellbeing and survival. But across the world, care work is overwhelmingly done by women, which restricts their opportunities for education, employment, political engagement and leisure. This research case study discusses the successes and challenges of the time use […]

Briefing paper

Women and the 1%: How extreme economic inequality and gender inequality must be tackled together

11/04/2016

6 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Recent decades have seen a dramatic rise in extreme economic inequality. Those at the top of the income scale have received a disproportionate share of the gains of global growth. This risks further entrenching gender inequality and funnelling the gains from women’s labour to those already at the top. Too often women are in low […]

Journal article

Civil society and reconciliation in Southern Africa

01/06/2007

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article presents some of the key findings of the Southern African Reconciliation Project (SARP). The SARP was a collaborative research project involving five Southern African NGOs in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It examined how the concept of reconciliation was understood in political and community contexts in Southern Africa and investigated the […]

Journal article

Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC’s Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh

01/06/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC’s Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

This article draws preliminary lessons from the experience of engaging village elites in support of a BRAC programme for ultra-poor women in rural Bangladesh. It describes the origins, aims, and operation of this programme, which provides comprehensive livelihood support and productive assets to the extreme poor. Based on field research in the rural north-west, the […]

Journal article

Resistance as creation: a new sociability in Argentina

01/11/2007

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

While everyday forms of resistance are not new in Argentina, the spontaneity that characterised the insurrection on 19 and 20 December 2001 was unprecedented. It showed how the absence of leadership, co-ordination, and promise might open the doors to powerful forms of mobilisation and radical practices in direct democracy. The author suggests that in challenging […]

Journal article

Factors and motivations contributing to community volunteers’ participation in a nursery feeding project in Malawi

01/06/2008

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article reports on a study to explore the factors and motivations that contribute to community volunteers’ participation in a nursery feeding project in Malawi. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with community volunteers in 14 of the 32 sites in the programme. The findings pointed to a mix of intrinsic motivations, namely a deep concern for […]

Journal article

Insights from Zambian miners for rethinking development policy and the environment

01/06/2008

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The world is at a critical point as humanity contemplates how its own activity is contributing to changes in the earth and atmosphere. Formidable challenges require raising fundamental questions and learning from unlikely sources. Drawing on field research conducted on the Zambian Copperbelt, this article explores how public conversations concerning differing views of reality can […]

Briefing paper

Water Dilemmas: The cascading impacts of water insecurity in a heating world

29/09/2023

5 documents

19 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

Keywords

Overview

This briefing paper presents findings from Oxfam’s recently commissioned research on climate predictions for 2040 and 2050 in the Middle East, the Horn, East and Central Africa (HECA), West Africa and Asia regions. Analyses show how temperature increases will influence water insecurity in these regions and the potential impacts on food security, the spread of […]

Briefing paper

Financing Women Farmers: The need to increase and redirect agriculture and climate adaptation resources

13/10/2017

4 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam analysis finds that governments and donors are failing to provide women farmers with relevant and adequate support for farming and adapting to climate change. Oxfam conducted research on government and donor investments in Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Tanzania. It found that funding in these countries is significantly lower than commitments that […]

Journal article

What could Development Studies be?

01/11/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Over the past 10-15 years there has been an expansion of interest in the subject of Development Studies (DS). There are now significantly more taught courses focused on DS, and research funds are booming. However, over the same period, DS has faced sustained critiques about its essential nature. This has led us to ask: what […]

Showing 467 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Measuring Unpaid Care Work in Household Surveys

06/06/2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Caring for people and domestic work, such as cooking, cleaning and fetching water, is essential for personal wellbeing and survival. But across the world, care work is overwhelmingly done by women, which restricts their opportunities for education, employment, political engagement and leisure. This research case study discusses the successes and challenges of the time use […]

Briefing paper

Women and the 1%: How extreme economic inequality and gender inequality must be tackled together

11/04/2016

6 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Recent decades have seen a dramatic rise in extreme economic inequality. Those at the top of the income scale have received a disproportionate share of the gains of global growth. This risks further entrenching gender inequality and funnelling the gains from women’s labour to those already at the top. Too often women are in low […]

Journal article

Civil society and reconciliation in Southern Africa

01/06/2007

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article presents some of the key findings of the Southern African Reconciliation Project (SARP). The SARP was a collaborative research project involving five Southern African NGOs in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It examined how the concept of reconciliation was understood in political and community contexts in Southern Africa and investigated the […]

Journal article

Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC’s Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh

01/06/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC’s Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

This article draws preliminary lessons from the experience of engaging village elites in support of a BRAC programme for ultra-poor women in rural Bangladesh. It describes the origins, aims, and operation of this programme, which provides comprehensive livelihood support and productive assets to the extreme poor. Based on field research in the rural north-west, the […]

Journal article

Resistance as creation: a new sociability in Argentina

01/11/2007

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

While everyday forms of resistance are not new in Argentina, the spontaneity that characterised the insurrection on 19 and 20 December 2001 was unprecedented. It showed how the absence of leadership, co-ordination, and promise might open the doors to powerful forms of mobilisation and radical practices in direct democracy. The author suggests that in challenging […]

Journal article

Factors and motivations contributing to community volunteers’ participation in a nursery feeding project in Malawi

01/06/2008

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article reports on a study to explore the factors and motivations that contribute to community volunteers’ participation in a nursery feeding project in Malawi. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with community volunteers in 14 of the 32 sites in the programme. The findings pointed to a mix of intrinsic motivations, namely a deep concern for […]

Journal article

Insights from Zambian miners for rethinking development policy and the environment

01/06/2008

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The world is at a critical point as humanity contemplates how its own activity is contributing to changes in the earth and atmosphere. Formidable challenges require raising fundamental questions and learning from unlikely sources. Drawing on field research conducted on the Zambian Copperbelt, this article explores how public conversations concerning differing views of reality can […]

Briefing paper

Water Dilemmas: The cascading impacts of water insecurity in a heating world

29/09/2023

5 documents

19 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

Keywords

Overview

This briefing paper presents findings from Oxfam’s recently commissioned research on climate predictions for 2040 and 2050 in the Middle East, the Horn, East and Central Africa (HECA), West Africa and Asia regions. Analyses show how temperature increases will influence water insecurity in these regions and the potential impacts on food security, the spread of […]

Briefing paper

Financing Women Farmers: The need to increase and redirect agriculture and climate adaptation resources

13/10/2017

4 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam analysis finds that governments and donors are failing to provide women farmers with relevant and adequate support for farming and adapting to climate change. Oxfam conducted research on government and donor investments in Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Tanzania. It found that funding in these countries is significantly lower than commitments that […]

Journal article

What could Development Studies be?

01/11/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Over the past 10-15 years there has been an expansion of interest in the subject of Development Studies (DS). There are now significantly more taught courses focused on DS, and research funds are booming. However, over the same period, DS has faced sustained critiques about its essential nature. This has led us to ask: what […]