You searched for we-care - Page 10 of 45 - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Showing 444 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

Understanding Norms around the Gendered Divisions of Labour: Results from focus group discussions in the Philippines

28/10/2019

2 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Social norms refer to the shared expectations held by a given community. They are often held in place by social approval or rewards for conformity, and by disapproval or sanctions for transgressions. Understanding how and why social norms hold sway can provide a powerful means for understanding the gendered division of work that prevails in […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of Community-Based Primary Health Care Project in Hadhramout, Yemen

01/12/2008

2 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s four-year Community-Based Primary Health Care Project in Hadhramout, Yemen (funded by the EC) aimed to improve the health status of poor women, men and children in 24 remote villages in Sah and Sayoun districts. It aimed to achieve this through a variety of approaches including: promoting health awareness, improving the quality of promotion, and […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of the Community Based Primary Health Care Programme in Azerbaijan

01/08/2008

2 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam GB has been implementing the ‘Community based primary health care’ programme in central Azerbaijan since 2001, covering 43 villages in Barda, Ter ter, Goranboy and Yevlakh districts. The programme seeks to improve health in rural communities by making first-line primary health care available at village level. Participatory approaches are used (management by Community Health […]

Journal article

Alternatives to residential care for children

01/05/1994

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Institutional care for children separated from their family (for whatever reason) continues to be the first choice of governments of developing countries. The long-term consequences of institutionalisation can be severe and in 1991, Save the Children Fund (UK) (SCFUK) initiated a research programme to examine the experience SCF and its partners have had of working […]

Journal article

Intact or in tatters? family care of older women and men in urban Mexico

01/07/2000

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Intact or in tatters? family care of older women and men in urban Mexico

Keywords

Overview

This article asks how family relationships affect the living conditions of low-income elderly people in urban Mexico. There is little State provision of accommodation for the elderly, forcing older people to rely on their families for care. Yet many poorer families cannot afford to provide care, and some are unwilling to do so. In addition, […]

Journal article

Maternal employment and fatherhood: what influences paternal involvement in child-care work in Uganda?

01/07/2009

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Maternal employment and fatherhood: what influences paternal involvement in child-care work in Uganda?

Keywords

Overview

Two hundred and twenty-two working fathers with working wives and 246 working mothers with working husbands were randomly sampled and interviewed to ascertain the circumstances under which fathers in Uganda are getting involved in child-care tasks (which traditionally in Uganda are a women’s domain) as a result of increasing maternal involvement in paid employment. Paternal […]

Journal article

Women’s migration and the crisis of care: Grandmothers caring for grandchildren in urban Bolivia

01/11/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s migration and the crisis of care: Grandmothers caring for grandchildren in urban Bolivia

Keywords

Overview

Grandparents play a critical role in the reorganisation of care brought about by the increasing migration of women. Yet, they are conspicuously absent from the migration literature. This article looks at the role of grandparents, particularly grandmothers, in caring for migrants’ children. It draws on a case study of a rapidly urbanising neighbourhood in Bolivia, […]

Journal article

Transformative social protection programming for children and their carers: a gender perspective

01/07/2011

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transformative social protection programming for children and their carers: a gender perspective

Keywords

Overview

Although social protection has gained substantial attention in recent years as a development measure and long-term response to poverty and vulnerability, it is also being increasingly criticised for failing to pay adequate attention to differences between social groups and the different problems they face in terms of access and take-up of provisions and services. In […]

Journal article

Not ‘women’s burden’: how washing clothes and grinding corn became issues of social justice and development

10/11/2014

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Not ‘women’s burden’: how washing clothes and grinding corn became issues of social justice and development

Keywords

Overview

Women’s heavy and unequal responsibilities for care, long considered ordinary or insignificant by development workers as well as the wider public, are being reframed as issues of social justice through new methodologies for communities to analyse care work and advocate for change. Oxfam and local partners in the Philippines, Honduras, and Bangladesh are piloting two approaches. The first, Rapid […]

Journal article

What does care have to do with human rights? Analysing the impact on women’s rights and gender equality

10/11/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

What does care have to do with human rights? Analysing the impact on women’s rights and gender equality

Keywords

Overview

Unpaid care work is a critical human rights issue, as well as a major obstacle to gender equality and poverty reduction. This article draws attention to the impact of heavy, intensive, and unequal burdens of unpaid care work on the human rights of women living in poverty, and analyses the relevance of international human rights law to decisions on […]

Showing 444 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

Understanding Norms around the Gendered Divisions of Labour: Results from focus group discussions in the Philippines

28/10/2019

2 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Social norms refer to the shared expectations held by a given community. They are often held in place by social approval or rewards for conformity, and by disapproval or sanctions for transgressions. Understanding how and why social norms hold sway can provide a powerful means for understanding the gendered division of work that prevails in […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of Community-Based Primary Health Care Project in Hadhramout, Yemen

01/12/2008

2 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s four-year Community-Based Primary Health Care Project in Hadhramout, Yemen (funded by the EC) aimed to improve the health status of poor women, men and children in 24 remote villages in Sah and Sayoun districts. It aimed to achieve this through a variety of approaches including: promoting health awareness, improving the quality of promotion, and […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of the Community Based Primary Health Care Programme in Azerbaijan

01/08/2008

2 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam GB has been implementing the ‘Community based primary health care’ programme in central Azerbaijan since 2001, covering 43 villages in Barda, Ter ter, Goranboy and Yevlakh districts. The programme seeks to improve health in rural communities by making first-line primary health care available at village level. Participatory approaches are used (management by Community Health […]

Journal article

Alternatives to residential care for children

01/05/1994

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Institutional care for children separated from their family (for whatever reason) continues to be the first choice of governments of developing countries. The long-term consequences of institutionalisation can be severe and in 1991, Save the Children Fund (UK) (SCFUK) initiated a research programme to examine the experience SCF and its partners have had of working […]

Journal article

Intact or in tatters? family care of older women and men in urban Mexico

01/07/2000

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Intact or in tatters? family care of older women and men in urban Mexico

Keywords

Overview

This article asks how family relationships affect the living conditions of low-income elderly people in urban Mexico. There is little State provision of accommodation for the elderly, forcing older people to rely on their families for care. Yet many poorer families cannot afford to provide care, and some are unwilling to do so. In addition, […]

Journal article

Maternal employment and fatherhood: what influences paternal involvement in child-care work in Uganda?

01/07/2009

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Maternal employment and fatherhood: what influences paternal involvement in child-care work in Uganda?

Keywords

Overview

Two hundred and twenty-two working fathers with working wives and 246 working mothers with working husbands were randomly sampled and interviewed to ascertain the circumstances under which fathers in Uganda are getting involved in child-care tasks (which traditionally in Uganda are a women’s domain) as a result of increasing maternal involvement in paid employment. Paternal […]

Journal article

Women’s migration and the crisis of care: Grandmothers caring for grandchildren in urban Bolivia

01/11/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s migration and the crisis of care: Grandmothers caring for grandchildren in urban Bolivia

Keywords

Overview

Grandparents play a critical role in the reorganisation of care brought about by the increasing migration of women. Yet, they are conspicuously absent from the migration literature. This article looks at the role of grandparents, particularly grandmothers, in caring for migrants’ children. It draws on a case study of a rapidly urbanising neighbourhood in Bolivia, […]

Journal article

Transformative social protection programming for children and their carers: a gender perspective

01/07/2011

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transformative social protection programming for children and their carers: a gender perspective

Keywords

Overview

Although social protection has gained substantial attention in recent years as a development measure and long-term response to poverty and vulnerability, it is also being increasingly criticised for failing to pay adequate attention to differences between social groups and the different problems they face in terms of access and take-up of provisions and services. In […]

Journal article

Not ‘women’s burden’: how washing clothes and grinding corn became issues of social justice and development

10/11/2014

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Not ‘women’s burden’: how washing clothes and grinding corn became issues of social justice and development

Keywords

Overview

Women’s heavy and unequal responsibilities for care, long considered ordinary or insignificant by development workers as well as the wider public, are being reframed as issues of social justice through new methodologies for communities to analyse care work and advocate for change. Oxfam and local partners in the Philippines, Honduras, and Bangladesh are piloting two approaches. The first, Rapid […]

Journal article

What does care have to do with human rights? Analysing the impact on women’s rights and gender equality

10/11/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

What does care have to do with human rights? Analysing the impact on women’s rights and gender equality

Keywords

Overview

Unpaid care work is a critical human rights issue, as well as a major obstacle to gender equality and poverty reduction. This article draws attention to the impact of heavy, intensive, and unequal burdens of unpaid care work on the human rights of women living in poverty, and analyses the relevance of international human rights law to decisions on […]

Showing 444 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

Understanding Norms around the Gendered Divisions of Labour: Results from focus group discussions in the Philippines

28/10/2019

2 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Social norms refer to the shared expectations held by a given community. They are often held in place by social approval or rewards for conformity, and by disapproval or sanctions for transgressions. Understanding how and why social norms hold sway can provide a powerful means for understanding the gendered division of work that prevails in […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of Community-Based Primary Health Care Project in Hadhramout, Yemen

01/12/2008

2 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s four-year Community-Based Primary Health Care Project in Hadhramout, Yemen (funded by the EC) aimed to improve the health status of poor women, men and children in 24 remote villages in Sah and Sayoun districts. It aimed to achieve this through a variety of approaches including: promoting health awareness, improving the quality of promotion, and […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of the Community Based Primary Health Care Programme in Azerbaijan

01/08/2008

2 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam GB has been implementing the ‘Community based primary health care’ programme in central Azerbaijan since 2001, covering 43 villages in Barda, Ter ter, Goranboy and Yevlakh districts. The programme seeks to improve health in rural communities by making first-line primary health care available at village level. Participatory approaches are used (management by Community Health […]

Journal article

Alternatives to residential care for children

01/05/1994

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Institutional care for children separated from their family (for whatever reason) continues to be the first choice of governments of developing countries. The long-term consequences of institutionalisation can be severe and in 1991, Save the Children Fund (UK) (SCFUK) initiated a research programme to examine the experience SCF and its partners have had of working […]

Journal article

Intact or in tatters? family care of older women and men in urban Mexico

01/07/2000

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Intact or in tatters? family care of older women and men in urban Mexico

Keywords

Overview

This article asks how family relationships affect the living conditions of low-income elderly people in urban Mexico. There is little State provision of accommodation for the elderly, forcing older people to rely on their families for care. Yet many poorer families cannot afford to provide care, and some are unwilling to do so. In addition, […]

Journal article

Maternal employment and fatherhood: what influences paternal involvement in child-care work in Uganda?

01/07/2009

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Maternal employment and fatherhood: what influences paternal involvement in child-care work in Uganda?

Keywords

Overview

Two hundred and twenty-two working fathers with working wives and 246 working mothers with working husbands were randomly sampled and interviewed to ascertain the circumstances under which fathers in Uganda are getting involved in child-care tasks (which traditionally in Uganda are a women’s domain) as a result of increasing maternal involvement in paid employment. Paternal […]

Journal article

Women’s migration and the crisis of care: Grandmothers caring for grandchildren in urban Bolivia

01/11/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s migration and the crisis of care: Grandmothers caring for grandchildren in urban Bolivia

Keywords

Overview

Grandparents play a critical role in the reorganisation of care brought about by the increasing migration of women. Yet, they are conspicuously absent from the migration literature. This article looks at the role of grandparents, particularly grandmothers, in caring for migrants’ children. It draws on a case study of a rapidly urbanising neighbourhood in Bolivia, […]

Journal article

Transformative social protection programming for children and their carers: a gender perspective

01/07/2011

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transformative social protection programming for children and their carers: a gender perspective

Keywords

Overview

Although social protection has gained substantial attention in recent years as a development measure and long-term response to poverty and vulnerability, it is also being increasingly criticised for failing to pay adequate attention to differences between social groups and the different problems they face in terms of access and take-up of provisions and services. In […]

Journal article

Not ‘women’s burden’: how washing clothes and grinding corn became issues of social justice and development

10/11/2014

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Not ‘women’s burden’: how washing clothes and grinding corn became issues of social justice and development

Keywords

Overview

Women’s heavy and unequal responsibilities for care, long considered ordinary or insignificant by development workers as well as the wider public, are being reframed as issues of social justice through new methodologies for communities to analyse care work and advocate for change. Oxfam and local partners in the Philippines, Honduras, and Bangladesh are piloting two approaches. The first, Rapid […]

Journal article

What does care have to do with human rights? Analysing the impact on women’s rights and gender equality

10/11/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

What does care have to do with human rights? Analysing the impact on women’s rights and gender equality

Keywords

Overview

Unpaid care work is a critical human rights issue, as well as a major obstacle to gender equality and poverty reduction. This article draws attention to the impact of heavy, intensive, and unequal burdens of unpaid care work on the human rights of women living in poverty, and analyses the relevance of international human rights law to decisions on […]