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Journal article

Engendering Migrant Counterpublics: Fun, care, solidarity, and resistance among Ethiopian domestic workers in Lebanon

19/09/2024

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Engendering Migrant Counterpublics: Fun, care, solidarity, and resistance among Ethiopian domestic workers in Lebanon

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Overview

Research documenting the re-configurations of ‘public–private’ boundaries encountered by migrant domestic workers has observed how they often create a sense of ‘home’ in public spaces in destination countries. Migrant workers’ occupation of, and interactions in, public spaces such as parks, malls, restaurants, and churches in effect create ‘private spheres’ where they can relax and be […]

Media briefing

How to Confront the Coronavirus Catastrophe: The Global Public Health Plan and Emergency Response needed now

30/03/2020

3 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Coronavirus is impacting everyone across the globe. People fear for their own health and for that of their loved ones. The virus exposes extreme inequalities, affecting the most vulnerable people and those living in poverty, at home and around the world. It threatens to take many millions of lives and push billions more into […]

Journal article

Producing feminist health knowledge in Chile: Epistemic strategies from the Global South

15/06/2026

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Producing feminist health knowledge in Chile: Epistemic strategies from the Global South

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Overview

This article examines how Chilean feminist health activists produce knowledge and reimagine healthcare by challenging dominant biomedical and neoliberal approaches. Drawing on six semi-structured interviews with feminist activists organising within the field of women’s health, the analysis is framed around three concepts: the politics of knowledge, self-determination, and contextualisation. First, the article shows that activists […]

Journal article

Can faith and freedom co-exist? When faith-based health providers and women’s needs clash

28/03/2017

14 pages long

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Can faith and freedom co-exist? When faith-based health providers and women’s needs clash

Keywords

Overview

Faith-based health providers are a major component of health services delivery in many developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. They receive millions of dollars annually from unilateral and bilateral aid agencies to deliver care. At the same time, they often use conservative interpretations of religious teachings to deny access to essential health care, including reproductive […]

Research report

Et s’il y avait une grève dans les foyers ? Étude sur l’impact du travail de soins non rémunéré sur les femmes vivant en Tunisie : accès au travail, autonomisation économique et bien-être

25/01/2020

1 documents

58 pages long

Languages: French

Keywords

Overview

Le travail de soin non rémunéré désigne toutes les activités qualifiées de travaux reproductifs ou domestiques au sein des foyers sur une base non marchande. Bien que ce travail est essentiel pour l’équilibre de la société et l’épanouissement de la famille et le développement économique des pays, les normes sociales patriarcales d’un côté et les […]

Research report

Exploring the Need for Gender-Equitable Fiscal Policies for a Human Economy: Evidence from Uganda and Zimbabwe

08/03/2018

2 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Fiscal policy can be a powerful tool for governments to help achieve a ‘human economy’, if these policies are designed to address gender inequalities and the gender biases in current macroeconomic thinking. This report uses the case of one element of fiscal policy – public spending – to demonstrate how such policy design could help […]

Case study

Oxfam in Kenya: Fiscal justice for women and girls

22/10/2020

3 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Through its work on the Fiscal Accountability for Inequality Reduction (FAIR) programme, Oxfam in Kenya aims to influence decision makers to take action on progressive taxation and budgeting processes. It aims to equip citizens and civil society organizations with the knowledge and skills to feed into public finance management processes, including monitoring of spending and […]

Briefing paper

Health Insurance in Low Income Countries: Where is the evidence that it works?

07/05/2008

4 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Some donors and governments propose that health insurance mechanisms can close health financing gaps and benefit poor people. Although beneficial for the people able to join, this method of financing health care has so far been unable to sufficiently fill financing gaps in health systems and improve access to quality health care for the poor. […]

Journal article

Rebirth, empowerment, and youth leading social change: non-formal education in Honduras

20/03/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Rebirth, empowerment, and youth leading social change: non-formal education in Honduras

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on a non-formal educational approach implemented in Honduras by CARE Honduras. The project sought to address the gendered barriers to education, in a way that would be community-owned, holistic in its scope of analysis and action, and sustainable beyond CARE’s support. The central elements of the model included the provision of community-led […]

Journal article

Better stories for a gender equal and fairer social recovery from outbreaks: learnings from the RESISTIRÉ project

31/08/2022

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Better stories for a gender equal and fairer social recovery from outbreaks: learnings from the RESISTIRÉ project

Keywords

Overview

The pandemic has radically shifted how society is organised, with increased work from home, home-schooling, and intensification of online presence, all with specific (un)intended implications on paid and unpaid care work. These implications, like those of other crises, are gendered and manifest along sex, age, disability, ethnicity/race, migration status, religion, social class, and the intersections […]

Showing 444 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Engendering Migrant Counterpublics: Fun, care, solidarity, and resistance among Ethiopian domestic workers in Lebanon

19/09/2024

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Engendering Migrant Counterpublics: Fun, care, solidarity, and resistance among Ethiopian domestic workers in Lebanon

Keywords

Overview

Research documenting the re-configurations of ‘public–private’ boundaries encountered by migrant domestic workers has observed how they often create a sense of ‘home’ in public spaces in destination countries. Migrant workers’ occupation of, and interactions in, public spaces such as parks, malls, restaurants, and churches in effect create ‘private spheres’ where they can relax and be […]

Media briefing

How to Confront the Coronavirus Catastrophe: The Global Public Health Plan and Emergency Response needed now

30/03/2020

3 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Coronavirus is impacting everyone across the globe. People fear for their own health and for that of their loved ones. The virus exposes extreme inequalities, affecting the most vulnerable people and those living in poverty, at home and around the world. It threatens to take many millions of lives and push billions more into […]

Journal article

Producing feminist health knowledge in Chile: Epistemic strategies from the Global South

15/06/2026

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Producing feminist health knowledge in Chile: Epistemic strategies from the Global South

Keywords

Overview

This article examines how Chilean feminist health activists produce knowledge and reimagine healthcare by challenging dominant biomedical and neoliberal approaches. Drawing on six semi-structured interviews with feminist activists organising within the field of women’s health, the analysis is framed around three concepts: the politics of knowledge, self-determination, and contextualisation. First, the article shows that activists […]

Journal article

Can faith and freedom co-exist? When faith-based health providers and women’s needs clash

28/03/2017

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Can faith and freedom co-exist? When faith-based health providers and women’s needs clash

Keywords

Overview

Faith-based health providers are a major component of health services delivery in many developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. They receive millions of dollars annually from unilateral and bilateral aid agencies to deliver care. At the same time, they often use conservative interpretations of religious teachings to deny access to essential health care, including reproductive […]

Research report

Et s’il y avait une grève dans les foyers ? Étude sur l’impact du travail de soins non rémunéré sur les femmes vivant en Tunisie : accès au travail, autonomisation économique et bien-être

25/01/2020

1 documents

58 pages long

Languages: French

Keywords

Overview

Le travail de soin non rémunéré désigne toutes les activités qualifiées de travaux reproductifs ou domestiques au sein des foyers sur une base non marchande. Bien que ce travail est essentiel pour l’équilibre de la société et l’épanouissement de la famille et le développement économique des pays, les normes sociales patriarcales d’un côté et les […]

Research report

Exploring the Need for Gender-Equitable Fiscal Policies for a Human Economy: Evidence from Uganda and Zimbabwe

08/03/2018

2 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Fiscal policy can be a powerful tool for governments to help achieve a ‘human economy’, if these policies are designed to address gender inequalities and the gender biases in current macroeconomic thinking. This report uses the case of one element of fiscal policy – public spending – to demonstrate how such policy design could help […]

Case study

Oxfam in Kenya: Fiscal justice for women and girls

22/10/2020

3 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Through its work on the Fiscal Accountability for Inequality Reduction (FAIR) programme, Oxfam in Kenya aims to influence decision makers to take action on progressive taxation and budgeting processes. It aims to equip citizens and civil society organizations with the knowledge and skills to feed into public finance management processes, including monitoring of spending and […]

Briefing paper

Health Insurance in Low Income Countries: Where is the evidence that it works?

07/05/2008

4 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Some donors and governments propose that health insurance mechanisms can close health financing gaps and benefit poor people. Although beneficial for the people able to join, this method of financing health care has so far been unable to sufficiently fill financing gaps in health systems and improve access to quality health care for the poor. […]

Journal article

Rebirth, empowerment, and youth leading social change: non-formal education in Honduras

20/03/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Rebirth, empowerment, and youth leading social change: non-formal education in Honduras

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on a non-formal educational approach implemented in Honduras by CARE Honduras. The project sought to address the gendered barriers to education, in a way that would be community-owned, holistic in its scope of analysis and action, and sustainable beyond CARE’s support. The central elements of the model included the provision of community-led […]

Journal article

Better stories for a gender equal and fairer social recovery from outbreaks: learnings from the RESISTIRÉ project

31/08/2022

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Better stories for a gender equal and fairer social recovery from outbreaks: learnings from the RESISTIRÉ project

Keywords

Overview

The pandemic has radically shifted how society is organised, with increased work from home, home-schooling, and intensification of online presence, all with specific (un)intended implications on paid and unpaid care work. These implications, like those of other crises, are gendered and manifest along sex, age, disability, ethnicity/race, migration status, religion, social class, and the intersections […]

Showing 444 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Engendering Migrant Counterpublics: Fun, care, solidarity, and resistance among Ethiopian domestic workers in Lebanon

19/09/2024

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Engendering Migrant Counterpublics: Fun, care, solidarity, and resistance among Ethiopian domestic workers in Lebanon

Keywords

Overview

Research documenting the re-configurations of ‘public–private’ boundaries encountered by migrant domestic workers has observed how they often create a sense of ‘home’ in public spaces in destination countries. Migrant workers’ occupation of, and interactions in, public spaces such as parks, malls, restaurants, and churches in effect create ‘private spheres’ where they can relax and be […]

Media briefing

How to Confront the Coronavirus Catastrophe: The Global Public Health Plan and Emergency Response needed now

30/03/2020

3 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Coronavirus is impacting everyone across the globe. People fear for their own health and for that of their loved ones. The virus exposes extreme inequalities, affecting the most vulnerable people and those living in poverty, at home and around the world. It threatens to take many millions of lives and push billions more into […]

Journal article

Producing feminist health knowledge in Chile: Epistemic strategies from the Global South

15/06/2026

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Producing feminist health knowledge in Chile: Epistemic strategies from the Global South

Keywords

Overview

This article examines how Chilean feminist health activists produce knowledge and reimagine healthcare by challenging dominant biomedical and neoliberal approaches. Drawing on six semi-structured interviews with feminist activists organising within the field of women’s health, the analysis is framed around three concepts: the politics of knowledge, self-determination, and contextualisation. First, the article shows that activists […]

Journal article

Can faith and freedom co-exist? When faith-based health providers and women’s needs clash

28/03/2017

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Can faith and freedom co-exist? When faith-based health providers and women’s needs clash

Keywords

Overview

Faith-based health providers are a major component of health services delivery in many developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. They receive millions of dollars annually from unilateral and bilateral aid agencies to deliver care. At the same time, they often use conservative interpretations of religious teachings to deny access to essential health care, including reproductive […]

Research report

Et s’il y avait une grève dans les foyers ? Étude sur l’impact du travail de soins non rémunéré sur les femmes vivant en Tunisie : accès au travail, autonomisation économique et bien-être

25/01/2020

1 documents

58 pages long

Languages: French

Keywords

Overview

Le travail de soin non rémunéré désigne toutes les activités qualifiées de travaux reproductifs ou domestiques au sein des foyers sur une base non marchande. Bien que ce travail est essentiel pour l’équilibre de la société et l’épanouissement de la famille et le développement économique des pays, les normes sociales patriarcales d’un côté et les […]

Research report

Exploring the Need for Gender-Equitable Fiscal Policies for a Human Economy: Evidence from Uganda and Zimbabwe

08/03/2018

2 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Fiscal policy can be a powerful tool for governments to help achieve a ‘human economy’, if these policies are designed to address gender inequalities and the gender biases in current macroeconomic thinking. This report uses the case of one element of fiscal policy – public spending – to demonstrate how such policy design could help […]

Case study

Oxfam in Kenya: Fiscal justice for women and girls

22/10/2020

3 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Through its work on the Fiscal Accountability for Inequality Reduction (FAIR) programme, Oxfam in Kenya aims to influence decision makers to take action on progressive taxation and budgeting processes. It aims to equip citizens and civil society organizations with the knowledge and skills to feed into public finance management processes, including monitoring of spending and […]

Briefing paper

Health Insurance in Low Income Countries: Where is the evidence that it works?

07/05/2008

4 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Some donors and governments propose that health insurance mechanisms can close health financing gaps and benefit poor people. Although beneficial for the people able to join, this method of financing health care has so far been unable to sufficiently fill financing gaps in health systems and improve access to quality health care for the poor. […]

Journal article

Rebirth, empowerment, and youth leading social change: non-formal education in Honduras

20/03/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Rebirth, empowerment, and youth leading social change: non-formal education in Honduras

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on a non-formal educational approach implemented in Honduras by CARE Honduras. The project sought to address the gendered barriers to education, in a way that would be community-owned, holistic in its scope of analysis and action, and sustainable beyond CARE’s support. The central elements of the model included the provision of community-led […]

Journal article

Better stories for a gender equal and fairer social recovery from outbreaks: learnings from the RESISTIRÉ project

31/08/2022

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Better stories for a gender equal and fairer social recovery from outbreaks: learnings from the RESISTIRÉ project

Keywords

Overview

The pandemic has radically shifted how society is organised, with increased work from home, home-schooling, and intensification of online presence, all with specific (un)intended implications on paid and unpaid care work. These implications, like those of other crises, are gendered and manifest along sex, age, disability, ethnicity/race, migration status, religion, social class, and the intersections […]