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

20/03/2014

16 pages long

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

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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

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

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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 […]

Journal article

Gendered austerity and embodied debt in Ecuador: channels through which women absorb and resist the shocks of public budget cuts

31/08/2022

27 pages long

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Gendered austerity and embodied debt in Ecuador: channels through which women absorb and resist the shocks of public budget cuts

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This paper examines the dynamics and implications of gendered austerity in Ecuador in the context of the fiscal consolidation framework recommended in the country's International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan programme, through three channels. First, that of the public health sector and the experiences of women public health workers. Second, that of unpaid care work and […]

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Privacy Policy Last updated: 24 Aug 2020 Introduction and general terms Oxfam Great Britain (OGB) promises to take great care with your personal data. We commit to protecting any personal information we obtain about you, whether you are a financial supporter, shopper, volunteer, partner or campaigner. This Privacy Policy sets out how and why we […]

Briefing paper

Addressing the Human Cost of Assam Tea: An agenda for change to respect, protect and fulfil human rights on Assam tea plantations

10/10/2019

2 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Workers on tea plantations in the Assam region of India are systematically denied their rights to a living wage and decent working and living conditions. The fact that they are unable to meet their basic living costs is starkly illustrated by our finding that 50% of the households that researchers visited on behalf of Oxfam […]

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Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

23/03/2021

18 pages long

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Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

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This paper applies an intersectional lens to health in informal urban settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We explored how intersecting social characteristics including gender, age, wealth, occupation, and tenant status influence health and well-being outcomes. We found that hazardous environmental conditions, poor waste disposal, and waste burning contribute to health problems at a neighbourhood level. […]

Briefing paper

Sick Development: How rich-country government and World Bank funding to for-profit private hospitals causes harm and should be stopped

29/06/2023

6 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

Development finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit hospitals in the Global South that block patients from getting care, or bankrupt them, with some even imprisoning patients who cannot afford their bills. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of […]

Case study

Has the Impact of HIV and AIDS Affected the Lives of Rural ‘Gogos’?

06/06/2005

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

For some, growing old has been an opportunity to stand back from daily lfe and to enjoy some personal time. For others though, this has been a time when, traditionally, some forms of childcare have been the norm. The sometimes idealistic picture of quietude in old age is, for many, now being shattered by the […]

Briefing note

Arms Transfer Decisions: Considering development

27/06/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Overview

The devastating impact of armed violence around the world is well known. Conflict and armed violence close schools, paralyse neighbourhoods, burden health-care services, discourage investment, and make lives less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public services such as education and health-care, and when such spending takes place without […]

Briefing note

Essential Services: HIV, health services and gender in South Africa

01/09/2006

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Much has been achieved in just over a decade of democracy in South Africa by facilitating access of the poor to health and other services. However much more needs to be done if the constitutional rights of citizens to dignity is to become universal. Under the strain of an HIV onslaught, second to non in […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Journal article

Gendered austerity and embodied debt in Ecuador: channels through which women absorb and resist the shocks of public budget cuts

31/08/2022

27 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered austerity and embodied debt in Ecuador: channels through which women absorb and resist the shocks of public budget cuts

Keywords

Overview

This paper examines the dynamics and implications of gendered austerity in Ecuador in the context of the fiscal consolidation framework recommended in the country's International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan programme, through three channels. First, that of the public health sector and the experiences of women public health workers. Second, that of unpaid care work and […]

Webpage

Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Last updated: 24 Aug 2020 Introduction and general terms Oxfam Great Britain (OGB) promises to take great care with your personal data. We commit to protecting any personal information we obtain about you, whether you are a financial supporter, shopper, volunteer, partner or campaigner. This Privacy Policy sets out how and why we […]

Briefing paper

Addressing the Human Cost of Assam Tea: An agenda for change to respect, protect and fulfil human rights on Assam tea plantations

10/10/2019

2 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Workers on tea plantations in the Assam region of India are systematically denied their rights to a living wage and decent working and living conditions. The fact that they are unable to meet their basic living costs is starkly illustrated by our finding that 50% of the households that researchers visited on behalf of Oxfam […]

Journal article

Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

23/03/2021

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

Keywords

Overview

This paper applies an intersectional lens to health in informal urban settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We explored how intersecting social characteristics including gender, age, wealth, occupation, and tenant status influence health and well-being outcomes. We found that hazardous environmental conditions, poor waste disposal, and waste burning contribute to health problems at a neighbourhood level. […]

Briefing paper

Sick Development: How rich-country government and World Bank funding to for-profit private hospitals causes harm and should be stopped

29/06/2023

6 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Development finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit hospitals in the Global South that block patients from getting care, or bankrupt them, with some even imprisoning patients who cannot afford their bills. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of […]

Case study

Has the Impact of HIV and AIDS Affected the Lives of Rural ‘Gogos’?

06/06/2005

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

For some, growing old has been an opportunity to stand back from daily lfe and to enjoy some personal time. For others though, this has been a time when, traditionally, some forms of childcare have been the norm. The sometimes idealistic picture of quietude in old age is, for many, now being shattered by the […]

Briefing note

Arms Transfer Decisions: Considering development

27/06/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of armed violence around the world is well known. Conflict and armed violence close schools, paralyse neighbourhoods, burden health-care services, discourage investment, and make lives less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public services such as education and health-care, and when such spending takes place without […]

Briefing note

Essential Services: HIV, health services and gender in South Africa

01/09/2006

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Much has been achieved in just over a decade of democracy in South Africa by facilitating access of the poor to health and other services. However much more needs to be done if the constitutional rights of citizens to dignity is to become universal. Under the strain of an HIV onslaught, second to non in […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Journal article

Gendered austerity and embodied debt in Ecuador: channels through which women absorb and resist the shocks of public budget cuts

31/08/2022

27 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered austerity and embodied debt in Ecuador: channels through which women absorb and resist the shocks of public budget cuts

Keywords

Overview

This paper examines the dynamics and implications of gendered austerity in Ecuador in the context of the fiscal consolidation framework recommended in the country's International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan programme, through three channels. First, that of the public health sector and the experiences of women public health workers. Second, that of unpaid care work and […]

Webpage

Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Last updated: 24 Aug 2020 Introduction and general terms Oxfam Great Britain (OGB) promises to take great care with your personal data. We commit to protecting any personal information we obtain about you, whether you are a financial supporter, shopper, volunteer, partner or campaigner. This Privacy Policy sets out how and why we […]

Briefing paper

Addressing the Human Cost of Assam Tea: An agenda for change to respect, protect and fulfil human rights on Assam tea plantations

10/10/2019

2 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Workers on tea plantations in the Assam region of India are systematically denied their rights to a living wage and decent working and living conditions. The fact that they are unable to meet their basic living costs is starkly illustrated by our finding that 50% of the households that researchers visited on behalf of Oxfam […]

Journal article

Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

23/03/2021

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

Keywords

Overview

This paper applies an intersectional lens to health in informal urban settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We explored how intersecting social characteristics including gender, age, wealth, occupation, and tenant status influence health and well-being outcomes. We found that hazardous environmental conditions, poor waste disposal, and waste burning contribute to health problems at a neighbourhood level. […]

Briefing paper

Sick Development: How rich-country government and World Bank funding to for-profit private hospitals causes harm and should be stopped

29/06/2023

6 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Development finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit hospitals in the Global South that block patients from getting care, or bankrupt them, with some even imprisoning patients who cannot afford their bills. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of […]

Case study

Has the Impact of HIV and AIDS Affected the Lives of Rural ‘Gogos’?

06/06/2005

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

For some, growing old has been an opportunity to stand back from daily lfe and to enjoy some personal time. For others though, this has been a time when, traditionally, some forms of childcare have been the norm. The sometimes idealistic picture of quietude in old age is, for many, now being shattered by the […]

Briefing note

Arms Transfer Decisions: Considering development

27/06/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of armed violence around the world is well known. Conflict and armed violence close schools, paralyse neighbourhoods, burden health-care services, discourage investment, and make lives less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public services such as education and health-care, and when such spending takes place without […]

Briefing note

Essential Services: HIV, health services and gender in South Africa

01/09/2006

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Much has been achieved in just over a decade of democracy in South Africa by facilitating access of the poor to health and other services. However much more needs to be done if the constitutional rights of citizens to dignity is to become universal. Under the strain of an HIV onslaught, second to non in […]