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Issue briefing

Underpaid and Undervalued: How inequality defines women’s work in Asia

31/05/2016

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Rising economic inequality across Asia is threatening poverty reduction and slowing down the fight against gender inequality. Although the region has experienced economic growth, the bottom 70% have seen their income share fall while the share for the top 10% has increased rapidly. Low wages and a lack of rights at work, particularly for women, […]

Research report

Counting on Women’s Work Without Counting Women’s Work: Women’s unpaid work in Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt

31/05/2019

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the MENA region, care is considered the main responsibility of women, and prioritized over their participation in the labour market. This report is based on an extensive review of existing literature on paid labour, gender-based division of household tasks, unpaid non-economic labour and economic labour, as well as the different contexts within which these […]

Briefing note

The Right Choices: Achieving universal health coverage in Malawi

07/06/2016

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Malawi has a proud history of delivering free healthcare for its citizens, but this is now seriously under threat. Bypass fees for hospitals are already causing major hardship by excluding poor people from accessing the healthcare they need. The Government of Malawi must reject the fees system completely and instead use tax financing and development […]

Briefing note

Mobilising Civil Society towards Right to Free Public Health and Education in Jharkhand

30/05/2016

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam India believes that the right to universal access to good quality healthcare and education is a practical way of closing the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor. Oxfam India works in six states to empower the community to improve accountability of public delivery systems of healthcare and education. While in most states […]

Briefing note

Investing for the Few: The IFC’s Health in Africa initiative

10/09/2014

3 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Health in Africa initiative of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is at odds with the World Bank Group’s welcome commitment to universal and equitable health coverage and to shared prosperity. This paper argues that the $1bn initiative, which promotes private sector healthcare delivery, is extremely unlikely to deliver better health outcomes for poor people. […]

Journal article

Rapid Gender Analysis and its use in crises: from zero to fifty in five years

11/07/2019

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Rapid Gender Analysis and its use in crises: from zero to fifty in five years

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how and why the international non-government organisation, CARE, developed its own system of gender analysis, Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA), during the humanitarian response in Syria. The article tracks and reviews a sample of the first 50 CARE RGA reports to share recurrent gender themes that emerge across them, including the lack of […]

Education resource

Birthrights – Maternal Health in Ghana: Resources for ages 11-14

01/01/2015

3 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Explore the relationships between healthcare and inequality. World leaders have promised to both reduce inequality and ensure healthy lives for everyone. But what is the link between these issues? Find out more about the Sustainable Development Goals and explore the day in the life of Cecilia, a midwife in Ghana. Learn about the experiences of […]

Journal article

Unintended complicities: preventing violence against women in South Africa

20/07/2016

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Unintended complicities: preventing violence against women in South Africa

Keywords

Overview

This article considers how the prevention of violence against women and girls (VAWG) is inadvertently being caught up in broader economic policies aimed at the cut-back of services, with the basis for this argument provided by a detailed case study of funding to organisations providing post-rape care services in South Africa. To contextualise current circumstances, […]

Journal article

Following the law, but losing the spirit of child protection in Kenya

01/06/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

This paper explores how an ostensibly child-centred system can fail to protect children. In some policy arenas, the Kenyan state is recognised as a leader in Africa for the care and protection of children at risk. Yet a case study of children’s experiences illuminates how, despite adherence to a legislated framework and series of protocols, […]

Journal article

Public Spaces, Street Art, and the Challenges of Feminist Ecological Citizenship in Chile

19/09/2024

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Public Spaces, Street Art, and the Challenges of Feminist Ecological Citizenship in Chile

Keywords

Overview

While considerable literature examines the intersection between feminism and ecology, as well as the intersection between feminism and urbanism, few studies address the intersection between feminism and ecology by looking at aesthetic activism in the city. This essay explores the synergies and potential connections between the idea of body/territory and feminist ecological citizenship through the […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Issue briefing

Underpaid and Undervalued: How inequality defines women’s work in Asia

31/05/2016

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Rising economic inequality across Asia is threatening poverty reduction and slowing down the fight against gender inequality. Although the region has experienced economic growth, the bottom 70% have seen their income share fall while the share for the top 10% has increased rapidly. Low wages and a lack of rights at work, particularly for women, […]

Research report

Counting on Women’s Work Without Counting Women’s Work: Women’s unpaid work in Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt

31/05/2019

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the MENA region, care is considered the main responsibility of women, and prioritized over their participation in the labour market. This report is based on an extensive review of existing literature on paid labour, gender-based division of household tasks, unpaid non-economic labour and economic labour, as well as the different contexts within which these […]

Briefing note

The Right Choices: Achieving universal health coverage in Malawi

07/06/2016

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Malawi has a proud history of delivering free healthcare for its citizens, but this is now seriously under threat. Bypass fees for hospitals are already causing major hardship by excluding poor people from accessing the healthcare they need. The Government of Malawi must reject the fees system completely and instead use tax financing and development […]

Briefing note

Mobilising Civil Society towards Right to Free Public Health and Education in Jharkhand

30/05/2016

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam India believes that the right to universal access to good quality healthcare and education is a practical way of closing the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor. Oxfam India works in six states to empower the community to improve accountability of public delivery systems of healthcare and education. While in most states […]

Briefing note

Investing for the Few: The IFC’s Health in Africa initiative

10/09/2014

3 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Health in Africa initiative of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is at odds with the World Bank Group’s welcome commitment to universal and equitable health coverage and to shared prosperity. This paper argues that the $1bn initiative, which promotes private sector healthcare delivery, is extremely unlikely to deliver better health outcomes for poor people. […]

Journal article

Rapid Gender Analysis and its use in crises: from zero to fifty in five years

11/07/2019

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Rapid Gender Analysis and its use in crises: from zero to fifty in five years

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how and why the international non-government organisation, CARE, developed its own system of gender analysis, Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA), during the humanitarian response in Syria. The article tracks and reviews a sample of the first 50 CARE RGA reports to share recurrent gender themes that emerge across them, including the lack of […]

Education resource

Birthrights – Maternal Health in Ghana: Resources for ages 11-14

01/01/2015

3 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Explore the relationships between healthcare and inequality. World leaders have promised to both reduce inequality and ensure healthy lives for everyone. But what is the link between these issues? Find out more about the Sustainable Development Goals and explore the day in the life of Cecilia, a midwife in Ghana. Learn about the experiences of […]

Journal article

Unintended complicities: preventing violence against women in South Africa

20/07/2016

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Unintended complicities: preventing violence against women in South Africa

Keywords

Overview

This article considers how the prevention of violence against women and girls (VAWG) is inadvertently being caught up in broader economic policies aimed at the cut-back of services, with the basis for this argument provided by a detailed case study of funding to organisations providing post-rape care services in South Africa. To contextualise current circumstances, […]

Journal article

Following the law, but losing the spirit of child protection in Kenya

01/06/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper explores how an ostensibly child-centred system can fail to protect children. In some policy arenas, the Kenyan state is recognised as a leader in Africa for the care and protection of children at risk. Yet a case study of children’s experiences illuminates how, despite adherence to a legislated framework and series of protocols, […]

Journal article

Public Spaces, Street Art, and the Challenges of Feminist Ecological Citizenship in Chile

19/09/2024

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Public Spaces, Street Art, and the Challenges of Feminist Ecological Citizenship in Chile

Keywords

Overview

While considerable literature examines the intersection between feminism and ecology, as well as the intersection between feminism and urbanism, few studies address the intersection between feminism and ecology by looking at aesthetic activism in the city. This essay explores the synergies and potential connections between the idea of body/territory and feminist ecological citizenship through the […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Issue briefing

Underpaid and Undervalued: How inequality defines women’s work in Asia

31/05/2016

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Rising economic inequality across Asia is threatening poverty reduction and slowing down the fight against gender inequality. Although the region has experienced economic growth, the bottom 70% have seen their income share fall while the share for the top 10% has increased rapidly. Low wages and a lack of rights at work, particularly for women, […]

Research report

Counting on Women’s Work Without Counting Women’s Work: Women’s unpaid work in Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt

31/05/2019

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the MENA region, care is considered the main responsibility of women, and prioritized over their participation in the labour market. This report is based on an extensive review of existing literature on paid labour, gender-based division of household tasks, unpaid non-economic labour and economic labour, as well as the different contexts within which these […]

Briefing note

The Right Choices: Achieving universal health coverage in Malawi

07/06/2016

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Malawi has a proud history of delivering free healthcare for its citizens, but this is now seriously under threat. Bypass fees for hospitals are already causing major hardship by excluding poor people from accessing the healthcare they need. The Government of Malawi must reject the fees system completely and instead use tax financing and development […]

Briefing note

Mobilising Civil Society towards Right to Free Public Health and Education in Jharkhand

30/05/2016

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam India believes that the right to universal access to good quality healthcare and education is a practical way of closing the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor. Oxfam India works in six states to empower the community to improve accountability of public delivery systems of healthcare and education. While in most states […]

Briefing note

Investing for the Few: The IFC’s Health in Africa initiative

10/09/2014

3 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Health in Africa initiative of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is at odds with the World Bank Group’s welcome commitment to universal and equitable health coverage and to shared prosperity. This paper argues that the $1bn initiative, which promotes private sector healthcare delivery, is extremely unlikely to deliver better health outcomes for poor people. […]

Journal article

Rapid Gender Analysis and its use in crises: from zero to fifty in five years

11/07/2019

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Rapid Gender Analysis and its use in crises: from zero to fifty in five years

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how and why the international non-government organisation, CARE, developed its own system of gender analysis, Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA), during the humanitarian response in Syria. The article tracks and reviews a sample of the first 50 CARE RGA reports to share recurrent gender themes that emerge across them, including the lack of […]

Education resource

Birthrights – Maternal Health in Ghana: Resources for ages 11-14

01/01/2015

3 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Explore the relationships between healthcare and inequality. World leaders have promised to both reduce inequality and ensure healthy lives for everyone. But what is the link between these issues? Find out more about the Sustainable Development Goals and explore the day in the life of Cecilia, a midwife in Ghana. Learn about the experiences of […]

Journal article

Unintended complicities: preventing violence against women in South Africa

20/07/2016

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Unintended complicities: preventing violence against women in South Africa

Keywords

Overview

This article considers how the prevention of violence against women and girls (VAWG) is inadvertently being caught up in broader economic policies aimed at the cut-back of services, with the basis for this argument provided by a detailed case study of funding to organisations providing post-rape care services in South Africa. To contextualise current circumstances, […]

Journal article

Following the law, but losing the spirit of child protection in Kenya

01/06/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper explores how an ostensibly child-centred system can fail to protect children. In some policy arenas, the Kenyan state is recognised as a leader in Africa for the care and protection of children at risk. Yet a case study of children’s experiences illuminates how, despite adherence to a legislated framework and series of protocols, […]

Journal article

Public Spaces, Street Art, and the Challenges of Feminist Ecological Citizenship in Chile

19/09/2024

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Public Spaces, Street Art, and the Challenges of Feminist Ecological Citizenship in Chile

Keywords

Overview

While considerable literature examines the intersection between feminism and ecology, as well as the intersection between feminism and urbanism, few studies address the intersection between feminism and ecology by looking at aesthetic activism in the city. This essay explores the synergies and potential connections between the idea of body/territory and feminist ecological citizenship through the […]