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Case study

What’s in a Name? Changing policies and beliefs in favour of women in Peru

01/11/2008

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Millions of people around the world cannot open a bank account, obtain credit, vote, own or inherit property, get a job or a passport, access health care, or sometimes even go to school. The reason? Because they do not have a birth certificate. Until recently, thousands of babies born to single mothers in Peru were […]

Discussion paper

Gender Issues in Health Projects and Programmes: Report from AGRA East Meeting, 15-19 November 1993, The Philippines

01/01/1999

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper sets out some of the major gender issues arising from considerations of health and health care provision. It draws on the experience of participants in a workshop in The Philippines organised by Oxfam staff with the help of two consultants, one of whom subsequently wrote this paper.

Discussion paper

Health and Livelihoods in Rural Angola: A participatory research project

01/01/1998

1 documents

71 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Planners developing basic social services, especially in communities suffering the consequences of conflict, have to respond to a wide range of needs but lack the information necessary for effective planning. This paper is an account of an Oxfam research project in Angola which had a dual aim: to find out more about how rural communities […]

Book

Disabled Children in a Society at War: A casebook from Bosnia

01/01/1997

1 documents

144 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This casebook analyzes the lessons for working with disabled children learned from a programme initiated by Oxfam at the height of the civil war in Bosnia. Disabled children in Former Yugoslavia were traditionally cared for in centralized institutions which were run by State-paid ‘defectologists’. When State services began to break down under pressure of war, […]

Book

Population and Reproductive Rights

01/01/1996

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Concern about rapid growth in population has resulted in inappropriate and sometimes oppressive population control policies being implemented in many developing countries in the past 30 years. This book in the Focus on Gender series highlights the need for an approach which is based on reproductive rights, and stresses the importance of offering family-planning services […]

Book

Gender, Development, and Health

01/01/2001

1 documents

119 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This book argues that two fundamental changes are needed if both women and men are to achieve better health. The first of these is to ensure equal access to all the resources that women and men need for healthy minds and bodies: not only to medical care, but to food, water, shelter, a source of […]

Book

Women and the Family

01/01/1996

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Maternal and child health

Overview

Looking at factors as diverse as the pervasiveness of patriarchy, changing family forms, female infanticide, and land reform policies, this collection of articles considers the family from a gender perspective, and how the socially prescribed roles of men and women within the family can constrain women’s opportunities. Women are usually responsible for domestic tasks and […]

Book

Gender in the 21st Century

01/01/2000

1 documents

121 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

From the perspectives of development specialists and feminist activists, this book considers the challenges facing gender and development practitioners and policy-makers in the twenty first century. Despite some successes, women in many countries remain in abject poverty, lacking food, clean water, education, and medical care. Women throughout the world are still economically, politically and socially […]

Book

Development for Health: Selected articles from Development in Practice

01/01/1997

1 documents

114 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The achievement of ‘Health for All by the Year 2000’ has been the declared goal of the international community for almost 20 years. The 1978 Alma Ata Declaration acknowledged that health and well-being depend as much on social justice and community participation as on technical or medical interventions. Yet, with deepening economic disparity within and […]

Book

Paying for Health: Poverty and structural adjustment in Zimbabwe

01/01/1994

1 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Paying for Health shows how the most vulnerable sections of society carry the burden of structural adjustment when a government adopts the World Bank’s advice to introduce user-fees for health care.

Showing 436 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

What’s in a Name? Changing policies and beliefs in favour of women in Peru

01/11/2008

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Millions of people around the world cannot open a bank account, obtain credit, vote, own or inherit property, get a job or a passport, access health care, or sometimes even go to school. The reason? Because they do not have a birth certificate. Until recently, thousands of babies born to single mothers in Peru were […]

Discussion paper

Gender Issues in Health Projects and Programmes: Report from AGRA East Meeting, 15-19 November 1993, The Philippines

01/01/1999

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper sets out some of the major gender issues arising from considerations of health and health care provision. It draws on the experience of participants in a workshop in The Philippines organised by Oxfam staff with the help of two consultants, one of whom subsequently wrote this paper.

Discussion paper

Health and Livelihoods in Rural Angola: A participatory research project

01/01/1998

1 documents

71 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Planners developing basic social services, especially in communities suffering the consequences of conflict, have to respond to a wide range of needs but lack the information necessary for effective planning. This paper is an account of an Oxfam research project in Angola which had a dual aim: to find out more about how rural communities […]

Book

Disabled Children in a Society at War: A casebook from Bosnia

01/01/1997

1 documents

144 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This casebook analyzes the lessons for working with disabled children learned from a programme initiated by Oxfam at the height of the civil war in Bosnia. Disabled children in Former Yugoslavia were traditionally cared for in centralized institutions which were run by State-paid ‘defectologists’. When State services began to break down under pressure of war, […]

Book

Population and Reproductive Rights

01/01/1996

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Concern about rapid growth in population has resulted in inappropriate and sometimes oppressive population control policies being implemented in many developing countries in the past 30 years. This book in the Focus on Gender series highlights the need for an approach which is based on reproductive rights, and stresses the importance of offering family-planning services […]

Book

Gender, Development, and Health

01/01/2001

1 documents

119 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This book argues that two fundamental changes are needed if both women and men are to achieve better health. The first of these is to ensure equal access to all the resources that women and men need for healthy minds and bodies: not only to medical care, but to food, water, shelter, a source of […]

Book

Women and the Family

01/01/1996

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Maternal and child health

Overview

Looking at factors as diverse as the pervasiveness of patriarchy, changing family forms, female infanticide, and land reform policies, this collection of articles considers the family from a gender perspective, and how the socially prescribed roles of men and women within the family can constrain women’s opportunities. Women are usually responsible for domestic tasks and […]

Book

Gender in the 21st Century

01/01/2000

1 documents

121 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

From the perspectives of development specialists and feminist activists, this book considers the challenges facing gender and development practitioners and policy-makers in the twenty first century. Despite some successes, women in many countries remain in abject poverty, lacking food, clean water, education, and medical care. Women throughout the world are still economically, politically and socially […]

Book

Development for Health: Selected articles from Development in Practice

01/01/1997

1 documents

114 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The achievement of ‘Health for All by the Year 2000’ has been the declared goal of the international community for almost 20 years. The 1978 Alma Ata Declaration acknowledged that health and well-being depend as much on social justice and community participation as on technical or medical interventions. Yet, with deepening economic disparity within and […]

Book

Paying for Health: Poverty and structural adjustment in Zimbabwe

01/01/1994

1 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Paying for Health shows how the most vulnerable sections of society carry the burden of structural adjustment when a government adopts the World Bank’s advice to introduce user-fees for health care.

Showing 436 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

What’s in a Name? Changing policies and beliefs in favour of women in Peru

01/11/2008

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Millions of people around the world cannot open a bank account, obtain credit, vote, own or inherit property, get a job or a passport, access health care, or sometimes even go to school. The reason? Because they do not have a birth certificate. Until recently, thousands of babies born to single mothers in Peru were […]

Discussion paper

Gender Issues in Health Projects and Programmes: Report from AGRA East Meeting, 15-19 November 1993, The Philippines

01/01/1999

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper sets out some of the major gender issues arising from considerations of health and health care provision. It draws on the experience of participants in a workshop in The Philippines organised by Oxfam staff with the help of two consultants, one of whom subsequently wrote this paper.

Discussion paper

Health and Livelihoods in Rural Angola: A participatory research project

01/01/1998

1 documents

71 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Planners developing basic social services, especially in communities suffering the consequences of conflict, have to respond to a wide range of needs but lack the information necessary for effective planning. This paper is an account of an Oxfam research project in Angola which had a dual aim: to find out more about how rural communities […]

Book

Disabled Children in a Society at War: A casebook from Bosnia

01/01/1997

1 documents

144 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This casebook analyzes the lessons for working with disabled children learned from a programme initiated by Oxfam at the height of the civil war in Bosnia. Disabled children in Former Yugoslavia were traditionally cared for in centralized institutions which were run by State-paid ‘defectologists’. When State services began to break down under pressure of war, […]

Book

Population and Reproductive Rights

01/01/1996

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Concern about rapid growth in population has resulted in inappropriate and sometimes oppressive population control policies being implemented in many developing countries in the past 30 years. This book in the Focus on Gender series highlights the need for an approach which is based on reproductive rights, and stresses the importance of offering family-planning services […]

Book

Gender, Development, and Health

01/01/2001

1 documents

119 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This book argues that two fundamental changes are needed if both women and men are to achieve better health. The first of these is to ensure equal access to all the resources that women and men need for healthy minds and bodies: not only to medical care, but to food, water, shelter, a source of […]

Book

Women and the Family

01/01/1996

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Maternal and child health

Overview

Looking at factors as diverse as the pervasiveness of patriarchy, changing family forms, female infanticide, and land reform policies, this collection of articles considers the family from a gender perspective, and how the socially prescribed roles of men and women within the family can constrain women’s opportunities. Women are usually responsible for domestic tasks and […]

Book

Gender in the 21st Century

01/01/2000

1 documents

121 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

From the perspectives of development specialists and feminist activists, this book considers the challenges facing gender and development practitioners and policy-makers in the twenty first century. Despite some successes, women in many countries remain in abject poverty, lacking food, clean water, education, and medical care. Women throughout the world are still economically, politically and socially […]

Book

Development for Health: Selected articles from Development in Practice

01/01/1997

1 documents

114 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The achievement of ‘Health for All by the Year 2000’ has been the declared goal of the international community for almost 20 years. The 1978 Alma Ata Declaration acknowledged that health and well-being depend as much on social justice and community participation as on technical or medical interventions. Yet, with deepening economic disparity within and […]

Book

Paying for Health: Poverty and structural adjustment in Zimbabwe

01/01/1994

1 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Paying for Health shows how the most vulnerable sections of society carry the burden of structural adjustment when a government adopts the World Bank’s advice to introduce user-fees for health care.