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Discussion paper

Health Service Inequities as a Challenge to Health Security

28/09/2010

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In developing countries, an individual’s social, regional, and/or economic standing determines the quality of health care that they are entitled to. In India, those of a lower status and/or who have a lower income, suffer both worse health and restricted access to health services – largely the result of inequality. This Oxfam India paper focuses […]

Book

No-one Should Be Oppressed: Writing about our lives and struggles

23/09/2015

1 documents

145 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This book captures work from the ‘Organising Marginalised and Vulnerable Women Workers’ cluster of the Oxfam Women’s Rights Advancement Programme (OWRAP) in South Africa. The contributions are from over 20 female workers and members of three organizations: Mthonjaneni Home Based Care Network in Kwa Zulu-Natal; Seasonal Farm Worker Structures in the Western Cape; and Sisonke […]

Journal article

Is the doctor on? In search of users for medical software in rural Himalayas

01/04/2012

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The Indian healthcare sector provides ripe ground for development as access to high-quality and timely medical diagnosis remains unrequited among its vast rural populace. With an acute shortage of doctors in rural areas, medical diagnostic software has been created as a surrogate, propelling non-physician workers to step in. For diagnostic software to function effectively, it […]

Case study

Promoting a sustainable and inclusive rice value chain in Vietnam through multi-stakeholder initiatives that benefit women and men small-scale producers

09/04/2018

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Soc Trang and Angiang provinces in Vietnam have the highest rice productivity in the country. However, this is not leading to improvements in living standards for local rice farmers. A lack of collaboration among producers means they are unable to link with big rice export companies. A fragmented value chain and difficulty in acquiring investment, […]

Briefing note

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 6: The case for gender-transformative water programmes

22/03/2020

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

As we approach the 10-year countdown to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is clear we are far from achieving SDG 5 on gender equality, and SDG 6 on universal access to water and sanitation. While gender equality and access to safe water and sanitation are often treated as separate issues, they are deeply linked […]

Briefing paper

An Economy that Works for Women: Achieving women’s economic empowerment in an increasingly unequal world

02/03/2017

6 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Women’s economic empowerment could reduce poverty for everyone. In order to achieve it, we need to first fix the current broken economic model which is undermining gender equality and causing extreme economic inequality. The neoliberal model has made it harder for women to have better quality and better paid jobs, address inequality in unpaid care […]

Briefing paper

Facing Risk: Options and challenges in ensuring that climate/disaster risk finance and insurance deliver for poor people

16/04/2018

4 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Reducing the impacts of disasters on poor people is absolutely vital. Climate/disaster risk financing could play a useful role if it is part of an approach that includes risk reduction, if it strengthens social protection, and if it has real participation from civil society. Insurance, as one component of risk financing, could play a supportive […]

Briefing paper

Lifting the Resource Curse: How poor people can and should benefit from the revenues of extractive industries

24/11/2009

6 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

In countries rich in minerals and hydrocarbons, it is often the case that a small number of private companies benefit from the exploitation of these resources, while public revenues are small or misused and local populations remain poor. The way to fight the ‘curse’ of natural resources is by sharing the benefits fairly between private […]

Case study

Improving Programme Design with Power Analysis Tools: Practical Application of the Power Cube within Oxfam GB Programme Design in Guatemala

30/06/2011

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This short case study illustrates a deliberate use of power analysis using the Power Cube to inform and strengthen programme design, based on a programme to strengthen indigenous young women’s leadership in Guatemala. The context meant that the programme was quite a sensitive one, needing careful assessment of options. The case shows the process that […]

Book

Gender and the Economic Crisis

10/02/2011

1 documents

178 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The current global economic crisis is expected to lead to millions more people being pushed into extreme poverty. The effects are profoundly different for women and men, and the existing gender inequalities and power imbalances mean that additional problems are falling disproportionately on those who are already structurally disempowered and marginalised. The economic crisis is […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Discussion paper

Health Service Inequities as a Challenge to Health Security

28/09/2010

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In developing countries, an individual’s social, regional, and/or economic standing determines the quality of health care that they are entitled to. In India, those of a lower status and/or who have a lower income, suffer both worse health and restricted access to health services – largely the result of inequality. This Oxfam India paper focuses […]

Book

No-one Should Be Oppressed: Writing about our lives and struggles

23/09/2015

1 documents

145 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This book captures work from the ‘Organising Marginalised and Vulnerable Women Workers’ cluster of the Oxfam Women’s Rights Advancement Programme (OWRAP) in South Africa. The contributions are from over 20 female workers and members of three organizations: Mthonjaneni Home Based Care Network in Kwa Zulu-Natal; Seasonal Farm Worker Structures in the Western Cape; and Sisonke […]

Journal article

Is the doctor on? In search of users for medical software in rural Himalayas

01/04/2012

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The Indian healthcare sector provides ripe ground for development as access to high-quality and timely medical diagnosis remains unrequited among its vast rural populace. With an acute shortage of doctors in rural areas, medical diagnostic software has been created as a surrogate, propelling non-physician workers to step in. For diagnostic software to function effectively, it […]

Case study

Promoting a sustainable and inclusive rice value chain in Vietnam through multi-stakeholder initiatives that benefit women and men small-scale producers

09/04/2018

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Soc Trang and Angiang provinces in Vietnam have the highest rice productivity in the country. However, this is not leading to improvements in living standards for local rice farmers. A lack of collaboration among producers means they are unable to link with big rice export companies. A fragmented value chain and difficulty in acquiring investment, […]

Briefing note

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 6: The case for gender-transformative water programmes

22/03/2020

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

As we approach the 10-year countdown to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is clear we are far from achieving SDG 5 on gender equality, and SDG 6 on universal access to water and sanitation. While gender equality and access to safe water and sanitation are often treated as separate issues, they are deeply linked […]

Briefing paper

An Economy that Works for Women: Achieving women’s economic empowerment in an increasingly unequal world

02/03/2017

6 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Women’s economic empowerment could reduce poverty for everyone. In order to achieve it, we need to first fix the current broken economic model which is undermining gender equality and causing extreme economic inequality. The neoliberal model has made it harder for women to have better quality and better paid jobs, address inequality in unpaid care […]

Briefing paper

Facing Risk: Options and challenges in ensuring that climate/disaster risk finance and insurance deliver for poor people

16/04/2018

4 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Reducing the impacts of disasters on poor people is absolutely vital. Climate/disaster risk financing could play a useful role if it is part of an approach that includes risk reduction, if it strengthens social protection, and if it has real participation from civil society. Insurance, as one component of risk financing, could play a supportive […]

Briefing paper

Lifting the Resource Curse: How poor people can and should benefit from the revenues of extractive industries

24/11/2009

6 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

In countries rich in minerals and hydrocarbons, it is often the case that a small number of private companies benefit from the exploitation of these resources, while public revenues are small or misused and local populations remain poor. The way to fight the ‘curse’ of natural resources is by sharing the benefits fairly between private […]

Case study

Improving Programme Design with Power Analysis Tools: Practical Application of the Power Cube within Oxfam GB Programme Design in Guatemala

30/06/2011

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This short case study illustrates a deliberate use of power analysis using the Power Cube to inform and strengthen programme design, based on a programme to strengthen indigenous young women’s leadership in Guatemala. The context meant that the programme was quite a sensitive one, needing careful assessment of options. The case shows the process that […]

Book

Gender and the Economic Crisis

10/02/2011

1 documents

178 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The current global economic crisis is expected to lead to millions more people being pushed into extreme poverty. The effects are profoundly different for women and men, and the existing gender inequalities and power imbalances mean that additional problems are falling disproportionately on those who are already structurally disempowered and marginalised. The economic crisis is […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Discussion paper

Health Service Inequities as a Challenge to Health Security

28/09/2010

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In developing countries, an individual’s social, regional, and/or economic standing determines the quality of health care that they are entitled to. In India, those of a lower status and/or who have a lower income, suffer both worse health and restricted access to health services – largely the result of inequality. This Oxfam India paper focuses […]

Book

No-one Should Be Oppressed: Writing about our lives and struggles

23/09/2015

1 documents

145 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This book captures work from the ‘Organising Marginalised and Vulnerable Women Workers’ cluster of the Oxfam Women’s Rights Advancement Programme (OWRAP) in South Africa. The contributions are from over 20 female workers and members of three organizations: Mthonjaneni Home Based Care Network in Kwa Zulu-Natal; Seasonal Farm Worker Structures in the Western Cape; and Sisonke […]

Journal article

Is the doctor on? In search of users for medical software in rural Himalayas

01/04/2012

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The Indian healthcare sector provides ripe ground for development as access to high-quality and timely medical diagnosis remains unrequited among its vast rural populace. With an acute shortage of doctors in rural areas, medical diagnostic software has been created as a surrogate, propelling non-physician workers to step in. For diagnostic software to function effectively, it […]

Case study

Promoting a sustainable and inclusive rice value chain in Vietnam through multi-stakeholder initiatives that benefit women and men small-scale producers

09/04/2018

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Soc Trang and Angiang provinces in Vietnam have the highest rice productivity in the country. However, this is not leading to improvements in living standards for local rice farmers. A lack of collaboration among producers means they are unable to link with big rice export companies. A fragmented value chain and difficulty in acquiring investment, […]

Briefing note

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 6: The case for gender-transformative water programmes

22/03/2020

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

As we approach the 10-year countdown to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is clear we are far from achieving SDG 5 on gender equality, and SDG 6 on universal access to water and sanitation. While gender equality and access to safe water and sanitation are often treated as separate issues, they are deeply linked […]

Briefing paper

An Economy that Works for Women: Achieving women’s economic empowerment in an increasingly unequal world

02/03/2017

6 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Women’s economic empowerment could reduce poverty for everyone. In order to achieve it, we need to first fix the current broken economic model which is undermining gender equality and causing extreme economic inequality. The neoliberal model has made it harder for women to have better quality and better paid jobs, address inequality in unpaid care […]

Briefing paper

Facing Risk: Options and challenges in ensuring that climate/disaster risk finance and insurance deliver for poor people

16/04/2018

4 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Reducing the impacts of disasters on poor people is absolutely vital. Climate/disaster risk financing could play a useful role if it is part of an approach that includes risk reduction, if it strengthens social protection, and if it has real participation from civil society. Insurance, as one component of risk financing, could play a supportive […]

Briefing paper

Lifting the Resource Curse: How poor people can and should benefit from the revenues of extractive industries

24/11/2009

6 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

In countries rich in minerals and hydrocarbons, it is often the case that a small number of private companies benefit from the exploitation of these resources, while public revenues are small or misused and local populations remain poor. The way to fight the ‘curse’ of natural resources is by sharing the benefits fairly between private […]

Case study

Improving Programme Design with Power Analysis Tools: Practical Application of the Power Cube within Oxfam GB Programme Design in Guatemala

30/06/2011

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This short case study illustrates a deliberate use of power analysis using the Power Cube to inform and strengthen programme design, based on a programme to strengthen indigenous young women’s leadership in Guatemala. The context meant that the programme was quite a sensitive one, needing careful assessment of options. The case shows the process that […]

Book

Gender and the Economic Crisis

10/02/2011

1 documents

178 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The current global economic crisis is expected to lead to millions more people being pushed into extreme poverty. The effects are profoundly different for women and men, and the existing gender inequalities and power imbalances mean that additional problems are falling disproportionately on those who are already structurally disempowered and marginalised. The economic crisis is […]