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Research report

Food Crisis, Gender, and Resilience in the Sahel: Lessons from the 2012 crisis in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger

16/06/2014

2 documents

58 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

This report deals with the issues, or rather, with the responses to the 2012 food crisis in the Sahel, from a gender perspective. The field research, which was conducted in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, builds on past work and reflects the statements made by local people. The report finds that household resilience is inconceivable […]

Journal article

A survivor behind every number: using programme data on violence against women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo to influence policy and practice

09/07/2014

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

A survivor behind every number: using programme data on violence against women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo to influence policy and practice

Keywords

Overview

Designing and implementing programmes that seek to respond to, and prevent, violence against women and girls (VAWG) saves lives and mitigates the consequences of such violence for survivors. With the right evidence about the scale and nature of VAWG, practitioners, donors, and policymakers can improve programming, support VAWG services where they are needed, and develop […]

Case study

A community making change: HIV/AIDS Prevention Group Bela-Bela

02/07/2014

1 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study documents the story of the HIV/AIDS Prevention Group in Bela Bela, Limpopo province, in South Africa. HAPG has led the way in pioneering layperson-managed clinics supervised by an HIV and AIDS specialist administering antiretroviral treatment (ART), in a province (Limpopo) that is still struggling to provide an effective primary health care […]

Research report

Meaningful Action: Effective approaches to women’s economic empowerment in agriculture

30/10/2014

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper responds to recent focus in the development sector on creating employment for women. It argues that sustaining women’s economic empowerment depends on employment being decent work, with safeguards, that is accessible to many women. Approaches combine integrated interventions to increase participation in markets with broader investments for social infrastructure, supportive norms and addressing […]

Case study

Women Dairy Producers in Colombia: Women and dairy sector enterprises leverage private and public sector investment at scale

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study explores a partnership between a private company foundation, Oxfam and farmer cooperatives, which combined targeted training for women, finance, a market opportunity and addressing care work, resulting in increased recognition of women as dairy farmers and demonstrating that smallholders could be commercial suppliers. The success of the project has changed government credit […]

Evaluation report

Accountability Review in Georgia: Promoting children and youth as agents of change – My Rights, My Voice

21/11/2014

3 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This accountability review is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14. The report documents the findings from a review carried out in May 2014 which examines the degree to which Oxfam meets its own standards for accountability. The ‘Promoting children and youth as agents of change’ project in Georgia is part of the […]

Issue briefing

Wealth: Having it all and wanting more

19/01/2015

5 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Global wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small wealthy elite. These wealthy individuals have generated and sustained their vast riches through their interests and activities in a few important economic sectors, including finance and insurance, and pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Companies from these sectors spend millions of dollars every year on lobbying to […]

Case study

Changing Laws, Changing Lives: Supporting survivors of gender-based violence in Mozambique

05/03/2015

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Survivors of gender-based violence in Mozambique face challenges in accessing legal justice and support. Formal justice structures are inaccessible, especially in remote areas, and informal procedures are often rooted in attitudes and practices that discriminate against women. Since 2008, Oxfam in Mozambique has partnered with small women’s rights organisations through Fórum Mulher, a network of […]

Book

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

19/06/2014

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. Contributions are from over twenty female workers and members of three organisations: Mthonjaneni Home Based Care Network in Kwa Zulu-Natal, Seasonal Farm Worker Structures in the Western Cape, and Sisonke sex […]

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 […]

Showing 431 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Food Crisis, Gender, and Resilience in the Sahel: Lessons from the 2012 crisis in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger

16/06/2014

2 documents

58 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

This report deals with the issues, or rather, with the responses to the 2012 food crisis in the Sahel, from a gender perspective. The field research, which was conducted in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, builds on past work and reflects the statements made by local people. The report finds that household resilience is inconceivable […]

Journal article

A survivor behind every number: using programme data on violence against women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo to influence policy and practice

09/07/2014

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

A survivor behind every number: using programme data on violence against women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo to influence policy and practice

Keywords

Overview

Designing and implementing programmes that seek to respond to, and prevent, violence against women and girls (VAWG) saves lives and mitigates the consequences of such violence for survivors. With the right evidence about the scale and nature of VAWG, practitioners, donors, and policymakers can improve programming, support VAWG services where they are needed, and develop […]

Case study

A community making change: HIV/AIDS Prevention Group Bela-Bela

02/07/2014

1 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study documents the story of the HIV/AIDS Prevention Group in Bela Bela, Limpopo province, in South Africa. HAPG has led the way in pioneering layperson-managed clinics supervised by an HIV and AIDS specialist administering antiretroviral treatment (ART), in a province (Limpopo) that is still struggling to provide an effective primary health care […]

Research report

Meaningful Action: Effective approaches to women’s economic empowerment in agriculture

30/10/2014

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper responds to recent focus in the development sector on creating employment for women. It argues that sustaining women’s economic empowerment depends on employment being decent work, with safeguards, that is accessible to many women. Approaches combine integrated interventions to increase participation in markets with broader investments for social infrastructure, supportive norms and addressing […]

Case study

Women Dairy Producers in Colombia: Women and dairy sector enterprises leverage private and public sector investment at scale

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study explores a partnership between a private company foundation, Oxfam and farmer cooperatives, which combined targeted training for women, finance, a market opportunity and addressing care work, resulting in increased recognition of women as dairy farmers and demonstrating that smallholders could be commercial suppliers. The success of the project has changed government credit […]

Evaluation report

Accountability Review in Georgia: Promoting children and youth as agents of change – My Rights, My Voice

21/11/2014

3 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This accountability review is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14. The report documents the findings from a review carried out in May 2014 which examines the degree to which Oxfam meets its own standards for accountability. The ‘Promoting children and youth as agents of change’ project in Georgia is part of the […]

Issue briefing

Wealth: Having it all and wanting more

19/01/2015

5 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Global wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small wealthy elite. These wealthy individuals have generated and sustained their vast riches through their interests and activities in a few important economic sectors, including finance and insurance, and pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Companies from these sectors spend millions of dollars every year on lobbying to […]

Case study

Changing Laws, Changing Lives: Supporting survivors of gender-based violence in Mozambique

05/03/2015

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Survivors of gender-based violence in Mozambique face challenges in accessing legal justice and support. Formal justice structures are inaccessible, especially in remote areas, and informal procedures are often rooted in attitudes and practices that discriminate against women. Since 2008, Oxfam in Mozambique has partnered with small women’s rights organisations through Fórum Mulher, a network of […]

Book

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

19/06/2014

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. Contributions are from over twenty female workers and members of three organisations: Mthonjaneni Home Based Care Network in Kwa Zulu-Natal, Seasonal Farm Worker Structures in the Western Cape, and Sisonke sex […]

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 […]

Showing 431 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Food Crisis, Gender, and Resilience in the Sahel: Lessons from the 2012 crisis in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger

16/06/2014

2 documents

58 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

This report deals with the issues, or rather, with the responses to the 2012 food crisis in the Sahel, from a gender perspective. The field research, which was conducted in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, builds on past work and reflects the statements made by local people. The report finds that household resilience is inconceivable […]

Journal article

A survivor behind every number: using programme data on violence against women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo to influence policy and practice

09/07/2014

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

A survivor behind every number: using programme data on violence against women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo to influence policy and practice

Keywords

Overview

Designing and implementing programmes that seek to respond to, and prevent, violence against women and girls (VAWG) saves lives and mitigates the consequences of such violence for survivors. With the right evidence about the scale and nature of VAWG, practitioners, donors, and policymakers can improve programming, support VAWG services where they are needed, and develop […]

Case study

A community making change: HIV/AIDS Prevention Group Bela-Bela

02/07/2014

1 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study documents the story of the HIV/AIDS Prevention Group in Bela Bela, Limpopo province, in South Africa. HAPG has led the way in pioneering layperson-managed clinics supervised by an HIV and AIDS specialist administering antiretroviral treatment (ART), in a province (Limpopo) that is still struggling to provide an effective primary health care […]

Research report

Meaningful Action: Effective approaches to women’s economic empowerment in agriculture

30/10/2014

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper responds to recent focus in the development sector on creating employment for women. It argues that sustaining women’s economic empowerment depends on employment being decent work, with safeguards, that is accessible to many women. Approaches combine integrated interventions to increase participation in markets with broader investments for social infrastructure, supportive norms and addressing […]

Case study

Women Dairy Producers in Colombia: Women and dairy sector enterprises leverage private and public sector investment at scale

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study explores a partnership between a private company foundation, Oxfam and farmer cooperatives, which combined targeted training for women, finance, a market opportunity and addressing care work, resulting in increased recognition of women as dairy farmers and demonstrating that smallholders could be commercial suppliers. The success of the project has changed government credit […]

Evaluation report

Accountability Review in Georgia: Promoting children and youth as agents of change – My Rights, My Voice

21/11/2014

3 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This accountability review is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14. The report documents the findings from a review carried out in May 2014 which examines the degree to which Oxfam meets its own standards for accountability. The ‘Promoting children and youth as agents of change’ project in Georgia is part of the […]

Issue briefing

Wealth: Having it all and wanting more

19/01/2015

5 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Global wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small wealthy elite. These wealthy individuals have generated and sustained their vast riches through their interests and activities in a few important economic sectors, including finance and insurance, and pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Companies from these sectors spend millions of dollars every year on lobbying to […]

Case study

Changing Laws, Changing Lives: Supporting survivors of gender-based violence in Mozambique

05/03/2015

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Survivors of gender-based violence in Mozambique face challenges in accessing legal justice and support. Formal justice structures are inaccessible, especially in remote areas, and informal procedures are often rooted in attitudes and practices that discriminate against women. Since 2008, Oxfam in Mozambique has partnered with small women’s rights organisations through Fórum Mulher, a network of […]

Book

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

19/06/2014

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. Contributions are from over twenty female workers and members of three organisations: Mthonjaneni Home Based Care Network in Kwa Zulu-Natal, Seasonal Farm Worker Structures in the Western Cape, and Sisonke sex […]

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 […]