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Briefing note

From Cyclone to Food Crisis: Ensuring the needs of women and girls are prioritized in the Cyclone Idai and Kenneth responses

12/07/2019

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

After the double tragedy and devastation of Cyclone Idai in March 2019 and Cyclone Kenneth six weeks later, the people of Mozambique now face yet another crisis: a food security crisis. At least 433,000 people have had their land and crops partly or totally destroyed. Women and girls face particular challenges in the wake of the […]

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.

Journal article

Viewpoints

01/11/2002

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

Based on ‘On the pros and cons of volunteering abroad’, this paper discusses the pros and cons of the experience of volunteering abroad and attempts to address a void in the literature on what is required of such volunteers. Following a brief sketch of the volunteer abroad and the motives to for following such a […]

Case study

A Pathway to Youth Employment: Youth internships programme in Jordan

12/08/2021

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

As part of the Youth Participation and Employment (YPE) programme, Oxfam’s partner INJAZ works to bridge the skills gap between the educational system and the changing needs of the labour market in Jordan. Oxfam supports the INJAZ internship programme, which aims to integrate young people into private-sector companies in order to help inform their future […]

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 […]

Journal article

Plaza las Pioneras: An urban feminist space and the politics of the commons

19/09/2024

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Plaza las Pioneras: An urban feminist space and the politics of the commons

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Overview

There are very few feminist urban public spaces in the world and even fewer urban feminist commons. This paper focuses on the initiative and functioning of the Plaza las Pioneras in Montevideo, Uruguay. The Plaza is an innovative feminist public space and urban commons experience that opened in 2020 as an effort by the city’s […]

Journal article

African scholars and African Studies

01/11/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the development of African Studies, principally in post-1945 Europe and North America, and its counterpart in post-independence Africa. African Studies enjoys an increasingly close connection with bilateral and multilateral development co-operation, providing research and researchers (along with their own conceptual frameworks and concerns) to assist in defining and providing direction for […]

Journal article

Paid work: the magic solution for young women to achieve empowerment? Evidence from the Empower Youth for Work project in Bangladesh

14/11/2018

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Paid work: the magic solution for young women to achieve empowerment? Evidence from the Empower Youth for Work project in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

Recently the ‘demographic dividend’ has attracted attention from policymakers because of the promise it delivers for development. But it has attracted criticism for taking an instrumental approach to young people rather than focusing on equality and rights. A similar critique has come from feminists evaluating livelihoods programming focusing on women’s ‘economic empowerment’. In this article, […]

Briefing paper

Turning the Tide: How best to protect workers employed by gangmasters, five years after Morecambe Bay

29/07/2009

2 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Livelihoods

Overview

On 5 February 2004, 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned in rising tides in Morecambe Bay because of the negligence of their gangmaster. This paper evaluates the current protection afforded to workers in the industries regulated by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA). It highlights that a significant number of unlicensed gangmasters continue to exist, and exploitation […]

Research report

Tienen los impuestos alguna influencia en las desigualdades entre hombres y mujeres?

20/08/2019

3 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Desde la perspectiva de la Economía Feminista la política fiscal, así como cualquier otra política, produce efectos e impactos diferentes en las vidas de las mujeres y los hombres dado que se diseña y actúa sobre contextos aún muy marcados por estereotipos de género: ideas preconcebidas sobre el rol del hombre (el proveedor de ingresos […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Briefing note

From Cyclone to Food Crisis: Ensuring the needs of women and girls are prioritized in the Cyclone Idai and Kenneth responses

12/07/2019

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

After the double tragedy and devastation of Cyclone Idai in March 2019 and Cyclone Kenneth six weeks later, the people of Mozambique now face yet another crisis: a food security crisis. At least 433,000 people have had their land and crops partly or totally destroyed. Women and girls face particular challenges in the wake of the […]

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.

Journal article

Viewpoints

01/11/2002

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Based on ‘On the pros and cons of volunteering abroad’, this paper discusses the pros and cons of the experience of volunteering abroad and attempts to address a void in the literature on what is required of such volunteers. Following a brief sketch of the volunteer abroad and the motives to for following such a […]

Case study

A Pathway to Youth Employment: Youth internships programme in Jordan

12/08/2021

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

As part of the Youth Participation and Employment (YPE) programme, Oxfam’s partner INJAZ works to bridge the skills gap between the educational system and the changing needs of the labour market in Jordan. Oxfam supports the INJAZ internship programme, which aims to integrate young people into private-sector companies in order to help inform their future […]

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 […]

Journal article

Plaza las Pioneras: An urban feminist space and the politics of the commons

19/09/2024

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Plaza las Pioneras: An urban feminist space and the politics of the commons

Keywords

Overview

There are very few feminist urban public spaces in the world and even fewer urban feminist commons. This paper focuses on the initiative and functioning of the Plaza las Pioneras in Montevideo, Uruguay. The Plaza is an innovative feminist public space and urban commons experience that opened in 2020 as an effort by the city’s […]

Journal article

African scholars and African Studies

01/11/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the development of African Studies, principally in post-1945 Europe and North America, and its counterpart in post-independence Africa. African Studies enjoys an increasingly close connection with bilateral and multilateral development co-operation, providing research and researchers (along with their own conceptual frameworks and concerns) to assist in defining and providing direction for […]

Journal article

Paid work: the magic solution for young women to achieve empowerment? Evidence from the Empower Youth for Work project in Bangladesh

14/11/2018

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Paid work: the magic solution for young women to achieve empowerment? Evidence from the Empower Youth for Work project in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

Recently the ‘demographic dividend’ has attracted attention from policymakers because of the promise it delivers for development. But it has attracted criticism for taking an instrumental approach to young people rather than focusing on equality and rights. A similar critique has come from feminists evaluating livelihoods programming focusing on women’s ‘economic empowerment’. In this article, […]

Briefing paper

Turning the Tide: How best to protect workers employed by gangmasters, five years after Morecambe Bay

29/07/2009

2 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Livelihoods

Overview

On 5 February 2004, 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned in rising tides in Morecambe Bay because of the negligence of their gangmaster. This paper evaluates the current protection afforded to workers in the industries regulated by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA). It highlights that a significant number of unlicensed gangmasters continue to exist, and exploitation […]

Research report

Tienen los impuestos alguna influencia en las desigualdades entre hombres y mujeres?

20/08/2019

3 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Desde la perspectiva de la Economía Feminista la política fiscal, así como cualquier otra política, produce efectos e impactos diferentes en las vidas de las mujeres y los hombres dado que se diseña y actúa sobre contextos aún muy marcados por estereotipos de género: ideas preconcebidas sobre el rol del hombre (el proveedor de ingresos […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Briefing note

From Cyclone to Food Crisis: Ensuring the needs of women and girls are prioritized in the Cyclone Idai and Kenneth responses

12/07/2019

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

After the double tragedy and devastation of Cyclone Idai in March 2019 and Cyclone Kenneth six weeks later, the people of Mozambique now face yet another crisis: a food security crisis. At least 433,000 people have had their land and crops partly or totally destroyed. Women and girls face particular challenges in the wake of the […]

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.

Journal article

Viewpoints

01/11/2002

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Based on ‘On the pros and cons of volunteering abroad’, this paper discusses the pros and cons of the experience of volunteering abroad and attempts to address a void in the literature on what is required of such volunteers. Following a brief sketch of the volunteer abroad and the motives to for following such a […]

Case study

A Pathway to Youth Employment: Youth internships programme in Jordan

12/08/2021

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

As part of the Youth Participation and Employment (YPE) programme, Oxfam’s partner INJAZ works to bridge the skills gap between the educational system and the changing needs of the labour market in Jordan. Oxfam supports the INJAZ internship programme, which aims to integrate young people into private-sector companies in order to help inform their future […]

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 […]

Journal article

Plaza las Pioneras: An urban feminist space and the politics of the commons

19/09/2024

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Plaza las Pioneras: An urban feminist space and the politics of the commons

Keywords

Overview

There are very few feminist urban public spaces in the world and even fewer urban feminist commons. This paper focuses on the initiative and functioning of the Plaza las Pioneras in Montevideo, Uruguay. The Plaza is an innovative feminist public space and urban commons experience that opened in 2020 as an effort by the city’s […]

Journal article

African scholars and African Studies

01/11/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the development of African Studies, principally in post-1945 Europe and North America, and its counterpart in post-independence Africa. African Studies enjoys an increasingly close connection with bilateral and multilateral development co-operation, providing research and researchers (along with their own conceptual frameworks and concerns) to assist in defining and providing direction for […]

Journal article

Paid work: the magic solution for young women to achieve empowerment? Evidence from the Empower Youth for Work project in Bangladesh

14/11/2018

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Paid work: the magic solution for young women to achieve empowerment? Evidence from the Empower Youth for Work project in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

Recently the ‘demographic dividend’ has attracted attention from policymakers because of the promise it delivers for development. But it has attracted criticism for taking an instrumental approach to young people rather than focusing on equality and rights. A similar critique has come from feminists evaluating livelihoods programming focusing on women’s ‘economic empowerment’. In this article, […]

Briefing paper

Turning the Tide: How best to protect workers employed by gangmasters, five years after Morecambe Bay

29/07/2009

2 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Livelihoods

Overview

On 5 February 2004, 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned in rising tides in Morecambe Bay because of the negligence of their gangmaster. This paper evaluates the current protection afforded to workers in the industries regulated by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA). It highlights that a significant number of unlicensed gangmasters continue to exist, and exploitation […]

Research report

Tienen los impuestos alguna influencia en las desigualdades entre hombres y mujeres?

20/08/2019

3 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Desde la perspectiva de la Economía Feminista la política fiscal, así como cualquier otra política, produce efectos e impactos diferentes en las vidas de las mujeres y los hombres dado que se diseña y actúa sobre contextos aún muy marcados por estereotipos de género: ideas preconcebidas sobre el rol del hombre (el proveedor de ingresos […]