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Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

10/11/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

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Overview

This article draws on Promundo and RWAMREC’s programmatic experiences in Rwanda of implementing MenCare+, a gender transformative approach to engaging young and adult men (ages 15–35) in caregiving, maternal, newborn, and child health, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. We present initial results from fathers’ groups with more than 600 men, including the impact of participation in […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Redistributing Care Work for Gender Equality and Justice: A training curriculum

15/06/2015

1 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

People contribute to the economy through their work in many different ways. Women and men contribute to the productive economy by producing goods and services that people use every day. It is this work that is counted and measured by governments. Yet the work of social reproduction ‘ which refers to the activities needed to […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Participatory Methodology: Rapid Care Analysis

15/11/2016

8 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Rapid Care Analysis is a rapid assessment tool to improve the design of a wider programme through gathering evidence to promote the recognition of care work and the identification of practical interventions. A key aim is to reduce the time or labour required for daily housework and caring for people, and thus increase women’s: […]

Journal article

Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers

07/12/2022

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers

Keywords

Overview

The platform economy is conquering the domestic work and home care sector in countries of the global North as a response to the scarcity of affordable quality care services. Based on in-depth interviews with workers, firms and stakeholders, the objective of our study is to unravel the new mechanisms of exploitation and invisibility of this […]

Briefing paper

Your Money or Your Life: Will leaders act now to save lives and make healthcare free in poor countries?

14/09/2009

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Health systems

Overview

User fees for health care are a life or death issue for millions of people in poor countries. Too poor to pay, women and children are paying with their lives. People who can’t pay are often imprisoned in hospitals until their families can clear their bills. For those who do pay, over 100 million are […]

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Private Sector at Oxfam

We are working towards a human economy where businesses play a positive role in overcoming poverty and inequality

Research report

A Childcare Revolution in Wales

01/02/2005

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Almost one in three children in Wales live in poverty – some 200,000 under sixteen year-olds.The provision of childcare enables both parents to work and is an essential ingredient in the drive to eradicate child poverty. This report looks at the experiences of parents in four contrasting communities. It highlights concerns around childcare in Wales, […]

Briefing paper

Blind Optimism: Challenging the myths about private health care in poor countries

01/02/2009

9 documents

55 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Spanish

Keywords

Health systems

Overview

The realisation of the right to health for millions of people in poor countries depends upon a massive increase in health services to achieve universal and equitable access. A growing number of international donors are promoting an expansion of private-sector health-care delivery to fulfil this goal. The private sector can play a role in health […]

Journal article

A child-care open learning programme in Uganda

01/05/1992

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

These Notes provide a brief report of the early stages of a project providing open and distance training to people working with children in residential-care institutions; the Child Care Open Learning Programme in Uganda, developed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare and Save the Children Fund (UK). The author discusses the outcomes and […]

Journal article

Social capacity, sustainable development, and older people: lessons from community-based care in Southeast Asia

01/11/2000

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

While gender has become a central factor in development, age and older people are seldom considered, and many organisations assume a top-down, non-participatory model of care – even when these organisations are otherwise engaged in sustainable and participatory development. This paper looks at how older people have been involved in sustainable community-based care efforts in […]

Showing 436 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

10/11/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

Keywords

Overview

This article draws on Promundo and RWAMREC’s programmatic experiences in Rwanda of implementing MenCare+, a gender transformative approach to engaging young and adult men (ages 15–35) in caregiving, maternal, newborn, and child health, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. We present initial results from fathers’ groups with more than 600 men, including the impact of participation in […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Redistributing Care Work for Gender Equality and Justice: A training curriculum

15/06/2015

1 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

People contribute to the economy through their work in many different ways. Women and men contribute to the productive economy by producing goods and services that people use every day. It is this work that is counted and measured by governments. Yet the work of social reproduction ‘ which refers to the activities needed to […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Participatory Methodology: Rapid Care Analysis

15/11/2016

8 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Rapid Care Analysis is a rapid assessment tool to improve the design of a wider programme through gathering evidence to promote the recognition of care work and the identification of practical interventions. A key aim is to reduce the time or labour required for daily housework and caring for people, and thus increase women’s: […]

Journal article

Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers

07/12/2022

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers

Keywords

Overview

The platform economy is conquering the domestic work and home care sector in countries of the global North as a response to the scarcity of affordable quality care services. Based on in-depth interviews with workers, firms and stakeholders, the objective of our study is to unravel the new mechanisms of exploitation and invisibility of this […]

Briefing paper

Your Money or Your Life: Will leaders act now to save lives and make healthcare free in poor countries?

14/09/2009

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Health systems

Overview

User fees for health care are a life or death issue for millions of people in poor countries. Too poor to pay, women and children are paying with their lives. People who can’t pay are often imprisoned in hospitals until their families can clear their bills. For those who do pay, over 100 million are […]

Webpage

Private Sector at Oxfam

We are working towards a human economy where businesses play a positive role in overcoming poverty and inequality

Research report

A Childcare Revolution in Wales

01/02/2005

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Almost one in three children in Wales live in poverty – some 200,000 under sixteen year-olds.The provision of childcare enables both parents to work and is an essential ingredient in the drive to eradicate child poverty. This report looks at the experiences of parents in four contrasting communities. It highlights concerns around childcare in Wales, […]

Briefing paper

Blind Optimism: Challenging the myths about private health care in poor countries

01/02/2009

9 documents

55 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Spanish

Keywords

Health systems

Overview

The realisation of the right to health for millions of people in poor countries depends upon a massive increase in health services to achieve universal and equitable access. A growing number of international donors are promoting an expansion of private-sector health-care delivery to fulfil this goal. The private sector can play a role in health […]

Journal article

A child-care open learning programme in Uganda

01/05/1992

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

These Notes provide a brief report of the early stages of a project providing open and distance training to people working with children in residential-care institutions; the Child Care Open Learning Programme in Uganda, developed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare and Save the Children Fund (UK). The author discusses the outcomes and […]

Journal article

Social capacity, sustainable development, and older people: lessons from community-based care in Southeast Asia

01/11/2000

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

While gender has become a central factor in development, age and older people are seldom considered, and many organisations assume a top-down, non-participatory model of care – even when these organisations are otherwise engaged in sustainable and participatory development. This paper looks at how older people have been involved in sustainable community-based care efforts in […]

Showing 436 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

10/11/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

Keywords

Overview

This article draws on Promundo and RWAMREC’s programmatic experiences in Rwanda of implementing MenCare+, a gender transformative approach to engaging young and adult men (ages 15–35) in caregiving, maternal, newborn, and child health, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. We present initial results from fathers’ groups with more than 600 men, including the impact of participation in […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Redistributing Care Work for Gender Equality and Justice: A training curriculum

15/06/2015

1 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

People contribute to the economy through their work in many different ways. Women and men contribute to the productive economy by producing goods and services that people use every day. It is this work that is counted and measured by governments. Yet the work of social reproduction ‘ which refers to the activities needed to […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Participatory Methodology: Rapid Care Analysis

15/11/2016

8 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Rapid Care Analysis is a rapid assessment tool to improve the design of a wider programme through gathering evidence to promote the recognition of care work and the identification of practical interventions. A key aim is to reduce the time or labour required for daily housework and caring for people, and thus increase women’s: […]

Journal article

Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers

07/12/2022

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers

Keywords

Overview

The platform economy is conquering the domestic work and home care sector in countries of the global North as a response to the scarcity of affordable quality care services. Based on in-depth interviews with workers, firms and stakeholders, the objective of our study is to unravel the new mechanisms of exploitation and invisibility of this […]

Briefing paper

Your Money or Your Life: Will leaders act now to save lives and make healthcare free in poor countries?

14/09/2009

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Health systems

Overview

User fees for health care are a life or death issue for millions of people in poor countries. Too poor to pay, women and children are paying with their lives. People who can’t pay are often imprisoned in hospitals until their families can clear their bills. For those who do pay, over 100 million are […]

Webpage

Private Sector at Oxfam

We are working towards a human economy where businesses play a positive role in overcoming poverty and inequality

Research report

A Childcare Revolution in Wales

01/02/2005

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Almost one in three children in Wales live in poverty – some 200,000 under sixteen year-olds.The provision of childcare enables both parents to work and is an essential ingredient in the drive to eradicate child poverty. This report looks at the experiences of parents in four contrasting communities. It highlights concerns around childcare in Wales, […]

Briefing paper

Blind Optimism: Challenging the myths about private health care in poor countries

01/02/2009

9 documents

55 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Spanish

Keywords

Health systems

Overview

The realisation of the right to health for millions of people in poor countries depends upon a massive increase in health services to achieve universal and equitable access. A growing number of international donors are promoting an expansion of private-sector health-care delivery to fulfil this goal. The private sector can play a role in health […]

Journal article

A child-care open learning programme in Uganda

01/05/1992

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

These Notes provide a brief report of the early stages of a project providing open and distance training to people working with children in residential-care institutions; the Child Care Open Learning Programme in Uganda, developed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare and Save the Children Fund (UK). The author discusses the outcomes and […]

Journal article

Social capacity, sustainable development, and older people: lessons from community-based care in Southeast Asia

01/11/2000

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

While gender has become a central factor in development, age and older people are seldom considered, and many organisations assume a top-down, non-participatory model of care – even when these organisations are otherwise engaged in sustainable and participatory development. This paper looks at how older people have been involved in sustainable community-based care efforts in […]