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Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

Supporting Women to Aspire to Election to Political Office in Sierra Leone: The experience of the PACER project

20/01/2009

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Promoting a Culture of Equal Representation (PACER) project is implemented jointly by the 50/50 Group of Sierra Leone and Oxfam GB, and is co-funded by DFID and UNDEF. It contributes to the Government of Sierra Leone’s efforts to reduce marginalisation and vulnerability by developing a culture of equal representation and participation of women and […]

Journal article

Beyond participation: making enterprise development really work for women

23/03/2012

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Beyond participation: making enterprise development really work for women

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam has been involved in sustainable livelihoods and enterprise development since the 1960s, gaining practical experience in setting up businesses that deliver social as well as economic development. Since we believe that gender inequality is one of the greatest barriers to poverty eradication worldwide, over the last three years we have been piloting an innovative […]

Briefing paper

Putting Women’s Rights into the Arms Trade Treaty

29/06/2012

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report complements the call for the inclusion of gender-based violence within the Arms Trade Treaty by Amnesty International, IANSA Women’s Network, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Religions for Peace International. It details the issue of gender-based violence and language needed in the treaty. It also sets out how the threshold to […]

Briefing note

Still Waiting For Change: Making the political transition work for women in Yemen

24/09/2012

2 documents

10 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

Women played a key role in Yemen’s 2011 popular uprising, but almost a year on they are still waiting for change. This report draws on research from a series of focus groups with Yemeni women, and calls on the Government of Yemen and the international community to support the humanitarian response, and help ensure women […]

Journal article

Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana – the role of the women’s movement in Ghana

07/11/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana – the role of the women’s movement in Ghana

Keywords

Overview

Commitment to gender mainstreaming has been expressed worldwide as a result of the Beijing conference in 1995. The introduction of gender mainstreaming in the Beijing Platform for Action was regarded as a victory for gender ambassadors from the South, including the women’s movements. However, an empirical study from Ghana on the processes of ‘translating’ gender […]

Journal article

From the bottom up: lessons about gender mainstreaming in the Andes from Digni’s Women Empowerment and Gender Equality (WEGE) programme

07/11/2012

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

From the bottom up: lessons about gender mainstreaming in the Andes from Digni’s Women Empowerment and Gender Equality (WEGE) programme

Keywords

Overview

This article shares some insights from six projects that took part in Women Empowerment and Gender Equality (WEGE), a competence-building programme to support gender mainstreaming. WEGE was run by Digni from 2007 to 2010. The projects were run by churches and faith-based organisations in Madagascar, Ethiopia, Bolivia, and Ecuador. WEGE’s goal was to promote women’s […]

Case study

Strengthening Governance Programming Through Tackling Violence Against Women and girls: Raising Her Voice in Honduras

16/07/2012

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

One woman is killed every 18 hours in Honduras, but fewer than one in five cases are investigated. Such large-scale human rights abuses and appalling levels of impunity mean that tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) is central to the Raising Her Voice Honduras governance programme. This paper is a snapshot of the work […]

Case study

Strengthening Governance Programming Through Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls: Learning from Oxfam’s Raising Her Voice programme

16/07/2012

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Forty-five Raising Her Voice partners seeking to promote women’s political participation in 17 countries across the world have had to come to grips with tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG), both as a structural barrier to women’s participation in political life and as a consequence of effective governance work. This paper shares the strategies […]

Journal article

The role of religion in women’s campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria

01/08/2012

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

The role of religion in women’s campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria

Keywords

Overview

Legal reform is necessary but not sufficient to realise women’s rights. This paper compares two campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria: attempts to domesticate the UN Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in federal law, which resulted in defeat of the bill in 2007, and a successful campaign to […]

Journal article

Religious values and beliefs and education for women in Pakistan

01/08/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Religious values and beliefs and education for women in Pakistan

Keywords

Overview

This paper explores the hypothesis that Islamic religious values and beliefs are antithetical to women’s education in two cities in Pakistan: Lahore, generally believed to be a socially liberal city, and Peshawar, often regarded as the bastion of conservative values and norms. Leaders and members of selected religious organisations, and some members of women’s rights […]

Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

Supporting Women to Aspire to Election to Political Office in Sierra Leone: The experience of the PACER project

20/01/2009

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Promoting a Culture of Equal Representation (PACER) project is implemented jointly by the 50/50 Group of Sierra Leone and Oxfam GB, and is co-funded by DFID and UNDEF. It contributes to the Government of Sierra Leone’s efforts to reduce marginalisation and vulnerability by developing a culture of equal representation and participation of women and […]

Journal article

Beyond participation: making enterprise development really work for women

23/03/2012

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Beyond participation: making enterprise development really work for women

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam has been involved in sustainable livelihoods and enterprise development since the 1960s, gaining practical experience in setting up businesses that deliver social as well as economic development. Since we believe that gender inequality is one of the greatest barriers to poverty eradication worldwide, over the last three years we have been piloting an innovative […]

Briefing paper

Putting Women’s Rights into the Arms Trade Treaty

29/06/2012

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report complements the call for the inclusion of gender-based violence within the Arms Trade Treaty by Amnesty International, IANSA Women’s Network, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Religions for Peace International. It details the issue of gender-based violence and language needed in the treaty. It also sets out how the threshold to […]

Briefing note

Still Waiting For Change: Making the political transition work for women in Yemen

24/09/2012

2 documents

10 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

Women played a key role in Yemen’s 2011 popular uprising, but almost a year on they are still waiting for change. This report draws on research from a series of focus groups with Yemeni women, and calls on the Government of Yemen and the international community to support the humanitarian response, and help ensure women […]

Journal article

Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana – the role of the women’s movement in Ghana

07/11/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana – the role of the women’s movement in Ghana

Keywords

Overview

Commitment to gender mainstreaming has been expressed worldwide as a result of the Beijing conference in 1995. The introduction of gender mainstreaming in the Beijing Platform for Action was regarded as a victory for gender ambassadors from the South, including the women’s movements. However, an empirical study from Ghana on the processes of ‘translating’ gender […]

Journal article

From the bottom up: lessons about gender mainstreaming in the Andes from Digni’s Women Empowerment and Gender Equality (WEGE) programme

07/11/2012

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

From the bottom up: lessons about gender mainstreaming in the Andes from Digni’s Women Empowerment and Gender Equality (WEGE) programme

Keywords

Overview

This article shares some insights from six projects that took part in Women Empowerment and Gender Equality (WEGE), a competence-building programme to support gender mainstreaming. WEGE was run by Digni from 2007 to 2010. The projects were run by churches and faith-based organisations in Madagascar, Ethiopia, Bolivia, and Ecuador. WEGE’s goal was to promote women’s […]

Case study

Strengthening Governance Programming Through Tackling Violence Against Women and girls: Raising Her Voice in Honduras

16/07/2012

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

One woman is killed every 18 hours in Honduras, but fewer than one in five cases are investigated. Such large-scale human rights abuses and appalling levels of impunity mean that tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) is central to the Raising Her Voice Honduras governance programme. This paper is a snapshot of the work […]

Case study

Strengthening Governance Programming Through Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls: Learning from Oxfam’s Raising Her Voice programme

16/07/2012

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Forty-five Raising Her Voice partners seeking to promote women’s political participation in 17 countries across the world have had to come to grips with tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG), both as a structural barrier to women’s participation in political life and as a consequence of effective governance work. This paper shares the strategies […]

Journal article

The role of religion in women’s campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria

01/08/2012

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

The role of religion in women’s campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria

Keywords

Overview

Legal reform is necessary but not sufficient to realise women’s rights. This paper compares two campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria: attempts to domesticate the UN Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in federal law, which resulted in defeat of the bill in 2007, and a successful campaign to […]

Journal article

Religious values and beliefs and education for women in Pakistan

01/08/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Religious values and beliefs and education for women in Pakistan

Keywords

Overview

This paper explores the hypothesis that Islamic religious values and beliefs are antithetical to women’s education in two cities in Pakistan: Lahore, generally believed to be a socially liberal city, and Peshawar, often regarded as the bastion of conservative values and norms. Leaders and members of selected religious organisations, and some members of women’s rights […]

Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

Supporting Women to Aspire to Election to Political Office in Sierra Leone: The experience of the PACER project

20/01/2009

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Promoting a Culture of Equal Representation (PACER) project is implemented jointly by the 50/50 Group of Sierra Leone and Oxfam GB, and is co-funded by DFID and UNDEF. It contributes to the Government of Sierra Leone’s efforts to reduce marginalisation and vulnerability by developing a culture of equal representation and participation of women and […]

Journal article

Beyond participation: making enterprise development really work for women

23/03/2012

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Beyond participation: making enterprise development really work for women

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam has been involved in sustainable livelihoods and enterprise development since the 1960s, gaining practical experience in setting up businesses that deliver social as well as economic development. Since we believe that gender inequality is one of the greatest barriers to poverty eradication worldwide, over the last three years we have been piloting an innovative […]

Briefing paper

Putting Women’s Rights into the Arms Trade Treaty

29/06/2012

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report complements the call for the inclusion of gender-based violence within the Arms Trade Treaty by Amnesty International, IANSA Women’s Network, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Religions for Peace International. It details the issue of gender-based violence and language needed in the treaty. It also sets out how the threshold to […]

Briefing note

Still Waiting For Change: Making the political transition work for women in Yemen

24/09/2012

2 documents

10 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

Women played a key role in Yemen’s 2011 popular uprising, but almost a year on they are still waiting for change. This report draws on research from a series of focus groups with Yemeni women, and calls on the Government of Yemen and the international community to support the humanitarian response, and help ensure women […]

Journal article

Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana – the role of the women’s movement in Ghana

07/11/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana – the role of the women’s movement in Ghana

Keywords

Overview

Commitment to gender mainstreaming has been expressed worldwide as a result of the Beijing conference in 1995. The introduction of gender mainstreaming in the Beijing Platform for Action was regarded as a victory for gender ambassadors from the South, including the women’s movements. However, an empirical study from Ghana on the processes of ‘translating’ gender […]

Journal article

From the bottom up: lessons about gender mainstreaming in the Andes from Digni’s Women Empowerment and Gender Equality (WEGE) programme

07/11/2012

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

From the bottom up: lessons about gender mainstreaming in the Andes from Digni’s Women Empowerment and Gender Equality (WEGE) programme

Keywords

Overview

This article shares some insights from six projects that took part in Women Empowerment and Gender Equality (WEGE), a competence-building programme to support gender mainstreaming. WEGE was run by Digni from 2007 to 2010. The projects were run by churches and faith-based organisations in Madagascar, Ethiopia, Bolivia, and Ecuador. WEGE’s goal was to promote women’s […]

Case study

Strengthening Governance Programming Through Tackling Violence Against Women and girls: Raising Her Voice in Honduras

16/07/2012

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

One woman is killed every 18 hours in Honduras, but fewer than one in five cases are investigated. Such large-scale human rights abuses and appalling levels of impunity mean that tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) is central to the Raising Her Voice Honduras governance programme. This paper is a snapshot of the work […]

Case study

Strengthening Governance Programming Through Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls: Learning from Oxfam’s Raising Her Voice programme

16/07/2012

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Forty-five Raising Her Voice partners seeking to promote women’s political participation in 17 countries across the world have had to come to grips with tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG), both as a structural barrier to women’s participation in political life and as a consequence of effective governance work. This paper shares the strategies […]

Journal article

The role of religion in women’s campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria

01/08/2012

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

The role of religion in women’s campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria

Keywords

Overview

Legal reform is necessary but not sufficient to realise women’s rights. This paper compares two campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria: attempts to domesticate the UN Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in federal law, which resulted in defeat of the bill in 2007, and a successful campaign to […]

Journal article

Religious values and beliefs and education for women in Pakistan

01/08/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Religious values and beliefs and education for women in Pakistan

Keywords

Overview

This paper explores the hypothesis that Islamic religious values and beliefs are antithetical to women’s education in two cities in Pakistan: Lahore, generally believed to be a socially liberal city, and Peshawar, often regarded as the bastion of conservative values and norms. Leaders and members of selected religious organisations, and some members of women’s rights […]