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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Book

Women Reinventing Globalisation

10/12/2003

2 documents

161 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

HIV and AIDS

Overview

Women Reinventing Globalisation is a collection of articles drawn from the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)’s Ninth International Forum, on this subject. Development researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, and feminist activists, debated and charted the impact of globalisation on women’s status and their daily lives. Concrete strategies were developed, to ensure that globalisation […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Guide to Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violence in a Context of Women’s Economic Empowerment

13/04/2021

3 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

As development practitioners, we must ensure that programs are implemented in such a way as to minimize gender-based violence risks for all participants. This involves understanding risk and prevention factors and implementing appropriate measures and resources to help mitigate these risks in order to guarantee that women’s economic empowerment programs give women the intended tools […]

Journal article

Women, microfinance, and savings: lessons and proposals

01/11/2002

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, microfinance, and savings: lessons and proposals

Keywords

Overview

Microfinance–both credit and savings–has potential to improve the well-being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal savings mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services designed to address the development issues that confront women. The proposals call for safe-deposit […]

Discussion paper

Thorny Transition: Women’s empowerment and exposure to violence in India

01/07/2014

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper examines the relation between women’s empowerment in India and the risk of violence. It starts by situating women’s exposure to violence in the context of a gradual growth in female mobilization and freedom-from-violence rights, yet recognises that this is happening in the context of unfavourable social norms. The two conflicting trends produce a […]

Briefing note

Why India Needs the Women’s Reservation Bill

08/04/2014

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Nine out of ten parliamentarians in India are men. Such dismal figures reveal the lasting grip of unfavourable social norms. Six decades have gone by since India’s Independence brought hopes that democracy would make gender representation more equal. Since the 1990s, reservation has opened up access to local bodies for women. Major parties have since […]

Journal article

The Communities Care programme: changing social norms to end violence against women and girls in conflict-affected communities

20/07/2016

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Communities Care programme: changing social norms to end violence against women and girls in conflict-affected communities

Keywords

Overview

While significant progress has been made in recent years in responding to violence against women and girls in humanitarian contexts, timely and quality care and support to survivors still remains a challenge. Little is known about effective prevention. Few interventions have targeted underlying drivers of violence against women and girls (VAWG), which include social norms. […]

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 […]

Issue briefing

Submission to the Commission on the Status of Women

03/03/2004

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s commitment to gender equality is rooted in twenty years of analysis and practical action in line with feminist goals. Our understanding of gender mainstreaming has been to focus on programmes whose immediate beneficiaries are women and their dependents, based on continuing evidence that women are the majority in the most economically needy groups in […]

Journal article

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

07/11/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on Zimbabwean women who are responding to the economic problems at home by trading food in South Africa. It explores the crops the women market, the strategies they use to access these markets, the challenges they face in South Africa, and the way they handle and resolve conflicts of various kinds which […]

Briefing paper

Not in This Together: How supermarkets became pandemic winners while women workers are losing out

22/06/2021

6 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English, French, Urdu

Keywords

Overview

Inequality is worsening and exploitation of women is endemic across the global economy. While inequality of power and value was already deeply unfair before the pandemic, it has now reached shocking proportions. COVID-19 has cost global workers $3.7 trillion in lost income, and women and young workers have been hardest hit, as they are often […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Book

Women Reinventing Globalisation

10/12/2003

2 documents

161 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

HIV and AIDS

Overview

Women Reinventing Globalisation is a collection of articles drawn from the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)’s Ninth International Forum, on this subject. Development researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, and feminist activists, debated and charted the impact of globalisation on women’s status and their daily lives. Concrete strategies were developed, to ensure that globalisation […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Guide to Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violence in a Context of Women’s Economic Empowerment

13/04/2021

3 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

As development practitioners, we must ensure that programs are implemented in such a way as to minimize gender-based violence risks for all participants. This involves understanding risk and prevention factors and implementing appropriate measures and resources to help mitigate these risks in order to guarantee that women’s economic empowerment programs give women the intended tools […]

Journal article

Women, microfinance, and savings: lessons and proposals

01/11/2002

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, microfinance, and savings: lessons and proposals

Keywords

Overview

Microfinance–both credit and savings–has potential to improve the well-being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal savings mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services designed to address the development issues that confront women. The proposals call for safe-deposit […]

Discussion paper

Thorny Transition: Women’s empowerment and exposure to violence in India

01/07/2014

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper examines the relation between women’s empowerment in India and the risk of violence. It starts by situating women’s exposure to violence in the context of a gradual growth in female mobilization and freedom-from-violence rights, yet recognises that this is happening in the context of unfavourable social norms. The two conflicting trends produce a […]

Briefing note

Why India Needs the Women’s Reservation Bill

08/04/2014

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Nine out of ten parliamentarians in India are men. Such dismal figures reveal the lasting grip of unfavourable social norms. Six decades have gone by since India’s Independence brought hopes that democracy would make gender representation more equal. Since the 1990s, reservation has opened up access to local bodies for women. Major parties have since […]

Journal article

The Communities Care programme: changing social norms to end violence against women and girls in conflict-affected communities

20/07/2016

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Communities Care programme: changing social norms to end violence against women and girls in conflict-affected communities

Keywords

Overview

While significant progress has been made in recent years in responding to violence against women and girls in humanitarian contexts, timely and quality care and support to survivors still remains a challenge. Little is known about effective prevention. Few interventions have targeted underlying drivers of violence against women and girls (VAWG), which include social norms. […]

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 […]

Issue briefing

Submission to the Commission on the Status of Women

03/03/2004

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s commitment to gender equality is rooted in twenty years of analysis and practical action in line with feminist goals. Our understanding of gender mainstreaming has been to focus on programmes whose immediate beneficiaries are women and their dependents, based on continuing evidence that women are the majority in the most economically needy groups in […]

Journal article

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

07/11/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on Zimbabwean women who are responding to the economic problems at home by trading food in South Africa. It explores the crops the women market, the strategies they use to access these markets, the challenges they face in South Africa, and the way they handle and resolve conflicts of various kinds which […]

Briefing paper

Not in This Together: How supermarkets became pandemic winners while women workers are losing out

22/06/2021

6 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English, French, Urdu

Keywords

Overview

Inequality is worsening and exploitation of women is endemic across the global economy. While inequality of power and value was already deeply unfair before the pandemic, it has now reached shocking proportions. COVID-19 has cost global workers $3.7 trillion in lost income, and women and young workers have been hardest hit, as they are often […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Book

Women Reinventing Globalisation

10/12/2003

2 documents

161 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

HIV and AIDS

Overview

Women Reinventing Globalisation is a collection of articles drawn from the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)’s Ninth International Forum, on this subject. Development researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, and feminist activists, debated and charted the impact of globalisation on women’s status and their daily lives. Concrete strategies were developed, to ensure that globalisation […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Guide to Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violence in a Context of Women’s Economic Empowerment

13/04/2021

3 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

As development practitioners, we must ensure that programs are implemented in such a way as to minimize gender-based violence risks for all participants. This involves understanding risk and prevention factors and implementing appropriate measures and resources to help mitigate these risks in order to guarantee that women’s economic empowerment programs give women the intended tools […]

Journal article

Women, microfinance, and savings: lessons and proposals

01/11/2002

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, microfinance, and savings: lessons and proposals

Keywords

Overview

Microfinance–both credit and savings–has potential to improve the well-being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal savings mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services designed to address the development issues that confront women. The proposals call for safe-deposit […]

Discussion paper

Thorny Transition: Women’s empowerment and exposure to violence in India

01/07/2014

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper examines the relation between women’s empowerment in India and the risk of violence. It starts by situating women’s exposure to violence in the context of a gradual growth in female mobilization and freedom-from-violence rights, yet recognises that this is happening in the context of unfavourable social norms. The two conflicting trends produce a […]

Briefing note

Why India Needs the Women’s Reservation Bill

08/04/2014

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Nine out of ten parliamentarians in India are men. Such dismal figures reveal the lasting grip of unfavourable social norms. Six decades have gone by since India’s Independence brought hopes that democracy would make gender representation more equal. Since the 1990s, reservation has opened up access to local bodies for women. Major parties have since […]

Journal article

The Communities Care programme: changing social norms to end violence against women and girls in conflict-affected communities

20/07/2016

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Communities Care programme: changing social norms to end violence against women and girls in conflict-affected communities

Keywords

Overview

While significant progress has been made in recent years in responding to violence against women and girls in humanitarian contexts, timely and quality care and support to survivors still remains a challenge. Little is known about effective prevention. Few interventions have targeted underlying drivers of violence against women and girls (VAWG), which include social norms. […]

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 […]

Issue briefing

Submission to the Commission on the Status of Women

03/03/2004

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s commitment to gender equality is rooted in twenty years of analysis and practical action in line with feminist goals. Our understanding of gender mainstreaming has been to focus on programmes whose immediate beneficiaries are women and their dependents, based on continuing evidence that women are the majority in the most economically needy groups in […]

Journal article

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

07/11/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on Zimbabwean women who are responding to the economic problems at home by trading food in South Africa. It explores the crops the women market, the strategies they use to access these markets, the challenges they face in South Africa, and the way they handle and resolve conflicts of various kinds which […]

Briefing paper

Not in This Together: How supermarkets became pandemic winners while women workers are losing out

22/06/2021

6 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English, French, Urdu

Keywords

Overview

Inequality is worsening and exploitation of women is endemic across the global economy. While inequality of power and value was already deeply unfair before the pandemic, it has now reached shocking proportions. COVID-19 has cost global workers $3.7 trillion in lost income, and women and young workers have been hardest hit, as they are often […]