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Evaluation report

Resilience in Iraq: Impact Evaluation of the ‘Safe access to resilient livelihoods opportunities for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Kirkuk’ project

06/04/2022

3 documents

72 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

Between May 2016 and March 2018, Oxfam in Iraq, together with the Iraqi Al Amal Association (IAA), collaborated on the ‘Safe access to resilient livelihoods opportunities for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Kirkuk’ project. Funded by UN Women, the project marked the first collaboration between Oxfam and IAA (a women’s rights organization working in Kirkuk). The […]

Journal article

Women’s voluntary work in the community: a question of recognition and rewards

31/08/2022

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s voluntary work in the community: a question of recognition and rewards

Keywords

Overview

In South Korea, the state has played a minimal role in social provisioning, and as such, care provisions have been dependent on women's unpaid labour. Women's unpaid labour, especially in terms of voluntary activities, has played an important role in the sustenance of the community. However, women's voluntary work is often devalued as a free […]

Journal article

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

07/12/2022

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

Keywords

Overview

Using the feminist lens of women economic empowerment and the concepts of resources, agency, and achievements, and the inter-related concepts of power, this article shares the experience of women beauty workers and women cab drivers working on different types of platform models in India. While beauty work is essentially a feminised sector of work in […]

Evaluation report

Analysis of Oxfam’s Female Food Hero Engagement Strategy: A case study of Nigeria’s Obonge Women Program

30/08/2025

1 documents

59 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation report analyzes Oxfam’s Female Food Heroes (FFH) Initiative in Nigeria, known locally as Ogbonge Women. Since 2012, the program has celebrated and empowered women smallholder farmers through recognition, training, leadership development, and advocacy. The study confirms that FFH has enhanced women’s participation in agriculture, expanded their economic opportunities, and strengthened their leadership capacity […]

Research report

An Invisible Crisis? Women’s poverty and social exclusion in the European Union at a time of recession – A GenderWorks paper

24/03/2010

2 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

All over the world, women remain poor in relation to men. This also is true in every member state of the European Union. The persistence of poverty in such a rich region of the world is shocking, even before the impact of recession has been considered.In October 2009, Oxfam and the European Women’s Lobby, commissioned […]

Research report

Beyond the Crisis: The impact of the financial crisis on women in Vietnam

15/02/2010

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This research report on Vietnam is one of four country case studies that were commissioned by Oxfam GB to assess the impact of the global economic crisis on women in South East Asia. It concludes that women in the export-manufacturing sector, including the garment and textile industries, have been hardest hit by the crisis both […]

Book

Ending Violence Against Women: A challenge for development and humanitarian work

26/10/2000

1 documents

386 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender-based violence

Overview

Violence, and women’s fear of it, limits women’s choices in virtually all spheres of life. It has long-term, as well as short-term consequences on women’s physical and emotional well-being. It detrimentally affects women’s ability to gain an education, earn a livelihood, develop human relationships and participate in public activities, including development programmes.In this book addressing […]

Media briefing

Women and Children First: On the frontline of the war in the Kivus: Oxfam briefing on the protection of women and children in the Kivus, DRC

15/07/2010

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam and 12 partner NGOs interviewed 816 people in 24 communities in North and South Kivu between 12 and 21 April 2010 on their security and protection in a context of ongoing military offensives. This was Oxfam’s fourth such protection assessment in the Kivus since 2007, and focused specifically on areas affected by the military […]

Book

Women and Conflict

01/01/1993

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In situations of war or violent conflict, all civilians suffer. However, there are many specific, gender-related human rights issues which organisations involved in relief, development, and emergency work in conflict situations need to address. Women and Conflict concentrates on gender issues in situations of military and civil strife, and examines the effect of armed conflict […]

Journal article

Women’s relationship with the environment

01/02/1993

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s relationship with the environment

Keywords

Overview

This article examines how women use natural resources in urban and rural areas; how women’s interests have been harmed by environmental changes; and how they are responding. Although women cultivate the land for food and to earn a living intensive farming methods damage soil fertility, making women more prone to poverty. However women’s groups are […]

Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

Evaluation report

Resilience in Iraq: Impact Evaluation of the ‘Safe access to resilient livelihoods opportunities for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Kirkuk’ project

06/04/2022

3 documents

72 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

Between May 2016 and March 2018, Oxfam in Iraq, together with the Iraqi Al Amal Association (IAA), collaborated on the ‘Safe access to resilient livelihoods opportunities for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Kirkuk’ project. Funded by UN Women, the project marked the first collaboration between Oxfam and IAA (a women’s rights organization working in Kirkuk). The […]

Journal article

Women’s voluntary work in the community: a question of recognition and rewards

31/08/2022

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s voluntary work in the community: a question of recognition and rewards

Keywords

Overview

In South Korea, the state has played a minimal role in social provisioning, and as such, care provisions have been dependent on women's unpaid labour. Women's unpaid labour, especially in terms of voluntary activities, has played an important role in the sustenance of the community. However, women's voluntary work is often devalued as a free […]

Journal article

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

07/12/2022

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

Keywords

Overview

Using the feminist lens of women economic empowerment and the concepts of resources, agency, and achievements, and the inter-related concepts of power, this article shares the experience of women beauty workers and women cab drivers working on different types of platform models in India. While beauty work is essentially a feminised sector of work in […]

Evaluation report

Analysis of Oxfam’s Female Food Hero Engagement Strategy: A case study of Nigeria’s Obonge Women Program

30/08/2025

1 documents

59 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation report analyzes Oxfam’s Female Food Heroes (FFH) Initiative in Nigeria, known locally as Ogbonge Women. Since 2012, the program has celebrated and empowered women smallholder farmers through recognition, training, leadership development, and advocacy. The study confirms that FFH has enhanced women’s participation in agriculture, expanded their economic opportunities, and strengthened their leadership capacity […]

Research report

An Invisible Crisis? Women’s poverty and social exclusion in the European Union at a time of recession – A GenderWorks paper

24/03/2010

2 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

All over the world, women remain poor in relation to men. This also is true in every member state of the European Union. The persistence of poverty in such a rich region of the world is shocking, even before the impact of recession has been considered.In October 2009, Oxfam and the European Women’s Lobby, commissioned […]

Research report

Beyond the Crisis: The impact of the financial crisis on women in Vietnam

15/02/2010

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This research report on Vietnam is one of four country case studies that were commissioned by Oxfam GB to assess the impact of the global economic crisis on women in South East Asia. It concludes that women in the export-manufacturing sector, including the garment and textile industries, have been hardest hit by the crisis both […]

Book

Ending Violence Against Women: A challenge for development and humanitarian work

26/10/2000

1 documents

386 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender-based violence

Overview

Violence, and women’s fear of it, limits women’s choices in virtually all spheres of life. It has long-term, as well as short-term consequences on women’s physical and emotional well-being. It detrimentally affects women’s ability to gain an education, earn a livelihood, develop human relationships and participate in public activities, including development programmes.In this book addressing […]

Media briefing

Women and Children First: On the frontline of the war in the Kivus: Oxfam briefing on the protection of women and children in the Kivus, DRC

15/07/2010

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam and 12 partner NGOs interviewed 816 people in 24 communities in North and South Kivu between 12 and 21 April 2010 on their security and protection in a context of ongoing military offensives. This was Oxfam’s fourth such protection assessment in the Kivus since 2007, and focused specifically on areas affected by the military […]

Book

Women and Conflict

01/01/1993

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In situations of war or violent conflict, all civilians suffer. However, there are many specific, gender-related human rights issues which organisations involved in relief, development, and emergency work in conflict situations need to address. Women and Conflict concentrates on gender issues in situations of military and civil strife, and examines the effect of armed conflict […]

Journal article

Women’s relationship with the environment

01/02/1993

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s relationship with the environment

Keywords

Overview

This article examines how women use natural resources in urban and rural areas; how women’s interests have been harmed by environmental changes; and how they are responding. Although women cultivate the land for food and to earn a living intensive farming methods damage soil fertility, making women more prone to poverty. However women’s groups are […]

Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

Evaluation report

Resilience in Iraq: Impact Evaluation of the ‘Safe access to resilient livelihoods opportunities for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Kirkuk’ project

06/04/2022

3 documents

72 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

Between May 2016 and March 2018, Oxfam in Iraq, together with the Iraqi Al Amal Association (IAA), collaborated on the ‘Safe access to resilient livelihoods opportunities for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Kirkuk’ project. Funded by UN Women, the project marked the first collaboration between Oxfam and IAA (a women’s rights organization working in Kirkuk). The […]

Journal article

Women’s voluntary work in the community: a question of recognition and rewards

31/08/2022

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s voluntary work in the community: a question of recognition and rewards

Keywords

Overview

In South Korea, the state has played a minimal role in social provisioning, and as such, care provisions have been dependent on women's unpaid labour. Women's unpaid labour, especially in terms of voluntary activities, has played an important role in the sustenance of the community. However, women's voluntary work is often devalued as a free […]

Journal article

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

07/12/2022

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

Keywords

Overview

Using the feminist lens of women economic empowerment and the concepts of resources, agency, and achievements, and the inter-related concepts of power, this article shares the experience of women beauty workers and women cab drivers working on different types of platform models in India. While beauty work is essentially a feminised sector of work in […]

Evaluation report

Analysis of Oxfam’s Female Food Hero Engagement Strategy: A case study of Nigeria’s Obonge Women Program

30/08/2025

1 documents

59 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation report analyzes Oxfam’s Female Food Heroes (FFH) Initiative in Nigeria, known locally as Ogbonge Women. Since 2012, the program has celebrated and empowered women smallholder farmers through recognition, training, leadership development, and advocacy. The study confirms that FFH has enhanced women’s participation in agriculture, expanded their economic opportunities, and strengthened their leadership capacity […]

Research report

An Invisible Crisis? Women’s poverty and social exclusion in the European Union at a time of recession – A GenderWorks paper

24/03/2010

2 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

All over the world, women remain poor in relation to men. This also is true in every member state of the European Union. The persistence of poverty in such a rich region of the world is shocking, even before the impact of recession has been considered.In October 2009, Oxfam and the European Women’s Lobby, commissioned […]

Research report

Beyond the Crisis: The impact of the financial crisis on women in Vietnam

15/02/2010

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This research report on Vietnam is one of four country case studies that were commissioned by Oxfam GB to assess the impact of the global economic crisis on women in South East Asia. It concludes that women in the export-manufacturing sector, including the garment and textile industries, have been hardest hit by the crisis both […]

Book

Ending Violence Against Women: A challenge for development and humanitarian work

26/10/2000

1 documents

386 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender-based violence

Overview

Violence, and women’s fear of it, limits women’s choices in virtually all spheres of life. It has long-term, as well as short-term consequences on women’s physical and emotional well-being. It detrimentally affects women’s ability to gain an education, earn a livelihood, develop human relationships and participate in public activities, including development programmes.In this book addressing […]

Media briefing

Women and Children First: On the frontline of the war in the Kivus: Oxfam briefing on the protection of women and children in the Kivus, DRC

15/07/2010

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam and 12 partner NGOs interviewed 816 people in 24 communities in North and South Kivu between 12 and 21 April 2010 on their security and protection in a context of ongoing military offensives. This was Oxfam’s fourth such protection assessment in the Kivus since 2007, and focused specifically on areas affected by the military […]

Book

Women and Conflict

01/01/1993

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In situations of war or violent conflict, all civilians suffer. However, there are many specific, gender-related human rights issues which organisations involved in relief, development, and emergency work in conflict situations need to address. Women and Conflict concentrates on gender issues in situations of military and civil strife, and examines the effect of armed conflict […]

Journal article

Women’s relationship with the environment

01/02/1993

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s relationship with the environment

Keywords

Overview

This article examines how women use natural resources in urban and rural areas; how women’s interests have been harmed by environmental changes; and how they are responding. Although women cultivate the land for food and to earn a living intensive farming methods damage soil fertility, making women more prone to poverty. However women’s groups are […]