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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Waters of Resistance: Decolonising perspectives on women’s territorial r-existence in southern Chile

08/05/2025

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

Waters of Resistance: Decolonising perspectives on women’s territorial r-existence in southern Chile

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Overview

This article explores the gendered experiences of, and responses to, processes of water commodification and scarcity in rural areas of the Toltén River in southern Chile through a decolonial lens. Within the framework of neoliberal water governance, water use rights are primarily owned by large-scale agribusiness and industrial companies, leading to significant socioecological conflicts (dispossession, […]

Journal article

She Inherits, She Sells: Community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship

08/05/2025

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

She Inherits, She Sells: Community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship

Keywords

Overview

Women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have the lowest rates of land ownership and workforce participation despite increased educational attainment. Sociocultural norms are often cited as the cause. Using the Theatre of the Oppressed methodology, we conducted action research to address harmful norms around women’s inheritance, mobility, sexual harassment, and control […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of Oxfam Women in Leadership (WIL) Project in Sierra Leone

01/01/2006

2 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s Women in Leadership (WIL) Project (2003-2006) aimed to improve the status and role of women in the development of Sierra Leone. It sought to do this by building women’s leadership capacity in politics and civil society. It has sought to do this by building women’s leadership capacity in politics and civil society with a […]

Case study

Africa Women’s Protocol: The experience of Malawi

01/02/2008

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s mission is to work with others to overcome poverty and suffering. Our interpretation of poverty goes beyond lack of finances to encompass lack of capabilities, powerlessness, and inequality. Our fight to overcome poverty and suffering focuses on the right to a sustainable livelihood, water, education, health, protection and security, a voice in public life, […]

Case study

Monitoring the Implementation of Women’s Human-Rights Instruments: The case of the Africa gender monitor

01/02/2008

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender mainstreaming

Overview

This paper illustrates how Oxfam GB Southern Africa supports the efforts of women’s-rights organisations to monitor the domestication and implementation of women’s human-rights instruments such as the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Africa Women’s Protocol) in Africa, using the example of the […]

Book

Development with Women

01/01/1999

1 documents

210 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Many practitioners and thinkers have tried to make women ‘matter’ in development. However, women-focused approaches have often sought to address women’s needs outside the wider social contexts in which they live. As a result, they have been perhaps more damaging than earlier ‘gender-blind’ efforts which simply ignored women’s specific concerns. Dorienne Rowan-Campbell introduces papers on […]

Journal article

Myths and realities of the impact of political Islam on women: female employment in Indonesia and Iran

01/06/2004

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Since the 11 September 2001 attacks on targets in the USA, debates concerning the situation of women in the Muslim world have tended to focus on the extent to which they are victims of religious dogma. Like any other religion, Islam can be oppressive towards women; however, working women are not affected only by religious […]

Journal article

‘Marriage’ to capital: the fallback positions of Fiji’s women garment workers

01/06/2004

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Marriage’ to capital: the fallback positions of Fiji’s women garment workers

Keywords

Overview

The May 2000 coup in Fiji prompted a flight of capital from the country’s garment industry. As workers lost their jobs, attention turned away from improving wages and conditions to retaining garment factory jobs in the country. What can feminist researchers contribute in a climate of high capital mobility that prohibits organising for a living […]

Journal article

Expanding women’s opportunities: the potential of heifer projects in sub-Saharan Africa

01/06/2004

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Expanding women’s opportunities: the potential of heifer projects in sub-Saharan Africa

Keywords

Overview

Throughout the world, deeply entrenched barriers exclude women from meaningful participation in socio-economic and political activities. This is not merely an issue of fairness and equality. It has been argued that by expanding women’s opportunities, society as a whole would simultaneously be strengthened and this would enhance broader development prospects. Recently, a wide variety of […]

Journal article

The problem of gender quotas: women’s representatives on Timor-Leste’s suku councils

01/02/2011

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

The problem of gender quotas: women’s representatives on Timor-Leste’s suku councils

Keywords

Overview

This article examines the experiences of women occupying reserved seats on the suku councils of Timor-Leste (each of which represents a number of small villages). The limited political participation of these women is often ascribed to patriarchal ideas within rural areas, and the need for capacity development. This article argues, however, that there are further […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Waters of Resistance: Decolonising perspectives on women’s territorial r-existence in southern Chile

08/05/2025

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

Waters of Resistance: Decolonising perspectives on women’s territorial r-existence in southern Chile

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the gendered experiences of, and responses to, processes of water commodification and scarcity in rural areas of the Toltén River in southern Chile through a decolonial lens. Within the framework of neoliberal water governance, water use rights are primarily owned by large-scale agribusiness and industrial companies, leading to significant socioecological conflicts (dispossession, […]

Journal article

She Inherits, She Sells: Community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship

08/05/2025

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

She Inherits, She Sells: Community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship

Keywords

Overview

Women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have the lowest rates of land ownership and workforce participation despite increased educational attainment. Sociocultural norms are often cited as the cause. Using the Theatre of the Oppressed methodology, we conducted action research to address harmful norms around women’s inheritance, mobility, sexual harassment, and control […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of Oxfam Women in Leadership (WIL) Project in Sierra Leone

01/01/2006

2 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s Women in Leadership (WIL) Project (2003-2006) aimed to improve the status and role of women in the development of Sierra Leone. It sought to do this by building women’s leadership capacity in politics and civil society. It has sought to do this by building women’s leadership capacity in politics and civil society with a […]

Case study

Africa Women’s Protocol: The experience of Malawi

01/02/2008

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s mission is to work with others to overcome poverty and suffering. Our interpretation of poverty goes beyond lack of finances to encompass lack of capabilities, powerlessness, and inequality. Our fight to overcome poverty and suffering focuses on the right to a sustainable livelihood, water, education, health, protection and security, a voice in public life, […]

Case study

Monitoring the Implementation of Women’s Human-Rights Instruments: The case of the Africa gender monitor

01/02/2008

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender mainstreaming

Overview

This paper illustrates how Oxfam GB Southern Africa supports the efforts of women’s-rights organisations to monitor the domestication and implementation of women’s human-rights instruments such as the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Africa Women’s Protocol) in Africa, using the example of the […]

Book

Development with Women

01/01/1999

1 documents

210 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Many practitioners and thinkers have tried to make women ‘matter’ in development. However, women-focused approaches have often sought to address women’s needs outside the wider social contexts in which they live. As a result, they have been perhaps more damaging than earlier ‘gender-blind’ efforts which simply ignored women’s specific concerns. Dorienne Rowan-Campbell introduces papers on […]

Journal article

Myths and realities of the impact of political Islam on women: female employment in Indonesia and Iran

01/06/2004

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Since the 11 September 2001 attacks on targets in the USA, debates concerning the situation of women in the Muslim world have tended to focus on the extent to which they are victims of religious dogma. Like any other religion, Islam can be oppressive towards women; however, working women are not affected only by religious […]

Journal article

‘Marriage’ to capital: the fallback positions of Fiji’s women garment workers

01/06/2004

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Marriage’ to capital: the fallback positions of Fiji’s women garment workers

Keywords

Overview

The May 2000 coup in Fiji prompted a flight of capital from the country’s garment industry. As workers lost their jobs, attention turned away from improving wages and conditions to retaining garment factory jobs in the country. What can feminist researchers contribute in a climate of high capital mobility that prohibits organising for a living […]

Journal article

Expanding women’s opportunities: the potential of heifer projects in sub-Saharan Africa

01/06/2004

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Expanding women’s opportunities: the potential of heifer projects in sub-Saharan Africa

Keywords

Overview

Throughout the world, deeply entrenched barriers exclude women from meaningful participation in socio-economic and political activities. This is not merely an issue of fairness and equality. It has been argued that by expanding women’s opportunities, society as a whole would simultaneously be strengthened and this would enhance broader development prospects. Recently, a wide variety of […]

Journal article

The problem of gender quotas: women’s representatives on Timor-Leste’s suku councils

01/02/2011

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

The problem of gender quotas: women’s representatives on Timor-Leste’s suku councils

Keywords

Overview

This article examines the experiences of women occupying reserved seats on the suku councils of Timor-Leste (each of which represents a number of small villages). The limited political participation of these women is often ascribed to patriarchal ideas within rural areas, and the need for capacity development. This article argues, however, that there are further […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Waters of Resistance: Decolonising perspectives on women’s territorial r-existence in southern Chile

08/05/2025

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

Waters of Resistance: Decolonising perspectives on women’s territorial r-existence in southern Chile

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the gendered experiences of, and responses to, processes of water commodification and scarcity in rural areas of the Toltén River in southern Chile through a decolonial lens. Within the framework of neoliberal water governance, water use rights are primarily owned by large-scale agribusiness and industrial companies, leading to significant socioecological conflicts (dispossession, […]

Journal article

She Inherits, She Sells: Community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship

08/05/2025

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

She Inherits, She Sells: Community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship

Keywords

Overview

Women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have the lowest rates of land ownership and workforce participation despite increased educational attainment. Sociocultural norms are often cited as the cause. Using the Theatre of the Oppressed methodology, we conducted action research to address harmful norms around women’s inheritance, mobility, sexual harassment, and control […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of Oxfam Women in Leadership (WIL) Project in Sierra Leone

01/01/2006

2 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s Women in Leadership (WIL) Project (2003-2006) aimed to improve the status and role of women in the development of Sierra Leone. It sought to do this by building women’s leadership capacity in politics and civil society. It has sought to do this by building women’s leadership capacity in politics and civil society with a […]

Case study

Africa Women’s Protocol: The experience of Malawi

01/02/2008

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s mission is to work with others to overcome poverty and suffering. Our interpretation of poverty goes beyond lack of finances to encompass lack of capabilities, powerlessness, and inequality. Our fight to overcome poverty and suffering focuses on the right to a sustainable livelihood, water, education, health, protection and security, a voice in public life, […]

Case study

Monitoring the Implementation of Women’s Human-Rights Instruments: The case of the Africa gender monitor

01/02/2008

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender mainstreaming

Overview

This paper illustrates how Oxfam GB Southern Africa supports the efforts of women’s-rights organisations to monitor the domestication and implementation of women’s human-rights instruments such as the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Africa Women’s Protocol) in Africa, using the example of the […]

Book

Development with Women

01/01/1999

1 documents

210 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Many practitioners and thinkers have tried to make women ‘matter’ in development. However, women-focused approaches have often sought to address women’s needs outside the wider social contexts in which they live. As a result, they have been perhaps more damaging than earlier ‘gender-blind’ efforts which simply ignored women’s specific concerns. Dorienne Rowan-Campbell introduces papers on […]

Journal article

Myths and realities of the impact of political Islam on women: female employment in Indonesia and Iran

01/06/2004

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Since the 11 September 2001 attacks on targets in the USA, debates concerning the situation of women in the Muslim world have tended to focus on the extent to which they are victims of religious dogma. Like any other religion, Islam can be oppressive towards women; however, working women are not affected only by religious […]

Journal article

‘Marriage’ to capital: the fallback positions of Fiji’s women garment workers

01/06/2004

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Marriage’ to capital: the fallback positions of Fiji’s women garment workers

Keywords

Overview

The May 2000 coup in Fiji prompted a flight of capital from the country’s garment industry. As workers lost their jobs, attention turned away from improving wages and conditions to retaining garment factory jobs in the country. What can feminist researchers contribute in a climate of high capital mobility that prohibits organising for a living […]

Journal article

Expanding women’s opportunities: the potential of heifer projects in sub-Saharan Africa

01/06/2004

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Expanding women’s opportunities: the potential of heifer projects in sub-Saharan Africa

Keywords

Overview

Throughout the world, deeply entrenched barriers exclude women from meaningful participation in socio-economic and political activities. This is not merely an issue of fairness and equality. It has been argued that by expanding women’s opportunities, society as a whole would simultaneously be strengthened and this would enhance broader development prospects. Recently, a wide variety of […]

Journal article

The problem of gender quotas: women’s representatives on Timor-Leste’s suku councils

01/02/2011

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

The problem of gender quotas: women’s representatives on Timor-Leste’s suku councils

Keywords

Overview

This article examines the experiences of women occupying reserved seats on the suku councils of Timor-Leste (each of which represents a number of small villages). The limited political participation of these women is often ascribed to patriarchal ideas within rural areas, and the need for capacity development. This article argues, however, that there are further […]