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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Annual report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) – Oxfam: Phase 1 final report

02/11/2016

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The eradication of poverty and injustice depends on women’s equal enjoyment of their human rights. Oxfam has invested significantly in women’s economic leadership, and affirms that economic empowerment requires parallel progress in women’s political, social and personal empowerment. Women’s control over their own time and labour is increasingly recognized as a precondition for, and component […]

Journal article

Women targeted and women negated

01/05/1996

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women targeted and women negated

Keywords

Overview

In Bangladesh, government organisations and non-governmental organisations are implementing programmes and energy-saving projects in an effort to save the environment. This article examines such programmes in the specific area of improved stove technology. It shows that inadequate assessment of the environment by environmentalists and development practitioners has led them to select inappropriate technology that has […]

Journal article

Men’s violence against women in rural Bangladesh: undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes?

01/05/1998

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Men’s violence against women in rural Bangladesh: undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes?

Keywords

Overview

Using data from a recent ethnographic study in rural Bangladesh to explore relationships between men’s violence against women in the home, women’s economic and social dependence on men, and microcredit programmes, this paper suggests that microcredit programmes have a varied effect on men’s violence against women. They can reduce women’s vulnerability to men’s violence by […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Oxfam’s Conceptual Framework on Women’s Economic Empowerment

23/05/2017

3 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Effective economic empowerment for women occurs when women enjoy their rights to control and benefit from: resources assets income their own time the ability to manage risk improve their economic status and wellbeing. However, for this to become real, women must also have the autonomy and self-belief to make changes in their own lives, including […]

Journal article

Trading and trade-offs: women’s livelihoods in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan

01/05/2002

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Trading and trade-offs: women’s livelihoods in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

This paper is based on a small micro-level study carried out to assess the impact of recent socio-economic changes in Tajikistan on the livelihoods and well-being of women in Gorno-Badakhshan. It examines the recent involvement of women in trading and informal economic activity with a focus on the trade-offs that women have faced as a […]

Journal article

Women’s involvement in small-scale aquaculture in Northeast Thailand

01/08/2003

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s involvement in small-scale aquaculture in Northeast Thailand

Keywords

Overview

In Northeast Thailand, women are heavily involved in small-scale aquaculture. However, as aquaculture becomes more intensive, women are in charge of less. Women’s decision-making power in aquaculture and in the household is stronger when women have greater material resources and knowledge than their husbands; and the case studies on which the article draws show that […]

Journal article

Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences

01/05/2003

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences

Keywords

Overview

At first glance it would appear that despite women’s vital participation in peace-making processes, they are for the most part marginalised or belittled. However, moving away from the idea of women as outsiders and/or victims, we find evidence of their involvement in projects initiated and driven by them and/or in activities in which they work […]

Journal article

Women and wars: some trajectories towards a feminist peace

01/05/2003

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and wars: some trajectories towards a feminist peace

Keywords

Overview

This paper seeks to explode a number of myths about women’s absence from wars and conflict; it considers some problems about their vulnerabilities in these circumstances; and offers some feminist perspectives for addressing these problems. The paper considers the conflicting demands made on women in periods of war and revolution, and argues that differing historical […]

Journal article

Women’s inheritance rights in Malawi: the role of District Assemblies

01/02/2005

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Legal reforms are increasingly seen as essential in combating various constraints women face in relation to property and inheritance. These efforts are reinforced by commitments countries have made by adopting such treaties as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and by the incorporation into their constitutions of various […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Raising Poor and Marginalised Women’s Voices, Liberia

22/11/2012

4 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Raising Poor and Marginalised Women’s Voices in Liberia’ project is part Oxfam’s global Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme, which seeks to promote the rights and capacity of poor women to engage effectively in governance at all levels through increased voice and influence and more effective institutional accountability. Oxfam Liberia, with two local partners, Women […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Annual report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) – Oxfam: Phase 1 final report

02/11/2016

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The eradication of poverty and injustice depends on women’s equal enjoyment of their human rights. Oxfam has invested significantly in women’s economic leadership, and affirms that economic empowerment requires parallel progress in women’s political, social and personal empowerment. Women’s control over their own time and labour is increasingly recognized as a precondition for, and component […]

Journal article

Women targeted and women negated

01/05/1996

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women targeted and women negated

Keywords

Overview

In Bangladesh, government organisations and non-governmental organisations are implementing programmes and energy-saving projects in an effort to save the environment. This article examines such programmes in the specific area of improved stove technology. It shows that inadequate assessment of the environment by environmentalists and development practitioners has led them to select inappropriate technology that has […]

Journal article

Men’s violence against women in rural Bangladesh: undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes?

01/05/1998

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Men’s violence against women in rural Bangladesh: undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes?

Keywords

Overview

Using data from a recent ethnographic study in rural Bangladesh to explore relationships between men’s violence against women in the home, women’s economic and social dependence on men, and microcredit programmes, this paper suggests that microcredit programmes have a varied effect on men’s violence against women. They can reduce women’s vulnerability to men’s violence by […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Oxfam’s Conceptual Framework on Women’s Economic Empowerment

23/05/2017

3 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Effective economic empowerment for women occurs when women enjoy their rights to control and benefit from: resources assets income their own time the ability to manage risk improve their economic status and wellbeing. However, for this to become real, women must also have the autonomy and self-belief to make changes in their own lives, including […]

Journal article

Trading and trade-offs: women’s livelihoods in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan

01/05/2002

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Trading and trade-offs: women’s livelihoods in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

This paper is based on a small micro-level study carried out to assess the impact of recent socio-economic changes in Tajikistan on the livelihoods and well-being of women in Gorno-Badakhshan. It examines the recent involvement of women in trading and informal economic activity with a focus on the trade-offs that women have faced as a […]

Journal article

Women’s involvement in small-scale aquaculture in Northeast Thailand

01/08/2003

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s involvement in small-scale aquaculture in Northeast Thailand

Keywords

Overview

In Northeast Thailand, women are heavily involved in small-scale aquaculture. However, as aquaculture becomes more intensive, women are in charge of less. Women’s decision-making power in aquaculture and in the household is stronger when women have greater material resources and knowledge than their husbands; and the case studies on which the article draws show that […]

Journal article

Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences

01/05/2003

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences

Keywords

Overview

At first glance it would appear that despite women’s vital participation in peace-making processes, they are for the most part marginalised or belittled. However, moving away from the idea of women as outsiders and/or victims, we find evidence of their involvement in projects initiated and driven by them and/or in activities in which they work […]

Journal article

Women and wars: some trajectories towards a feminist peace

01/05/2003

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and wars: some trajectories towards a feminist peace

Keywords

Overview

This paper seeks to explode a number of myths about women’s absence from wars and conflict; it considers some problems about their vulnerabilities in these circumstances; and offers some feminist perspectives for addressing these problems. The paper considers the conflicting demands made on women in periods of war and revolution, and argues that differing historical […]

Journal article

Women’s inheritance rights in Malawi: the role of District Assemblies

01/02/2005

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Legal reforms are increasingly seen as essential in combating various constraints women face in relation to property and inheritance. These efforts are reinforced by commitments countries have made by adopting such treaties as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and by the incorporation into their constitutions of various […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Raising Poor and Marginalised Women’s Voices, Liberia

22/11/2012

4 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Raising Poor and Marginalised Women’s Voices in Liberia’ project is part Oxfam’s global Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme, which seeks to promote the rights and capacity of poor women to engage effectively in governance at all levels through increased voice and influence and more effective institutional accountability. Oxfam Liberia, with two local partners, Women […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Annual report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) – Oxfam: Phase 1 final report

02/11/2016

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The eradication of poverty and injustice depends on women’s equal enjoyment of their human rights. Oxfam has invested significantly in women’s economic leadership, and affirms that economic empowerment requires parallel progress in women’s political, social and personal empowerment. Women’s control over their own time and labour is increasingly recognized as a precondition for, and component […]

Journal article

Women targeted and women negated

01/05/1996

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women targeted and women negated

Keywords

Overview

In Bangladesh, government organisations and non-governmental organisations are implementing programmes and energy-saving projects in an effort to save the environment. This article examines such programmes in the specific area of improved stove technology. It shows that inadequate assessment of the environment by environmentalists and development practitioners has led them to select inappropriate technology that has […]

Journal article

Men’s violence against women in rural Bangladesh: undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes?

01/05/1998

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Men’s violence against women in rural Bangladesh: undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes?

Keywords

Overview

Using data from a recent ethnographic study in rural Bangladesh to explore relationships between men’s violence against women in the home, women’s economic and social dependence on men, and microcredit programmes, this paper suggests that microcredit programmes have a varied effect on men’s violence against women. They can reduce women’s vulnerability to men’s violence by […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Oxfam’s Conceptual Framework on Women’s Economic Empowerment

23/05/2017

3 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Effective economic empowerment for women occurs when women enjoy their rights to control and benefit from: resources assets income their own time the ability to manage risk improve their economic status and wellbeing. However, for this to become real, women must also have the autonomy and self-belief to make changes in their own lives, including […]

Journal article

Trading and trade-offs: women’s livelihoods in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan

01/05/2002

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Trading and trade-offs: women’s livelihoods in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

This paper is based on a small micro-level study carried out to assess the impact of recent socio-economic changes in Tajikistan on the livelihoods and well-being of women in Gorno-Badakhshan. It examines the recent involvement of women in trading and informal economic activity with a focus on the trade-offs that women have faced as a […]

Journal article

Women’s involvement in small-scale aquaculture in Northeast Thailand

01/08/2003

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s involvement in small-scale aquaculture in Northeast Thailand

Keywords

Overview

In Northeast Thailand, women are heavily involved in small-scale aquaculture. However, as aquaculture becomes more intensive, women are in charge of less. Women’s decision-making power in aquaculture and in the household is stronger when women have greater material resources and knowledge than their husbands; and the case studies on which the article draws show that […]

Journal article

Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences

01/05/2003

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences

Keywords

Overview

At first glance it would appear that despite women’s vital participation in peace-making processes, they are for the most part marginalised or belittled. However, moving away from the idea of women as outsiders and/or victims, we find evidence of their involvement in projects initiated and driven by them and/or in activities in which they work […]

Journal article

Women and wars: some trajectories towards a feminist peace

01/05/2003

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and wars: some trajectories towards a feminist peace

Keywords

Overview

This paper seeks to explode a number of myths about women’s absence from wars and conflict; it considers some problems about their vulnerabilities in these circumstances; and offers some feminist perspectives for addressing these problems. The paper considers the conflicting demands made on women in periods of war and revolution, and argues that differing historical […]

Journal article

Women’s inheritance rights in Malawi: the role of District Assemblies

01/02/2005

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Legal reforms are increasingly seen as essential in combating various constraints women face in relation to property and inheritance. These efforts are reinforced by commitments countries have made by adopting such treaties as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and by the incorporation into their constitutions of various […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Raising Poor and Marginalised Women’s Voices, Liberia

22/11/2012

4 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Raising Poor and Marginalised Women’s Voices in Liberia’ project is part Oxfam’s global Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme, which seeks to promote the rights and capacity of poor women to engage effectively in governance at all levels through increased voice and influence and more effective institutional accountability. Oxfam Liberia, with two local partners, Women […]