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Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Journal article

Sustainable development: women as partners

01/02/1993

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Sustainable development: women as partners

Keywords

Overview

Dem explores how Oxfam’s work in rural areas can adapt its approach to meet the needs of urban women. She uses the example of Senegal’s economic crisis of the 1980s that plunged many women in urban areas into poverty. Sustainable development in this case meant women organising themselves and working together to actively determine their […]

Journal article

Women refugees in Bangladesh

01/02/1994

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women refugees in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam has been providing water to women refugee camps in Bangladesh. Male officials run the camps, for women fleeing Burma. These men target women and children for ‘voluntary’ repatriation. Families are separated and sexual abuse is rife. Oxfam, in contrast, is successfully integrating gender equality into its water programme, made easier because Oxfam staff live […]

Journal article

Some problems women are facing

01/02/1994

2 pages long

Free access through journal website

Some problems women are facing

Keywords

Overview

There was a massive and generous response within India to the earthquake disaster in Maharashtra, and many volunteers came to the affected areas to offer assistance. The majority of volunteers were men, and it was important to ensure that this did not mean, as so often has been the case, that the experience and particular […]

Journal article

Women’s health and feminist politics

01/06/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s health and feminist politics

Keywords

Overview

SOF is an NGO working to raise living standards and gain health and reproductive rights for poor women in south-eastern Brazil. Faure charts SOF’s progress from a family planning to a feminist organisation. It works alongside women’s and health movements and has achieved considerable success, instigating change in health infrastructures and policies, and integrating women […]

Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Journal article

Sustainable development: women as partners

01/02/1993

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Sustainable development: women as partners

Keywords

Overview

Dem explores how Oxfam’s work in rural areas can adapt its approach to meet the needs of urban women. She uses the example of Senegal’s economic crisis of the 1980s that plunged many women in urban areas into poverty. Sustainable development in this case meant women organising themselves and working together to actively determine their […]

Journal article

Women refugees in Bangladesh

01/02/1994

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women refugees in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam has been providing water to women refugee camps in Bangladesh. Male officials run the camps, for women fleeing Burma. These men target women and children for ‘voluntary’ repatriation. Families are separated and sexual abuse is rife. Oxfam, in contrast, is successfully integrating gender equality into its water programme, made easier because Oxfam staff live […]

Journal article

Some problems women are facing

01/02/1994

2 pages long

Free access through journal website

Some problems women are facing

Keywords

Overview

There was a massive and generous response within India to the earthquake disaster in Maharashtra, and many volunteers came to the affected areas to offer assistance. The majority of volunteers were men, and it was important to ensure that this did not mean, as so often has been the case, that the experience and particular […]

Journal article

Women’s health and feminist politics

01/06/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s health and feminist politics

Keywords

Overview

SOF is an NGO working to raise living standards and gain health and reproductive rights for poor women in south-eastern Brazil. Faure charts SOF’s progress from a family planning to a feminist organisation. It works alongside women’s and health movements and has achieved considerable success, instigating change in health infrastructures and policies, and integrating women […]

Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Journal article

Sustainable development: women as partners

01/02/1993

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Sustainable development: women as partners

Keywords

Overview

Dem explores how Oxfam’s work in rural areas can adapt its approach to meet the needs of urban women. She uses the example of Senegal’s economic crisis of the 1980s that plunged many women in urban areas into poverty. Sustainable development in this case meant women organising themselves and working together to actively determine their […]

Journal article

Women refugees in Bangladesh

01/02/1994

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women refugees in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam has been providing water to women refugee camps in Bangladesh. Male officials run the camps, for women fleeing Burma. These men target women and children for ‘voluntary’ repatriation. Families are separated and sexual abuse is rife. Oxfam, in contrast, is successfully integrating gender equality into its water programme, made easier because Oxfam staff live […]

Journal article

Some problems women are facing

01/02/1994

2 pages long

Free access through journal website

Some problems women are facing

Keywords

Overview

There was a massive and generous response within India to the earthquake disaster in Maharashtra, and many volunteers came to the affected areas to offer assistance. The majority of volunteers were men, and it was important to ensure that this did not mean, as so often has been the case, that the experience and particular […]

Journal article

Women’s health and feminist politics

01/06/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s health and feminist politics

Keywords

Overview

SOF is an NGO working to raise living standards and gain health and reproductive rights for poor women in south-eastern Brazil. Faure charts SOF’s progress from a family planning to a feminist organisation. It works alongside women’s and health movements and has achieved considerable success, instigating change in health infrastructures and policies, and integrating women […]