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Journal article

Women’s movements’ engagement in the SDGs: lessons learned from the Women’s Major Group

04/03/2016

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s movements’ engagement in the SDGs: lessons learned from the Women’s Major Group

Keywords

Overview

The Women’s Major Group’s role is to assure effective public participation of women’s non-government groups in the United Nations (UN) policy processes on Sustainable Development, the post-2015 development agenda, and environmental matters. It works alongside eight other ‘Major Groups’ representing different elements of civil society. This article focuses on the role of the Women’s Major […]

Evaluation report

Women’s empowerment in Tunisia: Impact evaluation of the project ‘AMAL: Supporting Women’s Transformative Leadership’ in Tunisia

01/05/2018

6 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2016/17, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. The evaluation took place in November 2016 in Tunisia, and intended to evaluate the success of the ‘AMAL: Supporting Women’s Transformative Leadership’ project in increasing women’s empowerment. The project ‘AMAL: Supporting Women’s Transformative Leadership’ […]

Journal article

‘I don’t care about their reactions’: agency and ICTs in women’s empowerment in Afghanistan

11/07/2018

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘I don’t care about their reactions’: agency and ICTs in women’s empowerment in Afghanistan

Keywords

Overview

Gender justice and women’s empowerment are both an end and a goal of sustainable development, and information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) policies and monitoring needs to be informed by this understanding. This article draws on research from Afghanistan exploring how women’s empowerment is conceptualised in relation to information and communication technologies (ICTs) currently, […]

Journal article

Strategic essentialism, instrumentalism, and advocacy for women’s leadership: Exploring the approaches of Vanuatu women’s organisations

15/06/2026

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Strategic essentialism, instrumentalism, and advocacy for women’s leadership: Exploring the approaches of Vanuatu women’s organisations

Keywords

Overview

Gender myths – including essentialist and instrumentalist framings – can inspire action, but they can also perpetuate stereotypes and reinforce gender roles and norms. In this paper, I use Gayatri Spivak’s concept of strategic essentialism to explore how women’s organisations in Vanuatu navigate the advantages and risks of using essentialist and instrumentalist framings in their […]

Book

Women’s Leadership and Participation: Case studies on learning for action

09/11/2009

1 documents

144 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women across the world bear a disproportionate burden of poverty in terms of material deprivation, discrimination, and denial of their basic rights. This means they often have little opportunity to influence the processes and institutions which shape their lives. The under-representation of women’s voices in decision-making and agenda-setting at all levels mean that their interests […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Women and Men Hand in Hand Against Violence: Strategies and approaches of working with men and boys for ending violence against women

22/11/2010

2 documents

168 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

Ending violence against women (VAW) requires the collaboration of all community members. There is a growing awareness that men, in partnership with women, can play a significant role in ending violence against women. This training resource was developed for use in Arab countries in order to teach the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to promote […]

Case study

Policy, Advocacy, and Programming on the Africa Women’s Protocol: Overview of Oxfam GB’s support to women’s-rights organisations and government stakeholders in Southern Africa

01/02/2008

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This series of programme insights papers highlights some of the work undertaken by Oxfam GB’s partners in Southern Africa to popularise and lobby for the ratification, domestication, and implementation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women (the Africa Women’s Protocol). Oxfam GB’s mission is to […]

Journal article

Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

01/10/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

Keywords

Overview

We women of the South, chosen by regional meetings of the Women to Women Linking Project in Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East to participate in the Global Meeting of Women Linking for Change, held in Bangkok from 20-23 February 1994 are concerned that there is an increasing concentration of […]

Journal article

The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

01/11/2000

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

Keywords

Overview

In October 1999, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Optional Protocol to the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (otherwise known as the Women’s Convention). As of September 2000, 62 states have signed the Optional Protocol, and nine of these have ratified it. Women’s rights activists hope that […]

Journal article

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

Keywords

Overview

A wide range of development actors play a major role in initiating, supporting, and promoting collective action of various forms, which aims to secure economic and wider benefits to women, through improving their engagement in markets. But there is limited understanding of what works for rural women in terms of their participation in collective action, […]

Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women’s movements’ engagement in the SDGs: lessons learned from the Women’s Major Group

04/03/2016

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s movements’ engagement in the SDGs: lessons learned from the Women’s Major Group

Keywords

Overview

The Women’s Major Group’s role is to assure effective public participation of women’s non-government groups in the United Nations (UN) policy processes on Sustainable Development, the post-2015 development agenda, and environmental matters. It works alongside eight other ‘Major Groups’ representing different elements of civil society. This article focuses on the role of the Women’s Major […]

Evaluation report

Women’s empowerment in Tunisia: Impact evaluation of the project ‘AMAL: Supporting Women’s Transformative Leadership’ in Tunisia

01/05/2018

6 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2016/17, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. The evaluation took place in November 2016 in Tunisia, and intended to evaluate the success of the ‘AMAL: Supporting Women’s Transformative Leadership’ project in increasing women’s empowerment. The project ‘AMAL: Supporting Women’s Transformative Leadership’ […]

Journal article

‘I don’t care about their reactions’: agency and ICTs in women’s empowerment in Afghanistan

11/07/2018

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘I don’t care about their reactions’: agency and ICTs in women’s empowerment in Afghanistan

Keywords

Overview

Gender justice and women’s empowerment are both an end and a goal of sustainable development, and information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) policies and monitoring needs to be informed by this understanding. This article draws on research from Afghanistan exploring how women’s empowerment is conceptualised in relation to information and communication technologies (ICTs) currently, […]

Journal article

Strategic essentialism, instrumentalism, and advocacy for women’s leadership: Exploring the approaches of Vanuatu women’s organisations

15/06/2026

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Strategic essentialism, instrumentalism, and advocacy for women’s leadership: Exploring the approaches of Vanuatu women’s organisations

Keywords

Overview

Gender myths – including essentialist and instrumentalist framings – can inspire action, but they can also perpetuate stereotypes and reinforce gender roles and norms. In this paper, I use Gayatri Spivak’s concept of strategic essentialism to explore how women’s organisations in Vanuatu navigate the advantages and risks of using essentialist and instrumentalist framings in their […]

Book

Women’s Leadership and Participation: Case studies on learning for action

09/11/2009

1 documents

144 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women across the world bear a disproportionate burden of poverty in terms of material deprivation, discrimination, and denial of their basic rights. This means they often have little opportunity to influence the processes and institutions which shape their lives. The under-representation of women’s voices in decision-making and agenda-setting at all levels mean that their interests […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Women and Men Hand in Hand Against Violence: Strategies and approaches of working with men and boys for ending violence against women

22/11/2010

2 documents

168 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

Ending violence against women (VAW) requires the collaboration of all community members. There is a growing awareness that men, in partnership with women, can play a significant role in ending violence against women. This training resource was developed for use in Arab countries in order to teach the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to promote […]

Case study

Policy, Advocacy, and Programming on the Africa Women’s Protocol: Overview of Oxfam GB’s support to women’s-rights organisations and government stakeholders in Southern Africa

01/02/2008

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This series of programme insights papers highlights some of the work undertaken by Oxfam GB’s partners in Southern Africa to popularise and lobby for the ratification, domestication, and implementation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women (the Africa Women’s Protocol). Oxfam GB’s mission is to […]

Journal article

Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

01/10/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

Keywords

Overview

We women of the South, chosen by regional meetings of the Women to Women Linking Project in Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East to participate in the Global Meeting of Women Linking for Change, held in Bangkok from 20-23 February 1994 are concerned that there is an increasing concentration of […]

Journal article

The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

01/11/2000

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

Keywords

Overview

In October 1999, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Optional Protocol to the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (otherwise known as the Women’s Convention). As of September 2000, 62 states have signed the Optional Protocol, and nine of these have ratified it. Women’s rights activists hope that […]

Journal article

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

Keywords

Overview

A wide range of development actors play a major role in initiating, supporting, and promoting collective action of various forms, which aims to secure economic and wider benefits to women, through improving their engagement in markets. But there is limited understanding of what works for rural women in terms of their participation in collective action, […]

Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women’s movements’ engagement in the SDGs: lessons learned from the Women’s Major Group

04/03/2016

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s movements’ engagement in the SDGs: lessons learned from the Women’s Major Group

Keywords

Overview

The Women’s Major Group’s role is to assure effective public participation of women’s non-government groups in the United Nations (UN) policy processes on Sustainable Development, the post-2015 development agenda, and environmental matters. It works alongside eight other ‘Major Groups’ representing different elements of civil society. This article focuses on the role of the Women’s Major […]

Evaluation report

Women’s empowerment in Tunisia: Impact evaluation of the project ‘AMAL: Supporting Women’s Transformative Leadership’ in Tunisia

01/05/2018

6 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2016/17, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. The evaluation took place in November 2016 in Tunisia, and intended to evaluate the success of the ‘AMAL: Supporting Women’s Transformative Leadership’ project in increasing women’s empowerment. The project ‘AMAL: Supporting Women’s Transformative Leadership’ […]

Journal article

‘I don’t care about their reactions’: agency and ICTs in women’s empowerment in Afghanistan

11/07/2018

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘I don’t care about their reactions’: agency and ICTs in women’s empowerment in Afghanistan

Keywords

Overview

Gender justice and women’s empowerment are both an end and a goal of sustainable development, and information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) policies and monitoring needs to be informed by this understanding. This article draws on research from Afghanistan exploring how women’s empowerment is conceptualised in relation to information and communication technologies (ICTs) currently, […]

Journal article

Strategic essentialism, instrumentalism, and advocacy for women’s leadership: Exploring the approaches of Vanuatu women’s organisations

15/06/2026

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Strategic essentialism, instrumentalism, and advocacy for women’s leadership: Exploring the approaches of Vanuatu women’s organisations

Keywords

Overview

Gender myths – including essentialist and instrumentalist framings – can inspire action, but they can also perpetuate stereotypes and reinforce gender roles and norms. In this paper, I use Gayatri Spivak’s concept of strategic essentialism to explore how women’s organisations in Vanuatu navigate the advantages and risks of using essentialist and instrumentalist framings in their […]

Book

Women’s Leadership and Participation: Case studies on learning for action

09/11/2009

1 documents

144 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women across the world bear a disproportionate burden of poverty in terms of material deprivation, discrimination, and denial of their basic rights. This means they often have little opportunity to influence the processes and institutions which shape their lives. The under-representation of women’s voices in decision-making and agenda-setting at all levels mean that their interests […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Women and Men Hand in Hand Against Violence: Strategies and approaches of working with men and boys for ending violence against women

22/11/2010

2 documents

168 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

Ending violence against women (VAW) requires the collaboration of all community members. There is a growing awareness that men, in partnership with women, can play a significant role in ending violence against women. This training resource was developed for use in Arab countries in order to teach the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to promote […]

Case study

Policy, Advocacy, and Programming on the Africa Women’s Protocol: Overview of Oxfam GB’s support to women’s-rights organisations and government stakeholders in Southern Africa

01/02/2008

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This series of programme insights papers highlights some of the work undertaken by Oxfam GB’s partners in Southern Africa to popularise and lobby for the ratification, domestication, and implementation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women (the Africa Women’s Protocol). Oxfam GB’s mission is to […]

Journal article

Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

01/10/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

Keywords

Overview

We women of the South, chosen by regional meetings of the Women to Women Linking Project in Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East to participate in the Global Meeting of Women Linking for Change, held in Bangkok from 20-23 February 1994 are concerned that there is an increasing concentration of […]

Journal article

The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

01/11/2000

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

Keywords

Overview

In October 1999, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Optional Protocol to the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (otherwise known as the Women’s Convention). As of September 2000, 62 states have signed the Optional Protocol, and nine of these have ratified it. Women’s rights activists hope that […]

Journal article

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

Keywords

Overview

A wide range of development actors play a major role in initiating, supporting, and promoting collective action of various forms, which aims to secure economic and wider benefits to women, through improving their engagement in markets. But there is limited understanding of what works for rural women in terms of their participation in collective action, […]