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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

08/11/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

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Overview

In seven short years, Kup Women for Peace, a community organisation in Papua New Guinea, has gone from tribal peacebuilding to ensuring a free, fair, and violence-free election in one small part of Simbu Province. The organisation’s approach was multi-faceted and locally appropriate, enfranchising many women – and educating men – in the process. In […]

Journal article

Flower by Flower, We Make a Garden’: Palestinian women organising for economic justice

09/11/2008

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Flower by Flower, We Make a Garden’: Palestinian women organising for economic justice

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Overview

This article illustrates a unique experience of social-movement building, initiated by Sawt el-Amel, a grassroots organisation of Arab workers in Israel. The process started in 2005, with the establishment of an activist forum for women on social welfare in Nazareth. Gradually, this is transforming into a union for Arab women all across Israel. The initiative […]

Journal article

Sexuality, health, and human rights: self-identified priorities of indigenous women in Peru

01/07/2008

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Sexuality, health, and human rights: self-identified priorities of indigenous women in Peru

Keywords

Overview

The link between sexuality and development is often not well understood, or it is thought to be a frivolous subject, to be addressed after other, more ‘important’ needs are met. But, from the perspective of indigenous women in Latin America, the right to control sexuality is in fact a crucial element in the improvement of […]

Journal article

Using rights-based and gender-analysis arguments for land rights for women: some initial reflections from Nicaragua

01/03/2008

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using rights-based and gender-analysis arguments for land rights for women: some initial reflections from Nicaragua

Keywords

Overview

The purpose of this article is to revisit the issue of land, and explain why it is still critical to women’s empowerment. This is done by looking at it from a rights-based approach and a gender and development perspective. The article draws on case studies of an NGO working on enhancing women’s land rights in […]

Research report

Understanding the Effectiveness of Agricultural Training for Women: A desk review of indicators, methods and best practices

16/02/2016

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This desk review provides an introduction to some of the indicators, methods, tools, challenges and best practices that will help development practitioners measure the effectiveness of agricultural training, specifically as it relates to women and women’s economic empowerment. Contracted by Oxfam, it is part of ongoing work to improve monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for […]

Journal article

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

01/03/2008

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

Keywords

Overview

About 70 per cent of the population in Southern Africa depends on agriculture as the main source of food, income, and employment. Women produce an estimated 70 per cent of the food in the region. Recent studies have pointed to governments’ failure to invest in women farmers as one of the major contributing factors to […]

Journal article

Non-traditional agricultural export industries: conditions for women workers in Colombia and Peru

01/03/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Non-traditional agricultural export industries: conditions for women workers in Colombia and Peru

Keywords

Overview

Women comprise the majority of the workforce in many non-traditional agricultural export (NTAE) industries, which international lending and aid agencies espouse as a development solution for rural poor people. In the Peruvian asparagus industry and the Colombian cut-flower plantations, however, women workers endure unsafe and substandard conditions. Local organisations creatively employ various strategies, ranging from […]

Journal article

Cash transfers, gender equity and women’s empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

01/07/2011

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Cash transfers, gender equity and women’s empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

Keywords

Overview

Conditional cash transfer programmes provide extremely poor households with a cash subsidy, on condition that children attend school, and mothers and infants undergo health checks. These programmes are generally considered effective social protection mechanisms, and success in meeting children’s nutrition, education, and health targets is reported. However, the impact of these programmes on women’s empowerment […]

Journal article

The challenges of incorporating Muslim women’s views into development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen

01/11/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

The challenges of incorporating Muslim women’s views into development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the Muslim Women and Development Action Research Project (MWDAR), an attempt by the Dutch government to introduce new discourses on Islam and the empowerment of women into their development policy. Based on a discussion of the project in Yemen, an analysis of its evaluation reports, and follow-up research with project participants, we […]

Case study

SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: The women of Lokichar, Turkana, gain access to clean, reliable water

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The women of Nakalale Naduat-Lokichar village used to face long journeys to collect water from ‘scoop holes’ in riverbeds. They could carry just enough back with them for drinking and watering their goats, and had little time to look for food or work. Under the SWIFT programme, Oxfam worked with the women to install a […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

08/11/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

Keywords

Overview

In seven short years, Kup Women for Peace, a community organisation in Papua New Guinea, has gone from tribal peacebuilding to ensuring a free, fair, and violence-free election in one small part of Simbu Province. The organisation’s approach was multi-faceted and locally appropriate, enfranchising many women – and educating men – in the process. In […]

Journal article

Flower by Flower, We Make a Garden’: Palestinian women organising for economic justice

09/11/2008

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Flower by Flower, We Make a Garden’: Palestinian women organising for economic justice

Keywords

Overview

This article illustrates a unique experience of social-movement building, initiated by Sawt el-Amel, a grassroots organisation of Arab workers in Israel. The process started in 2005, with the establishment of an activist forum for women on social welfare in Nazareth. Gradually, this is transforming into a union for Arab women all across Israel. The initiative […]

Journal article

Sexuality, health, and human rights: self-identified priorities of indigenous women in Peru

01/07/2008

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Sexuality, health, and human rights: self-identified priorities of indigenous women in Peru

Keywords

Overview

The link between sexuality and development is often not well understood, or it is thought to be a frivolous subject, to be addressed after other, more ‘important’ needs are met. But, from the perspective of indigenous women in Latin America, the right to control sexuality is in fact a crucial element in the improvement of […]

Journal article

Using rights-based and gender-analysis arguments for land rights for women: some initial reflections from Nicaragua

01/03/2008

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using rights-based and gender-analysis arguments for land rights for women: some initial reflections from Nicaragua

Keywords

Overview

The purpose of this article is to revisit the issue of land, and explain why it is still critical to women’s empowerment. This is done by looking at it from a rights-based approach and a gender and development perspective. The article draws on case studies of an NGO working on enhancing women’s land rights in […]

Research report

Understanding the Effectiveness of Agricultural Training for Women: A desk review of indicators, methods and best practices

16/02/2016

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This desk review provides an introduction to some of the indicators, methods, tools, challenges and best practices that will help development practitioners measure the effectiveness of agricultural training, specifically as it relates to women and women’s economic empowerment. Contracted by Oxfam, it is part of ongoing work to improve monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for […]

Journal article

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

01/03/2008

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

Keywords

Overview

About 70 per cent of the population in Southern Africa depends on agriculture as the main source of food, income, and employment. Women produce an estimated 70 per cent of the food in the region. Recent studies have pointed to governments’ failure to invest in women farmers as one of the major contributing factors to […]

Journal article

Non-traditional agricultural export industries: conditions for women workers in Colombia and Peru

01/03/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Non-traditional agricultural export industries: conditions for women workers in Colombia and Peru

Keywords

Overview

Women comprise the majority of the workforce in many non-traditional agricultural export (NTAE) industries, which international lending and aid agencies espouse as a development solution for rural poor people. In the Peruvian asparagus industry and the Colombian cut-flower plantations, however, women workers endure unsafe and substandard conditions. Local organisations creatively employ various strategies, ranging from […]

Journal article

Cash transfers, gender equity and women’s empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

01/07/2011

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Cash transfers, gender equity and women’s empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

Keywords

Overview

Conditional cash transfer programmes provide extremely poor households with a cash subsidy, on condition that children attend school, and mothers and infants undergo health checks. These programmes are generally considered effective social protection mechanisms, and success in meeting children’s nutrition, education, and health targets is reported. However, the impact of these programmes on women’s empowerment […]

Journal article

The challenges of incorporating Muslim women’s views into development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen

01/11/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

The challenges of incorporating Muslim women’s views into development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the Muslim Women and Development Action Research Project (MWDAR), an attempt by the Dutch government to introduce new discourses on Islam and the empowerment of women into their development policy. Based on a discussion of the project in Yemen, an analysis of its evaluation reports, and follow-up research with project participants, we […]

Case study

SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: The women of Lokichar, Turkana, gain access to clean, reliable water

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The women of Nakalale Naduat-Lokichar village used to face long journeys to collect water from ‘scoop holes’ in riverbeds. They could carry just enough back with them for drinking and watering their goats, and had little time to look for food or work. Under the SWIFT programme, Oxfam worked with the women to install a […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

08/11/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Kup women for peace approach to peacebuilding: taking the lead in the Papua New Guinea national elections

Keywords

Overview

In seven short years, Kup Women for Peace, a community organisation in Papua New Guinea, has gone from tribal peacebuilding to ensuring a free, fair, and violence-free election in one small part of Simbu Province. The organisation’s approach was multi-faceted and locally appropriate, enfranchising many women – and educating men – in the process. In […]

Journal article

Flower by Flower, We Make a Garden’: Palestinian women organising for economic justice

09/11/2008

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Flower by Flower, We Make a Garden’: Palestinian women organising for economic justice

Keywords

Overview

This article illustrates a unique experience of social-movement building, initiated by Sawt el-Amel, a grassroots organisation of Arab workers in Israel. The process started in 2005, with the establishment of an activist forum for women on social welfare in Nazareth. Gradually, this is transforming into a union for Arab women all across Israel. The initiative […]

Journal article

Sexuality, health, and human rights: self-identified priorities of indigenous women in Peru

01/07/2008

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Sexuality, health, and human rights: self-identified priorities of indigenous women in Peru

Keywords

Overview

The link between sexuality and development is often not well understood, or it is thought to be a frivolous subject, to be addressed after other, more ‘important’ needs are met. But, from the perspective of indigenous women in Latin America, the right to control sexuality is in fact a crucial element in the improvement of […]

Journal article

Using rights-based and gender-analysis arguments for land rights for women: some initial reflections from Nicaragua

01/03/2008

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using rights-based and gender-analysis arguments for land rights for women: some initial reflections from Nicaragua

Keywords

Overview

The purpose of this article is to revisit the issue of land, and explain why it is still critical to women’s empowerment. This is done by looking at it from a rights-based approach and a gender and development perspective. The article draws on case studies of an NGO working on enhancing women’s land rights in […]

Research report

Understanding the Effectiveness of Agricultural Training for Women: A desk review of indicators, methods and best practices

16/02/2016

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This desk review provides an introduction to some of the indicators, methods, tools, challenges and best practices that will help development practitioners measure the effectiveness of agricultural training, specifically as it relates to women and women’s economic empowerment. Contracted by Oxfam, it is part of ongoing work to improve monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for […]

Journal article

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

01/03/2008

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

Keywords

Overview

About 70 per cent of the population in Southern Africa depends on agriculture as the main source of food, income, and employment. Women produce an estimated 70 per cent of the food in the region. Recent studies have pointed to governments’ failure to invest in women farmers as one of the major contributing factors to […]

Journal article

Non-traditional agricultural export industries: conditions for women workers in Colombia and Peru

01/03/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Non-traditional agricultural export industries: conditions for women workers in Colombia and Peru

Keywords

Overview

Women comprise the majority of the workforce in many non-traditional agricultural export (NTAE) industries, which international lending and aid agencies espouse as a development solution for rural poor people. In the Peruvian asparagus industry and the Colombian cut-flower plantations, however, women workers endure unsafe and substandard conditions. Local organisations creatively employ various strategies, ranging from […]

Journal article

Cash transfers, gender equity and women’s empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

01/07/2011

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Cash transfers, gender equity and women’s empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

Keywords

Overview

Conditional cash transfer programmes provide extremely poor households with a cash subsidy, on condition that children attend school, and mothers and infants undergo health checks. These programmes are generally considered effective social protection mechanisms, and success in meeting children’s nutrition, education, and health targets is reported. However, the impact of these programmes on women’s empowerment […]

Journal article

The challenges of incorporating Muslim women’s views into development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen

01/11/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

The challenges of incorporating Muslim women’s views into development policy: analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the Muslim Women and Development Action Research Project (MWDAR), an attempt by the Dutch government to introduce new discourses on Islam and the empowerment of women into their development policy. Based on a discussion of the project in Yemen, an analysis of its evaluation reports, and follow-up research with project participants, we […]

Case study

SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: The women of Lokichar, Turkana, gain access to clean, reliable water

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The women of Nakalale Naduat-Lokichar village used to face long journeys to collect water from ‘scoop holes’ in riverbeds. They could carry just enough back with them for drinking and watering their goats, and had little time to look for food or work. Under the SWIFT programme, Oxfam worked with the women to install a […]