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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women’s perceptions of land ownership: a case study from Kutch District, Gujarat, India

01/03/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s perceptions of land ownership: a case study from Kutch District, Gujarat, India

Keywords

Overview

In August 2005, a campaign was initiated in Kutch District, Gujarat, India, to obtain government land for landless families. Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (KMVS), a grassroots collective of rural women, supported women’s land and property rights in the context of the campaign. In this article, we assess the impact of this campaign on women in […]

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 […]

Journal article

Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

01/11/2007

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

Keywords

Overview

Mainstream media coverage of war often distorts or ignores women’s perspectives and experiences in armed conflict, and also their efforts to build peace. This article focuses on the work of FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour/Radio Internacional Feminista), a women’s international Internet radio initiative produced by Latin American and Caribbean women in Costa Rica, which ‘uses […]

Briefing note

Feminist Scorecard 2022: Tracking Welsh Government action to advance women’s rights and gender equality

15/07/2022

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

Keywords

Overview

This scorecard tracks the Welsh government’s progress towards advancing women’s rights and gender equality between 2020 and 2022 in six policy areas: Fair Finance, Caring Responsibilities, Global Women’s Rights, Equal Representation and Leadership, Tackling Gender Health Inequalities, and Ending Violence Against Women and Girls. The scorecard examines the official statements, legislation, policies and practice for each policy area […]

Journal article

Leaders, not clients: grassroots women’s groups transforming social protection

01/07/2011

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Leaders, not clients: grassroots women’s groups transforming social protection

Keywords

Overview

Grassroots women in poor communities are creating their own innovative social protection mechanisms, and often moving beyond this to foster economic growth and prosperity. In this article, we propose an expansion of common understandings of social protection to include these activities initiated by citizens themselves. In this article, we describe strategies being led by grassroots […]

Evaluation report

The Politics of Our Lives: The Raising Her Voice in Pakistan Experience

04/07/2013

2 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

How can we change the power dynamics that exclude women from decision making? How can the barriers that prevent women from exercising their rights as equals to lead, to propose and to call to account be overcome? Over the past five years, the Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme set out to find practical answers to […]

Journal article

Faith, work and women in a changing world: the influence of religion in the lives of beedi rollers in West Bengal

01/11/2006

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Faith, work and women in a changing world: the influence of religion in the lives of beedi rollers in West Bengal

Keywords

Overview

In India, religious norms and values play a significant role in regulating the lives of women and girls in many communities. This article looks at how the lives of women and girl beedi (hand rolled cigarette) rollers in a Muslim community in West Bengal are influenced by their religious background, highlighting the complex relationship between […]

Journal article

Unpacking Bangladesh’s ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act of 2010

07/12/2021

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Unpacking Bangladesh’s ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act of 2010

Keywords

Overview

This article unpacks the ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the case of the adoption and implementation of the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) (DVPP) Act 2010 of Bangladesh. It looks at two forms of women’s leadership, one at the civil society/women’s movement level and the other at the female elected representatives at the parliament and executive […]

Journal article

The resistance strikes back: women’s protest strategies against backlash in India

07/12/2021

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

The resistance strikes back: women’s protest strategies against backlash in India

Keywords

Overview

The Shaheen Bagh site epitomised the longest sit-in intergenerational protests in India since Independence. Especially novel about these protests was the presence and leadership of first-time Muslim women protestors. Shaheen Bagh also inspired other sit-ins across the country, including several across Delhi. Yet, nowhere except Shaheen Bagh did the struggle last as long, with the […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women’s perceptions of land ownership: a case study from Kutch District, Gujarat, India

01/03/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s perceptions of land ownership: a case study from Kutch District, Gujarat, India

Keywords

Overview

In August 2005, a campaign was initiated in Kutch District, Gujarat, India, to obtain government land for landless families. Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (KMVS), a grassroots collective of rural women, supported women’s land and property rights in the context of the campaign. In this article, we assess the impact of this campaign on women in […]

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 […]

Journal article

Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

01/11/2007

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

Keywords

Overview

Mainstream media coverage of war often distorts or ignores women’s perspectives and experiences in armed conflict, and also their efforts to build peace. This article focuses on the work of FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour/Radio Internacional Feminista), a women’s international Internet radio initiative produced by Latin American and Caribbean women in Costa Rica, which ‘uses […]

Briefing note

Feminist Scorecard 2022: Tracking Welsh Government action to advance women’s rights and gender equality

15/07/2022

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

Keywords

Overview

This scorecard tracks the Welsh government’s progress towards advancing women’s rights and gender equality between 2020 and 2022 in six policy areas: Fair Finance, Caring Responsibilities, Global Women’s Rights, Equal Representation and Leadership, Tackling Gender Health Inequalities, and Ending Violence Against Women and Girls. The scorecard examines the official statements, legislation, policies and practice for each policy area […]

Journal article

Leaders, not clients: grassroots women’s groups transforming social protection

01/07/2011

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Leaders, not clients: grassroots women’s groups transforming social protection

Keywords

Overview

Grassroots women in poor communities are creating their own innovative social protection mechanisms, and often moving beyond this to foster economic growth and prosperity. In this article, we propose an expansion of common understandings of social protection to include these activities initiated by citizens themselves. In this article, we describe strategies being led by grassroots […]

Evaluation report

The Politics of Our Lives: The Raising Her Voice in Pakistan Experience

04/07/2013

2 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

How can we change the power dynamics that exclude women from decision making? How can the barriers that prevent women from exercising their rights as equals to lead, to propose and to call to account be overcome? Over the past five years, the Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme set out to find practical answers to […]

Journal article

Faith, work and women in a changing world: the influence of religion in the lives of beedi rollers in West Bengal

01/11/2006

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Faith, work and women in a changing world: the influence of religion in the lives of beedi rollers in West Bengal

Keywords

Overview

In India, religious norms and values play a significant role in regulating the lives of women and girls in many communities. This article looks at how the lives of women and girl beedi (hand rolled cigarette) rollers in a Muslim community in West Bengal are influenced by their religious background, highlighting the complex relationship between […]

Journal article

Unpacking Bangladesh’s ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act of 2010

07/12/2021

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Unpacking Bangladesh’s ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act of 2010

Keywords

Overview

This article unpacks the ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the case of the adoption and implementation of the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) (DVPP) Act 2010 of Bangladesh. It looks at two forms of women’s leadership, one at the civil society/women’s movement level and the other at the female elected representatives at the parliament and executive […]

Journal article

The resistance strikes back: women’s protest strategies against backlash in India

07/12/2021

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

The resistance strikes back: women’s protest strategies against backlash in India

Keywords

Overview

The Shaheen Bagh site epitomised the longest sit-in intergenerational protests in India since Independence. Especially novel about these protests was the presence and leadership of first-time Muslim women protestors. Shaheen Bagh also inspired other sit-ins across the country, including several across Delhi. Yet, nowhere except Shaheen Bagh did the struggle last as long, with the […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women’s perceptions of land ownership: a case study from Kutch District, Gujarat, India

01/03/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s perceptions of land ownership: a case study from Kutch District, Gujarat, India

Keywords

Overview

In August 2005, a campaign was initiated in Kutch District, Gujarat, India, to obtain government land for landless families. Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (KMVS), a grassroots collective of rural women, supported women’s land and property rights in the context of the campaign. In this article, we assess the impact of this campaign on women in […]

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 […]

Journal article

Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

01/11/2007

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

Keywords

Overview

Mainstream media coverage of war often distorts or ignores women’s perspectives and experiences in armed conflict, and also their efforts to build peace. This article focuses on the work of FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour/Radio Internacional Feminista), a women’s international Internet radio initiative produced by Latin American and Caribbean women in Costa Rica, which ‘uses […]

Briefing note

Feminist Scorecard 2022: Tracking Welsh Government action to advance women’s rights and gender equality

15/07/2022

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

Keywords

Overview

This scorecard tracks the Welsh government’s progress towards advancing women’s rights and gender equality between 2020 and 2022 in six policy areas: Fair Finance, Caring Responsibilities, Global Women’s Rights, Equal Representation and Leadership, Tackling Gender Health Inequalities, and Ending Violence Against Women and Girls. The scorecard examines the official statements, legislation, policies and practice for each policy area […]

Journal article

Leaders, not clients: grassroots women’s groups transforming social protection

01/07/2011

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Leaders, not clients: grassroots women’s groups transforming social protection

Keywords

Overview

Grassroots women in poor communities are creating their own innovative social protection mechanisms, and often moving beyond this to foster economic growth and prosperity. In this article, we propose an expansion of common understandings of social protection to include these activities initiated by citizens themselves. In this article, we describe strategies being led by grassroots […]

Evaluation report

The Politics of Our Lives: The Raising Her Voice in Pakistan Experience

04/07/2013

2 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

How can we change the power dynamics that exclude women from decision making? How can the barriers that prevent women from exercising their rights as equals to lead, to propose and to call to account be overcome? Over the past five years, the Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme set out to find practical answers to […]

Journal article

Faith, work and women in a changing world: the influence of religion in the lives of beedi rollers in West Bengal

01/11/2006

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Faith, work and women in a changing world: the influence of religion in the lives of beedi rollers in West Bengal

Keywords

Overview

In India, religious norms and values play a significant role in regulating the lives of women and girls in many communities. This article looks at how the lives of women and girl beedi (hand rolled cigarette) rollers in a Muslim community in West Bengal are influenced by their religious background, highlighting the complex relationship between […]

Journal article

Unpacking Bangladesh’s ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act of 2010

07/12/2021

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Unpacking Bangladesh’s ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act of 2010

Keywords

Overview

This article unpacks the ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the case of the adoption and implementation of the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) (DVPP) Act 2010 of Bangladesh. It looks at two forms of women’s leadership, one at the civil society/women’s movement level and the other at the female elected representatives at the parliament and executive […]

Journal article

The resistance strikes back: women’s protest strategies against backlash in India

07/12/2021

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

The resistance strikes back: women’s protest strategies against backlash in India

Keywords

Overview

The Shaheen Bagh site epitomised the longest sit-in intergenerational protests in India since Independence. Especially novel about these protests was the presence and leadership of first-time Muslim women protestors. Shaheen Bagh also inspired other sit-ins across the country, including several across Delhi. Yet, nowhere except Shaheen Bagh did the struggle last as long, with the […]