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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

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

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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 […]

Journal article

Paid work: the magic solution for young women to achieve empowerment? Evidence from the Empower Youth for Work project in Bangladesh

14/11/2018

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Paid work: the magic solution for young women to achieve empowerment? Evidence from the Empower Youth for Work project in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

Recently the ‘demographic dividend’ has attracted attention from policymakers because of the promise it delivers for development. But it has attracted criticism for taking an instrumental approach to young people rather than focusing on equality and rights. A similar critique has come from feminists evaluating livelihoods programming focusing on women’s ‘economic empowerment’. In this article, […]

Case study

Functional Adult Literacy: Sustainable, women-focused capacity-building in Ethiopia

23/07/2013

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In Limu, Ethiopia, Oxfam worked with partners and local government to develop a Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) programme for smallholders to enhance women’s economic leadership, increase production and improve the quality of organic coffee. The programme combined literacy classes with training on agricultural and financial capacity-building. This approach increased attendance and improved smallholders’ skills across […]

Case study

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Leadership in Armenia

05/08/2015

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam is promoting women’s economic empowerment and leadership in remote regions of Armenia. Armenian women face many barriers to their equal participation in agricultural production and marketing chains. Oxfam supports the development of women’s agricultural businesses and builds their leadership capacities by engaging them in cooperative management structures and training programmes. Oxfam is also working […]

Research report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care: Evidence for influencing

20/07/2015

1 documents

116 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Development actors increasingly identify care responsibilities as a factor restricting women’s empowerment outcomes, yet there is limited evidence on determinants of long hours or gender inequality in care work. To gain a clearer understanding of care work and pathways of change to promote more equitable care provision, Oxfam conducted a Household Care Survey in communities […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Pakistan: Impact evaluation of the empowering small scale producers in the dairy sector project

23/10/2015

3 documents

61 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2014/15, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation carried out in December 2014 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the ‘Empowering Small Producers especially Women in the Dairy […]

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Development & Humanitarian Practice

We are committed to contributing to collective understanding and improved practice in community-based work and humanitarian action

Journal article

Unequal burden: water privatisation and women’s human rights in Tanzania

01/03/2010

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Unequal burden: water privatisation and women’s human rights in Tanzania

Keywords

Overview

Access to water is a critical component in advancing the human rights of women. Although privatisation of water services continues to be pushed by donors such as The World Bank, the available information shows that privatisations are not increasing access to water for poor women. This paper examines the human right to water and why […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Improving Women’s Leadership and Effectiveness in Agricultural Governance, Nigeria

01/12/2012

4 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Improving Women’s Leadership and Effectiveness in Agricultural Governance’ project in Nigeria aims to increase women’s leadership and participation in agricultural decision-making and governance. This is to be achieved through building women’s skills and capacity in improved production techniques and influencing local government and community leadership structures to enable greater involvement of women. These full […]

Journal article

COVID-19 Violence and the Re-making of Urban Space Through Solidarity Networks Among Transgender Women in Lima, Peru

19/09/2024

22 pages long

Free access through journal website

COVID-19 Violence and the Re-making of Urban Space Through Solidarity Networks Among Transgender Women in Lima, Peru

Keywords

Overview

Extreme instances of COVID-19 policy-related violence against transgender (trans) communities in Latin America highlight the imperative to better understand how gender, power, and rights are entwined within public spaces. Peru is a useful vantage point to explore the intersections between gendered power asymmetries, violence, and access to safe public spaces, given the brief COVID-19 public […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Journal article

Paid work: the magic solution for young women to achieve empowerment? Evidence from the Empower Youth for Work project in Bangladesh

14/11/2018

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Paid work: the magic solution for young women to achieve empowerment? Evidence from the Empower Youth for Work project in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

Recently the ‘demographic dividend’ has attracted attention from policymakers because of the promise it delivers for development. But it has attracted criticism for taking an instrumental approach to young people rather than focusing on equality and rights. A similar critique has come from feminists evaluating livelihoods programming focusing on women’s ‘economic empowerment’. In this article, […]

Case study

Functional Adult Literacy: Sustainable, women-focused capacity-building in Ethiopia

23/07/2013

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In Limu, Ethiopia, Oxfam worked with partners and local government to develop a Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) programme for smallholders to enhance women’s economic leadership, increase production and improve the quality of organic coffee. The programme combined literacy classes with training on agricultural and financial capacity-building. This approach increased attendance and improved smallholders’ skills across […]

Case study

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Leadership in Armenia

05/08/2015

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam is promoting women’s economic empowerment and leadership in remote regions of Armenia. Armenian women face many barriers to their equal participation in agricultural production and marketing chains. Oxfam supports the development of women’s agricultural businesses and builds their leadership capacities by engaging them in cooperative management structures and training programmes. Oxfam is also working […]

Research report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care: Evidence for influencing

20/07/2015

1 documents

116 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Development actors increasingly identify care responsibilities as a factor restricting women’s empowerment outcomes, yet there is limited evidence on determinants of long hours or gender inequality in care work. To gain a clearer understanding of care work and pathways of change to promote more equitable care provision, Oxfam conducted a Household Care Survey in communities […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Pakistan: Impact evaluation of the empowering small scale producers in the dairy sector project

23/10/2015

3 documents

61 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2014/15, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation carried out in December 2014 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the ‘Empowering Small Producers especially Women in the Dairy […]

Webpage

Development & Humanitarian Practice

We are committed to contributing to collective understanding and improved practice in community-based work and humanitarian action

Journal article

Unequal burden: water privatisation and women’s human rights in Tanzania

01/03/2010

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Unequal burden: water privatisation and women’s human rights in Tanzania

Keywords

Overview

Access to water is a critical component in advancing the human rights of women. Although privatisation of water services continues to be pushed by donors such as The World Bank, the available information shows that privatisations are not increasing access to water for poor women. This paper examines the human right to water and why […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Improving Women’s Leadership and Effectiveness in Agricultural Governance, Nigeria

01/12/2012

4 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Improving Women’s Leadership and Effectiveness in Agricultural Governance’ project in Nigeria aims to increase women’s leadership and participation in agricultural decision-making and governance. This is to be achieved through building women’s skills and capacity in improved production techniques and influencing local government and community leadership structures to enable greater involvement of women. These full […]

Journal article

COVID-19 Violence and the Re-making of Urban Space Through Solidarity Networks Among Transgender Women in Lima, Peru

19/09/2024

22 pages long

Free access through journal website

COVID-19 Violence and the Re-making of Urban Space Through Solidarity Networks Among Transgender Women in Lima, Peru

Keywords

Overview

Extreme instances of COVID-19 policy-related violence against transgender (trans) communities in Latin America highlight the imperative to better understand how gender, power, and rights are entwined within public spaces. Peru is a useful vantage point to explore the intersections between gendered power asymmetries, violence, and access to safe public spaces, given the brief COVID-19 public […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Journal article

Paid work: the magic solution for young women to achieve empowerment? Evidence from the Empower Youth for Work project in Bangladesh

14/11/2018

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Paid work: the magic solution for young women to achieve empowerment? Evidence from the Empower Youth for Work project in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

Recently the ‘demographic dividend’ has attracted attention from policymakers because of the promise it delivers for development. But it has attracted criticism for taking an instrumental approach to young people rather than focusing on equality and rights. A similar critique has come from feminists evaluating livelihoods programming focusing on women’s ‘economic empowerment’. In this article, […]

Case study

Functional Adult Literacy: Sustainable, women-focused capacity-building in Ethiopia

23/07/2013

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In Limu, Ethiopia, Oxfam worked with partners and local government to develop a Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) programme for smallholders to enhance women’s economic leadership, increase production and improve the quality of organic coffee. The programme combined literacy classes with training on agricultural and financial capacity-building. This approach increased attendance and improved smallholders’ skills across […]

Case study

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Leadership in Armenia

05/08/2015

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam is promoting women’s economic empowerment and leadership in remote regions of Armenia. Armenian women face many barriers to their equal participation in agricultural production and marketing chains. Oxfam supports the development of women’s agricultural businesses and builds their leadership capacities by engaging them in cooperative management structures and training programmes. Oxfam is also working […]

Research report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care: Evidence for influencing

20/07/2015

1 documents

116 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Development actors increasingly identify care responsibilities as a factor restricting women’s empowerment outcomes, yet there is limited evidence on determinants of long hours or gender inequality in care work. To gain a clearer understanding of care work and pathways of change to promote more equitable care provision, Oxfam conducted a Household Care Survey in communities […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Pakistan: Impact evaluation of the empowering small scale producers in the dairy sector project

23/10/2015

3 documents

61 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2014/15, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation carried out in December 2014 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the ‘Empowering Small Producers especially Women in the Dairy […]

Webpage

Development & Humanitarian Practice

We are committed to contributing to collective understanding and improved practice in community-based work and humanitarian action

Journal article

Unequal burden: water privatisation and women’s human rights in Tanzania

01/03/2010

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Unequal burden: water privatisation and women’s human rights in Tanzania

Keywords

Overview

Access to water is a critical component in advancing the human rights of women. Although privatisation of water services continues to be pushed by donors such as The World Bank, the available information shows that privatisations are not increasing access to water for poor women. This paper examines the human right to water and why […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Improving Women’s Leadership and Effectiveness in Agricultural Governance, Nigeria

01/12/2012

4 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Improving Women’s Leadership and Effectiveness in Agricultural Governance’ project in Nigeria aims to increase women’s leadership and participation in agricultural decision-making and governance. This is to be achieved through building women’s skills and capacity in improved production techniques and influencing local government and community leadership structures to enable greater involvement of women. These full […]

Journal article

COVID-19 Violence and the Re-making of Urban Space Through Solidarity Networks Among Transgender Women in Lima, Peru

19/09/2024

22 pages long

Free access through journal website

COVID-19 Violence and the Re-making of Urban Space Through Solidarity Networks Among Transgender Women in Lima, Peru

Keywords

Overview

Extreme instances of COVID-19 policy-related violence against transgender (trans) communities in Latin America highlight the imperative to better understand how gender, power, and rights are entwined within public spaces. Peru is a useful vantage point to explore the intersections between gendered power asymmetries, violence, and access to safe public spaces, given the brief COVID-19 public […]