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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

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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 […]

Journal article

Malawian women’s participation in state politics: what are the constraints?

03/11/2008

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Malawian women’s participation in state politics: what are the constraints?

Keywords

Overview

Malawian women lead their communities as democratic representatives, by participating with men in state politics – but not to the extent that they could. Contemporary formal state politics is constructed as a masculine domain, and only a small minority of women find space within this sphere. In seeking to explore reasons why this is the […]

Discussion paper

Transforming Power to Put Women at the Heart of Peacebuilding: A collection of regional-focused essays on feminist peace and security

21/09/2020

1 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The twentieth anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) is in October 2020. It is a landmark resolution on women’s role in peacebuilding, but progress on women’s rights and leadership in peace and security decision making continues to fall short. This discussion paper brings together three regional essays commissioned to explore what needs to […]

Case study

Women’s Political Participation in the Niger Delta: A case from Nigeria

01/03/2014

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study describes the work of the Kebetkache Women Development & Resource Centre. Women’s leadership and political participation is a priority in the Oxfam in Nigeria Country Analysis and Strategy 2011–2015. The Strategy has a clear target of increasing the space for women to assume leadership positions in social, economic and political spheres for […]

Research report

No One Asked: Amplifying the voices of Syrian refugee women in Lebanon on their power to decide

05/11/2019

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This study focuses on the decision-making power of Syrian refugee women in Lebanon. It explores the extent to which they are able to make and shape decisions that have direct implications for their lives and futures. Drawing on 40 in-depth qualitative interviews with Syrian refugee women in North Bekaa and Tripoli, the research findings explore […]

Journal article

Agricultural livelihoods and nutrition – exploring the links with women in Zambia

02/11/2010

23 pages long

Free access through journal website

Agricultural livelihoods and nutrition – exploring the links with women in Zambia

Keywords

Overview

This article examines food security, nutrition, and women’s agricultural livelihoods in Western Province, Zambia. It draws on data from field research supported by Concern Worldwide UK. The research aimed to explore links between food procurement, livelihoods and care at the household level, and recognises the role of institutions and access to assets in shaping livelihood […]

Evaluation report

Making Market Systems Work for Women Farmers in Zambia: A final evaluation of Oxfam’s Gendered Enterprise and Markets programme in the Copperbelt region of Zambia

06/12/2019

3 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Gendered Enterprise and Markets (GEM) is Oxfam GB’s approach to market systems development. The GEM approach facilitates change in market systems and social norms, with the aim of ensuring more sustainable livelihood opportunities for marginalized women and men. The GEM DFID AidMatch Programme (June 2014–February 2018) worked within the soya, milk and vegetable value chains […]

Briefing paper

Voices Rising: Rohingya Women’s Priorities and Leadership in Myanmar and Bangladesh

01/04/2020

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Amidst the ongoing crisis on both sides of the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, Rohingya women are actively supporting their rights and wellbeing, and those of their families and communities. However, their efforts are going unrecognized by those involved in delivering humanitarian assistance and developing political solutions to the crisis. This must change. Women must not only have […]

Journal article

The effects of the global economic crisis on women in the informal economy: research findings from WIEGO and the Inclusive Cities partners

01/07/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

The effects of the global economic crisis on women in the informal economy: research findings from WIEGO and the Inclusive Cities partners

Keywords

Overview

Findings from a recent study on the impact of the economic crisis on informal workers in Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa reveal that transmission of the crisis to the informal economy is hitting poor women hard. Women constitute the majority of the informal workforce in most developing countries, and predominate its poorest and most […]

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 […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Journal article

Malawian women’s participation in state politics: what are the constraints?

03/11/2008

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Malawian women’s participation in state politics: what are the constraints?

Keywords

Overview

Malawian women lead their communities as democratic representatives, by participating with men in state politics – but not to the extent that they could. Contemporary formal state politics is constructed as a masculine domain, and only a small minority of women find space within this sphere. In seeking to explore reasons why this is the […]

Discussion paper

Transforming Power to Put Women at the Heart of Peacebuilding: A collection of regional-focused essays on feminist peace and security

21/09/2020

1 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The twentieth anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) is in October 2020. It is a landmark resolution on women’s role in peacebuilding, but progress on women’s rights and leadership in peace and security decision making continues to fall short. This discussion paper brings together three regional essays commissioned to explore what needs to […]

Case study

Women’s Political Participation in the Niger Delta: A case from Nigeria

01/03/2014

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study describes the work of the Kebetkache Women Development & Resource Centre. Women’s leadership and political participation is a priority in the Oxfam in Nigeria Country Analysis and Strategy 2011–2015. The Strategy has a clear target of increasing the space for women to assume leadership positions in social, economic and political spheres for […]

Research report

No One Asked: Amplifying the voices of Syrian refugee women in Lebanon on their power to decide

05/11/2019

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This study focuses on the decision-making power of Syrian refugee women in Lebanon. It explores the extent to which they are able to make and shape decisions that have direct implications for their lives and futures. Drawing on 40 in-depth qualitative interviews with Syrian refugee women in North Bekaa and Tripoli, the research findings explore […]

Journal article

Agricultural livelihoods and nutrition – exploring the links with women in Zambia

02/11/2010

23 pages long

Free access through journal website

Agricultural livelihoods and nutrition – exploring the links with women in Zambia

Keywords

Overview

This article examines food security, nutrition, and women’s agricultural livelihoods in Western Province, Zambia. It draws on data from field research supported by Concern Worldwide UK. The research aimed to explore links between food procurement, livelihoods and care at the household level, and recognises the role of institutions and access to assets in shaping livelihood […]

Evaluation report

Making Market Systems Work for Women Farmers in Zambia: A final evaluation of Oxfam’s Gendered Enterprise and Markets programme in the Copperbelt region of Zambia

06/12/2019

3 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Gendered Enterprise and Markets (GEM) is Oxfam GB’s approach to market systems development. The GEM approach facilitates change in market systems and social norms, with the aim of ensuring more sustainable livelihood opportunities for marginalized women and men. The GEM DFID AidMatch Programme (June 2014–February 2018) worked within the soya, milk and vegetable value chains […]

Briefing paper

Voices Rising: Rohingya Women’s Priorities and Leadership in Myanmar and Bangladesh

01/04/2020

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Amidst the ongoing crisis on both sides of the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, Rohingya women are actively supporting their rights and wellbeing, and those of their families and communities. However, their efforts are going unrecognized by those involved in delivering humanitarian assistance and developing political solutions to the crisis. This must change. Women must not only have […]

Journal article

The effects of the global economic crisis on women in the informal economy: research findings from WIEGO and the Inclusive Cities partners

01/07/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

The effects of the global economic crisis on women in the informal economy: research findings from WIEGO and the Inclusive Cities partners

Keywords

Overview

Findings from a recent study on the impact of the economic crisis on informal workers in Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa reveal that transmission of the crisis to the informal economy is hitting poor women hard. Women constitute the majority of the informal workforce in most developing countries, and predominate its poorest and most […]

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 […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Journal article

Malawian women’s participation in state politics: what are the constraints?

03/11/2008

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Malawian women’s participation in state politics: what are the constraints?

Keywords

Overview

Malawian women lead their communities as democratic representatives, by participating with men in state politics – but not to the extent that they could. Contemporary formal state politics is constructed as a masculine domain, and only a small minority of women find space within this sphere. In seeking to explore reasons why this is the […]

Discussion paper

Transforming Power to Put Women at the Heart of Peacebuilding: A collection of regional-focused essays on feminist peace and security

21/09/2020

1 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The twentieth anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) is in October 2020. It is a landmark resolution on women’s role in peacebuilding, but progress on women’s rights and leadership in peace and security decision making continues to fall short. This discussion paper brings together three regional essays commissioned to explore what needs to […]

Case study

Women’s Political Participation in the Niger Delta: A case from Nigeria

01/03/2014

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study describes the work of the Kebetkache Women Development & Resource Centre. Women’s leadership and political participation is a priority in the Oxfam in Nigeria Country Analysis and Strategy 2011–2015. The Strategy has a clear target of increasing the space for women to assume leadership positions in social, economic and political spheres for […]

Research report

No One Asked: Amplifying the voices of Syrian refugee women in Lebanon on their power to decide

05/11/2019

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This study focuses on the decision-making power of Syrian refugee women in Lebanon. It explores the extent to which they are able to make and shape decisions that have direct implications for their lives and futures. Drawing on 40 in-depth qualitative interviews with Syrian refugee women in North Bekaa and Tripoli, the research findings explore […]

Journal article

Agricultural livelihoods and nutrition – exploring the links with women in Zambia

02/11/2010

23 pages long

Free access through journal website

Agricultural livelihoods and nutrition – exploring the links with women in Zambia

Keywords

Overview

This article examines food security, nutrition, and women’s agricultural livelihoods in Western Province, Zambia. It draws on data from field research supported by Concern Worldwide UK. The research aimed to explore links between food procurement, livelihoods and care at the household level, and recognises the role of institutions and access to assets in shaping livelihood […]

Evaluation report

Making Market Systems Work for Women Farmers in Zambia: A final evaluation of Oxfam’s Gendered Enterprise and Markets programme in the Copperbelt region of Zambia

06/12/2019

3 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Gendered Enterprise and Markets (GEM) is Oxfam GB’s approach to market systems development. The GEM approach facilitates change in market systems and social norms, with the aim of ensuring more sustainable livelihood opportunities for marginalized women and men. The GEM DFID AidMatch Programme (June 2014–February 2018) worked within the soya, milk and vegetable value chains […]

Briefing paper

Voices Rising: Rohingya Women’s Priorities and Leadership in Myanmar and Bangladesh

01/04/2020

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Amidst the ongoing crisis on both sides of the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, Rohingya women are actively supporting their rights and wellbeing, and those of their families and communities. However, their efforts are going unrecognized by those involved in delivering humanitarian assistance and developing political solutions to the crisis. This must change. Women must not only have […]

Journal article

The effects of the global economic crisis on women in the informal economy: research findings from WIEGO and the Inclusive Cities partners

01/07/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

The effects of the global economic crisis on women in the informal economy: research findings from WIEGO and the Inclusive Cities partners

Keywords

Overview

Findings from a recent study on the impact of the economic crisis on informal workers in Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa reveal that transmission of the crisis to the informal economy is hitting poor women hard. Women constitute the majority of the informal workforce in most developing countries, and predominate its poorest and most […]

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 […]