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High-risk feminism in El Salvador: women’s mobilisation in violent times

20/07/2016

14 pages long

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High-risk feminism in El Salvador: women’s mobilisation in violent times

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Overview

Violence against women in El Salvador – a country made fragile by a vicious Civil War and the subsequent burgeoning of murderous youth gangs – has been described as lying on the knife’s edge between public and private (Hume 2009). Women’s experiences of violence are often invalidated by wider society for violating a normalised culture […]

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 […]

Journal article

Counter-revolutionary women: gender and reconciliation in post-war Nicaragua

01/11/2004

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Counter-revolutionary women: gender and reconciliation in post-war Nicaragua

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Overview

In Nicaragua, gender ideologies – and, in particular, discourses of motherhood – have frequently been manipulated by political forces. In the early 1990s, at the end of the civil war, Sandinista and Contra women in Waslala united to form a group which aimed to end the political polarisation within their community and promote development. Aid […]

Journal article

Women, conflict, and culture in former Yugoslavia

01/02/1995

6 pages long

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Women, conflict, and culture in former Yugoslavia

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Overview

This article charts the history of the Yugoslav women’s movement to the present day. The previously strong women’s movement is now splitting along patriarchal nationalist lines. NGOs and women’s groups are multiplying. They support women and children affected by the conflict. Oxfam seeks to empower these groups by providing a space for them to develop […]

Journal article

Fempress: a communication strategy for women

01/02/1995

5 pages long

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Fempress: a communication strategy for women

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Overview

The women’s media network Fempress unites feminists and academics through: a monthly Latin American magazine; a Press Service on women’s issues; and a Radio Press Service across Latin America. Santa Cruz shows how these goals were achieved, from Fempress’s modest start drawing together a small, disparate women’s movement. Fempress’s founding aim of unity through communication […]

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

Repoliticising women’s rights in development: young African feminisms at the cutting edge

14/11/2018

14 pages long

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Repoliticising women’s rights in development: young African feminisms at the cutting edge

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Overview

Twenty-five years on from the UN Conferences in Cairo (1994) and Beijing (1995) with their radical vision of women’s rights – including sexual and reproductive rights – this article considers the challenges to women’s rights from the perspective of young feminists connected to FEMNET. It draws on recent research with FEMNET members, partners, allies, and […]

Journal article

Freedom for women: mainstreaming gender in the South African liberation struggle and beyond

01/07/2005

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Freedom for women: mainstreaming gender in the South African liberation struggle and beyond

Keywords

Overview

The liberation struggle in South Africa highlighted racial and class oppression as key causes of poverty, inequality, and a lack of rights for most South Africans. Drawing on the language of the struggle, women political and trade union activists brought attention to their oppression and exploitation as women, and were able to place non-sexism alongside […]

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 […]

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, […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

High-risk feminism in El Salvador: women’s mobilisation in violent times

20/07/2016

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

High-risk feminism in El Salvador: women’s mobilisation in violent times

Keywords

Overview

Violence against women in El Salvador – a country made fragile by a vicious Civil War and the subsequent burgeoning of murderous youth gangs – has been described as lying on the knife’s edge between public and private (Hume 2009). Women’s experiences of violence are often invalidated by wider society for violating a normalised culture […]

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 […]

Journal article

Counter-revolutionary women: gender and reconciliation in post-war Nicaragua

01/11/2004

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Counter-revolutionary women: gender and reconciliation in post-war Nicaragua

Keywords

Overview

In Nicaragua, gender ideologies – and, in particular, discourses of motherhood – have frequently been manipulated by political forces. In the early 1990s, at the end of the civil war, Sandinista and Contra women in Waslala united to form a group which aimed to end the political polarisation within their community and promote development. Aid […]

Journal article

Women, conflict, and culture in former Yugoslavia

01/02/1995

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, conflict, and culture in former Yugoslavia

Keywords

Overview

This article charts the history of the Yugoslav women’s movement to the present day. The previously strong women’s movement is now splitting along patriarchal nationalist lines. NGOs and women’s groups are multiplying. They support women and children affected by the conflict. Oxfam seeks to empower these groups by providing a space for them to develop […]

Journal article

Fempress: a communication strategy for women

01/02/1995

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fempress: a communication strategy for women

Keywords

Overview

The women’s media network Fempress unites feminists and academics through: a monthly Latin American magazine; a Press Service on women’s issues; and a Radio Press Service across Latin America. Santa Cruz shows how these goals were achieved, from Fempress’s modest start drawing together a small, disparate women’s movement. Fempress’s founding aim of unity through communication […]

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

Repoliticising women’s rights in development: young African feminisms at the cutting edge

14/11/2018

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Repoliticising women’s rights in development: young African feminisms at the cutting edge

Keywords

Overview

Twenty-five years on from the UN Conferences in Cairo (1994) and Beijing (1995) with their radical vision of women’s rights – including sexual and reproductive rights – this article considers the challenges to women’s rights from the perspective of young feminists connected to FEMNET. It draws on recent research with FEMNET members, partners, allies, and […]

Journal article

Freedom for women: mainstreaming gender in the South African liberation struggle and beyond

01/07/2005

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Freedom for women: mainstreaming gender in the South African liberation struggle and beyond

Keywords

Overview

The liberation struggle in South Africa highlighted racial and class oppression as key causes of poverty, inequality, and a lack of rights for most South Africans. Drawing on the language of the struggle, women political and trade union activists brought attention to their oppression and exploitation as women, and were able to place non-sexism alongside […]

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 […]

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, […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

High-risk feminism in El Salvador: women’s mobilisation in violent times

20/07/2016

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

High-risk feminism in El Salvador: women’s mobilisation in violent times

Keywords

Overview

Violence against women in El Salvador – a country made fragile by a vicious Civil War and the subsequent burgeoning of murderous youth gangs – has been described as lying on the knife’s edge between public and private (Hume 2009). Women’s experiences of violence are often invalidated by wider society for violating a normalised culture […]

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 […]

Journal article

Counter-revolutionary women: gender and reconciliation in post-war Nicaragua

01/11/2004

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Counter-revolutionary women: gender and reconciliation in post-war Nicaragua

Keywords

Overview

In Nicaragua, gender ideologies – and, in particular, discourses of motherhood – have frequently been manipulated by political forces. In the early 1990s, at the end of the civil war, Sandinista and Contra women in Waslala united to form a group which aimed to end the political polarisation within their community and promote development. Aid […]

Journal article

Women, conflict, and culture in former Yugoslavia

01/02/1995

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, conflict, and culture in former Yugoslavia

Keywords

Overview

This article charts the history of the Yugoslav women’s movement to the present day. The previously strong women’s movement is now splitting along patriarchal nationalist lines. NGOs and women’s groups are multiplying. They support women and children affected by the conflict. Oxfam seeks to empower these groups by providing a space for them to develop […]

Journal article

Fempress: a communication strategy for women

01/02/1995

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fempress: a communication strategy for women

Keywords

Overview

The women’s media network Fempress unites feminists and academics through: a monthly Latin American magazine; a Press Service on women’s issues; and a Radio Press Service across Latin America. Santa Cruz shows how these goals were achieved, from Fempress’s modest start drawing together a small, disparate women’s movement. Fempress’s founding aim of unity through communication […]

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

Repoliticising women’s rights in development: young African feminisms at the cutting edge

14/11/2018

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Repoliticising women’s rights in development: young African feminisms at the cutting edge

Keywords

Overview

Twenty-five years on from the UN Conferences in Cairo (1994) and Beijing (1995) with their radical vision of women’s rights – including sexual and reproductive rights – this article considers the challenges to women’s rights from the perspective of young feminists connected to FEMNET. It draws on recent research with FEMNET members, partners, allies, and […]

Journal article

Freedom for women: mainstreaming gender in the South African liberation struggle and beyond

01/07/2005

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Freedom for women: mainstreaming gender in the South African liberation struggle and beyond

Keywords

Overview

The liberation struggle in South Africa highlighted racial and class oppression as key causes of poverty, inequality, and a lack of rights for most South Africans. Drawing on the language of the struggle, women political and trade union activists brought attention to their oppression and exploitation as women, and were able to place non-sexism alongside […]

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 […]

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, […]