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Grassroots responses to violence against women and girls in post-earthquake Nepal: lessons from the field

20/07/2016

17 pages long

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Grassroots responses to violence against women and girls in post-earthquake Nepal: lessons from the field

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Overview

Violence against women and girls (VAWG), including sexual violence, can increase after natural disasters. This article provides evidence from Nepal, a country where progress has been made on gender equality but VAWG remains an endemic problem. Research since the earthquakes involving women activists and non-government organisations indicates the continuing challenges facing disaster response efforts to […]

Research report

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Agriculture in Ethiopia

29/12/2021

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The gender division of labor in Ethiopia hinders women smallholders’ efforts to improve productivity to close the gap with men’s farms. There is substantial evidence that where women have access to the same inputs and training as men, they can close that gap. The government’s national development plan identifies agriculture as the main driver of […]

Journal article

More than 13 million: mass mobilisation and gender politics in the Vietnam Women’s Union

01/07/2013

18 pages long

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More than 13 million: mass mobilisation and gender politics in the Vietnam Women’s Union

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Overview

This article focuses on the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU): one of the oldest and largest machineries for women’s issues in the world. This article explores how this mass membership organisation in a socialist state is currently addressing the realities of women’s daily lives and gender relations in Vietnam. It considers the extent to which a […]

Journal article

Feminist solidarity: no boys allowed? Views of pro-feminist men on collaboration and alliance-building with women’s movements

01/07/2013

16 pages long

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Feminist solidarity: no boys allowed? Views of pro-feminist men on collaboration and alliance-building with women’s movements

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Overview

The field of men’s pro-feminist organising continues to build global momentum. Boys and men are both capable, and interested, to take action to support the feminist movement. This article explores the experiences of five men active in pro-feminist organising, focusing in particular on their ways of building solidarity and alliances with women’s rights networks. The […]

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

Urban Pakistan and Women’s Mobility in Securitised Lahore

19/09/2024

11 pages long

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Urban Pakistan and Women’s Mobility in Securitised Lahore

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This article examines how policing affects women’s mobilities in the context of Lahore, Pakistan, and how it shapes sense of belonging and citizenship in the wider public sphere. Research on urban Pakistan is sparse to begin with, even more so with regards to surveillance of public space and the intersection of class, gender, and ethnicity […]

Media briefing

Mars, Mondelez and Nestle and the fight for women’s rights

26/02/2013

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women in the supply chains of food and beverage companies get a raw deal, and evidence shows that the companies are failing to address the challenges adequately. Oxfam’s Behind the Brands scorecard shows major gaps in the policies of the ‘Big 10’ food and beverage companies when it comes to protecting and promoting women’s rights. […]

Briefing note

Ending Violence Against Women: The case for a comprehensive international action plan

22/02/2013

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

What progress has been made towards ending violence against women worldwide? Violence against women is a violation of human rights, a barrier to women’s active citizenship, and a fundamental constraint to the eradication of poverty. When governments meet at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in March 2013 their commitment is urgently needed […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Increasing Women’s Political Participation in Chile and South America

21/10/2013

3 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Increasing women’s political participation in Chile and South America” project was launched in 2008 as part of Oxfam GB’s Raising Her Voice (RHV) portfolio, which aimed to support and strengthen women’s roles in shaping policy and local governance. The project, implemented by Corporacion Humanas, focused on increasing women’s leadership and participation in politics and […]

Journal article

Physically disabled women’s creditworthiness in Village Development Fund: evidence from Thailand

01/08/2011

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Physically disabled women’s creditworthiness in Village Development Fund: evidence from Thailand

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Overview

The Village Development Fund (VDF) is used in Thailand to empower the rural poor, especially women living with disabilities. This article investigates the problems of gaining access to credit faced by physically disabled women in rural Thailand. In-depth interviews with 20 women with physical disabilities in north-eastern Thailand indicate that these women still do not […]

Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Grassroots responses to violence against women and girls in post-earthquake Nepal: lessons from the field

20/07/2016

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grassroots responses to violence against women and girls in post-earthquake Nepal: lessons from the field

Keywords

Overview

Violence against women and girls (VAWG), including sexual violence, can increase after natural disasters. This article provides evidence from Nepal, a country where progress has been made on gender equality but VAWG remains an endemic problem. Research since the earthquakes involving women activists and non-government organisations indicates the continuing challenges facing disaster response efforts to […]

Research report

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Agriculture in Ethiopia

29/12/2021

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The gender division of labor in Ethiopia hinders women smallholders’ efforts to improve productivity to close the gap with men’s farms. There is substantial evidence that where women have access to the same inputs and training as men, they can close that gap. The government’s national development plan identifies agriculture as the main driver of […]

Journal article

More than 13 million: mass mobilisation and gender politics in the Vietnam Women’s Union

01/07/2013

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

More than 13 million: mass mobilisation and gender politics in the Vietnam Women’s Union

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU): one of the oldest and largest machineries for women’s issues in the world. This article explores how this mass membership organisation in a socialist state is currently addressing the realities of women’s daily lives and gender relations in Vietnam. It considers the extent to which a […]

Journal article

Feminist solidarity: no boys allowed? Views of pro-feminist men on collaboration and alliance-building with women’s movements

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist solidarity: no boys allowed? Views of pro-feminist men on collaboration and alliance-building with women’s movements

Keywords

Overview

The field of men’s pro-feminist organising continues to build global momentum. Boys and men are both capable, and interested, to take action to support the feminist movement. This article explores the experiences of five men active in pro-feminist organising, focusing in particular on their ways of building solidarity and alliances with women’s rights networks. The […]

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

Urban Pakistan and Women’s Mobility in Securitised Lahore

19/09/2024

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Urban Pakistan and Women’s Mobility in Securitised Lahore

Keywords

Overview

This article examines how policing affects women’s mobilities in the context of Lahore, Pakistan, and how it shapes sense of belonging and citizenship in the wider public sphere. Research on urban Pakistan is sparse to begin with, even more so with regards to surveillance of public space and the intersection of class, gender, and ethnicity […]

Media briefing

Mars, Mondelez and Nestle and the fight for women’s rights

26/02/2013

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women in the supply chains of food and beverage companies get a raw deal, and evidence shows that the companies are failing to address the challenges adequately. Oxfam’s Behind the Brands scorecard shows major gaps in the policies of the ‘Big 10’ food and beverage companies when it comes to protecting and promoting women’s rights. […]

Briefing note

Ending Violence Against Women: The case for a comprehensive international action plan

22/02/2013

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

What progress has been made towards ending violence against women worldwide? Violence against women is a violation of human rights, a barrier to women’s active citizenship, and a fundamental constraint to the eradication of poverty. When governments meet at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in March 2013 their commitment is urgently needed […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Increasing Women’s Political Participation in Chile and South America

21/10/2013

3 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Increasing women’s political participation in Chile and South America” project was launched in 2008 as part of Oxfam GB’s Raising Her Voice (RHV) portfolio, which aimed to support and strengthen women’s roles in shaping policy and local governance. The project, implemented by Corporacion Humanas, focused on increasing women’s leadership and participation in politics and […]

Journal article

Physically disabled women’s creditworthiness in Village Development Fund: evidence from Thailand

01/08/2011

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Physically disabled women’s creditworthiness in Village Development Fund: evidence from Thailand

Keywords

Overview

The Village Development Fund (VDF) is used in Thailand to empower the rural poor, especially women living with disabilities. This article investigates the problems of gaining access to credit faced by physically disabled women in rural Thailand. In-depth interviews with 20 women with physical disabilities in north-eastern Thailand indicate that these women still do not […]

Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Grassroots responses to violence against women and girls in post-earthquake Nepal: lessons from the field

20/07/2016

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grassroots responses to violence against women and girls in post-earthquake Nepal: lessons from the field

Keywords

Overview

Violence against women and girls (VAWG), including sexual violence, can increase after natural disasters. This article provides evidence from Nepal, a country where progress has been made on gender equality but VAWG remains an endemic problem. Research since the earthquakes involving women activists and non-government organisations indicates the continuing challenges facing disaster response efforts to […]

Research report

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Agriculture in Ethiopia

29/12/2021

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The gender division of labor in Ethiopia hinders women smallholders’ efforts to improve productivity to close the gap with men’s farms. There is substantial evidence that where women have access to the same inputs and training as men, they can close that gap. The government’s national development plan identifies agriculture as the main driver of […]

Journal article

More than 13 million: mass mobilisation and gender politics in the Vietnam Women’s Union

01/07/2013

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

More than 13 million: mass mobilisation and gender politics in the Vietnam Women’s Union

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU): one of the oldest and largest machineries for women’s issues in the world. This article explores how this mass membership organisation in a socialist state is currently addressing the realities of women’s daily lives and gender relations in Vietnam. It considers the extent to which a […]

Journal article

Feminist solidarity: no boys allowed? Views of pro-feminist men on collaboration and alliance-building with women’s movements

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist solidarity: no boys allowed? Views of pro-feminist men on collaboration and alliance-building with women’s movements

Keywords

Overview

The field of men’s pro-feminist organising continues to build global momentum. Boys and men are both capable, and interested, to take action to support the feminist movement. This article explores the experiences of five men active in pro-feminist organising, focusing in particular on their ways of building solidarity and alliances with women’s rights networks. The […]

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

Urban Pakistan and Women’s Mobility in Securitised Lahore

19/09/2024

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Urban Pakistan and Women’s Mobility in Securitised Lahore

Keywords

Overview

This article examines how policing affects women’s mobilities in the context of Lahore, Pakistan, and how it shapes sense of belonging and citizenship in the wider public sphere. Research on urban Pakistan is sparse to begin with, even more so with regards to surveillance of public space and the intersection of class, gender, and ethnicity […]

Media briefing

Mars, Mondelez and Nestle and the fight for women’s rights

26/02/2013

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women in the supply chains of food and beverage companies get a raw deal, and evidence shows that the companies are failing to address the challenges adequately. Oxfam’s Behind the Brands scorecard shows major gaps in the policies of the ‘Big 10’ food and beverage companies when it comes to protecting and promoting women’s rights. […]

Briefing note

Ending Violence Against Women: The case for a comprehensive international action plan

22/02/2013

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

What progress has been made towards ending violence against women worldwide? Violence against women is a violation of human rights, a barrier to women’s active citizenship, and a fundamental constraint to the eradication of poverty. When governments meet at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in March 2013 their commitment is urgently needed […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Increasing Women’s Political Participation in Chile and South America

21/10/2013

3 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Increasing women’s political participation in Chile and South America” project was launched in 2008 as part of Oxfam GB’s Raising Her Voice (RHV) portfolio, which aimed to support and strengthen women’s roles in shaping policy and local governance. The project, implemented by Corporacion Humanas, focused on increasing women’s leadership and participation in politics and […]

Journal article

Physically disabled women’s creditworthiness in Village Development Fund: evidence from Thailand

01/08/2011

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Physically disabled women’s creditworthiness in Village Development Fund: evidence from Thailand

Keywords

Overview

The Village Development Fund (VDF) is used in Thailand to empower the rural poor, especially women living with disabilities. This article investigates the problems of gaining access to credit faced by physically disabled women in rural Thailand. In-depth interviews with 20 women with physical disabilities in north-eastern Thailand indicate that these women still do not […]