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Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Strengthening and Linking Women-Led Efforts to Promote Women’s Property and Literacy Rights in Sierra Leone

26/02/2014

4 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Strengthening and Linking Women-Led Efforts to Promote Women’s Property and Literacy Rights in Sierra Leone’ project was carried out by Oxfam and partners in two districts of Sierra Leone from 2010 to 2013. The project had two aims. First, to strengthen the capacity of and improve networking between community-based groups and national women’s networks […]

Journal article

Women’s groups for whom? The colonisation of women’s groups in Papua New Guinea

01/02/2000

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s groups for whom? The colonisation of women’s groups in Papua New Guinea

Keywords

Overview

Women’s groups in Papua New Guinea, often under the influence of colonial and church governance in the past, still have an ambiguous function which serves to isolate women and `women’s issues’ rather than spread gender sensitivity. The author concludes that the existence of these forums for women actually encourages the continued marginalisation of women from […]

Journal article

The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

01/11/2000

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

Keywords

Overview

In October 1999, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Optional Protocol to the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (otherwise known as the Women’s Convention). As of September 2000, 62 states have signed the Optional Protocol, and nine of these have ratified it. Women’s rights activists hope that […]

Case study

Supporting Rural Women to Drive Peacebuilding Processes in Colombia

10/07/2017

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Equality and Territorial Development for Rural Women programme draws on Oxfam’s 10-year experience in Colombia and its evidence-based advocacy work that has led to significant changes in women’s lives. It has been reviewed, along with Oxfam’s strategy for the country, following the results of the October 2016 peace plebiscite and subsequent agreement with the […]

Briefing paper

An Economy that Works for Women: Achieving women’s economic empowerment in an increasingly unequal world

02/03/2017

6 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Women’s economic empowerment could reduce poverty for everyone. In order to achieve it, we need to first fix the current broken economic model which is undermining gender equality and causing extreme economic inequality. The neoliberal model has made it harder for women to have better quality and better paid jobs, address inequality in unpaid care […]

Journal article

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

Keywords

Overview

A wide range of development actors play a major role in initiating, supporting, and promoting collective action of various forms, which aims to secure economic and wider benefits to women, through improving their engagement in markets. But there is limited understanding of what works for rural women in terms of their participation in collective action, […]

Journal article

Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

01/10/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

Keywords

Overview

We women of the South, chosen by regional meetings of the Women to Women Linking Project in Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East to participate in the Global Meeting of Women Linking for Change, held in Bangkok from 20-23 February 1994 are concerned that there is an increasing concentration of […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Lebanon: Impact Evaluation of the Women’s Access to Justice project

12/09/2019

2 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2017/18. The ‘Women’s Access to Justice Programme: Phase 2 (WAJ2) in Lebanon was selected for review under the ‘Women’s Empowerment’ thematic area. The overall objective of the project was to contribute to equitable access to formal and informal justice for poor and vulnerable women […]

Journal article

Reinvigorating resilience: violence against women, land rights, and the women’s peace movement in Myanmar

23/11/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reinvigorating resilience: violence against women, land rights, and the women’s peace movement in Myanmar

Keywords

Overview

In Myanmar, movements for gender justice strive to foster personal and collective security, vibrant livelihoods, and political engagement during a period of rapid and uncertain transition. This article draws from the experience of the Gender Equality Network (GEN), a coalition of over 100 organisations in Myanmar. It examines three cases in which GEN sought to […]

Research report

Women’s Land Rights Scorecard: The failure of land policy and legal reforms in securing women’s land rights in Africa

24/11/2020

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The realization of women’s land rights often tends to get no further than the level of action plans and policies that are rarely implemented, due to a lack of real political commitment and the patriarchal values that still predominate in Africa. To realize full gender equality (Goal 17), the implementation plan of the African Union […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Strengthening and Linking Women-Led Efforts to Promote Women’s Property and Literacy Rights in Sierra Leone

26/02/2014

4 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Strengthening and Linking Women-Led Efforts to Promote Women’s Property and Literacy Rights in Sierra Leone’ project was carried out by Oxfam and partners in two districts of Sierra Leone from 2010 to 2013. The project had two aims. First, to strengthen the capacity of and improve networking between community-based groups and national women’s networks […]

Journal article

Women’s groups for whom? The colonisation of women’s groups in Papua New Guinea

01/02/2000

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s groups for whom? The colonisation of women’s groups in Papua New Guinea

Keywords

Overview

Women’s groups in Papua New Guinea, often under the influence of colonial and church governance in the past, still have an ambiguous function which serves to isolate women and `women’s issues’ rather than spread gender sensitivity. The author concludes that the existence of these forums for women actually encourages the continued marginalisation of women from […]

Journal article

The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

01/11/2000

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

Keywords

Overview

In October 1999, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Optional Protocol to the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (otherwise known as the Women’s Convention). As of September 2000, 62 states have signed the Optional Protocol, and nine of these have ratified it. Women’s rights activists hope that […]

Case study

Supporting Rural Women to Drive Peacebuilding Processes in Colombia

10/07/2017

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Equality and Territorial Development for Rural Women programme draws on Oxfam’s 10-year experience in Colombia and its evidence-based advocacy work that has led to significant changes in women’s lives. It has been reviewed, along with Oxfam’s strategy for the country, following the results of the October 2016 peace plebiscite and subsequent agreement with the […]

Briefing paper

An Economy that Works for Women: Achieving women’s economic empowerment in an increasingly unequal world

02/03/2017

6 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Women’s economic empowerment could reduce poverty for everyone. In order to achieve it, we need to first fix the current broken economic model which is undermining gender equality and causing extreme economic inequality. The neoliberal model has made it harder for women to have better quality and better paid jobs, address inequality in unpaid care […]

Journal article

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

Keywords

Overview

A wide range of development actors play a major role in initiating, supporting, and promoting collective action of various forms, which aims to secure economic and wider benefits to women, through improving their engagement in markets. But there is limited understanding of what works for rural women in terms of their participation in collective action, […]

Journal article

Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

01/10/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

Keywords

Overview

We women of the South, chosen by regional meetings of the Women to Women Linking Project in Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East to participate in the Global Meeting of Women Linking for Change, held in Bangkok from 20-23 February 1994 are concerned that there is an increasing concentration of […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Lebanon: Impact Evaluation of the Women’s Access to Justice project

12/09/2019

2 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2017/18. The ‘Women’s Access to Justice Programme: Phase 2 (WAJ2) in Lebanon was selected for review under the ‘Women’s Empowerment’ thematic area. The overall objective of the project was to contribute to equitable access to formal and informal justice for poor and vulnerable women […]

Journal article

Reinvigorating resilience: violence against women, land rights, and the women’s peace movement in Myanmar

23/11/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reinvigorating resilience: violence against women, land rights, and the women’s peace movement in Myanmar

Keywords

Overview

In Myanmar, movements for gender justice strive to foster personal and collective security, vibrant livelihoods, and political engagement during a period of rapid and uncertain transition. This article draws from the experience of the Gender Equality Network (GEN), a coalition of over 100 organisations in Myanmar. It examines three cases in which GEN sought to […]

Research report

Women’s Land Rights Scorecard: The failure of land policy and legal reforms in securing women’s land rights in Africa

24/11/2020

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The realization of women’s land rights often tends to get no further than the level of action plans and policies that are rarely implemented, due to a lack of real political commitment and the patriarchal values that still predominate in Africa. To realize full gender equality (Goal 17), the implementation plan of the African Union […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Strengthening and Linking Women-Led Efforts to Promote Women’s Property and Literacy Rights in Sierra Leone

26/02/2014

4 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Strengthening and Linking Women-Led Efforts to Promote Women’s Property and Literacy Rights in Sierra Leone’ project was carried out by Oxfam and partners in two districts of Sierra Leone from 2010 to 2013. The project had two aims. First, to strengthen the capacity of and improve networking between community-based groups and national women’s networks […]

Journal article

Women’s groups for whom? The colonisation of women’s groups in Papua New Guinea

01/02/2000

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s groups for whom? The colonisation of women’s groups in Papua New Guinea

Keywords

Overview

Women’s groups in Papua New Guinea, often under the influence of colonial and church governance in the past, still have an ambiguous function which serves to isolate women and `women’s issues’ rather than spread gender sensitivity. The author concludes that the existence of these forums for women actually encourages the continued marginalisation of women from […]

Journal article

The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

01/11/2000

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

The leadership role of international law in enforcing women’s rights: the optional protocol to the women’s convention

Keywords

Overview

In October 1999, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Optional Protocol to the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (otherwise known as the Women’s Convention). As of September 2000, 62 states have signed the Optional Protocol, and nine of these have ratified it. Women’s rights activists hope that […]

Case study

Supporting Rural Women to Drive Peacebuilding Processes in Colombia

10/07/2017

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Equality and Territorial Development for Rural Women programme draws on Oxfam’s 10-year experience in Colombia and its evidence-based advocacy work that has led to significant changes in women’s lives. It has been reviewed, along with Oxfam’s strategy for the country, following the results of the October 2016 peace plebiscite and subsequent agreement with the […]

Briefing paper

An Economy that Works for Women: Achieving women’s economic empowerment in an increasingly unequal world

02/03/2017

6 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Women’s economic empowerment could reduce poverty for everyone. In order to achieve it, we need to first fix the current broken economic model which is undermining gender equality and causing extreme economic inequality. The neoliberal model has made it harder for women to have better quality and better paid jobs, address inequality in unpaid care […]

Journal article

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

Keywords

Overview

A wide range of development actors play a major role in initiating, supporting, and promoting collective action of various forms, which aims to secure economic and wider benefits to women, through improving their engagement in markets. But there is limited understanding of what works for rural women in terms of their participation in collective action, […]

Journal article

Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

01/10/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

Keywords

Overview

We women of the South, chosen by regional meetings of the Women to Women Linking Project in Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East to participate in the Global Meeting of Women Linking for Change, held in Bangkok from 20-23 February 1994 are concerned that there is an increasing concentration of […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Lebanon: Impact Evaluation of the Women’s Access to Justice project

12/09/2019

2 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2017/18. The ‘Women’s Access to Justice Programme: Phase 2 (WAJ2) in Lebanon was selected for review under the ‘Women’s Empowerment’ thematic area. The overall objective of the project was to contribute to equitable access to formal and informal justice for poor and vulnerable women […]

Journal article

Reinvigorating resilience: violence against women, land rights, and the women’s peace movement in Myanmar

23/11/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reinvigorating resilience: violence against women, land rights, and the women’s peace movement in Myanmar

Keywords

Overview

In Myanmar, movements for gender justice strive to foster personal and collective security, vibrant livelihoods, and political engagement during a period of rapid and uncertain transition. This article draws from the experience of the Gender Equality Network (GEN), a coalition of over 100 organisations in Myanmar. It examines three cases in which GEN sought to […]

Research report

Women’s Land Rights Scorecard: The failure of land policy and legal reforms in securing women’s land rights in Africa

24/11/2020

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The realization of women’s land rights often tends to get no further than the level of action plans and policies that are rarely implemented, due to a lack of real political commitment and the patriarchal values that still predominate in Africa. To realize full gender equality (Goal 17), the implementation plan of the African Union […]