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‘Pink transportation’ in Mexico City: reclaiming urban space through collective action against gender-based violence

01/07/2013

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Pink transportation’ in Mexico City: reclaiming urban space through collective action against gender-based violence

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Overview

Women-only transportation has become a popular option for urban women around the world who are tired of being groped and harassed in buses, subways and taxis. The separation of men and women in public transit is controversial among feminists, since it does not address or solve the fundamental issue of gender inequality which causes violence and harassment. However, less […]

Journal article

Feminist mobilisation and progressive policy change: why governments take action to combat violence against women

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist mobilisation and progressive policy change: why governments take action to combat violence against women

Keywords

Overview

Some national governments have adopted a wide variety of measures to address violence against women, including legal reform, public education campaigns, and support for shelters and rape crisis centres, but other governments have done little to confront the problem. What accounts for these differences in policy? To answer this question, we analysed policies on violence against women in 70 […]

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 […]

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

War and security, women and gender: an overview of the issues

12/11/2013

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

War and security, women and gender: an overview of the issues

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Overview

This article addresses the gender division of war and the significance of men and masculinity in processes of militarisation. Three phases of the continuum of war are considered. In periods of war-readiness, societies see a diversion of spending from social provision to the armed forces, accompanied by an increase in patriarchal ideology and authority. The actual waging of […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Promoting Women’s Rights Across Africa: Raising Her Voice Pan Africa

06/12/2013

3 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Promoting Women’s Rights Across Africa’ (Pan-Africa) project forms part of the Oxfam GB Raising her Voice (RHV) programme portfolio, which aims to support and strengthen women’s roles in shaping policy and local governance. Through the Pan Africa project, RHV committed to support the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights Coalition (SOAWR) secretariat in Kenya as […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Quick Guide to Promoting Women’s Participation

30/01/2014

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Gender mainstreaming is one of the strategies we use to promote gender equality. It is a process of ensuring that all of our work, and the way we do it, contribute to gender equality by transforming the balance of power between women and men. This means ensuring that both women and men are consulted, and […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Transformative Leadership for Women’s Rights: An Oxfam guide

22/05/2014

4 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

As part of its commitments to promoting gender justice, Oxfam has started to invest in an approach called ‘Transformative Leadership for Women’s Rights’. As this is an unfamiliar term for many of our staff and partners, this guide explores what transformative leadership for women’s rights means, and how it links to women’s rights and gender […]

Research report

Meaningful Action: Effective approaches to women’s economic empowerment in agriculture

30/10/2014

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper responds to recent focus in the development sector on creating employment for women. It argues that sustaining women’s economic empowerment depends on employment being decent work, with safeguards, that is accessible to many women. Approaches combine integrated interventions to increase participation in markets with broader investments for social infrastructure, supportive norms and addressing […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Women’s Economic Leadership in LAC Book 2: A guide to implementation

01/10/2014

2 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This three book series supports the development and delivery of Women’s Economic Leadership (WEL) programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean. It builds on work done by Oxfam GB and Value for Women on the delivery of market-based livelihood programmes with a focus on gender justice. This second book covers the implementation of an effective […]

Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

‘Pink transportation’ in Mexico City: reclaiming urban space through collective action against gender-based violence

01/07/2013

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Pink transportation’ in Mexico City: reclaiming urban space through collective action against gender-based violence

Keywords

Overview

Women-only transportation has become a popular option for urban women around the world who are tired of being groped and harassed in buses, subways and taxis. The separation of men and women in public transit is controversial among feminists, since it does not address or solve the fundamental issue of gender inequality which causes violence and harassment. However, less […]

Journal article

Feminist mobilisation and progressive policy change: why governments take action to combat violence against women

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist mobilisation and progressive policy change: why governments take action to combat violence against women

Keywords

Overview

Some national governments have adopted a wide variety of measures to address violence against women, including legal reform, public education campaigns, and support for shelters and rape crisis centres, but other governments have done little to confront the problem. What accounts for these differences in policy? To answer this question, we analysed policies on violence against women in 70 […]

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 […]

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

War and security, women and gender: an overview of the issues

12/11/2013

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

War and security, women and gender: an overview of the issues

Keywords

Overview

This article addresses the gender division of war and the significance of men and masculinity in processes of militarisation. Three phases of the continuum of war are considered. In periods of war-readiness, societies see a diversion of spending from social provision to the armed forces, accompanied by an increase in patriarchal ideology and authority. The actual waging of […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Promoting Women’s Rights Across Africa: Raising Her Voice Pan Africa

06/12/2013

3 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Promoting Women’s Rights Across Africa’ (Pan-Africa) project forms part of the Oxfam GB Raising her Voice (RHV) programme portfolio, which aims to support and strengthen women’s roles in shaping policy and local governance. Through the Pan Africa project, RHV committed to support the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights Coalition (SOAWR) secretariat in Kenya as […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Quick Guide to Promoting Women’s Participation

30/01/2014

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Gender mainstreaming is one of the strategies we use to promote gender equality. It is a process of ensuring that all of our work, and the way we do it, contribute to gender equality by transforming the balance of power between women and men. This means ensuring that both women and men are consulted, and […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Transformative Leadership for Women’s Rights: An Oxfam guide

22/05/2014

4 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

As part of its commitments to promoting gender justice, Oxfam has started to invest in an approach called ‘Transformative Leadership for Women’s Rights’. As this is an unfamiliar term for many of our staff and partners, this guide explores what transformative leadership for women’s rights means, and how it links to women’s rights and gender […]

Research report

Meaningful Action: Effective approaches to women’s economic empowerment in agriculture

30/10/2014

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper responds to recent focus in the development sector on creating employment for women. It argues that sustaining women’s economic empowerment depends on employment being decent work, with safeguards, that is accessible to many women. Approaches combine integrated interventions to increase participation in markets with broader investments for social infrastructure, supportive norms and addressing […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Women’s Economic Leadership in LAC Book 2: A guide to implementation

01/10/2014

2 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This three book series supports the development and delivery of Women’s Economic Leadership (WEL) programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean. It builds on work done by Oxfam GB and Value for Women on the delivery of market-based livelihood programmes with a focus on gender justice. This second book covers the implementation of an effective […]

Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

‘Pink transportation’ in Mexico City: reclaiming urban space through collective action against gender-based violence

01/07/2013

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Pink transportation’ in Mexico City: reclaiming urban space through collective action against gender-based violence

Keywords

Overview

Women-only transportation has become a popular option for urban women around the world who are tired of being groped and harassed in buses, subways and taxis. The separation of men and women in public transit is controversial among feminists, since it does not address or solve the fundamental issue of gender inequality which causes violence and harassment. However, less […]

Journal article

Feminist mobilisation and progressive policy change: why governments take action to combat violence against women

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist mobilisation and progressive policy change: why governments take action to combat violence against women

Keywords

Overview

Some national governments have adopted a wide variety of measures to address violence against women, including legal reform, public education campaigns, and support for shelters and rape crisis centres, but other governments have done little to confront the problem. What accounts for these differences in policy? To answer this question, we analysed policies on violence against women in 70 […]

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 […]

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

War and security, women and gender: an overview of the issues

12/11/2013

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

War and security, women and gender: an overview of the issues

Keywords

Overview

This article addresses the gender division of war and the significance of men and masculinity in processes of militarisation. Three phases of the continuum of war are considered. In periods of war-readiness, societies see a diversion of spending from social provision to the armed forces, accompanied by an increase in patriarchal ideology and authority. The actual waging of […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Promoting Women’s Rights Across Africa: Raising Her Voice Pan Africa

06/12/2013

3 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Promoting Women’s Rights Across Africa’ (Pan-Africa) project forms part of the Oxfam GB Raising her Voice (RHV) programme portfolio, which aims to support and strengthen women’s roles in shaping policy and local governance. Through the Pan Africa project, RHV committed to support the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights Coalition (SOAWR) secretariat in Kenya as […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Quick Guide to Promoting Women’s Participation

30/01/2014

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Gender mainstreaming is one of the strategies we use to promote gender equality. It is a process of ensuring that all of our work, and the way we do it, contribute to gender equality by transforming the balance of power between women and men. This means ensuring that both women and men are consulted, and […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Transformative Leadership for Women’s Rights: An Oxfam guide

22/05/2014

4 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

As part of its commitments to promoting gender justice, Oxfam has started to invest in an approach called ‘Transformative Leadership for Women’s Rights’. As this is an unfamiliar term for many of our staff and partners, this guide explores what transformative leadership for women’s rights means, and how it links to women’s rights and gender […]

Research report

Meaningful Action: Effective approaches to women’s economic empowerment in agriculture

30/10/2014

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper responds to recent focus in the development sector on creating employment for women. It argues that sustaining women’s economic empowerment depends on employment being decent work, with safeguards, that is accessible to many women. Approaches combine integrated interventions to increase participation in markets with broader investments for social infrastructure, supportive norms and addressing […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Women’s Economic Leadership in LAC Book 2: A guide to implementation

01/10/2014

2 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This three book series supports the development and delivery of Women’s Economic Leadership (WEL) programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean. It builds on work done by Oxfam GB and Value for Women on the delivery of market-based livelihood programmes with a focus on gender justice. This second book covers the implementation of an effective […]