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Case study

Breaking the Barriers: Sierra Leonean women on the march

07/02/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Women in Sierra Leone are under-represented in politics and over-represented among poor people. This paper describes the activities of two projects – the Women In Leadership project and its successor, the Promoting A Culture of Equal Representation project – that have aimed to increase the numbers of women in local and national government. In so […]

Case study

Raising Voices: Training for empowerment for women experiencing poverty in Britain

05/02/2008

4 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The UK may be a developed country, but almost 25 per cent of the population live below the poverty line. Women experience higher levels of poverty than men, just as they do in other parts of the world. Encouraging and supporting poor women to voice their own experiences and speak out to challenge the inequality […]

Case study

Women’s Leadership in Economic Change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel

07/02/2008

4 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Arab-Israeli women are one of the most marginalised and invisible groups within Israeli society. Many have been adversely affected by the “Wisconsin Plan” a welfare-to-work programme introduced by the Israeli government in 2005, that Oxfam’s partner, Sawt el-Amel, has been active in opposing. In response to the hardship that the plan has brought to themselves […]

Book

Women and Culture

01/01/1995

1 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Throughout the world, cultural norms determine a view of women as subordinate to men, and provide a rationale for denial of women’s economic and political rights. This collection of essays in the Focus on Gender series explores the issues of cultural traditions and beliefs, and their relation to gender and development. Topics discussed in this […]

Book

Women and Emergencies

01/01/1994

1 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

There is a tendency for gender considerations to be marginal, or absent, in the response to disasters and emergencies. The need for swift action in a crisis, and the cost and complexity of relief operations, mean that emergency programmes are often implemented in a top-down manner, with little attempt to involve the affected community. Women, […]

Book

Women and the Environment

01/01/1993

1 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The majority of women in the South have a close and complex relationship to their surroundings. They are profoundly affected by environmental degradation, as they depend directly on natural resources for their livelihoods. Their need for access to these resources often goes unrecognised, as does their role as producers and environmental managers. At times of […]

Book

Gender and Disability: Women’s experiences in the Middle East

01/01/1997

1 documents

104 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Social protection

Overview

Women with disabilities face a double discrimination, both in terms of gender and also of their particular disability. This book examines the situation of women with various types of disability, in the Middle Eastern context. It provides a general overview of gender and disability and includes several case studies from the Lebanon, Yemen, and the […]

Book

Women Reinventing Globalisation

10/12/2003

2 documents

161 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

HIV and AIDS

Overview

Women Reinventing Globalisation is a collection of articles drawn from the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)’s Ninth International Forum, on this subject. Development researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, and feminist activists, debated and charted the impact of globalisation on women’s status and their daily lives. Concrete strategies were developed, to ensure that globalisation […]

Issue briefing

Submission to the Commission on the Status of Women

03/03/2004

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s commitment to gender equality is rooted in twenty years of analysis and practical action in line with feminist goals. Our understanding of gender mainstreaming has been to focus on programmes whose immediate beneficiaries are women and their dependents, based on continuing evidence that women are the majority in the most economically needy groups in […]

Journal article

Women, resistance, and development: a case study from Dangs, India

01/03/1993

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, resistance, and development: a case study from Dangs, India

Keywords

Overview

Studies of resistance often overlook the significance of gender. This article, based on the author’s experience as a Project Officer with an NGO that supported the development work of a grassroots organisation, the Gram Vikas Mandali Association Trust, describes the historical context of everyday resistance by village women against the Forest Department in western India. […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

Breaking the Barriers: Sierra Leonean women on the march

07/02/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Women in Sierra Leone are under-represented in politics and over-represented among poor people. This paper describes the activities of two projects – the Women In Leadership project and its successor, the Promoting A Culture of Equal Representation project – that have aimed to increase the numbers of women in local and national government. In so […]

Case study

Raising Voices: Training for empowerment for women experiencing poverty in Britain

05/02/2008

4 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The UK may be a developed country, but almost 25 per cent of the population live below the poverty line. Women experience higher levels of poverty than men, just as they do in other parts of the world. Encouraging and supporting poor women to voice their own experiences and speak out to challenge the inequality […]

Case study

Women’s Leadership in Economic Change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel

07/02/2008

4 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Arab-Israeli women are one of the most marginalised and invisible groups within Israeli society. Many have been adversely affected by the “Wisconsin Plan” a welfare-to-work programme introduced by the Israeli government in 2005, that Oxfam’s partner, Sawt el-Amel, has been active in opposing. In response to the hardship that the plan has brought to themselves […]

Book

Women and Culture

01/01/1995

1 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Throughout the world, cultural norms determine a view of women as subordinate to men, and provide a rationale for denial of women’s economic and political rights. This collection of essays in the Focus on Gender series explores the issues of cultural traditions and beliefs, and their relation to gender and development. Topics discussed in this […]

Book

Women and Emergencies

01/01/1994

1 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

There is a tendency for gender considerations to be marginal, or absent, in the response to disasters and emergencies. The need for swift action in a crisis, and the cost and complexity of relief operations, mean that emergency programmes are often implemented in a top-down manner, with little attempt to involve the affected community. Women, […]

Book

Women and the Environment

01/01/1993

1 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The majority of women in the South have a close and complex relationship to their surroundings. They are profoundly affected by environmental degradation, as they depend directly on natural resources for their livelihoods. Their need for access to these resources often goes unrecognised, as does their role as producers and environmental managers. At times of […]

Book

Gender and Disability: Women’s experiences in the Middle East

01/01/1997

1 documents

104 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Social protection

Overview

Women with disabilities face a double discrimination, both in terms of gender and also of their particular disability. This book examines the situation of women with various types of disability, in the Middle Eastern context. It provides a general overview of gender and disability and includes several case studies from the Lebanon, Yemen, and the […]

Book

Women Reinventing Globalisation

10/12/2003

2 documents

161 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

HIV and AIDS

Overview

Women Reinventing Globalisation is a collection of articles drawn from the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)’s Ninth International Forum, on this subject. Development researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, and feminist activists, debated and charted the impact of globalisation on women’s status and their daily lives. Concrete strategies were developed, to ensure that globalisation […]

Issue briefing

Submission to the Commission on the Status of Women

03/03/2004

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s commitment to gender equality is rooted in twenty years of analysis and practical action in line with feminist goals. Our understanding of gender mainstreaming has been to focus on programmes whose immediate beneficiaries are women and their dependents, based on continuing evidence that women are the majority in the most economically needy groups in […]

Journal article

Women, resistance, and development: a case study from Dangs, India

01/03/1993

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, resistance, and development: a case study from Dangs, India

Keywords

Overview

Studies of resistance often overlook the significance of gender. This article, based on the author’s experience as a Project Officer with an NGO that supported the development work of a grassroots organisation, the Gram Vikas Mandali Association Trust, describes the historical context of everyday resistance by village women against the Forest Department in western India. […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

Breaking the Barriers: Sierra Leonean women on the march

07/02/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Women in Sierra Leone are under-represented in politics and over-represented among poor people. This paper describes the activities of two projects – the Women In Leadership project and its successor, the Promoting A Culture of Equal Representation project – that have aimed to increase the numbers of women in local and national government. In so […]

Case study

Raising Voices: Training for empowerment for women experiencing poverty in Britain

05/02/2008

4 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The UK may be a developed country, but almost 25 per cent of the population live below the poverty line. Women experience higher levels of poverty than men, just as they do in other parts of the world. Encouraging and supporting poor women to voice their own experiences and speak out to challenge the inequality […]

Case study

Women’s Leadership in Economic Change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel

07/02/2008

4 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Arab-Israeli women are one of the most marginalised and invisible groups within Israeli society. Many have been adversely affected by the “Wisconsin Plan” a welfare-to-work programme introduced by the Israeli government in 2005, that Oxfam’s partner, Sawt el-Amel, has been active in opposing. In response to the hardship that the plan has brought to themselves […]

Book

Women and Culture

01/01/1995

1 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Throughout the world, cultural norms determine a view of women as subordinate to men, and provide a rationale for denial of women’s economic and political rights. This collection of essays in the Focus on Gender series explores the issues of cultural traditions and beliefs, and their relation to gender and development. Topics discussed in this […]

Book

Women and Emergencies

01/01/1994

1 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

There is a tendency for gender considerations to be marginal, or absent, in the response to disasters and emergencies. The need for swift action in a crisis, and the cost and complexity of relief operations, mean that emergency programmes are often implemented in a top-down manner, with little attempt to involve the affected community. Women, […]

Book

Women and the Environment

01/01/1993

1 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The majority of women in the South have a close and complex relationship to their surroundings. They are profoundly affected by environmental degradation, as they depend directly on natural resources for their livelihoods. Their need for access to these resources often goes unrecognised, as does their role as producers and environmental managers. At times of […]

Book

Gender and Disability: Women’s experiences in the Middle East

01/01/1997

1 documents

104 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Social protection

Overview

Women with disabilities face a double discrimination, both in terms of gender and also of their particular disability. This book examines the situation of women with various types of disability, in the Middle Eastern context. It provides a general overview of gender and disability and includes several case studies from the Lebanon, Yemen, and the […]

Book

Women Reinventing Globalisation

10/12/2003

2 documents

161 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

HIV and AIDS

Overview

Women Reinventing Globalisation is a collection of articles drawn from the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)’s Ninth International Forum, on this subject. Development researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, and feminist activists, debated and charted the impact of globalisation on women’s status and their daily lives. Concrete strategies were developed, to ensure that globalisation […]

Issue briefing

Submission to the Commission on the Status of Women

03/03/2004

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s commitment to gender equality is rooted in twenty years of analysis and practical action in line with feminist goals. Our understanding of gender mainstreaming has been to focus on programmes whose immediate beneficiaries are women and their dependents, based on continuing evidence that women are the majority in the most economically needy groups in […]

Journal article

Women, resistance, and development: a case study from Dangs, India

01/03/1993

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, resistance, and development: a case study from Dangs, India

Keywords

Overview

Studies of resistance often overlook the significance of gender. This article, based on the author’s experience as a Project Officer with an NGO that supported the development work of a grassroots organisation, the Gram Vikas Mandali Association Trust, describes the historical context of everyday resistance by village women against the Forest Department in western India. […]