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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

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 […]

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 […]

Briefing paper

Promises, Power, and Poverty: Corporate land deals and rural women in Africa

09/04/2013

5 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The rush to invest in farmland in Africa is having an immediate impact on women’s land-use options, on their livelihoods, on food availability and the cost of living, and, ultimately, on women’s access to land for food production. These are only the economic impacts. Women’s knowledge, socio-cultural relationship with the land, and stewardship of nature […]

Case study

Women’s Collective Action in the Honey Sector in Ethiopia

27/03/2013

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

At first glance, the honey sector in Ethiopia seems an unlikely place in which to find women forming collective action(CA) groups, taking leadership positions, and benefiting from increased income generation. Beekeeping and honey production are largely male occupations. Over the last decade, however, women have begun to participate in CA in the honey sector in […]

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 […]

Research report

Menstrual Hygiene Management Among Syrian Refugee Women in the Bekaa

18/06/2020

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This research paper explores the different challenges related to menstrual hygiene faced by Syrian refugee women residing in Informal Tented Settlements (ITSs) in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon. The piece first looks at women’s distinct lived experiences and practices, focusing on products, safety and health, and delving into the implications of those challenges on paid […]

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 […]

Journal article

Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘Smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development

07/11/2012

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘Smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the current trend for investing in women and girls as ‘smart economics’, which is a direct descendant of the efficiency approach to women in development (WID) prevalent in the wake of the economic crisis in the 1980s. We highlight the dangers of conflating the empowerment of women as individuals with the […]

Journal article

Re-imagining resilience: supporting feminist women to lead development with transformative practice

18/03/2020

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Re-imagining resilience: supporting feminist women to lead development with transformative practice

Keywords

Overview

A large amount of the international development funding for women’s rights and gender justice goes to supporting women’s representation and leadership in formal decision-making bodies. This support is often about strengthening their technical skills. However, much more is needed to support women engaged in work that is stressful, often abusive and violent, and may even […]

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 […]

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 […]

Briefing paper

Promises, Power, and Poverty: Corporate land deals and rural women in Africa

09/04/2013

5 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The rush to invest in farmland in Africa is having an immediate impact on women’s land-use options, on their livelihoods, on food availability and the cost of living, and, ultimately, on women’s access to land for food production. These are only the economic impacts. Women’s knowledge, socio-cultural relationship with the land, and stewardship of nature […]

Case study

Women’s Collective Action in the Honey Sector in Ethiopia

27/03/2013

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

At first glance, the honey sector in Ethiopia seems an unlikely place in which to find women forming collective action(CA) groups, taking leadership positions, and benefiting from increased income generation. Beekeeping and honey production are largely male occupations. Over the last decade, however, women have begun to participate in CA in the honey sector in […]

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 […]

Research report

Menstrual Hygiene Management Among Syrian Refugee Women in the Bekaa

18/06/2020

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This research paper explores the different challenges related to menstrual hygiene faced by Syrian refugee women residing in Informal Tented Settlements (ITSs) in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon. The piece first looks at women’s distinct lived experiences and practices, focusing on products, safety and health, and delving into the implications of those challenges on paid […]

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 […]

Journal article

Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘Smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development

07/11/2012

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘Smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the current trend for investing in women and girls as ‘smart economics’, which is a direct descendant of the efficiency approach to women in development (WID) prevalent in the wake of the economic crisis in the 1980s. We highlight the dangers of conflating the empowerment of women as individuals with the […]

Journal article

Re-imagining resilience: supporting feminist women to lead development with transformative practice

18/03/2020

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Re-imagining resilience: supporting feminist women to lead development with transformative practice

Keywords

Overview

A large amount of the international development funding for women’s rights and gender justice goes to supporting women’s representation and leadership in formal decision-making bodies. This support is often about strengthening their technical skills. However, much more is needed to support women engaged in work that is stressful, often abusive and violent, and may even […]

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 […]

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 […]

Briefing paper

Promises, Power, and Poverty: Corporate land deals and rural women in Africa

09/04/2013

5 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The rush to invest in farmland in Africa is having an immediate impact on women’s land-use options, on their livelihoods, on food availability and the cost of living, and, ultimately, on women’s access to land for food production. These are only the economic impacts. Women’s knowledge, socio-cultural relationship with the land, and stewardship of nature […]

Case study

Women’s Collective Action in the Honey Sector in Ethiopia

27/03/2013

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

At first glance, the honey sector in Ethiopia seems an unlikely place in which to find women forming collective action(CA) groups, taking leadership positions, and benefiting from increased income generation. Beekeeping and honey production are largely male occupations. Over the last decade, however, women have begun to participate in CA in the honey sector in […]

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 […]

Research report

Menstrual Hygiene Management Among Syrian Refugee Women in the Bekaa

18/06/2020

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This research paper explores the different challenges related to menstrual hygiene faced by Syrian refugee women residing in Informal Tented Settlements (ITSs) in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon. The piece first looks at women’s distinct lived experiences and practices, focusing on products, safety and health, and delving into the implications of those challenges on paid […]

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 […]

Journal article

Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘Smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development

07/11/2012

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fixing women or fixing the world? ‘Smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the current trend for investing in women and girls as ‘smart economics’, which is a direct descendant of the efficiency approach to women in development (WID) prevalent in the wake of the economic crisis in the 1980s. We highlight the dangers of conflating the empowerment of women as individuals with the […]

Journal article

Re-imagining resilience: supporting feminist women to lead development with transformative practice

18/03/2020

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Re-imagining resilience: supporting feminist women to lead development with transformative practice

Keywords

Overview

A large amount of the international development funding for women’s rights and gender justice goes to supporting women’s representation and leadership in formal decision-making bodies. This support is often about strengthening their technical skills. However, much more is needed to support women engaged in work that is stressful, often abusive and violent, and may even […]