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Research report

Shifting Social Norms in the Economy for Women’s Economic Empowerment: Insights from a practitioner learning group

01/12/2018

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In 2017, The SEEP Network and Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment in Agriculture Knowledge Hub partnered to facilitate a Practitioner Learning Group (PLG) on 'Shifting Social Norms in the Economy to Create Change at Scale.' The SEEP PLG process is a method that brings together market development practitioners to help each other overcome practical and urgent […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) Mid-Term Evaluation Report: Philippines

09/12/2019

1 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Women's Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme aims to confront unpaid care work as a gender equality issue by recognizing, reducing and redistributing care work, and ensuring those who perform unpaid care are represented in policy decisions about it (the '4Rs' framework). This mid-term evaluation of WE-Care programme activities in the Philippines used several […]

Case study

Women’s Economic Empowerment: supporting women-led business

18/01/2019

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women’s economic empowerment is not solely about economic growth. Achieving meaningful economic empowerment requires transformative and systemic change for women across social, political and economic domains. Oxfam in OPT supports the development of small and medium-sized enterprises to increase their processing capacity and profit. This includes skills training, material support, improving access to markets and […]

Discussion paper

Macroeconomic Policy and Women’s Economic Empowerment

01/09/2017

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

At its core, the economic empowerment of women – to succeed and advance economically and to make and act on economic decisions – depends on the quantity and quality of paid employment, the provision or absence of public services, the amount of unpaid care work borne by women, as well as coverage or lack thereof […]

Annual report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care): Overview 2017

30/08/2017

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s WE-Care initiative aims to make unpaid care work visible as critical to social and economic development, while addressing heavy and unequal care work as a driver of poverty and gender inequality. This 2017 overview describes how WE-Care incorporates a range of stakeholders, ensuring that community groups, governments, development practitioners and the private sector work […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Oxfam’s Conceptual Framework on Women’s Economic Empowerment

23/05/2017

3 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Effective economic empowerment for women occurs when women enjoy their rights to control and benefit from: resources assets income their own time the ability to manage risk improve their economic status and wellbeing. However, for this to become real, women must also have the autonomy and self-belief to make changes in their own lives, including […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Armenia: Impact evaluation of the women’s economic empowerment project in rural communities in Vayots Dzor region

16/03/2017

2 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2015/16, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. The evaluation took place in November 2015 in Vayots Dzor region – Armenia. It intended to evaluate the success of the ‘Women’s economic empowerment in rural communities of Vayots Dzor region’ project in achieving […]

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 […]

Annual report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) – Oxfam: Phase 1 final report

02/11/2016

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The eradication of poverty and injustice depends on women’s equal enjoyment of their human rights. Oxfam has invested significantly in women’s economic leadership, and affirms that economic empowerment requires parallel progress in women’s political, social and personal empowerment. Women’s control over their own time and labour is increasingly recognized as a precondition for, and component […]

Discussion paper

Market systems approaches to enabling women’s economic empowerment through addressing unpaid care work

05/03/2016

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper develops the concept of unpaid care work within the framework of market systems. It shows that unpaid care is a substantial proportion of the work carried out by poor families, especially women, with many heavy, inefficient or unequally distributed tasks limiting productivity and mobility, among other factors, for market work. Thus unpaid care […]

Showing 72 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Shifting Social Norms in the Economy for Women’s Economic Empowerment: Insights from a practitioner learning group

01/12/2018

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In 2017, The SEEP Network and Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment in Agriculture Knowledge Hub partnered to facilitate a Practitioner Learning Group (PLG) on 'Shifting Social Norms in the Economy to Create Change at Scale.' The SEEP PLG process is a method that brings together market development practitioners to help each other overcome practical and urgent […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) Mid-Term Evaluation Report: Philippines

09/12/2019

1 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Women's Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme aims to confront unpaid care work as a gender equality issue by recognizing, reducing and redistributing care work, and ensuring those who perform unpaid care are represented in policy decisions about it (the '4Rs' framework). This mid-term evaluation of WE-Care programme activities in the Philippines used several […]

Case study

Women’s Economic Empowerment: supporting women-led business

18/01/2019

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women’s economic empowerment is not solely about economic growth. Achieving meaningful economic empowerment requires transformative and systemic change for women across social, political and economic domains. Oxfam in OPT supports the development of small and medium-sized enterprises to increase their processing capacity and profit. This includes skills training, material support, improving access to markets and […]

Discussion paper

Macroeconomic Policy and Women’s Economic Empowerment

01/09/2017

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

At its core, the economic empowerment of women – to succeed and advance economically and to make and act on economic decisions – depends on the quantity and quality of paid employment, the provision or absence of public services, the amount of unpaid care work borne by women, as well as coverage or lack thereof […]

Annual report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care): Overview 2017

30/08/2017

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s WE-Care initiative aims to make unpaid care work visible as critical to social and economic development, while addressing heavy and unequal care work as a driver of poverty and gender inequality. This 2017 overview describes how WE-Care incorporates a range of stakeholders, ensuring that community groups, governments, development practitioners and the private sector work […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Oxfam’s Conceptual Framework on Women’s Economic Empowerment

23/05/2017

3 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Effective economic empowerment for women occurs when women enjoy their rights to control and benefit from: resources assets income their own time the ability to manage risk improve their economic status and wellbeing. However, for this to become real, women must also have the autonomy and self-belief to make changes in their own lives, including […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Armenia: Impact evaluation of the women’s economic empowerment project in rural communities in Vayots Dzor region

16/03/2017

2 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2015/16, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. The evaluation took place in November 2015 in Vayots Dzor region – Armenia. It intended to evaluate the success of the ‘Women’s economic empowerment in rural communities of Vayots Dzor region’ project in achieving […]

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 […]

Annual report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) – Oxfam: Phase 1 final report

02/11/2016

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The eradication of poverty and injustice depends on women’s equal enjoyment of their human rights. Oxfam has invested significantly in women’s economic leadership, and affirms that economic empowerment requires parallel progress in women’s political, social and personal empowerment. Women’s control over their own time and labour is increasingly recognized as a precondition for, and component […]

Discussion paper

Market systems approaches to enabling women’s economic empowerment through addressing unpaid care work

05/03/2016

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper develops the concept of unpaid care work within the framework of market systems. It shows that unpaid care is a substantial proportion of the work carried out by poor families, especially women, with many heavy, inefficient or unequally distributed tasks limiting productivity and mobility, among other factors, for market work. Thus unpaid care […]

Showing 72 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Shifting Social Norms in the Economy for Women’s Economic Empowerment: Insights from a practitioner learning group

01/12/2018

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In 2017, The SEEP Network and Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment in Agriculture Knowledge Hub partnered to facilitate a Practitioner Learning Group (PLG) on 'Shifting Social Norms in the Economy to Create Change at Scale.' The SEEP PLG process is a method that brings together market development practitioners to help each other overcome practical and urgent […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) Mid-Term Evaluation Report: Philippines

09/12/2019

1 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Women's Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme aims to confront unpaid care work as a gender equality issue by recognizing, reducing and redistributing care work, and ensuring those who perform unpaid care are represented in policy decisions about it (the '4Rs' framework). This mid-term evaluation of WE-Care programme activities in the Philippines used several […]

Case study

Women’s Economic Empowerment: supporting women-led business

18/01/2019

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women’s economic empowerment is not solely about economic growth. Achieving meaningful economic empowerment requires transformative and systemic change for women across social, political and economic domains. Oxfam in OPT supports the development of small and medium-sized enterprises to increase their processing capacity and profit. This includes skills training, material support, improving access to markets and […]

Discussion paper

Macroeconomic Policy and Women’s Economic Empowerment

01/09/2017

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

At its core, the economic empowerment of women – to succeed and advance economically and to make and act on economic decisions – depends on the quantity and quality of paid employment, the provision or absence of public services, the amount of unpaid care work borne by women, as well as coverage or lack thereof […]

Annual report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care): Overview 2017

30/08/2017

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s WE-Care initiative aims to make unpaid care work visible as critical to social and economic development, while addressing heavy and unequal care work as a driver of poverty and gender inequality. This 2017 overview describes how WE-Care incorporates a range of stakeholders, ensuring that community groups, governments, development practitioners and the private sector work […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Oxfam’s Conceptual Framework on Women’s Economic Empowerment

23/05/2017

3 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Effective economic empowerment for women occurs when women enjoy their rights to control and benefit from: resources assets income their own time the ability to manage risk improve their economic status and wellbeing. However, for this to become real, women must also have the autonomy and self-belief to make changes in their own lives, including […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Armenia: Impact evaluation of the women’s economic empowerment project in rural communities in Vayots Dzor region

16/03/2017

2 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2015/16, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. The evaluation took place in November 2015 in Vayots Dzor region – Armenia. It intended to evaluate the success of the ‘Women’s economic empowerment in rural communities of Vayots Dzor region’ project in achieving […]

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 […]

Annual report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) – Oxfam: Phase 1 final report

02/11/2016

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The eradication of poverty and injustice depends on women’s equal enjoyment of their human rights. Oxfam has invested significantly in women’s economic leadership, and affirms that economic empowerment requires parallel progress in women’s political, social and personal empowerment. Women’s control over their own time and labour is increasingly recognized as a precondition for, and component […]

Discussion paper

Market systems approaches to enabling women’s economic empowerment through addressing unpaid care work

05/03/2016

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper develops the concept of unpaid care work within the framework of market systems. It shows that unpaid care is a substantial proportion of the work carried out by poor families, especially women, with many heavy, inefficient or unequally distributed tasks limiting productivity and mobility, among other factors, for market work. Thus unpaid care […]