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Journal article

How women’s silence secures the peace: analysing sexual and gender-based violence in a low-intensity conflict

09/11/2016

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

How women’s silence secures the peace: analysing sexual and gender-based violence in a low-intensity conflict

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Overview

Most studies of the gendered impact of conflict focus on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) atrocities committed in high-intensity conflict environments. In contrast, this article focuses on the patterns of SGBV in Mindanao, Philippines – an environment of protracted low-intensity conflict within a fragile state. We examine the current Mindanao peace process to highlight the […]

Journal article

Microfinance, wage employment and housework: a gender analysis

01/08/1999

13 pages long

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Microfinance, wage employment and housework: a gender analysis

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Overview

Microfinance programmes are increasingly popular in Bangladesh, and are especially renowned for the excellent repayment performance of women borrowers. This article examines the loan-use pattern of women involved in wage employment and the benefits they gain from such loans. It also explores the effects of wage employment on gender relations. Women wage-earners are found to […]

Journal article

Urban agriculture: addressing practical and strategic gender needs

01/02/2006

11 pages long

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Urban agriculture: addressing practical and strategic gender needs

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Overview

This paper considers the role of urban agriculture in addressing the practical and strategic needs of African women, and assesses the gender implications of embracing urban agriculture as a development intervention strategy. Empirical evidence from Botswana and Zimbabwe points to the multi-faceted role of urban agriculture whereby some women use this activity to support their […]

Research report

Gendered Patterns of Unpaid Care and Domestic Work in the Urban Informal Settlements of Nairobi, Kenya: Findings from a Household Care Survey – 2019

19/11/2019

4 documents

85 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Care work is essential for individuals, society and the economy. However, it is overwhelmingly done by women and girls, which restricts their ability to participate in education, paid work, politics and community life. In low-resource settings, fetching water or preparing food can be particularly burdensome. In 2018–2019, Oxfam's Women's Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme […]

Journal article

Passing the buck? money literacy and alternatives to credit and savings schemes

01/11/2002

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Passing the buck? money literacy and alternatives to credit and savings schemes

Keywords

Overview

Credit and savings schemes have much appeal for many different actors involved in development. They offer one of the few economic blueprints for tackling poverty. However, there is a growing consensus that their gains are highly exaggerated. They do not address structural issues such as intra-household relations of power and rights, or inequalities created at […]

Journal article

Abortion, reproductive rights and maternal mortality

01/06/1994

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Abortion, reproductive rights and maternal mortality

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Overview

The authors make their case for safe, legal, accessible, affordable abortion, as one part of reproductive health services that make all the choices, and information, available to women. Abortion is, they argue, about women’s rights and empowerment, and would reduce incidences of poor health and maternal mortality. Among the arguments are poor availability and reliability […]

Journal article

Implementing gender issues in multilaterals

01/10/1994

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Implementing gender issues in multilaterals

Keywords

Overview

The World Bank is changing its personnel and policies to reflect its commitment to mainstreaming gender in all its work. Women’s empowerment is vital for long term economic growth, higher living standards and environmental sustainability. The Bank believes that removing barriers to women’s health and productivity will allow women to participate in income generating labour, […]

Journal article

The impact of remittances on gender roles and opportunities for children in recipient families: research from the International Organization for Migration

01/03/2011

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

The impact of remittances on gender roles and opportunities for children in recipient families: research from the International Organization for Migration

Keywords

Overview

In addition to raising the living standards of loved ones back home, remittances sent by men and women migrants can transform the way spouses, children, and communities left behind interact within the household, including changing culturally accepted roles and opportunities for men, women, boys, and girls. For women senders of remittances, ‘rising’ to become a […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Social Norms Diagnostic Tool: Sexual and gender-based violence on public transport

23/07/2019

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Research into discriminatory social norms has identified many ways in which they may curtail the ability of women and girls –and more recently, transgender and gender non-conforming people – to break the cycle of poverty, and access the resources and services they need for empowerment. This Social Norms Diagnostic Tool guidance document sets out participatory exercises […]

Case study

Réseautage et collaboration d’organisations locales sur la filière moringa en Haïti

01/05/2020

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: French

Keywords

Overview

Entre 2015 et 2020, le programme ACCES Innovation d’Oxfam-Québec a fourni un renforcement de capacités sur la filière moringa à cinq partenaires d’Oxfam du département de l’Artibonite, en Haïti. Ces partenaires — des organisations de femmes et des coopératives composées principalement de femmes — ont pu se positionner sur les principaux segments de la filière […]

Showing 125 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

How women’s silence secures the peace: analysing sexual and gender-based violence in a low-intensity conflict

09/11/2016

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

How women’s silence secures the peace: analysing sexual and gender-based violence in a low-intensity conflict

Keywords

Overview

Most studies of the gendered impact of conflict focus on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) atrocities committed in high-intensity conflict environments. In contrast, this article focuses on the patterns of SGBV in Mindanao, Philippines – an environment of protracted low-intensity conflict within a fragile state. We examine the current Mindanao peace process to highlight the […]

Journal article

Microfinance, wage employment and housework: a gender analysis

01/08/1999

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Microfinance, wage employment and housework: a gender analysis

Keywords

Overview

Microfinance programmes are increasingly popular in Bangladesh, and are especially renowned for the excellent repayment performance of women borrowers. This article examines the loan-use pattern of women involved in wage employment and the benefits they gain from such loans. It also explores the effects of wage employment on gender relations. Women wage-earners are found to […]

Journal article

Urban agriculture: addressing practical and strategic gender needs

01/02/2006

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Urban agriculture: addressing practical and strategic gender needs

Keywords

Overview

This paper considers the role of urban agriculture in addressing the practical and strategic needs of African women, and assesses the gender implications of embracing urban agriculture as a development intervention strategy. Empirical evidence from Botswana and Zimbabwe points to the multi-faceted role of urban agriculture whereby some women use this activity to support their […]

Research report

Gendered Patterns of Unpaid Care and Domestic Work in the Urban Informal Settlements of Nairobi, Kenya: Findings from a Household Care Survey – 2019

19/11/2019

4 documents

85 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Care work is essential for individuals, society and the economy. However, it is overwhelmingly done by women and girls, which restricts their ability to participate in education, paid work, politics and community life. In low-resource settings, fetching water or preparing food can be particularly burdensome. In 2018–2019, Oxfam's Women's Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme […]

Journal article

Passing the buck? money literacy and alternatives to credit and savings schemes

01/11/2002

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Passing the buck? money literacy and alternatives to credit and savings schemes

Keywords

Overview

Credit and savings schemes have much appeal for many different actors involved in development. They offer one of the few economic blueprints for tackling poverty. However, there is a growing consensus that their gains are highly exaggerated. They do not address structural issues such as intra-household relations of power and rights, or inequalities created at […]

Journal article

Abortion, reproductive rights and maternal mortality

01/06/1994

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Abortion, reproductive rights and maternal mortality

Keywords

Overview

The authors make their case for safe, legal, accessible, affordable abortion, as one part of reproductive health services that make all the choices, and information, available to women. Abortion is, they argue, about women’s rights and empowerment, and would reduce incidences of poor health and maternal mortality. Among the arguments are poor availability and reliability […]

Journal article

Implementing gender issues in multilaterals

01/10/1994

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Implementing gender issues in multilaterals

Keywords

Overview

The World Bank is changing its personnel and policies to reflect its commitment to mainstreaming gender in all its work. Women’s empowerment is vital for long term economic growth, higher living standards and environmental sustainability. The Bank believes that removing barriers to women’s health and productivity will allow women to participate in income generating labour, […]

Journal article

The impact of remittances on gender roles and opportunities for children in recipient families: research from the International Organization for Migration

01/03/2011

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

The impact of remittances on gender roles and opportunities for children in recipient families: research from the International Organization for Migration

Keywords

Overview

In addition to raising the living standards of loved ones back home, remittances sent by men and women migrants can transform the way spouses, children, and communities left behind interact within the household, including changing culturally accepted roles and opportunities for men, women, boys, and girls. For women senders of remittances, ‘rising’ to become a […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Social Norms Diagnostic Tool: Sexual and gender-based violence on public transport

23/07/2019

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Research into discriminatory social norms has identified many ways in which they may curtail the ability of women and girls –and more recently, transgender and gender non-conforming people – to break the cycle of poverty, and access the resources and services they need for empowerment. This Social Norms Diagnostic Tool guidance document sets out participatory exercises […]

Case study

Réseautage et collaboration d’organisations locales sur la filière moringa en Haïti

01/05/2020

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: French

Keywords

Overview

Entre 2015 et 2020, le programme ACCES Innovation d’Oxfam-Québec a fourni un renforcement de capacités sur la filière moringa à cinq partenaires d’Oxfam du département de l’Artibonite, en Haïti. Ces partenaires — des organisations de femmes et des coopératives composées principalement de femmes — ont pu se positionner sur les principaux segments de la filière […]

Showing 125 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

How women’s silence secures the peace: analysing sexual and gender-based violence in a low-intensity conflict

09/11/2016

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

How women’s silence secures the peace: analysing sexual and gender-based violence in a low-intensity conflict

Keywords

Overview

Most studies of the gendered impact of conflict focus on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) atrocities committed in high-intensity conflict environments. In contrast, this article focuses on the patterns of SGBV in Mindanao, Philippines – an environment of protracted low-intensity conflict within a fragile state. We examine the current Mindanao peace process to highlight the […]

Journal article

Microfinance, wage employment and housework: a gender analysis

01/08/1999

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Microfinance, wage employment and housework: a gender analysis

Keywords

Overview

Microfinance programmes are increasingly popular in Bangladesh, and are especially renowned for the excellent repayment performance of women borrowers. This article examines the loan-use pattern of women involved in wage employment and the benefits they gain from such loans. It also explores the effects of wage employment on gender relations. Women wage-earners are found to […]

Journal article

Urban agriculture: addressing practical and strategic gender needs

01/02/2006

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Urban agriculture: addressing practical and strategic gender needs

Keywords

Overview

This paper considers the role of urban agriculture in addressing the practical and strategic needs of African women, and assesses the gender implications of embracing urban agriculture as a development intervention strategy. Empirical evidence from Botswana and Zimbabwe points to the multi-faceted role of urban agriculture whereby some women use this activity to support their […]

Research report

Gendered Patterns of Unpaid Care and Domestic Work in the Urban Informal Settlements of Nairobi, Kenya: Findings from a Household Care Survey – 2019

19/11/2019

4 documents

85 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Care work is essential for individuals, society and the economy. However, it is overwhelmingly done by women and girls, which restricts their ability to participate in education, paid work, politics and community life. In low-resource settings, fetching water or preparing food can be particularly burdensome. In 2018–2019, Oxfam's Women's Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme […]

Journal article

Passing the buck? money literacy and alternatives to credit and savings schemes

01/11/2002

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Passing the buck? money literacy and alternatives to credit and savings schemes

Keywords

Overview

Credit and savings schemes have much appeal for many different actors involved in development. They offer one of the few economic blueprints for tackling poverty. However, there is a growing consensus that their gains are highly exaggerated. They do not address structural issues such as intra-household relations of power and rights, or inequalities created at […]

Journal article

Abortion, reproductive rights and maternal mortality

01/06/1994

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Abortion, reproductive rights and maternal mortality

Keywords

Overview

The authors make their case for safe, legal, accessible, affordable abortion, as one part of reproductive health services that make all the choices, and information, available to women. Abortion is, they argue, about women’s rights and empowerment, and would reduce incidences of poor health and maternal mortality. Among the arguments are poor availability and reliability […]

Journal article

Implementing gender issues in multilaterals

01/10/1994

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Implementing gender issues in multilaterals

Keywords

Overview

The World Bank is changing its personnel and policies to reflect its commitment to mainstreaming gender in all its work. Women’s empowerment is vital for long term economic growth, higher living standards and environmental sustainability. The Bank believes that removing barriers to women’s health and productivity will allow women to participate in income generating labour, […]

Journal article

The impact of remittances on gender roles and opportunities for children in recipient families: research from the International Organization for Migration

01/03/2011

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

The impact of remittances on gender roles and opportunities for children in recipient families: research from the International Organization for Migration

Keywords

Overview

In addition to raising the living standards of loved ones back home, remittances sent by men and women migrants can transform the way spouses, children, and communities left behind interact within the household, including changing culturally accepted roles and opportunities for men, women, boys, and girls. For women senders of remittances, ‘rising’ to become a […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Social Norms Diagnostic Tool: Sexual and gender-based violence on public transport

23/07/2019

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Research into discriminatory social norms has identified many ways in which they may curtail the ability of women and girls –and more recently, transgender and gender non-conforming people – to break the cycle of poverty, and access the resources and services they need for empowerment. This Social Norms Diagnostic Tool guidance document sets out participatory exercises […]

Case study

Réseautage et collaboration d’organisations locales sur la filière moringa en Haïti

01/05/2020

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: French

Keywords

Overview

Entre 2015 et 2020, le programme ACCES Innovation d’Oxfam-Québec a fourni un renforcement de capacités sur la filière moringa à cinq partenaires d’Oxfam du département de l’Artibonite, en Haïti. Ces partenaires — des organisations de femmes et des coopératives composées principalement de femmes — ont pu se positionner sur les principaux segments de la filière […]