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Research report

Measuring Unpaid Care Work in Household Surveys

06/06/2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Caring for people and domestic work, such as cooking, cleaning and fetching water, is essential for personal wellbeing and survival. But across the world, care work is overwhelmingly done by women, which restricts their opportunities for education, employment, political engagement and leisure. This research case study discusses the successes and challenges of the time use […]

Briefing paper

Unlocking Sustainable Development in Africa by Addressing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work

03/02/2020

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Across Africa, ambitions to achieve inclusive and sustainable development are being undermined by inadequate investment in the care economy. Women and girls are providing millions of hours of unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW) – a provision which props up the economy and underpins society, yet remains under-recognized, undervalued and under-invested in. While inattention to […]

Case study

Mobile Technology Creating Change in Armenia

02/07/2012

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Mobile technologies have the potential to be an important tool for development. Mobile technology can support development initiatives in diverse ways – for example in information sharing and communication, capacity building, or campaigning and advocacy. This report describes how Oxfam has successfully adopted SMS messaging initiatives in order to promote rights awareness and secure livelihoods […]

Evaluation report

Impact Evaluation Report: Nepal – Pavitra Vegetable Seed Cooperative Project

20/05/2014

1 documents

57 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This impact evaluation analyses the findings and lessons emerging from the Oxfam Enterprise Development Programme’s (EDP) work with Pavitra enterprise in Nepal. EDP is designed to improve the livelihoods of smallholder producers and promote positive gender outcomes, by supporting the development of viable commercial enterprises, typically owned and run by the smallholder farmers themselves. In […]

Journal article

Measuring the drivers of gender inequality and their impact on development: the role of discriminatory social institutions

31/07/2015

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Measuring the drivers of gender inequality and their impact on development: the role of discriminatory social institutions

Keywords

Overview

This paper highlights the key role of discriminatory social institutions – formal and informal laws, social norms, and practices – as the underlying drivers of gender inequality. Using the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) from the OECD Development Centre, this paper assesses the cost of gender-based discrimination in social institutions for economic and human […]

Case study

Community-led Value Chain Development for Gender Justice and Pro-poor Wealth Creation: A case from Rwanda

01/03/2014

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study covers the work of Bureau d’Appui aux Initiatives Rurales (BAIR) in Rwanda. The project aims to contribute to sustainable pro-poor wealth creation and value chain upgrading through the empowerment of women and men from the poorest and most vulnerable households, as well as the establishment of equitable participatory processes for economic decision-making […]

Research report

How Decent is Decent Work? Using SenseMaker to understand workers’ experiences

31/05/2018

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Decent work for all is a shared global concern. It is enshrined in Sustainable Development Goal 8, ‘to achieve full and productive employment, and decent work, for all women and men by 2030’. Countless initiatives by companies, governments, CSOs and global aid agencies are dedicated to making this happen. These efforts are labelled as ‘decent […]

Research report

Can Haiti’s Peanut Value Chain Survive US Generosity? Political economy analysis

28/04/2020

2 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Research by PAPDA (the Haitian Advocacy Platform for Alternative Development) and Oxfam found that peanut value chain actors in Haiti face a number of serious constraints, including nonexistence of state support; weak organization; use of traditional production methods; and lack of access to irrigation and inputs, including herbicides to control aflatoxin, all in a context […]

Research report

Measuring Social Norms on Unpaid Care Work: Insights from Oxfam’s household care surveys

12/10/2021

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper describes the approach to measuring social norms related to unpaid care work in Oxfam’s Household Care Survey (HCS), and discusses benefits and limitations of this approach. The HCS is a quantitative research tool developed through Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme. It measures adults’ and children’s time spent on unpaid care work […]

Research report

Caring in a changing climate: Centering care work in climate action

23/02/2022

1 documents

129 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The global care crisis is being exacerbated by the global climate emergency, with interlocking impacts that threaten lives and livelihoods in all parts of the world. These impacts are particularly severe among rural livelihoods in low-income countries. Climate change intensifies the work involved in caring for people, animals, plants, and places. It reduces the availability […]

Showing 131 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Measuring Unpaid Care Work in Household Surveys

06/06/2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Caring for people and domestic work, such as cooking, cleaning and fetching water, is essential for personal wellbeing and survival. But across the world, care work is overwhelmingly done by women, which restricts their opportunities for education, employment, political engagement and leisure. This research case study discusses the successes and challenges of the time use […]

Briefing paper

Unlocking Sustainable Development in Africa by Addressing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work

03/02/2020

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Across Africa, ambitions to achieve inclusive and sustainable development are being undermined by inadequate investment in the care economy. Women and girls are providing millions of hours of unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW) – a provision which props up the economy and underpins society, yet remains under-recognized, undervalued and under-invested in. While inattention to […]

Case study

Mobile Technology Creating Change in Armenia

02/07/2012

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Mobile technologies have the potential to be an important tool for development. Mobile technology can support development initiatives in diverse ways – for example in information sharing and communication, capacity building, or campaigning and advocacy. This report describes how Oxfam has successfully adopted SMS messaging initiatives in order to promote rights awareness and secure livelihoods […]

Evaluation report

Impact Evaluation Report: Nepal – Pavitra Vegetable Seed Cooperative Project

20/05/2014

1 documents

57 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This impact evaluation analyses the findings and lessons emerging from the Oxfam Enterprise Development Programme’s (EDP) work with Pavitra enterprise in Nepal. EDP is designed to improve the livelihoods of smallholder producers and promote positive gender outcomes, by supporting the development of viable commercial enterprises, typically owned and run by the smallholder farmers themselves. In […]

Journal article

Measuring the drivers of gender inequality and their impact on development: the role of discriminatory social institutions

31/07/2015

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Measuring the drivers of gender inequality and their impact on development: the role of discriminatory social institutions

Keywords

Overview

This paper highlights the key role of discriminatory social institutions – formal and informal laws, social norms, and practices – as the underlying drivers of gender inequality. Using the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) from the OECD Development Centre, this paper assesses the cost of gender-based discrimination in social institutions for economic and human […]

Case study

Community-led Value Chain Development for Gender Justice and Pro-poor Wealth Creation: A case from Rwanda

01/03/2014

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study covers the work of Bureau d’Appui aux Initiatives Rurales (BAIR) in Rwanda. The project aims to contribute to sustainable pro-poor wealth creation and value chain upgrading through the empowerment of women and men from the poorest and most vulnerable households, as well as the establishment of equitable participatory processes for economic decision-making […]

Research report

How Decent is Decent Work? Using SenseMaker to understand workers’ experiences

31/05/2018

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Decent work for all is a shared global concern. It is enshrined in Sustainable Development Goal 8, ‘to achieve full and productive employment, and decent work, for all women and men by 2030’. Countless initiatives by companies, governments, CSOs and global aid agencies are dedicated to making this happen. These efforts are labelled as ‘decent […]

Research report

Can Haiti’s Peanut Value Chain Survive US Generosity? Political economy analysis

28/04/2020

2 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Research by PAPDA (the Haitian Advocacy Platform for Alternative Development) and Oxfam found that peanut value chain actors in Haiti face a number of serious constraints, including nonexistence of state support; weak organization; use of traditional production methods; and lack of access to irrigation and inputs, including herbicides to control aflatoxin, all in a context […]

Research report

Measuring Social Norms on Unpaid Care Work: Insights from Oxfam’s household care surveys

12/10/2021

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper describes the approach to measuring social norms related to unpaid care work in Oxfam’s Household Care Survey (HCS), and discusses benefits and limitations of this approach. The HCS is a quantitative research tool developed through Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme. It measures adults’ and children’s time spent on unpaid care work […]

Research report

Caring in a changing climate: Centering care work in climate action

23/02/2022

1 documents

129 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The global care crisis is being exacerbated by the global climate emergency, with interlocking impacts that threaten lives and livelihoods in all parts of the world. These impacts are particularly severe among rural livelihoods in low-income countries. Climate change intensifies the work involved in caring for people, animals, plants, and places. It reduces the availability […]

Showing 131 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Measuring Unpaid Care Work in Household Surveys

06/06/2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Caring for people and domestic work, such as cooking, cleaning and fetching water, is essential for personal wellbeing and survival. But across the world, care work is overwhelmingly done by women, which restricts their opportunities for education, employment, political engagement and leisure. This research case study discusses the successes and challenges of the time use […]

Briefing paper

Unlocking Sustainable Development in Africa by Addressing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work

03/02/2020

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Across Africa, ambitions to achieve inclusive and sustainable development are being undermined by inadequate investment in the care economy. Women and girls are providing millions of hours of unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW) – a provision which props up the economy and underpins society, yet remains under-recognized, undervalued and under-invested in. While inattention to […]

Case study

Mobile Technology Creating Change in Armenia

02/07/2012

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Mobile technologies have the potential to be an important tool for development. Mobile technology can support development initiatives in diverse ways – for example in information sharing and communication, capacity building, or campaigning and advocacy. This report describes how Oxfam has successfully adopted SMS messaging initiatives in order to promote rights awareness and secure livelihoods […]

Evaluation report

Impact Evaluation Report: Nepal – Pavitra Vegetable Seed Cooperative Project

20/05/2014

1 documents

57 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This impact evaluation analyses the findings and lessons emerging from the Oxfam Enterprise Development Programme’s (EDP) work with Pavitra enterprise in Nepal. EDP is designed to improve the livelihoods of smallholder producers and promote positive gender outcomes, by supporting the development of viable commercial enterprises, typically owned and run by the smallholder farmers themselves. In […]

Journal article

Measuring the drivers of gender inequality and their impact on development: the role of discriminatory social institutions

31/07/2015

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Measuring the drivers of gender inequality and their impact on development: the role of discriminatory social institutions

Keywords

Overview

This paper highlights the key role of discriminatory social institutions – formal and informal laws, social norms, and practices – as the underlying drivers of gender inequality. Using the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) from the OECD Development Centre, this paper assesses the cost of gender-based discrimination in social institutions for economic and human […]

Case study

Community-led Value Chain Development for Gender Justice and Pro-poor Wealth Creation: A case from Rwanda

01/03/2014

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study covers the work of Bureau d’Appui aux Initiatives Rurales (BAIR) in Rwanda. The project aims to contribute to sustainable pro-poor wealth creation and value chain upgrading through the empowerment of women and men from the poorest and most vulnerable households, as well as the establishment of equitable participatory processes for economic decision-making […]

Research report

How Decent is Decent Work? Using SenseMaker to understand workers’ experiences

31/05/2018

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Decent work for all is a shared global concern. It is enshrined in Sustainable Development Goal 8, ‘to achieve full and productive employment, and decent work, for all women and men by 2030’. Countless initiatives by companies, governments, CSOs and global aid agencies are dedicated to making this happen. These efforts are labelled as ‘decent […]

Research report

Can Haiti’s Peanut Value Chain Survive US Generosity? Political economy analysis

28/04/2020

2 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Research by PAPDA (the Haitian Advocacy Platform for Alternative Development) and Oxfam found that peanut value chain actors in Haiti face a number of serious constraints, including nonexistence of state support; weak organization; use of traditional production methods; and lack of access to irrigation and inputs, including herbicides to control aflatoxin, all in a context […]

Research report

Measuring Social Norms on Unpaid Care Work: Insights from Oxfam’s household care surveys

12/10/2021

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper describes the approach to measuring social norms related to unpaid care work in Oxfam’s Household Care Survey (HCS), and discusses benefits and limitations of this approach. The HCS is a quantitative research tool developed through Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme. It measures adults’ and children’s time spent on unpaid care work […]

Research report

Caring in a changing climate: Centering care work in climate action

23/02/2022

1 documents

129 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The global care crisis is being exacerbated by the global climate emergency, with interlocking impacts that threaten lives and livelihoods in all parts of the world. These impacts are particularly severe among rural livelihoods in low-income countries. Climate change intensifies the work involved in caring for people, animals, plants, and places. It reduces the availability […]