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Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

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Overview

A wide range of development actors play a major role in initiating, supporting, and promoting collective action of various forms, which aims to secure economic and wider benefits to women, through improving their engagement in markets. But there is limited understanding of what works for rural women in terms of their participation in collective action, […]

Journal article

Commercial sex and the single girl: women’s empowerment through economic development in Thailand

01/11/1997

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Commercial sex and the single girl: women’s empowerment through economic development in Thailand

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Overview

The author presents the views of Thailand’s Population and Community Development Association (PDA – Thailand’s largest NGO) about how to provide women attracted to the commercial sex industry (CSI) with economically viable alternatives to this accepted (in Thailand) type of `manual labour’. Research has shown that poverty is the major factor cited by voluntary commercial […]

Journal article

Women’s economic inequality and domestic violence: exploring the links and empowering women

31/07/2015

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s economic inequality and domestic violence: exploring the links and empowering women

Keywords

Overview

Economic empowerment of poor households is a key entry point for development organisations concerned with economic inequality. Over the decades, gender inequality has emerged as a key concern, and the result has been women’s economic empowerment (WEE) programming. This article is a study of the impact of WEE programming on domestic violence (DV) against women. […]

Journal article

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

01/06/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

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Overview

This article offers strategies for women’s empowerment in conservative, tribal, and religious environments, based on an innovative programme in Pakistan. Mainstreaming Gender and Development (MGD) encouraged participants to build on their communities’ strengths, minimised resistance among families and communities by including them in the development process, and succeeded in building a cadre of women activists. […]

Discussion paper

Using Internal Evaluations to Measure Organizational Impact: A meta-analysis of Oxfam’s women’s empowerment projects

27/09/2017

2 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper presents the results of a meta-analysis examining the overall impact of women’s empowerment projects evaluated as part of Oxfam GB’s Effectiveness Reviews. Results show a positive and significant impact on the Women’s Empowerment Index and mixed results with its individual indicators. We found a statistically significant effect on opinions on women’s economic role […]

Case study

Women’s Empowerment Mainstreaming and Networking (WEMAN): A case from Uganda

01/03/2014

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study covers the work of CEFORD (Community Empowerment for Rural Development). As part of a multi-country Women’s Empowerment Mainstreaming and Networking (WEMAN) project, a farmers’ group working with the local NGO CEFORD in Northern Uganda adapted the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) to their local context, focusing on individual and collective needs for […]

Research report

Understanding the Effectiveness of Agricultural Training for Women: A desk review of indicators, methods and best practices

16/02/2016

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This desk review provides an introduction to some of the indicators, methods, tools, challenges and best practices that will help development practitioners measure the effectiveness of agricultural training, specifically as it relates to women and women’s economic empowerment. Contracted by Oxfam, it is part of ongoing work to improve monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for […]

Research report

If a woman does a job, she can support her family as well: Insights from community discussions in Pakistan about changing gender roles in society through economic development

08/10/2019

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Empower Youth for Work (EYW) programme in Pakistan works on young women and men’s social and economic empowerment by focusing on promoting an enabling environment. In Pakistan’s conservative society, restrictive gender roles can often act as a barrier to young women’s social and economic empowerment. To gain an insight into the current environment for […]

Journal article

Gender, efficiency, poverty reduction, and empowerment: reflections from an agriculture and credit programme in Tamil Nadu, India

01/03/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, efficiency, poverty reduction, and empowerment: reflections from an agriculture and credit programme in Tamil Nadu, India

Keywords

Overview

Through an analysis of the impact of two phases of a bio-agriculture and credit project of M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) in southern India, this article argues that there is no automatic link between agriculture and credit projects’ goals of increasing women’s efficiency, reducing women’s poverty, and women’s empowerment. It posits that these links […]

Book

Women and Economic Policy

01/01/1993

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The articles in Women and Economic Policy are centred around two main themes: macroeconomic policy and gender relations; and income generation projects and women’s empowerment. In many countries of the South, the introduction of structural adjustment policies to address the problem of mounting international debt has had a profoundly damaging effect on poor women and […]

Showing 124 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

Keywords

Overview

A wide range of development actors play a major role in initiating, supporting, and promoting collective action of various forms, which aims to secure economic and wider benefits to women, through improving their engagement in markets. But there is limited understanding of what works for rural women in terms of their participation in collective action, […]

Journal article

Commercial sex and the single girl: women’s empowerment through economic development in Thailand

01/11/1997

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Commercial sex and the single girl: women’s empowerment through economic development in Thailand

Keywords

Overview

The author presents the views of Thailand’s Population and Community Development Association (PDA – Thailand’s largest NGO) about how to provide women attracted to the commercial sex industry (CSI) with economically viable alternatives to this accepted (in Thailand) type of `manual labour’. Research has shown that poverty is the major factor cited by voluntary commercial […]

Journal article

Women’s economic inequality and domestic violence: exploring the links and empowering women

31/07/2015

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s economic inequality and domestic violence: exploring the links and empowering women

Keywords

Overview

Economic empowerment of poor households is a key entry point for development organisations concerned with economic inequality. Over the decades, gender inequality has emerged as a key concern, and the result has been women’s economic empowerment (WEE) programming. This article is a study of the impact of WEE programming on domestic violence (DV) against women. […]

Journal article

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

01/06/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

Keywords

Overview

This article offers strategies for women’s empowerment in conservative, tribal, and religious environments, based on an innovative programme in Pakistan. Mainstreaming Gender and Development (MGD) encouraged participants to build on their communities’ strengths, minimised resistance among families and communities by including them in the development process, and succeeded in building a cadre of women activists. […]

Discussion paper

Using Internal Evaluations to Measure Organizational Impact: A meta-analysis of Oxfam’s women’s empowerment projects

27/09/2017

2 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper presents the results of a meta-analysis examining the overall impact of women’s empowerment projects evaluated as part of Oxfam GB’s Effectiveness Reviews. Results show a positive and significant impact on the Women’s Empowerment Index and mixed results with its individual indicators. We found a statistically significant effect on opinions on women’s economic role […]

Case study

Women’s Empowerment Mainstreaming and Networking (WEMAN): A case from Uganda

01/03/2014

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study covers the work of CEFORD (Community Empowerment for Rural Development). As part of a multi-country Women’s Empowerment Mainstreaming and Networking (WEMAN) project, a farmers’ group working with the local NGO CEFORD in Northern Uganda adapted the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) to their local context, focusing on individual and collective needs for […]

Research report

Understanding the Effectiveness of Agricultural Training for Women: A desk review of indicators, methods and best practices

16/02/2016

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This desk review provides an introduction to some of the indicators, methods, tools, challenges and best practices that will help development practitioners measure the effectiveness of agricultural training, specifically as it relates to women and women’s economic empowerment. Contracted by Oxfam, it is part of ongoing work to improve monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for […]

Research report

If a woman does a job, she can support her family as well: Insights from community discussions in Pakistan about changing gender roles in society through economic development

08/10/2019

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Empower Youth for Work (EYW) programme in Pakistan works on young women and men’s social and economic empowerment by focusing on promoting an enabling environment. In Pakistan’s conservative society, restrictive gender roles can often act as a barrier to young women’s social and economic empowerment. To gain an insight into the current environment for […]

Journal article

Gender, efficiency, poverty reduction, and empowerment: reflections from an agriculture and credit programme in Tamil Nadu, India

01/03/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, efficiency, poverty reduction, and empowerment: reflections from an agriculture and credit programme in Tamil Nadu, India

Keywords

Overview

Through an analysis of the impact of two phases of a bio-agriculture and credit project of M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) in southern India, this article argues that there is no automatic link between agriculture and credit projects’ goals of increasing women’s efficiency, reducing women’s poverty, and women’s empowerment. It posits that these links […]

Book

Women and Economic Policy

01/01/1993

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The articles in Women and Economic Policy are centred around two main themes: macroeconomic policy and gender relations; and income generation projects and women’s empowerment. In many countries of the South, the introduction of structural adjustment policies to address the problem of mounting international debt has had a profoundly damaging effect on poor women and […]

Showing 124 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

01/07/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

Keywords

Overview

A wide range of development actors play a major role in initiating, supporting, and promoting collective action of various forms, which aims to secure economic and wider benefits to women, through improving their engagement in markets. But there is limited understanding of what works for rural women in terms of their participation in collective action, […]

Journal article

Commercial sex and the single girl: women’s empowerment through economic development in Thailand

01/11/1997

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Commercial sex and the single girl: women’s empowerment through economic development in Thailand

Keywords

Overview

The author presents the views of Thailand’s Population and Community Development Association (PDA – Thailand’s largest NGO) about how to provide women attracted to the commercial sex industry (CSI) with economically viable alternatives to this accepted (in Thailand) type of `manual labour’. Research has shown that poverty is the major factor cited by voluntary commercial […]

Journal article

Women’s economic inequality and domestic violence: exploring the links and empowering women

31/07/2015

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s economic inequality and domestic violence: exploring the links and empowering women

Keywords

Overview

Economic empowerment of poor households is a key entry point for development organisations concerned with economic inequality. Over the decades, gender inequality has emerged as a key concern, and the result has been women’s economic empowerment (WEE) programming. This article is a study of the impact of WEE programming on domestic violence (DV) against women. […]

Journal article

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

01/06/2008

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan

Keywords

Overview

This article offers strategies for women’s empowerment in conservative, tribal, and religious environments, based on an innovative programme in Pakistan. Mainstreaming Gender and Development (MGD) encouraged participants to build on their communities’ strengths, minimised resistance among families and communities by including them in the development process, and succeeded in building a cadre of women activists. […]

Discussion paper

Using Internal Evaluations to Measure Organizational Impact: A meta-analysis of Oxfam’s women’s empowerment projects

27/09/2017

2 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper presents the results of a meta-analysis examining the overall impact of women’s empowerment projects evaluated as part of Oxfam GB’s Effectiveness Reviews. Results show a positive and significant impact on the Women’s Empowerment Index and mixed results with its individual indicators. We found a statistically significant effect on opinions on women’s economic role […]

Case study

Women’s Empowerment Mainstreaming and Networking (WEMAN): A case from Uganda

01/03/2014

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study covers the work of CEFORD (Community Empowerment for Rural Development). As part of a multi-country Women’s Empowerment Mainstreaming and Networking (WEMAN) project, a farmers’ group working with the local NGO CEFORD in Northern Uganda adapted the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) to their local context, focusing on individual and collective needs for […]

Research report

Understanding the Effectiveness of Agricultural Training for Women: A desk review of indicators, methods and best practices

16/02/2016

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This desk review provides an introduction to some of the indicators, methods, tools, challenges and best practices that will help development practitioners measure the effectiveness of agricultural training, specifically as it relates to women and women’s economic empowerment. Contracted by Oxfam, it is part of ongoing work to improve monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for […]

Research report

If a woman does a job, she can support her family as well: Insights from community discussions in Pakistan about changing gender roles in society through economic development

08/10/2019

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Empower Youth for Work (EYW) programme in Pakistan works on young women and men’s social and economic empowerment by focusing on promoting an enabling environment. In Pakistan’s conservative society, restrictive gender roles can often act as a barrier to young women’s social and economic empowerment. To gain an insight into the current environment for […]

Journal article

Gender, efficiency, poverty reduction, and empowerment: reflections from an agriculture and credit programme in Tamil Nadu, India

01/03/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, efficiency, poverty reduction, and empowerment: reflections from an agriculture and credit programme in Tamil Nadu, India

Keywords

Overview

Through an analysis of the impact of two phases of a bio-agriculture and credit project of M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) in southern India, this article argues that there is no automatic link between agriculture and credit projects’ goals of increasing women’s efficiency, reducing women’s poverty, and women’s empowerment. It posits that these links […]

Book

Women and Economic Policy

01/01/1993

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The articles in Women and Economic Policy are centred around two main themes: macroeconomic policy and gender relations; and income generation projects and women’s empowerment. In many countries of the South, the introduction of structural adjustment policies to address the problem of mounting international debt has had a profoundly damaging effect on poor women and […]