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Women producers and the benefits of collective forms of enterprise

23/03/2012

18 pages long

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Women producers and the benefits of collective forms of enterprise

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This article summarises the findings of an action research project examining the experience of women producers in various collective enterprises, all linked to the Fair Trade movement, in seven countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. What are the benefits of collective enterprise for women producers? The study found that participating in collective forms of […]

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Women’s entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps

23/03/2012

13 pages long

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Women’s entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps

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In the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, as part of their efforts to rebuild the national economy, many donor agencies and non-government organisations increased their efforts to support the goal of women’s economic empowerment. However, the share of women-owned businesses in Lebanon has remained low, and women are mostly still limited to work in […]

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Women’s Economic Leadership in LAC Book 3: Prevention of violence against women in the context of programmes

01/10/2014

2 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This three book series supports the development and delivery of Women’s Economic Leadership (WEL) programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean. It builds on work done by Oxfam GB and Value for Women on the delivery of market-based livelihood programmes with a focus on gender justice. This book, the third in the series, introduces the […]

Research report

We Worked and Overcame Hardship: Stories of change from youth participating in youth group microenterprises in Ethiopia

22/01/2019

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Empower Youth for Work (EYW) is a five-year programme, funded by the IKEA Foundation. The programme focuses on enabling young people (especially young women) in rural climate-affected areas of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Ethiopia to seek and obtain economic independence. To realize these goals, the programme applies a holistic approach to drive young people’s economic […]

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Making Money Moves: Rural women, returnees, and renegotiations of sex work through the street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

19/09/2024

19 pages long

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Making Money Moves: Rural women, returnees, and renegotiations of sex work through the street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Overview

Feminist research has highlighted both the emancipatory components of sex work on women’s lives, as well as the problematic nature of an overly romanticised reading of women’s sexual labour. In Ethiopian cities, including the capital, Addis Ababa, rural migrant women and returnee women from the Gulf States are confronted with layered forms of structural disadvantage […]

Case study

Women Honey Producers in Ethiopia: Non-market interventions and market opportunities

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study explores how integrated interventions of government and NGOs have built on the economic potential of the honey sector, to ensure both commercial success and women’s economic empowerment. Bee-keeping cooperatives in Ethiopia have brought positive change to women’s lives through promoting changes in extension training, awareness-raising with men, and introducing new technology and […]

Journal article

Economic crisis helps to ‘demarginalize’ women

01/05/1998

6 pages long

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Coffee production was the main source of family income in the North West Province of Cameroon until there was a fall in coffee prices. The author recounts a positive side effect of this potential economic crisis for the province: the empowerment of women. Previously denied land-ownership, due to men’s traditional hold on land and women’s […]

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

07/11/2012

12 pages long

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

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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 […]

Case study

A Model for Women-Led Value Chains in Market System Development in Fragile Contexts

26/11/2019

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Economic empowerment for women is a key component of Oxfam’s Economic Justice programme in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel (OPTI). The snake cucumber (faqous) value chain provides a good example of an intervention that focuses on women’s economic empowerment (WEE). This value chain is unique in its nature and scope as it is led […]

Showing 131 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women producers and the benefits of collective forms of enterprise

23/03/2012

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women producers and the benefits of collective forms of enterprise

Keywords

Overview

This article summarises the findings of an action research project examining the experience of women producers in various collective enterprises, all linked to the Fair Trade movement, in seven countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. What are the benefits of collective enterprise for women producers? The study found that participating in collective forms of […]

Journal article

Women’s entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps

23/03/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps

Keywords

Overview

In the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, as part of their efforts to rebuild the national economy, many donor agencies and non-government organisations increased their efforts to support the goal of women’s economic empowerment. However, the share of women-owned businesses in Lebanon has remained low, and women are mostly still limited to work in […]

Webpage

Research at Oxfam

High quality and novel research lays the foundation for our projects, campaigns and advocacy work

Guidelines and toolkits

Women’s Economic Leadership in LAC Book 3: Prevention of violence against women in the context of programmes

01/10/2014

2 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This three book series supports the development and delivery of Women’s Economic Leadership (WEL) programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean. It builds on work done by Oxfam GB and Value for Women on the delivery of market-based livelihood programmes with a focus on gender justice. This book, the third in the series, introduces the […]

Research report

We Worked and Overcame Hardship: Stories of change from youth participating in youth group microenterprises in Ethiopia

22/01/2019

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Empower Youth for Work (EYW) is a five-year programme, funded by the IKEA Foundation. The programme focuses on enabling young people (especially young women) in rural climate-affected areas of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Ethiopia to seek and obtain economic independence. To realize these goals, the programme applies a holistic approach to drive young people’s economic […]

Journal article

Making Money Moves: Rural women, returnees, and renegotiations of sex work through the street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

19/09/2024

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Making Money Moves: Rural women, returnees, and renegotiations of sex work through the street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Keywords

Overview

Feminist research has highlighted both the emancipatory components of sex work on women’s lives, as well as the problematic nature of an overly romanticised reading of women’s sexual labour. In Ethiopian cities, including the capital, Addis Ababa, rural migrant women and returnee women from the Gulf States are confronted with layered forms of structural disadvantage […]

Case study

Women Honey Producers in Ethiopia: Non-market interventions and market opportunities

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study explores how integrated interventions of government and NGOs have built on the economic potential of the honey sector, to ensure both commercial success and women’s economic empowerment. Bee-keeping cooperatives in Ethiopia have brought positive change to women’s lives through promoting changes in extension training, awareness-raising with men, and introducing new technology and […]

Journal article

Economic crisis helps to ‘demarginalize’ women

01/05/1998

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Coffee production was the main source of family income in the North West Province of Cameroon until there was a fall in coffee prices. The author recounts a positive side effect of this potential economic crisis for the province: the empowerment of women. Previously denied land-ownership, due to men’s traditional hold on land and women’s […]

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 […]

Case study

A Model for Women-Led Value Chains in Market System Development in Fragile Contexts

26/11/2019

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Economic empowerment for women is a key component of Oxfam’s Economic Justice programme in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel (OPTI). The snake cucumber (faqous) value chain provides a good example of an intervention that focuses on women’s economic empowerment (WEE). This value chain is unique in its nature and scope as it is led […]

Showing 131 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Women producers and the benefits of collective forms of enterprise

23/03/2012

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women producers and the benefits of collective forms of enterprise

Keywords

Overview

This article summarises the findings of an action research project examining the experience of women producers in various collective enterprises, all linked to the Fair Trade movement, in seven countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. What are the benefits of collective enterprise for women producers? The study found that participating in collective forms of […]

Journal article

Women’s entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps

23/03/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps

Keywords

Overview

In the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, as part of their efforts to rebuild the national economy, many donor agencies and non-government organisations increased their efforts to support the goal of women’s economic empowerment. However, the share of women-owned businesses in Lebanon has remained low, and women are mostly still limited to work in […]

Webpage

Research at Oxfam

High quality and novel research lays the foundation for our projects, campaigns and advocacy work

Guidelines and toolkits

Women’s Economic Leadership in LAC Book 3: Prevention of violence against women in the context of programmes

01/10/2014

2 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This three book series supports the development and delivery of Women’s Economic Leadership (WEL) programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean. It builds on work done by Oxfam GB and Value for Women on the delivery of market-based livelihood programmes with a focus on gender justice. This book, the third in the series, introduces the […]

Research report

We Worked and Overcame Hardship: Stories of change from youth participating in youth group microenterprises in Ethiopia

22/01/2019

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Empower Youth for Work (EYW) is a five-year programme, funded by the IKEA Foundation. The programme focuses on enabling young people (especially young women) in rural climate-affected areas of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Ethiopia to seek and obtain economic independence. To realize these goals, the programme applies a holistic approach to drive young people’s economic […]

Journal article

Making Money Moves: Rural women, returnees, and renegotiations of sex work through the street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

19/09/2024

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Making Money Moves: Rural women, returnees, and renegotiations of sex work through the street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Keywords

Overview

Feminist research has highlighted both the emancipatory components of sex work on women’s lives, as well as the problematic nature of an overly romanticised reading of women’s sexual labour. In Ethiopian cities, including the capital, Addis Ababa, rural migrant women and returnee women from the Gulf States are confronted with layered forms of structural disadvantage […]

Case study

Women Honey Producers in Ethiopia: Non-market interventions and market opportunities

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study explores how integrated interventions of government and NGOs have built on the economic potential of the honey sector, to ensure both commercial success and women’s economic empowerment. Bee-keeping cooperatives in Ethiopia have brought positive change to women’s lives through promoting changes in extension training, awareness-raising with men, and introducing new technology and […]

Journal article

Economic crisis helps to ‘demarginalize’ women

01/05/1998

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Coffee production was the main source of family income in the North West Province of Cameroon until there was a fall in coffee prices. The author recounts a positive side effect of this potential economic crisis for the province: the empowerment of women. Previously denied land-ownership, due to men’s traditional hold on land and women’s […]

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 […]

Case study

A Model for Women-Led Value Chains in Market System Development in Fragile Contexts

26/11/2019

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Economic empowerment for women is a key component of Oxfam’s Economic Justice programme in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel (OPTI). The snake cucumber (faqous) value chain provides a good example of an intervention that focuses on women’s economic empowerment (WEE). This value chain is unique in its nature and scope as it is led […]