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Evaluation report

Oxfam Bangladesh Economic Justice and Resilience Pillar: Integrated impact evaluation report

17/11/2022

1 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Economic Justice and Resilience Pillar of the Oxfam Bangladesh Country Strategy 2016–19 was an ambitious and far-reaching portfolio of initiatives conducted across widely varying contexts and with a large cast of partners. This integrated evaluation report is the result of a rich study process that captured this ambitious complexity through a careful sequencing of […]

Journal article

Are women self-help group members economically more empowered in left-run municipalities?

18/02/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Are women self-help group members economically more empowered in left-run municipalities?

Keywords

Overview

Who controls the income earned by members of women’s self-help groups (SHG) from group activities – the women or their husbands? The answer indicates one dimension of the level of economic empowerment attained by SHG members. This paper examines whether identity of the person controlling the income earned depends upon the political party ruling the […]

Case study

Resilience-Building and Women’s Leadership in Bangladesh

10/07/2017

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The REE-CALL programme aims to strengthen community resilience to climate change by fostering economic empowerment and inclusive leadership. The programme targets highly vulnerable people: 225,000 households in 14 of the worst-affected districts of the three most vulnerable agro-ecological regions of the country – Haor, Char and the south-west and south-central coastal regions. The programme recognizes […]

Book

Gender, Development, and Money

01/01/2001

1 documents

99 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Money, value, power, and status are linked in complex ways in the global economic system. Male-biased economic policies and practices fail to give equal pay for equal work in any sector; women are more likely than men to have insecure, informal employment; and unpaid work done mainly in the home by women is not valued […]

Research report

Women’s Collective Action: Unlocking the potential of agricultural markets

27/03/2013

3 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Development actors are increasingly prioritising ‘investing in women’ to ensure food security and sustainability-as well as equity-in agricultural development. In this context, collective action is a critical but poorly understood way for women small-scale farmers to strengthen their engagement in agricultural markets. This report provides rigorous new evidence, from quantitative and qualitative research carried out […]

Journal article

Addressing multiple dimensions of gender inequality: the experience of the BRAC Gender Quality Action Learning (GQAL) programme in Bangladesh

31/07/2015

1 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Recent analyses have highlighted that poverty reduction in Bangladesh has been accompanied by growing inequality in society, measured by household income. This article considers what the implications are for development actors who are concerned with empowering the poor in society, and who understand poverty from a gender and women’s rights perspective. We draw on experience […]

Journal article

Clutching a knifeblade’: human rights and development from Asian women’s perspective

01/06/1993

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Clutching a knifeblade’: human rights and development from Asian women’s perspective

Keywords

Overview

In all Asian countries, political repression and lack of economic productivity are affecting women to a far greater degree than men. This article shows why this is so, looking at how women’s rights are violated in different contexts: urban, rural, export processing zones, tourist areas, and by civil war. The author asserts that advocates of […]

Journal article

Shampoo, saris and SIM cards: seeking entrepreneurial futures at the bottom of the pyramid

23/03/2012

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In recent years bottom-of-the-pyramid (BoP) models have emerged as a popular strategy for offering poor women the opportunity to earn an income by distributing goods and services door-to-door. In this article, we explore one recent example of BoP entrepreneurship: the CARE Bangladesh Rural Sales Program (RSP). The RSP is a partnership between CARE and several […]

Evaluation report

WE-Care Malawi Programme Report: Linking unpaid care work and mobile value-added services in Malawi

02/11/2016

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Malawi was one of the six countries in which Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme was implemented. In its first phase (2014-2016), WE-Care aimed to build evidence to influence policy and practice change around the issue of unpaid care work. In Malawi, three research methodologies were used, including qualitative participatory research and quantitative […]

Case study

Understanding Norms around the Gendered Divisions of Labour: Results from focus group discussions in the Philippines

28/10/2019

2 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Social norms refer to the shared expectations held by a given community. They are often held in place by social approval or rewards for conformity, and by disapproval or sanctions for transgressions. Understanding how and why social norms hold sway can provide a powerful means for understanding the gendered division of work that prevails in […]

Showing 125 matching results from Policy & Practice

Evaluation report

Oxfam Bangladesh Economic Justice and Resilience Pillar: Integrated impact evaluation report

17/11/2022

1 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Economic Justice and Resilience Pillar of the Oxfam Bangladesh Country Strategy 2016–19 was an ambitious and far-reaching portfolio of initiatives conducted across widely varying contexts and with a large cast of partners. This integrated evaluation report is the result of a rich study process that captured this ambitious complexity through a careful sequencing of […]

Journal article

Are women self-help group members economically more empowered in left-run municipalities?

18/02/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Are women self-help group members economically more empowered in left-run municipalities?

Keywords

Overview

Who controls the income earned by members of women’s self-help groups (SHG) from group activities – the women or their husbands? The answer indicates one dimension of the level of economic empowerment attained by SHG members. This paper examines whether identity of the person controlling the income earned depends upon the political party ruling the […]

Case study

Resilience-Building and Women’s Leadership in Bangladesh

10/07/2017

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The REE-CALL programme aims to strengthen community resilience to climate change by fostering economic empowerment and inclusive leadership. The programme targets highly vulnerable people: 225,000 households in 14 of the worst-affected districts of the three most vulnerable agro-ecological regions of the country – Haor, Char and the south-west and south-central coastal regions. The programme recognizes […]

Book

Gender, Development, and Money

01/01/2001

1 documents

99 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Money, value, power, and status are linked in complex ways in the global economic system. Male-biased economic policies and practices fail to give equal pay for equal work in any sector; women are more likely than men to have insecure, informal employment; and unpaid work done mainly in the home by women is not valued […]

Research report

Women’s Collective Action: Unlocking the potential of agricultural markets

27/03/2013

3 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Development actors are increasingly prioritising ‘investing in women’ to ensure food security and sustainability-as well as equity-in agricultural development. In this context, collective action is a critical but poorly understood way for women small-scale farmers to strengthen their engagement in agricultural markets. This report provides rigorous new evidence, from quantitative and qualitative research carried out […]

Journal article

Addressing multiple dimensions of gender inequality: the experience of the BRAC Gender Quality Action Learning (GQAL) programme in Bangladesh

31/07/2015

1 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Recent analyses have highlighted that poverty reduction in Bangladesh has been accompanied by growing inequality in society, measured by household income. This article considers what the implications are for development actors who are concerned with empowering the poor in society, and who understand poverty from a gender and women’s rights perspective. We draw on experience […]

Journal article

Clutching a knifeblade’: human rights and development from Asian women’s perspective

01/06/1993

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Clutching a knifeblade’: human rights and development from Asian women’s perspective

Keywords

Overview

In all Asian countries, political repression and lack of economic productivity are affecting women to a far greater degree than men. This article shows why this is so, looking at how women’s rights are violated in different contexts: urban, rural, export processing zones, tourist areas, and by civil war. The author asserts that advocates of […]

Journal article

Shampoo, saris and SIM cards: seeking entrepreneurial futures at the bottom of the pyramid

23/03/2012

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In recent years bottom-of-the-pyramid (BoP) models have emerged as a popular strategy for offering poor women the opportunity to earn an income by distributing goods and services door-to-door. In this article, we explore one recent example of BoP entrepreneurship: the CARE Bangladesh Rural Sales Program (RSP). The RSP is a partnership between CARE and several […]

Evaluation report

WE-Care Malawi Programme Report: Linking unpaid care work and mobile value-added services in Malawi

02/11/2016

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Malawi was one of the six countries in which Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme was implemented. In its first phase (2014-2016), WE-Care aimed to build evidence to influence policy and practice change around the issue of unpaid care work. In Malawi, three research methodologies were used, including qualitative participatory research and quantitative […]

Case study

Understanding Norms around the Gendered Divisions of Labour: Results from focus group discussions in the Philippines

28/10/2019

2 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Social norms refer to the shared expectations held by a given community. They are often held in place by social approval or rewards for conformity, and by disapproval or sanctions for transgressions. Understanding how and why social norms hold sway can provide a powerful means for understanding the gendered division of work that prevails in […]

Showing 125 matching results from Policy & Practice

Evaluation report

Oxfam Bangladesh Economic Justice and Resilience Pillar: Integrated impact evaluation report

17/11/2022

1 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Economic Justice and Resilience Pillar of the Oxfam Bangladesh Country Strategy 2016–19 was an ambitious and far-reaching portfolio of initiatives conducted across widely varying contexts and with a large cast of partners. This integrated evaluation report is the result of a rich study process that captured this ambitious complexity through a careful sequencing of […]

Journal article

Are women self-help group members economically more empowered in left-run municipalities?

18/02/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Are women self-help group members economically more empowered in left-run municipalities?

Keywords

Overview

Who controls the income earned by members of women’s self-help groups (SHG) from group activities – the women or their husbands? The answer indicates one dimension of the level of economic empowerment attained by SHG members. This paper examines whether identity of the person controlling the income earned depends upon the political party ruling the […]

Case study

Resilience-Building and Women’s Leadership in Bangladesh

10/07/2017

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The REE-CALL programme aims to strengthen community resilience to climate change by fostering economic empowerment and inclusive leadership. The programme targets highly vulnerable people: 225,000 households in 14 of the worst-affected districts of the three most vulnerable agro-ecological regions of the country – Haor, Char and the south-west and south-central coastal regions. The programme recognizes […]

Book

Gender, Development, and Money

01/01/2001

1 documents

99 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Money, value, power, and status are linked in complex ways in the global economic system. Male-biased economic policies and practices fail to give equal pay for equal work in any sector; women are more likely than men to have insecure, informal employment; and unpaid work done mainly in the home by women is not valued […]

Research report

Women’s Collective Action: Unlocking the potential of agricultural markets

27/03/2013

3 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Development actors are increasingly prioritising ‘investing in women’ to ensure food security and sustainability-as well as equity-in agricultural development. In this context, collective action is a critical but poorly understood way for women small-scale farmers to strengthen their engagement in agricultural markets. This report provides rigorous new evidence, from quantitative and qualitative research carried out […]

Journal article

Addressing multiple dimensions of gender inequality: the experience of the BRAC Gender Quality Action Learning (GQAL) programme in Bangladesh

31/07/2015

1 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Recent analyses have highlighted that poverty reduction in Bangladesh has been accompanied by growing inequality in society, measured by household income. This article considers what the implications are for development actors who are concerned with empowering the poor in society, and who understand poverty from a gender and women’s rights perspective. We draw on experience […]

Journal article

Clutching a knifeblade’: human rights and development from Asian women’s perspective

01/06/1993

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Clutching a knifeblade’: human rights and development from Asian women’s perspective

Keywords

Overview

In all Asian countries, political repression and lack of economic productivity are affecting women to a far greater degree than men. This article shows why this is so, looking at how women’s rights are violated in different contexts: urban, rural, export processing zones, tourist areas, and by civil war. The author asserts that advocates of […]

Journal article

Shampoo, saris and SIM cards: seeking entrepreneurial futures at the bottom of the pyramid

23/03/2012

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In recent years bottom-of-the-pyramid (BoP) models have emerged as a popular strategy for offering poor women the opportunity to earn an income by distributing goods and services door-to-door. In this article, we explore one recent example of BoP entrepreneurship: the CARE Bangladesh Rural Sales Program (RSP). The RSP is a partnership between CARE and several […]

Evaluation report

WE-Care Malawi Programme Report: Linking unpaid care work and mobile value-added services in Malawi

02/11/2016

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Malawi was one of the six countries in which Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme was implemented. In its first phase (2014-2016), WE-Care aimed to build evidence to influence policy and practice change around the issue of unpaid care work. In Malawi, three research methodologies were used, including qualitative participatory research and quantitative […]

Case study

Understanding Norms around the Gendered Divisions of Labour: Results from focus group discussions in the Philippines

28/10/2019

2 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Social norms refer to the shared expectations held by a given community. They are often held in place by social approval or rewards for conformity, and by disapproval or sanctions for transgressions. Understanding how and why social norms hold sway can provide a powerful means for understanding the gendered division of work that prevails in […]