Gender Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Case study

Tea Leaves a Mark: The voice of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Kenya’s tea estates

18/03/2025

1 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

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Female labourers in Kenya’s tea estates face sexual and gender-based violence, precarious employment and systemic inequality. Grounded in personal testimonies, this case study highlights the resilience of women navigating exploitative conditions and intergenerational poverty. Based on the women’s words, it advocates for actionable reforms, including strengthening reporting mechanisms, enhancing mental health resources, ensuring fair wages, […]

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Case study

From Exploited to Unemployed: The women in Leicester left behind by fast fashion outsourcing, interviews with Leicester garment workers

18/03/2025

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study presents personal accounts from five women working in garment and textile factories in Leicester, UK. As migrant women in global supply chains, they experience intersectional vulnerability to exploitation, and their stories demonstrate the gendered impact of the buying choices made by fashion brands.

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Briefing paper

Change the Way You Do Business: Leading with women workers voices

18/03/2025

2 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

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This second briefing in the Briefings for Business on Valuing Women’s Work series explores how systemic business practices perpetuate gender inequality through informal work, particularly in feminized sectors with large numbers of women workers, like tea and garments. Through women workers’ voices and case studies, the briefing reveals how patriarchal norms and inequitable practices exacerbate […]

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Briefing paper

Fast, Fair, Funded and Feminist: A pathway to a just and transformative climate transition within and beyond the UK

10/03/2025

1 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English

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The world is in the grip of a climate emergency. Urgent and equitable action is essential to prevent yet further escalating climate impacts that are devastating communities worldwide and to safeguard a liveable planet for future generations. For governments everywhere, including the UK Government, this is a defining test of leadership. But it is also […]

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Evaluation report

Together Against Poverty Phase II Project Learning Review – Advocacy in Action: Stories of Change and Learnings for the Future

10/03/2025

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam, through the four-year, multi-country program Together Against Poverty Project -Phase II (TAP2), has implemented impactful interventions contributing to strategic policy and practice outcomes in agriculture, aid effectiveness, and gender equality. Throughout the project, Oxfam has undertaken continuous learning and adaptation to ensure that our different advocacy and program tactics and strategies, which include research, […]

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Briefing paper

Personal to Powerful: Holding the line for gender justice in the face of growing anti-rights movements

06/03/2025

5 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Thirty years on from the commitments enshrined in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) this briefing reveals a picture of broken promises and unfulfilled ambition by States. This failure is not just due to a lack of political will, but also an economic system that is unequal by design. As world leaders prepare […]

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Journal article

Introduction: Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises

12/02/2025

15 pages long

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Introduction: Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises

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This is the introduction to the special issue on 'Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises'.

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Journal article

Resilience aspirations, precarious futures: gender invisibility, racialised risk, and forced displacements in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

12/02/2025

20 pages long

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Resilience aspirations, precarious futures: gender invisibility, racialised risk, and forced displacements in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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In Rio de Janeiro, efforts to create a ‘global’, ‘sustainable’, and ‘resilient’ city have contributed to perpetuating precarious conditions in favelas. These informal settlements have historically been targeted by urban development and modernisation initiatives. Recently, the displacement of over 22,000 families from Rio’s favelas has been justified in the context of climate change adaptation and […]

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Journal article

Organised dispossession and development as disaster: analysing caste and gender in disaster policymaking

12/02/2025

20 pages long

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Organised dispossession and development as disaster: analysing caste and gender in disaster policymaking

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Disasters are often constructed as unique and extraordinary events. Such accounts ignore the social histories and inequalities that render specific communities/regions prone to disaster. In this paper, we focus on how coloniality and caste function together to produce dispossession among Dalits, Bahujans, and Adivasis (DBAs) through continuous violence and illegal appropriation of land and resources […]

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Journal article

Tiding over socio-ecological vulnerabilities: experiences of two groups of cleaning/domestic women workers from Kerala, India

12/02/2025

21 pages long

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Tiding over socio-ecological vulnerabilities: experiences of two groups of cleaning/domestic women workers from Kerala, India

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This paper is a preliminary attempt to examine the experience of two groups of women cleaning/domestic workers in two cities in Kerala grappling with vulnerabilities induced by natural disasters and the pandemic. The groups are similar to each other in several crucial respects, as assetless or asset-poor workers of oppressed caste social origins who perform […]

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