Gender Archives - Page 154 of 203 - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Journal article

The role and example of Chilean and Argentinean Mothers in democratisation

01/04/2004

15 pages long

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The role and example of Chilean and Argentinean Mothers in democratisation

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This paper explores the development issue of democratisation from a gendered perspective, emphasising the need to look for the building blocks of democracy within civil society sectors where women play a key role. Chilean and Argentinean women prove an important example for sustainable political development through their roles as Mothers, particularly in the 1980s in […]

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Journal article

Practical Notes

01/04/2004

24 pages long

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Based on ‘Women and the burden of unsustainable development: practice and policy contradictions’, ‘Pro-poor dissemination: increasing the impact of research’, ‘Lessons learned from the reintegration of former Kosovo Liberation Army combatants’ and ‘The process of a participatory tree domestication project in Meru, Kenya’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Journal article

Participatory methodologies and the product development process: the experience of Mixtec craftswomen in Mexico

01/04/2004

11 pages long

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Participatory methodologies and the product development process: the experience of Mixtec craftswomen in Mexico

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This paper presents a product development methodology for use with indigenous rural workers. It is based on the revival of cultural and social values, with a focus on the conservation of natural resources. Illustrated by the case of Mixtec craftswomen in Mexico, this paper shows how poor groups can improve their living conditions through innovation […]

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Issue briefing

Submission to the Commission on the Status of Women

03/03/2004

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s commitment to gender equality is rooted in twenty years of analysis and practical action in line with feminist goals. Our understanding of gender mainstreaming has been to focus on programmes whose immediate beneficiaries are women and their dependents, based on continuing evidence that women are the majority in the most economically needy groups in […]

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Briefing paper

The Cost of Childbirth: How women are paying the price for broken promises on aid

01/03/2004

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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One women dies every minute as a result of problems in pregnancy or childbirth. The vast majority of these deaths are avoidable. Yet on current trends the international target of reducing maternal deaths by three-quarters by 2015 will be missed. Northern governments could transform the prospects of reaching the target by increasing the aid that […]

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Book

Gender, Development, and Diversity

01/01/2004

1 documents

95 pages long

Languages: English

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Each one of us lives life as a carrier of multiple identities – including gender, race, class, and age. The sum of these identities determines our opportunities in life, and empowers or disempowers us, depending on our context. Gender, Development, and Diversity focuses on the implications that this has for the development goals of poverty […]

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Book

Gender, Education, and Training

01/01/2004

1 documents

83 pages long

Languages: English

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This collection of articles by development workers and researchers focuses on learning opportunities for women offered by education and training. There is a continuing imbalance in educational participation – women make up an estimated two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people – and writers reflect on the causes and consequences of this. While this lack of […]

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Book

Gender, Development, and Citizenship

01/01/2004

1 documents

107 pages long

Languages: English

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This book examines ways in which citizenship is denied, and argues that citizenship can be used to demand and advance human rights. Women often find themselves excluded from full citizenship by legal systems which leave men to look after the interests of their female dependants. But women need recognition as citizens in their own right, […]

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Book

Gender, Development, and Trade

01/01/2004

1 documents

99 pages long

Languages: English

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Women all over the world are increasingly employed – and exploited – at the far end of the global supply chain. Whether by picking fruit in Chile, processing cashews in Mozambique, sewing in China’s Export Processing Zones, or providing biotech companies with indigenous knowledge in India, women’s labour and skill are crucial elements in the […]

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Book

Women Reinventing Globalisation

10/12/2003

2 documents

161 pages long

Languages: English, French

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HIV and AIDS

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Women Reinventing Globalisation is a collection of articles drawn from the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)’s Ninth International Forum, on this subject. Development researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, and feminist activists, debated and charted the impact of globalisation on women’s status and their daily lives. Concrete strategies were developed, to ensure that globalisation […]

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