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Beyond GDP: A compendium of regional feminist perspectives

10/12/2024

4 documents

38 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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In this publication, leading feminist thinkers from Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, share perspectives on why we must move beyond gross domestic product (GDP) as the primary measure of societal progress. Drawing on regional examples, they demonstrate how the GDP-growth obsession is skewing policy-making towards measures […]

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Rights and Responsibilities: Understanding the impact of the tech industry on economic inequality

09/10/2024

1 documents

25 pages long

Languages: English

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Digital technologies have the potential to either ameliorate or worsen the dynamics underlying poverty and inequality, depending on how those technologies are designed, developed, deployed, and used, as well as on the degree to which the businesses, and business models behind them, respect the rights of users and workers. This paper recommends changes in corporate […]

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Understanding electricity utilities in sub-Saharan Africa: The role of civil society in improving performance, governance, and accountability

19/08/2024

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

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This report provides a primer on the performance of electricity utilities in sub-Saharan Africa, reflecting on the current landscape of power sector and utility challenges, the reforms undertaken to address performance failures, opportunities for a “utility of the future” amid the global energy transition, governance frameworks available to assess performance (like the infrastructure regulatory system […]

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The Gendered Energy Crisis: Prospects for an eco-feminist Just Energy Transition in South Africa

16/08/2024

1 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English

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This report is focused on identifying the ongoing challenges at Eskom, the South African power utility, thus shedding light on democratic processes and human rights considerations. It adopts a feminist lens in its analysis of the electricity crisis, exploring potential feminist approaches to restructuring the existing electricity grid infrastructure. This includes analyzing the integration of […]

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From Generation to Distribution: Investigating Ghana’s power sector’s value chain and its implications for reliable, affordable, and clean energy supply

23/07/2024

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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This report, published by Oxfam partner, the Africa Center for Energy Policy (ACEP) examines the Ghana's power sector value chain and its implications for reliable, affordable and clean energy supply. The work outlines the role of the Ghanian government in the electricity sector, and outlines three salient challenges facing the energy sector: 1) The role […]

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Electricity Utility Governance in Kenya: A comprehensive report

23/07/2024

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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This report provides a comprehensive account of the status of the electricity utility in Kenya. In doing so it analyzes the gaps in Kenya’s electricity governance and suggests ways these gaps can be addressed especially through civil society engagement. While Kenya has seen some notable successes in advancing its energy sector – in particular in […]

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Care as Essential Infrastructure: Definitions of and debates on care infrastructure from Kenya, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, the United States, and Zimbabwe

10/06/2024

2 documents

72 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Drawing on six case studies (Kenya, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, the United States, and Zimbabwe), this paper explores the definitions, debates, and demands related to the concept of care infrastructure. The paper finds the following components of care infrastructure across the case studies: care-supporting physical infrastructure, knowledge production, community networks, national care frameworks and public […]

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Towards Achieving Gender Equity in the Food Sector: What can investors do?

08/02/2024

2 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese

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Women and gender-diverse people represent an important constituency in the food value chain. Among all working women globally, about one in three works upstream in the food value chain. These women face increasing barriers to safety, recognition and advancement. Yet very little about their experiences has been documented. In the limited instances where the women […]

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Turn on the Light: Why tackling energy-related challenges in the nexus of water and food in Syria cannot wait

29/01/2024

2 documents

61 pages long

Languages: English

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This discussion paper contributes to the broader discourse on the nexus between Water, Energy and Food (WEF) in parts of Syria where Oxfam works. It explores the main causes behind the deterioration of the WEF sectors and the impact they have on households across Syria. The paper also focuses on aspects that directly impact and limit […]

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Towards Meaningful Human Rights Impact Assessments: From supermarket commitments to best practice action

11/01/2024

2 documents

55 pages long

Languages: English

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This discussion paper focuses on the commitments that Dutch, German and UK supermarkets made as part of the Behind the Barcodes campaign to conduct human rights impact assessments (HRIAs). To understand whether supermarkets are meaningfully implementing those commitments and to support learning, this paper analyses the HRIAs that supermarkets have published in the past four […]

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