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Introducing Oxfam Policy & Practice
A
new website providing access to Oxfam's research, policy, and programme
learning. Including over 900 free resources on gender and women’s rights.
www.oxfam.org.uk/policyandpractice
Key features:
Enhanced publications search — browse by subject, country, publication
type, and language
'Look inside' and comment on publications
Overviews of Oxfam's policy, programme, and research work on gender justice
Profiles of Oxfam’s gender advisory staff
News and analysis on key development issues in the Policy & Practice Blog
Gender RSS feed – keep updated on new publications as they are released
The website provides free online access to many of Oxfam’s key gender
publications for the first time including:
The Oxfam Gender
Training Manual
A Guide to
Gender-Analysis Frameworks
Half the World Half a
Chance: An introduction to gender and development
Practising Gender
Analysis in Education
New Gender Publications from Oxfam – October 2011
Ten years on from the start of the western intervention in
Faith-based organizations have long been involved in charitable and development
activities. However, the emerging openness to thinking about and engaging with
religion in development raises some important questions. Does religious
engagement in development policy and practice risk harming already fragile
gender relations? What are the challenges and opportunities in negotiating the
relationships between religion, gender, and development? Gender, Faith, and
Development presents ten chapters which explore in different ways the
relationships between religion, gender, and development.
As the international community mobilizes in response to global climatic
changes, climate funds must ensure the equitable and effective allocation of
funds for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Women and girls, who bear a
disproportionate burden of negative climatic change impacts in developing
countries, have largely been excluded from climate change finance policies and
programmes. Women and girls must not only be included in adaptive and
mitigative activities, but also recognized as agents of change who are
essential to the success of climate change interventions. This report draws on
research findings that climate financing funds have systematically neglected
gender issues and failed to incorporate a gender perspective into programs and
projects.
The 44 people, involved in the ‘We Can’ Campaign to end violence against women,
whose experiences of change are the basis of this document, are from a volatile
part of the world – South Asia – whose countries, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan
and Sri Lanka are all undergoing rapid, complex, uneven and often
conflict-ridden social and political change. They are people who one way or
another are ‘makers of change’, embracing change in their own lives, and
promoting change in the institutions of which they are a part – in the family,
household, community, voluntary and private sectors, and the state. This study
examines the processes of change through the voices of these Change Makers and
Campaign Alliance members, who were selected for their active involvement in
the ‘We Can’ Campaign, and interviewed at the end of 2010.
This summative
evaluation was commissioned by OGB to cover the full 7-year period of the
regional “We Can” campaign. Launched in late 2004, with the goal of ‘reducing
the social acceptance of violence against women’, the campaign started in six
South Asian countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri
Lanka – but has since spread to Indonesia, the Netherlands and British Colombia
in Canada. A small, external team had a total of some 120 woman-days spread
over three months to address a complex set of evaluation questions. The
conclusions presented are based on rich – if somewhat incomplete – internal
documentation and primary data gathered in key informant interviews, workshops,
and field research in
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