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Oxfam Policy & Practice Update August 25, 2015 - www.oxfam.org.uk/policyandpractice
Somali
Solutions: Creating conditions for a gender-just peace
Siham Rayale, Ed Pomfret, Deborah Wright
This
report looks at Somali women’s experiences with conflict, peace, violence,
insecurity and state rebuilding. It uses an approach geared towards gender-just
peace-building to understand the ways in which Somali women have fulfilled
their role as agents of change.
Ibrahim Shaath, Loai Al Haddad,
Ala’a Eid
This case study presents Oxfam’s experiences of using shorter
value chain approaches to support the development of women’s food processing
businesses in Gaza. It provides key lessons learned and recommendations arising
from the programme.
Promoting Women’s
Economic Leadership In Nepal
Janakee Kiran Shrestha
Oxfam has been working with Nepali women to develop their
business and leadership skills through targeted training and the development of
women farmer organizations. Based on Oxfam’s experiences to date, this case
study sets out some key programme learning and recommendations.
James Schmitt
Oxfam and its partners are working to support economic
justice and livelihoods improvements for disadvantaged women smallholders in
Tajikistan. This case study explores what Oxfam has learned through the
implementation of the programme to date.
Supporting
Pro-Poor Berry Value Chains In Bosnia And Herzegovina
Tamara Nicodeme
Oxfam has been implementing a pilot project that explores how
poor smallholder farmers – especially women farmers – can benefit by
participating in raspberry production. This case study sets out some
initial lessons and recommendations arising from the pilot project.
Women’s
Economic Empowerment and Leadership in Armenia
Vadim Uzunyan, Alexey Petrosyan
Oxfam is promoting women’s economic empowerment and
leadership in remote regions of Armenia. This case study sets out Oxfam’s
experiences in supporting women smallholders to develop new agricultural
businesses producing fresh fruit and vegetables.
Daria Ukhova
While most emerging economies have been characterised by
persistence/growth of interhousehold economic inequality in recent
decades, and simultaneous poor performance on gender equality, the
intersecting relationship between these two trends so far has not received
much attention. This article is an initial attempt to look at this relationship.
Sheepa Hafiza, Mohammed Kamruzzaman, Hasne Ara Begum
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.
Abigail Hunt, Hannah Bond, Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng
This article focuses on women’s rights organisations and
their role in challenging inequality within the development process.
Naila Kabeer
This paper provides a brief history of feminist contributions
to the analysis of gender, poverty, and inequality in the field of
international development.
Gendering
the inequality debate
Diane Perrons
This article explores the gender dimensions of growing
economic inequality, summarises key arguments from feminist economics which
expose the inadequacy of current mainstream economic analysis on which ‘development’
is based, and argues for a ‘gender and equality’ approach to economic and
social policy in both the global North and South.
Jayshree P. Mangubhai, Chiara Capraro
This case study illustrates lessons learnt from Christian
Aid’s programmatic experience in several states of India in support of Dalit
women and single women as they individually and collectively struggle to gain
dignity and realise their rights.
Gaëlle Ferrant, Keiko Nowacka
This paper highlights the key role of discriminatory social
institutions – formal and informal laws, social norms, and practices – as the
underlying drivers of gender inequality.
The
Individual Deprivation Measure: measuring poverty as if gender and inequality
matter
Sharon Bessell
This article focuses on the Individual Deprivation Measure
(IDM), a multi-dimensional measure of poverty and inequality designed to
illuminate rather than obscure gender differences.
Women's
economic inequality and domestic violence: exploring the links and empowering
women
Christine Hughes, Mara Bolis, Rebecca Fries, Stephanie
Finigan
Economic empowerment of poor households is a key entry point
for development organisations concerned with economic inequality. Over the
decades, gender inequality has emerged as a key concern, and the result has
been women’s economic empowerment (WEE) programming. This article is a study of
the impact of WEE programming on domestic violence (DV) against women.
Andrea S. Papan, Barbara Clow
Poverty and income inequality undermine women’s health in a
myriad of ways. This article discusses findings from the Full Plate Project,
which addressed women’s experience of food security, obesity, and chronic
disease in Atlantic Canada.
Naila Kabeer, Caroline Sweetman