Oxfam Publications on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment!

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This blog-post proposes a series of reports published by Oxfam, covering a wide range of thematic dealing with gender issues.

Enjoy the readings!

Beyond participation: making enterprise development really work for women (2012) 
By Sally King , Hugo Sintes & Maria Alemu

Over the last three years Oxfam have been piloting an innovative Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) – an initiative that uses a business approach to create wealth, and deliver economic growth, while increasing women's power in markets and wider society. This article outlines the reasons why Oxfam is encouraging this type of investment in rural Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and the importance of promoting the role of women in enterprise development.
http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/beyond-participation-making-enterprise-development-really-work-for-women-216731

Women and the 1%
How extreme economic inequality and gender inequality must be tackled together (2016)
By Francesca Rhodes (2016)
The rise of extreme economic inequality is a serious threat to women’s rights. Women’s economic empowerment has the potential to transform many women’s lives and support economic growth. The paper argues that unless the causes of extreme economic inequality are addressed, the main beneficiaries of women’s economic empowerment will be the richest the majority of whom are men.  Without challenging the structural causes of this economic inequality, women, particularly the poorest, will fail to fairly benefit from growth, even where they are driving it.
https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/women-and-1

Understanding the effectiveness of agricultural training for women (2016)
A desk review of inficators, methods and best practices
Author: Aimee Reeves
This desk review provides an introduction to some of the indicators, methods, tools, challenges and best practices that will help development practices that will help development practioners measure the effeciveness of agricultural training, specifically as it relates to women and womens’ economic empowerment.
http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/understanding-the-effectiveness-of-agricultural-training-for-women-a-desk-revie-596349

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care: Evidence for influencing (2015)
Authors: Rost Luia, Bates Katie, Dellpiane Luca
Development actors increasingly identify care responsibilities as a factor restricting women’s empowerment outcomes. Oxfam conducted a Household Care Survey in communities of rural Colombia, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Results highlight that gender inequality exists in all measures of care work, with women and girls doing significantly more primary and secondary care activities, and supervision of dependants, than men and boys.
http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/womens-economic-empowerment-and-care-evidence-for-influencing-578732

Challenges to Security, Livelihoods, and Gender Justice in South Sudan (2013)
The situation of Dinka agro-pastoralist communities in Lakes and Warrap States
Author: Ingrid Kircher, Senior Researcher, Intermón Oxfam and Oxfam GB
In South Sudan, widespread euphoria following independence in July 2011 has given way to disappointment that expected peace dividends have not materialized. Many South Sudanese are experiencing insecurity, a lack of access to basic services, increasing inequalities, and women are particularly marginalized. This report is the result of Oxfam research to enable the needs and views of conflict-affected communities to be voiced and addressed, with an emphasis on women’s participation.
https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/challenges-security-livelihoods-and-gender-justice-south-sudan

Ebola Impact Revealed
An assessment of the differing impact of the outbreak on the women and men in Liberia (2015)
Author: Korkoyah, Dala T., Jr. Wreh, Francis F. / Publishers: UN Women, Oxfam International, Liberia Ministry of Gender and Development, Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services, Liberia WASH Consortium
This research report examines the differing impacts of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia on women, men, girls and boys. The report finds that women were disproportionately affected by the outbreak, and that gender, disability and geographical location were the most important factors in determining how people were impacted by the crisis.
https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/ebola-impact-revealed-assessment-differing-impact-outbreak-women-and-men-liberia 

Meaningful Action: Effective approaches to women's economic empowerment in agriculture (2014)
Authors Kidder Thaila, Bright David, Green Caroline 
This paper responds to recent focus in the development sector on creating employment for women. It argues that sustaining women's economic empowerment depends on employment being decent work, with safeguards, that is accessible to many women. Approaches combine integrated interventions to increase participation in markets with broader investments for social infrastructure, supportive norms and addressing structural barriers for women.
http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/meaningful-action-effective-approaches-to-womens-economic-empowerment-in-agricu-334788

Women’s Collective Action in Agricultural Markets (2011)
Synthesis of preliminary findings from Ethiopia, Mali, and Tanzania
Authors: Baden Sally, Pionetti Carine 
This paper  documents participatory field research in Ethiopia, Mali, and Tanzania. Findings are reported on women smallholders’ motivations and capacities to engage in collective action, aswell as on gender-based patterns and outcomes of collective action.
http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/womens-collective-action-in-agricultural-markets-synthesis-of-preliminary-findi-245931

Women’s Participation and Leadership in Lebanon, Jordan and Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Moving from individual to collective change (2016)
Authors: Dina Kiwan, May Farah, Rawan Annan and Heather Jaber, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
This report sets out the findings of a seven-month qualitative study commissioned by Oxfam and conducted in Lebanon, Jordan and Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). The aim of the study was to explore the role customary institutions play in maintaining gender inequality, and how changes in individual perceptions and attitudes on gender equality can lead to changes in the social and political sphere.
http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/womens-participation-and-leadership-in-lebanon-jordan-and-kurdistan-region-of-i-604070

Women's collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women's empowerment (2013)
By Sally Baden
This paper focuses on collective action to secure economic benefits to women. Women's motives for collective action often differ from men's, and they bring different skills and qualities to it. This article draws on research in Ethiopia, Mali, and Tanzania, to assess recent experiences of development interventions supporting women's collective action in agricultural markets.
http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/womens-collective-action-in-african-agricultural-markets-the-limits-of-current-295460