The eradication of poverty and injustice depends on women's equal enjoyment of their human rights. Oxfam has invested significantly in women's economic leadership, and affirms that economic empowerment requires parallel progress in women's political, social and personal empowerment. Women's control over their own time and labour is increasingly recognized as a precondition for, and component of, empowerment. To address the issue of unpaid care work, in 2014 Oxfam initiated a three-year programme, 'Women's Economic Empowerment and Care: Evidence for Influencing (WE-Care)'. The first phase of the WE-Care programme built on Oxfam's previous experience with Rapid Care Analysis methodologies in livelihoods programmes. The programme aimed to comp...
Women make significant, unrecognised contributions to local economies, and to economic deve...
In order to address 'heavy' and 'unequal' care work and to raise the profile of care as a cross-cutt...
Traditional roles for women have always defined them as housewives. However, this role is changing i...
This report examines the second phase of Oxfam's Women's Economic Empowerment and Care (We-Care) pro...
This broad based consultation is part of work undertaken by the Growth and Economic Opportunities fo...
Oxfam launched the Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) in Nepal in 2011. As a livelihoods program...
Northern Uganda has suffered from chronic food shortages and high levels of poverty, political insec...
Malawi was one of the six countries in which Oxfam's Women's Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care)...
This paper develops the concept of unpaid care work within the framework of market systems. It shows...
The need to increase women’s labour market participation and economic security is on the ‘to do’ lis...
Development actors increasingly identify care responsibilities as a factor restricting women's empow...
As an organisation that promotes the values and the work of the United Nations, the United Nations A...
Oxfam's initiative 'Innovations in Care' aims to support development, humanitarian and advocacy prac...
Care work is essential for personal wellbeing, a healthy society and a functioning economy. But acro...
Women constitute half of humankind and 40% of the global workforce. They are a growing proportion of...
Women make significant, unrecognised contributions to local economies, and to economic deve...
In order to address 'heavy' and 'unequal' care work and to raise the profile of care as a cross-cutt...
Traditional roles for women have always defined them as housewives. However, this role is changing i...
This report examines the second phase of Oxfam's Women's Economic Empowerment and Care (We-Care) pro...
This broad based consultation is part of work undertaken by the Growth and Economic Opportunities fo...
Oxfam launched the Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) in Nepal in 2011. As a livelihoods program...
Northern Uganda has suffered from chronic food shortages and high levels of poverty, political insec...
Malawi was one of the six countries in which Oxfam's Women's Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care)...
This paper develops the concept of unpaid care work within the framework of market systems. It shows...
The need to increase women’s labour market participation and economic security is on the ‘to do’ lis...
Development actors increasingly identify care responsibilities as a factor restricting women's empow...
As an organisation that promotes the values and the work of the United Nations, the United Nations A...
Oxfam's initiative 'Innovations in Care' aims to support development, humanitarian and advocacy prac...
Care work is essential for personal wellbeing, a healthy society and a functioning economy. But acro...
Women constitute half of humankind and 40% of the global workforce. They are a growing proportion of...
Women make significant, unrecognised contributions to local economies, and to economic deve...
In order to address 'heavy' and 'unequal' care work and to raise the profile of care as a cross-cutt...
Traditional roles for women have always defined them as housewives. However, this role is changing i...