Vincent Trousseau | Oxfam Views & Voices

At work in a strawberry field in Morocco. Credit: Pablo Tosco / Oxfam

A holistic approach to women’s economic empowerment

June 26th, 2017 Gender, General, Women's Economic Empowerment

What does economic empowerment look like and how can it be achieved? Vincent Trousseau looks at examples from Oxfam’s programmes in Zambia and Morocco and introduces our new conceptual framework. …

Grace Aloyo, 23 and Mark Olara, 30 years old, have been married for 7 years and they have 5 children, including a pair of twin girls. The three older children go to school. They are farmers who grow millet, maize, sorghum, pigeon peas and simsim. “I mainly sell sorghum. I put aside 3 acres of land for maize and pigeon peas. We use oxen to cultivate the land,” Aloyo says. Credit: Julius Ceaser Kasujja/Oxfam

#WEEForumchat – Unpaid Care Work

Vincent Trousseau

May 12th, 2017 Gender, Women's Economic Empowerment

Oxfam and the Women’s Economic Empowerment in Agriculture Knowledge Hub, recently held a Twitter chat on unpaid care and women’s economic empowerment for the WEE Global Learning Forum. As part of …

Zambia is among the top ten fastest growing economies in the world, but most of the population are not seeing the benefits of this economic development. Here, Barbara risks the crocodiles to collect water from the Zambezi river.

Winners of the WEE leadership awards 2017 announced!

Vincent Trousseau

March 8th, 2017 Gender, Women's Economic Empowerment

Today, Winnie Byanyima, Oxfam International Executive Director, has announced the four winners of the WEE Leadership Awards 2017 organised by Oxfam’s Knowledge Hub on Women’s Economic Empowerment in Agriculture! In …