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Families show legal documents for their homes in Abhuji Na Chaapra, Ahmedabad. Photo by MHT, 2020.

15,000 women transform housing conditions across India

Bijal Brahmbhatt

January 13th, 2021 Gender, Influencing, Participation and Leadership

Grassroots groups are helping improve the living and working conditions of hundreds of thousands of low-income women in urban informal settlements across India. By organising and influencing local service providers, …

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Starting a dialogue with men. Loknathpur, Odisha. Photographer- Subrata Biswas for Oxfam India

The power of radio

Shivanee Harshey

February 23rd, 2018 Gender, ICT4D

For World Radio Day Shivanee Harshey explains how Oxfam India was able to take their message about gender based violence to new audiences through a popular radio show. Radio is …

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New Delhi: a city of men?

Shannon Philip

August 3rd, 2017 Gender, New Urbanism

What does it mean to be a man? Prescriptive gender norms limit the lives of both men and women. Earlier this week Neha Kagal described how women’s empowerment in wastepicker …

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Wastepickers in India. Credit: Oxfam.

A man’s path to gender equality?

Neha Kagal

August 1st, 2017 Gender, Women's Economic Empowerment

What happens to the gender dynamics in a community when women become socially and economically empowered? Neha Kagal conducted research among Dalit communities in India which found pathways to gender …

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A street vender sells tomatoes at the Bab Mushrif market, in Hodiedah, western Yemen - one of the biggest markets in the city. Credit: Amal Alariqi/Oxfam

Nothing for us without us: Participatory processes and the New Urban Agenda

Rhonda Douglas

May 5th, 2017 Governance, New Urbanism

Half the world’s population live in cities, and urban informal workers make important economic, social, and environmental contributions to city life. Rhonda  Douglas from WIEGO argues that the New Urban …

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Tale of Buguru Chitamma: How a cooperative transformed fisher women into leaders

Ranjana Das

August 4th, 2016 Gender, Her Series, Women's Economic Empowerment

How can cooperatives help women to lead and take control of their livelihoods? In the first of our new ‘Her Series’ pieces, Savvy Soumya & Ranjana Das from Oxfam India …

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