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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE

As the globe tackles Coronavirus, this blog is highlighting the challenges of those affected and the systemic changes needed.

Making care count: Valuing work and wellbeing over wealth

Julie Thekkudan, Anam Parvez Butt and Clare Coffey

January 21st, 2020 Gender, Inequality, Women's Economic Empowerment

We are heading into increasingly stormy times. Times when caring for each other will become more critical and challenging. By 2025, economies will be in crisis response mode, coping with …

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Oxfam and Unilever’s laundry brand, Surf, have been in a partnership to address unpaid care work – giving women more choices to improve the quality of their lives, and create a brighter future for their families. Photo: Aurelie Marrier d'Unienville / Oxfam.

Why businesses are addressing unpaid care work

Sarah Hall

June 4th, 2019 Gender, Inequality, Participation and Leadership, Private sector, Women's Economic Empowerment

Sarah Hall, Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) Programme Manager, explores what businesses stand to gain from easing the burden of unpaid care and domestic work. A productive, healthy …

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Feminist solutions to man-made economic inequality

Francesca Rhodes, Man-Kwun Chan and Anam Parvez Butt

January 24th, 2019 Economics, Education, Gender, Health, In the news, Inequality, Tax, Women's Economic Empowerment

Francesca Rhodes, Gender Policy Advisor, Man-Kwun Chan, Influencing Advisor, Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care, and Anam Parvez Butt, Gender Justice Research Lead at Oxfam GB outline some of the key …

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A market system development approach has enabled women in the OPT to transform their lives. Here, Thuraya measures the density of sugar in the syrup she produces. Suhaib Jarrar / Oxfam OPTI

Making markets work in fragile settings

Shekhar Anand

January 22nd, 2019 Agriculture, Livelihoods, Private sector, Women's Economic Empowerment, Youth

Oxfam OPT’s Economic Justice team shares four lessons learned from their market system development (MSD) work with small-scale farmers in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian …

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Renu Bala, President of the Panjhorvanga Dairy Enterprise in Bangladesh. Photo: Abir Abdullah / Oxfam

Investing in women’s entrepreneurship is not enough

Caroline Ashley, Dr Miranda Morgan, Thalia Kidder and Fabian Llinares

October 31st, 2018 Gender, Private sector, Women's Economic Empowerment

Ahead of the Gender Smart Investing Summit, Caroline Ashley, Miranda Morgan, Thalia Kidder and Fabian Llinares set out Oxfam’s top tips for gender-smart investing. So you want to invest in women and …

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Oxfam and Unilever meet women members of the community Self Help Group (Bangon Savings Group & USKFA) at the Palanas Elementary school, Salcedo, Eastern Samar, Philippines. Credit: Aurelie Marrier d'Unienville / Oxfam

Winners of the 2018 Women’s Economic Empowerment Leadership Awards

Rose Smith

July 2nd, 2018 Participation and Leadership, Women's Economic Empowerment

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Niangouin Yassi poses for a portrait in the midst of cocoa pods on a farm in Sankro, Ivory Coast on January 8th, 2013. Credit: Oxfam

Cocoa and the global goals: accelerating women’s empowerment

Ulrike Joras and Gaël Lescornec

May 22nd, 2018 Food & livelihoods, General, Private sector, Women's Economic Empowerment

How can business build gender equality into supply chains? Oxfam’s Ulrike Joras and Gaël Lescornec of the World Cocoa Foundation, share lessons from the cocoa industry and introduce a new …

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Ulita Mutambo’s and her husband Muchineripi Sibanda walk to collect water from an OXFAM built water pump just over a 1km from their home in Ture Village, Zvishevane region, Zimbabwe. Aurelie Marrier d'Unienville / Oxfam

Care work matters – public services and infrastructure can make a difference

Thalia Kidder and Claudia Canepa

April 26th, 2018 Gender, Women's Economic Empowerment

Thalia Kidder and Claudia Canepa explain why unpaid care work matters in tackling poverty and gender inequality, and discuss what can be done to recognise, reduce and redistribute the work …

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Ghozlan, Syrian refugee living in Za’atari Camp, taking part in the Greenhouse project. Credit: Alixandra Buck/Oxfam

No hope of earning an income for Syrian women in Jordan

Aisha Shtiwi

April 20th, 2018 Humanitarian, Refugees and IDPs, Women's Economic Empowerment

As decision makers meet in Brussels to discuss the situation of Syrian refugees, Aisha Shtiwi shares the story of Ghozlan, one of millions of women refugees who can’t access work. …

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How improving access to water can help reduce care work

Lucia Rost

March 12th, 2018 General, Research, Women's Economic Empowerment

Changes to infrastructure and equipment can make a real difference to time spent on care work . Lucia Rost and the WE-Care team share research from the Philippines, Uganda and …

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