Promises, Power and Poverty: Corporate land deals and rural women in Africa
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 Posted in Food security, Gender, Land, Pan Africa, Tanzania, Women's rights | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_6121" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Tatu, a woman farmer in Tanzania, harvesting potatoes"][/caption] A new Oxfam briefing paper, Promises, Power and Poverty: Corporate land deals and rural women in Africa, reflects the unfortunate finding from recent research that the promises of development ...
Oxfam lobbying partner Fartun Adan honoured with award
Sunday, March 10th, 2013 Posted in Gender, Somalia | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_5943" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Left to Right: Michelle Obama, Fartun Adan and John Kerry."][/caption] Fartun Adan, the Executive Director of the Elman Peace and Human Rights Center in Somalia was named as a recipient for the International Women of Courage Award ...
Love, death and violence against women in the DRC: what are we missing?
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012 Posted in DR Congo, Gender, Women's rights | 1 Comment »As conflict in eastern Congo again hits the news headlines, expect a rash of stories about sexual violence in a country often referred to as "the rape capital of the world". But we need a more nuanced and human understanding ...
Kenyan women – the invisible force of resilience
Friday, October 12th, 2012 Posted in Gender, Kenya, Pan Africa, Women's rights | 1 Comment »[caption id="attachment_5222" align="alignright" width="300" caption="A woman in Wajir builds a shelter for her family"][/caption] The theme for this year’s International Day for Disaster Reduction is, “Women and Girls: The Invisible Force of Resilience.” I don’t have to look far to see ...
‘We Can’ end violence against women in Tanzania
Saturday, September 29th, 2012 Posted in Gender, Tanzania, Women's rights | No Comments »Ending violence against women in Tanzania from Oxfam Ireland on Vimeo.
Peace through youth sports in Somalia
Friday, August 10th, 2012 Posted in Gender, Peacebuilding, Somalia | 3 Comments »[caption id="attachment_4761" align="alignright" width="334" caption="Youth play football in Galkayo"][/caption] “O Sport, You are Peace! You forge happy bonds between the peoples” - Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics As the world has been focusing its eyes on the Olympics, the ...
Nimco’s story – can NGOs listen and learn?
Monday, July 23rd, 2012 Posted in Aid, Food security, Gender, Somalia | 1 Comment »[caption id="attachment_4672" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Nimco and her children"][/caption] Sometimes a development project works, but not in the way it meant to. Can NGOs listen and learn from incredible women like Nimco? I'm in Wado Makhil, a small village in Somaliland, on the ...
Finding Rwanda’s first female entrepreneur champion
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 Posted in Gender, Rwanda, Women's rights | 1 Comment »[caption id="attachment_3952" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="Launching the new competition"][/caption] Across Rwanda, women farmers and entrepreneurs are driving the country’s economic growth and poverty reduction. A new competition aims to put the spotlight on ordinary women doing extraordinary things in their communities, and ...
Women help to build the new nation of South Sudan
Friday, March 9th, 2012 Posted in Gender, South Sudan | 3 Comments »[caption id="attachment_3932" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Rebecca on her masonry course"][/caption] As the world celebrated International Women’s Day, many women in the remote rural areas of South Sudan went about their day as normal, unaware of the global day to celebrate the ingenuity ...
Women making markets work for the poor
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in Drought, Ethiopia, Gender, Kenya | 2 Comments »[caption id="attachment_2749" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Women Maize street-sellers in Miyo, Borena"][/caption] A small team from Oxfam is looking at markets in the drought crisis - their ability (or inability) to deliver food, and assessing what can be done to 'stimulate' or 'support' ...