Gender and Women Rights
Integration
M.B. Akhter
Programme Manager
Oxfam GB, Bangladesh
Situation Analysis
• Gender Relationship: Power to control
- Structure, Ideology, Hierarchy,
• Culture of subordination: Justifying the
power relationship
– Social, political, cultural, civil & political power
• Social structure & Legal framework:
Entitlement and Exercise (Power, Principles,
Values, Politics, Purpose and Practices)
Oxfam Beliefs
Power
Inequalities
Rights
Transform
Entitlement
Challenge
How Power working within structure
Global
National
Community
Family
What Approach Oxfam Follow
• Mobilises to challenge roles, attitudes and
practice that perpetuate inequality
• Advocates with decision & policy makers,
and builds popular pressure and implement
gender-equal laws and policies
• Trials alternative development programs and
advocacy based on gender equality
• Allocates more resources for action on
women’s rights and gender equality
• Engages both men and women in the fight
against gender inequality
Individual change
Women’s and men’s
consciousness, knowledge
and commitment
Women’s rights,
opportunities and
access to resources
Informal
Formal
Informal cultural
norms, inequitable
practices and ideologies
Formal institutions
such as laws,
policies, etc.
Systemic change
What we would like to achieve
• Equal Rights
• Equitable Participation
• Right to make decision
• Freedom of choice
• Gender Equality in different social and political
structures
• Numbers and Visibility
The Challenges
• Evidence from our programs shows that women’s
participation is not enough to secure equality between the
genders and women’s empowerment in livelihoods,
• Our work must have an active gender equality focus and
challenge men and women to change their beliefs about
gender-specific roles in the economy and the value of the
caring economy.
• Human Resources and Capacity building of organisation and
project team
Approach of REE_CALL
Human
Social
Hazard Exposed
Physical
Natural
Livelihood
Strategy
Outcome
Vulnerability Context
Financial
Policy, Institutions and Process
Natural Event
-Water, Sanitation, Hygiene
-Small scale infrastructure
prevention.
-Skill and knowledge
- Analysis model on basis of
scientific data
-Early warning system
-Alternative Livelihood
- Value chain and market link
- Private Sector Engagement
- Food and Seed bank
- Risk sharing mechanism
Economic
Empowerment
- Women Transformative
Leadership.
-Equity Measures
- Ending VAW and Gender
Equality
-Formation CBO
- NRM & Access to ES
- Social safety-Net
- Bank and MFI
- Identity and practice
Women Rights
and Leadership
DRR, CCA
Rights and
Entitlements
Oxfam follows the strategies
• Expanding women’s market roles
• Enhancing women’s skills and ability to control assets,
production, processing
• Changes in beliefs and households’ power relations.
• Strengthen women’s entitlements to own and control
productive resources and assets,
• Challenge social beliefs, private and public sector policy,
and systems that limit women’s ability to participate
• Undertaking gendered market analysis
• Researching and investing in developing women’s
leadership in economic organizations
• Strengthening women’s resilience in vulnerable livelihoods
• Ending Violence Against women at all level
Oxfam interventions so far....
• Comprehensive approach, specific outcome on
Gender and Women Leadership.
• Specialised programme introduced on Women
Transformative Leadership – added BDT 10 Lac
each year with staff also capacity building.
• For women economic leadership and market access
Oxfam assigned one technical persons and providing
necessary training and market linking.
• Integrated WE CAN campaign to end domestic
violence and changing social beliefs against women.
• Partners are also involved with CSRL and Anti
Poverty campaign along with beneficiaries.
Further Questions or Concerns
THANKS