To bring about change in the lives of poor women, I set up the program working with women in urban areas (PROFEMU), and introduced gender components into program for which I am responsible, as well as working with the Senegal team to implement the gender policy in our funding and non-funding work. Some of the blockages to change on gender have been a lack of collective intervention at a national level. There are many actors, many approaches, and agencies in competition. Work pressure, changes in structures, and a lack of understanding of the new gender orientation in the field have been other problems. I set up and support women's networks, and work as a resource person with national NGOs to ensure a focus on poor women's interests. I have taken part in setting up a more gender-focused women's network, Collectif Dakar 94 - Beijing 95, and work on building women's leadership and awareness.
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{"title":"The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.","authors":"B Walker","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74080,"journal":{"name":"Links : a newsletter on gender for Oxfam GB staff and partners","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22039255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Change and its agents.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74080,"journal":{"name":"Links : a newsletter on gender for Oxfam GB staff and partners","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22039302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making it happen: the programme. The multicultural project.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74080,"journal":{"name":"Links : a newsletter on gender for Oxfam GB staff and partners","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22039308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I have always believed that women should be given equal recognition and treatment. My upbringing, observation and experience taught me that I would get nowhere unless I broke the rules. Equal recognition happens only when women are consciously encouraged to reflect and led to understand their worth by looking at their own lives. I use the strategy of sharing my own experience to open dialogue with rural women. For example, in India I helped poor tribal women to go to the Tribal Commissioner when they were being cheated out of tribal rights over land. Appealing to the law makes women stronger, more assertive, and more aware of their rights. Land titles were restored to a few women and they became leaders and supported other women in the same predicament. This change was possible because of a commitment of resources, the attitude of the authorities, and my presence as an Oxfam project officer. As a woman manager I am proud to have helped to create an office environment which in sensitive to women's needs and the way women operate. I have consciously fostered the space for a diversity of ways of working. I can do that because of my management position, and support from other structures, like AGRA and the Gender Unit. It has not been easy as a woman manager in a male dominated, technical program, and as a non-white woman from the South. But with decision-making authority it has been possible to keep women's participation and gender on the agenda.
{"title":"Making it happen: the programme. Breaking the rules.","authors":"V Padmanabhan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>I have always believed that women should be given equal recognition and treatment. My upbringing, observation and experience taught me that I would get nowhere unless I broke the rules. Equal recognition happens only when women are consciously encouraged to reflect and led to understand their worth by looking at their own lives. I use the strategy of sharing my own experience to open dialogue with rural women. For example, in India I helped poor tribal women to go to the Tribal Commissioner when they were being cheated out of tribal rights over land. Appealing to the law makes women stronger, more assertive, and more aware of their rights. Land titles were restored to a few women and they became leaders and supported other women in the same predicament. This change was possible because of a commitment of resources, the attitude of the authorities, and my presence as an Oxfam project officer. As a woman manager I am proud to have helped to create an office environment which in sensitive to women's needs and the way women operate. I have consciously fostered the space for a diversity of ways of working. I can do that because of my management position, and support from other structures, like AGRA and the Gender Unit. It has not been easy as a woman manager in a male dominated, technical program, and as a non-white woman from the South. But with decision-making authority it has been possible to keep women's participation and gender on the agenda.</p>","PeriodicalId":74080,"journal":{"name":"Links : a newsletter on gender for Oxfam GB staff and partners","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22039307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making it happen: the programme. Breaking the isolation.","authors":"L Abu-habib","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74080,"journal":{"name":"Links : a newsletter on gender for Oxfam GB staff and partners","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22039309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Working on gender issues with partners and other actors.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74080,"journal":{"name":"Links : a newsletter on gender for Oxfam GB staff and partners","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22040196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond words. Action and learning from Oxfam's Gender Policy Implementation Workshop.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74080,"journal":{"name":"Links : a newsletter on gender for Oxfam GB staff and partners","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22040290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategic planning as a tool for change.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74080,"journal":{"name":"Links : a newsletter on gender for Oxfam GB staff and partners","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22040195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women's rights are human rights -- why development has failed women.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74080,"journal":{"name":"Links : a newsletter on gender for Oxfam GB staff and partners","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22029950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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