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Welcome to the November issue of Oxfam Policy & Practice News. This month you'll find features on the 16 days of action to eliminate violence against women, Oxfam's new Research Guidelines, and the Beyond Gender Mainstreaming issue of Gender & Development journal. There's also analysis of the latest Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and news of legislative change giving men and women equal rights to land in Botswana. 

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16 days of action to eliminate violence against women

From the 25th November to 10th December activists across the world are taking part in the 16 days of action against gender violence.

To mark the event we have produced a collection of blogs, case studies, research and training resources to share our programme and campaigning experience on working with others to end gender violence. 

Read more on our EVAW page

16 days of action blogs

New publications

Oxfam Research Guidelines

Oxfam's new research guidelines build on decades of research experience. They will be useful to development workers and researchers who want to brush up their skills and learn more about the practicalities of applied research. The series includes guides on Writing terms of reference; Undertaking research with ethics; Creating killer facts and graphics; Researching human interest stories and Conducting semi-structured interviews.

Gender & Development: Beyond gender mainstreaming

Edited by Caroline Sweetman
In the latest issue of the G&D journal policymakers, practitioners, and feminist activists debate the progress of gender mainstreaming in development institutions and the state. Does gender mainstreaming lacks the revolutionary power to support women to respond to assaults on their rights? This issue highlights the progress and the challenges of gender mainstreaming and the impact it has had on the lives of women.

Commodities of War: Communities speak out on the true cost of conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Steven Van Damme

More than 760,000 people have been displaced in eastern DRC since the beginning of 2012, in the Kivu provinces alone. This reflects a new dimension to the ongoing crisis for the country as the Congolese army fights M23 rebels. In this policy paper Oxfam urges the government of the DRC, regional and international governments, and the UN forces to take action to ensure greater protection for civilians.

How Can a Post-2015 Agreement Drive Real Change? Revised Edition: The political economy of global commitments

Duncan Green, Stephen Hale and Matthew Lockwood

The final version of this discussion paper which looks at the lessons to be learned from the Millennium Development Goals. The paper argues that leverage over national governments and civil society involvement will increasingly eclipse leverage on aid as the determining factor of post-2015 success and discusses how alternative international instruments can achieve such traction.

Latest blogs

Making the food system work for women - online discussion

There's still time to join Oxfam's online policy discussion on reframing the discourse on food security from the perspective of women’s rights and women’s agency. 

The next discussion on the Future of Agriculture starts on 10th December.

Join the debate