Gender and Women Rights Integration M.B. Akhter Programme Manager Oxfam GB, Bangladesh.

Gender and Women Rights Integration

M.B. AkhterProgramme 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

How Power working within structure

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

Systemic change

Informal

Formal

Women’s and men’s consciousness, knowledge

and commitment

Women’s rights, opportunities and access to resources

Informal cultural norms, inequitable

practices and ideologies

Formal institutions such as laws, policies, etc.

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

Natural Event

Hazard Exposed

Outcom

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Livelihood Strategy

Approach of REE_CALL

-Alternative Livelihood- Value chain and market link- Private Sector Engagement- Food and Seed bank - Risk sharing mechanism

-Water, Sanitation, Hygiene-Small scale infrastructure prevention.-Skill and knowledge - Analysis model on basis of scientific data-Early warning system

- 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

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