Women empowerment

All over South Asia's river basins women are coming forward to participate in decision making processes.

Women and Water - Creating Positive Ripples in Transboundary Water Governance in South Asia

Women can play a critical role in water resource management. However, getting beyond gender obstacles in water resource management remains difficult. Women in South Asia, particularly in Ganga- Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basins, play a critical role in providing, managing, and safeguarding water...

Chickens and Smart Farming Bring More Money to Family in Cambodia

An integrated approach to a family farm increases income and turns a shy farmer into a teacher for the community By Chris Hufstader | June 2019 In the dry winter months in Pursat province, the rice fields lie flat, brown, and barren, and the wind whips dust around. Under the bright-blue, sunny...

Oxfam in Asia - GRAISEA Programme - Influencing for Gender Transformative Businesses in South and Southeast Asia

Win-Win-Win: Influencing for Gender-transformative Businesses in South and South East Asia

GRAISEA is a gender-transformative business investment programme that aims to improve livelihoods of women and men small-scale producers in South and Southeast Asia. Learn more about its impact.

Oxfam in Asia - GRAISEA Programme - Stories of Change - Empowering Grassroots Women through Transformational Partnerships in Agricultural Value Chains

Empowering Grassroots Women Through Transformational Partnerships in Agricultural Value Chains

Oxfam, through the Gender Transformative and Responsible Agribusiness Investments in South East Asia (GRAISEA) programme, promotes women’s economic empowerment in agricultural value chains.

Responsible Business Practices: Cambodia’s changing business landscape

In Cambodia, Oxfam and the GRAISEA programme, together with private companies and CSOs, set up the CSR Platform Cambodia to facilitate sharing of resources and best practices that can help businesses become more socially responsible.

Women’s work? Challenging gender roles in the Philippines

Oxfam and Unilever, with its Surf laundry brand, have a partnership supporting the Women’s Empowerment and Care initiative (WE-Care) to challenge notions about unpaid care work, making it clear that care and domestic work, makes a valuable contribution to society and should be shared work, thus...

Oxfam in Asia - Publications - Nepal - Making Income through Homemade Napkins

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