Gender and Women Rights Integration

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

2. 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)

3. Oxfam Beliefs

4. How Power working within structure

5. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Approach of REE_CALL Natural Event Policy, Institutions and Process Vulnerability Context Outcome Livelihood Strategy Hazard Exposed

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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.

13. Further Questions or Concerns THANKS