FinancialInclusion

Women's Economic Empowerment

Agriculture accounts for 28% of the gross domestic product, and it employs 67% of the total workforce (FAO, 2014; World Bank, 2015). Given the increase in migrations predominantly labour-related reasons, agriculture sector of Cambodia has been feminized that 75% of the Agriculture labour force is...

Financial Inclusion

The past 15 years Oxfam and partners have introduced a broad range of Financial Inclusion programming as part of its Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) programming. As part of this Oxfam has introduced Savings-for-Change (SfC) as an effective pro-poor Savings-Led Microfinance (SLM) product in...

So Em And Her Dream

Throwing out fistfuls of rice for her hungry chickens, 15-year-old Phal SoEm carries out the seemingly ordinary chore behind her wooden house in Yeay Oort village, Banteay Meanchy province. But for SoEm, taking care of this small chickenfarm is a step to achieve her dream of having a higher...

Closing speech by Sarah Knibbs, UN Women Representative

Closing Speech: Innovative Integrated Development Solutions to Advance Women’s Empowerment

I would like to thank Oxfam very much for their initiative in supporting this forum for sharing and exchange between committed advocates and practitioners working to advance women’s rights and situation around the region. While our work may focus on different technical areas I believe we are all...

Regional Learning Workshop Innovative Integrated Development Solutions to Advance Women’s Economic Empowerment 25-26 Jan 2018

Opening Remarks: Innovative Integrated Development Solutions to Advance Women’s Economic Empowerment

MRD is strongly committed to continuing to implement its strategic plan and calls on all stakeholers, government ministries and agencies, development partners, national and international organizations, the private sector and rual communities to cooperate and to provide technical and financial...

Welcome Remarks: Innovative Integrated Development Solutions to Advance Women’s Economic Empowerment

Oxfam conducts regional learning events annually but this is the first time we have opened the event up externally to enable cross-sectoral sharing among a variety of champion actors working on Women’s Economic Empowerment in the region including government, civil society organisations, development...

Saving for Change: Stories From The Field

This booklet is a collection of stories from the field collected by Oxfam and partners in various Saving for Change project. Until now, the program had positively impacted the lives of poor and marginalized people to improve their family economics, e.g, they increased income through small-scale...

Innovative Integrated Development Solutions To Advance Women's Economic Empowerment

Booklet: Regional Learning Workshop

This booklet includes abtract and biography of speakers, agenda and participant list. of the Regional Learning Workshop that will be organized on 25-26 January 2018 in Siem Reap. About The Workshop Promoting Womens Economic Empowerment (WEE) is seen as one of the most important driving forces...

Regional Learning Workshop: Innovative Integrated Development Solutions to Advance Women’s Empowerment

Oxfam is hosting a regional learning workshop on “Innovative Integrated Development Solutions to Advance Women’s Empoperment” focusing on how innovative development programs working inclusively to support women expand their ability to succeed and advance economically so that they have the power to...