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Learning Project on Gender and the Economic Crisis

In 2009 Gender & Development lead a learning project on gender and the economic crisis in partnership with Oxfam GB.

Project Aims

To provide a forum for researchers, academics, feminist activists and gender and development advocates and community workers to come together to focus on gender equality and women's rights in the economic crisis, and to position Oxfam as a leader on these issues.

The project aimed to result in:

Mapping, learning and networking of what we know to date about the impact of the economic crisis on women and gender relations, and future implications for national growth, poverty alleviation and feminist empowerment.

A clearer knowledge of good research, activism and support at grassroots level, and who is doing each of these.

A shared agenda informed by our analysis of our different comparative advantages in different locations and institutions, and better knowledge of potential for future shared activism and intiatives.

Project Outputs

Gender and the Economic Crisis: Impact and Responses Workshop
Oxford, 15th-16th September 2009. A post-workshop summary, presentations, and video from the event are available to download from the workshop page.

Gender and the economic crisis online discussion 

The online discussion was run and facilitated by Oxfam GB to engage activists, researchers, development practitioners and policymakers in an online dialogue about gender equality and women's rights in the face of the global economic crisis.

Gender and the Economic Crisis Discussion Paper
The Oxfam International Discussion paper, Gender Perspectives on the Global Economic Crisis by Richard King, Oxfam GB policy researcher, and Dr Caroline Sweetman, Editor of Gender & Development was published on 3rd February 2010.

Gender & Development Special Issue: The Economic Crisis
The Special issue was published in July 2010, edited by Caroline Sweetman with guest editor Professor Ruth Pearson of the Centre for Development Studies, University of Leeds, UK.

View all the articles from the Special issue here.

Future Learning Projects

Gender & Development is running a major Learning Project on Beyond Gender Mainstreaming, in partnership with the UK Gender and Development Network (GADN). It runs from November 2011 to November 2012, and involves a conceptual discussion about experience and successes of different approaches to integrating gender and women’s rights into development and humanitarian work. We aim to distil best practice and innovation, and answer some hard questions!

Read more about the project here.