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Tightening the Net: Net zero climate targets – implications for land and food equity

03 Aug 2021

6 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Many governments and companies are adopting net zero climate targets as they recognize the urgency of the climate crisis. Without clear definition, however, these targets risk being reliant on using vast swathes of land in low-income countries to capture carbon emissions, allowing the biggest emitters to avoid making significant cuts in their own emissions. ‘Net […]

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Precarity and the Pandemic: A survey of wage issues and Covid-19 impacts amongst migrant seafood workers in Thailand

30 Jul 2021

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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This report presents findings from an extensive survey of migrant workers in the Thai seafood industry conducted by the CSO Coalition. The report focuses on the issue of low wages, the gender pay gap and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on these issues and the workers who experience them. It also aims to develop […]

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Research report

Community Perceptions of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: A baseline report conducted in Anbar and Diyala Governorates, Iraq

29 Jul 2021

1 documents

93 pages long

Languages: English

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Over three months in 2020, Oxfam in Iraq collected data in Diyala and Anbar Governorates in Iraq to improve its understanding of the overall situation regarding sexual and gender-based violence and local communities’ perceptions of the issue. The researchers’ goal was to provide baseline information against which to monitor and measure the progress and effectiveness […]

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Discussion paper

Centring Gender and Power in Evaluation and Research: Sharing experiences from Oxfam GB’s quantitative impact evaluations

19 Jul 2021

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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Bringing a feminist intent to research, monitoring and evaluation practices leads to defining these as tools to contribute to transforming the lives of women, girls and non-binary people, and to bringing about social justice. This has meant putting gender and power at the centre of our practice, which has in turn shaped the technical choices […]

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Briefing paper

Transforming the Systems that Contribute to Fragility and Humanitarian Crises: Programming across the triple nexus

15 Jul 2021

3 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Conflicts and shocks linked to climate change are more frequent and intense, leading to poverty and inequality, exacerbating these phenomena and people’s vulnerability. In this context, humanitarian relief, development programmes and peacebuilding are not serial processes; they are all needed at the same time to tackle the systemic inequalities that trap people in poverty and […]

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Research report

Not In My Backyard: The impact of waste disposal sites on communities in Jordan

07 Jul 2021

1 documents

27 pages long

Languages: English

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Waste disposal sites across Jordan pose serious risks to the environment and to public health if not managed safely. Municipal waste decomposing in open landfills also takes an environmental and socio-economic toll on neighbouring communities. While the Government of Jordan is planning to reduce the number of operational landfills and improve waste management services, persistent […]

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Tightening the Net: Net zero climate targets – implications for land and food equity

Keywords

Overview

Precarity and the Pandemic: A survey of wage issues and Covid-19 impacts amongst migrant seafood workers in Thailand

Keywords

Overview

Community Perceptions of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: A baseline report conducted in Anbar and Diyala Governorates, Iraq

Keywords

Overview

Centring Gender and Power in Evaluation and Research: Sharing experiences from Oxfam GB’s quantitative impact evaluations

Keywords

Overview

Transforming the Systems that Contribute to Fragility and Humanitarian Crises: Programming across the triple nexus

Keywords

Overview

Not In My Backyard: The impact of waste disposal sites on communities in Jordan

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