Bushell, Helen

There is currently a wave of enthusiasm for “building resilience” in the international humanitarian and development sectors. This has coincided with a number of attempts to both define what resilience is and devise ways of measuring it.  However, rather than comprehensively reviewing these attempts, this paper presents Oxfam GB’s own approach for both understanding and […]

Uganda faces frequent humanitarian challenges, both natural and conflict related. In order to improve preparedness and response to these events, Oxfam GB with Oxfam NOVIB and Oxfam Ireland developed a Disaster Preparedness and Contingency Planning (DPCP) project. The project (April 2007 – September 2008) aimed to improve preparedness and increase effective and accountable humanitarian response […]