Cohen, Marc J. Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

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Does Aid to Domestic Revenue Mobilization Support Tax Fairness? A synthesis of Oxfam research

17/03/2023

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Between 2017 and 2022, Oxfam examined aid to DRM from multiple donors provided to multiple low- and middle-income countries. This synthesis report seeks to draw lessons across these studies. The key issues examined include tradeoffs between efficiency and effectiveness in generating revenues on the one hand, and equity on the other; whether donors support direct […]

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Can Haiti’s Peanut Value Chain Survive US Generosity? Political economy analysis

28/04/2020

2 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Research by PAPDA (the Haitian Advocacy Platform for Alternative Development) and Oxfam found that peanut value chain actors in Haiti face a number of serious constraints, including nonexistence of state support; weak organization; use of traditional production methods; and lack of access to irrigation and inputs, including herbicides to control aflatoxin, all in a context […]

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Gender Inequalities and Food Insecurity: Ten years after the food price crisis, why are women farmers still food-insecure?

15/07/2019

2 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

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The food price crisis of 2007–08 had devastating impacts for the world’s poorest people, especially for smallholder farmers and in particular for women, who face discrimination and a heavy burden of household responsibility. The global response to the crisis saw the launch of numerous new initiatives and instruments, but funding has been insufficient and policies […]

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Ten Years After the Global Food Price Crisis, Rural Women Still Bear the Brunt of Poverty and Hunger

29/03/2019

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Ten years after the global food price crisis, women are still disproportionately disadvantaged by structural and emerging market factors that mean that they bear the brunt of poverty and hunger. Women and smallholder farmers in particular have been negatively affected by trade policy, competitive markets, and the accumulation of private power. There is, however, insufficient […]

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Tracing Swedish Development Flows: A study of the traceability of Swedish aid to Tanzania

31/07/2018

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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This report uses 2013–2015 International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) data to trace Swedish aid to Tanzania to its end use. It finds that general budget support (GBS) accounted for much of Swedish aid in 2013 and 2015, but could not determine final expenditures using IATI data. In the absence of GBS, the authors could only […]

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Follow the Money: Using International Aid Transparency Initiative data to trace development aid flows to their end use

06/03/2018

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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This note gives guidance on using International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) data to trace aid flows from donor treasuries to their final end use. Traceability in IATI works by following the money as it flows from organization to organization through the development implementation chain. Provided that all organizations publish their information, it is possible to […]

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Tracing US Development Flows: A study of the traceability of US aid to Ghana

05/01/2018

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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More than 600 development organizations publish to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Standard. IATI provides up-to-date and reliable aid data to improve accountability, coordination and effectiveness. Aid flow traceability throughout the implementation chain is a key part of this. This research report shows that, using 2013-2015 IATI data, it is only possible to verify […]

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Righting the Wrong: Strengthening local humanitarian leadership to save lives and strengthen communities

26/01/2016

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Tens of millions of people receive vital humanitarian aid every year, but millions more suffer without adequate help and protection, and their number is relentlessly rising. Far too often their suffering is because their governments cannot, or intentionally will not, ensure their citizens’ access to aid and protection. This paper looks at how we can […]

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Turning the Humanitarian System on its Head: Saving lives and livelihoods by strengthening local capacity and shifting leadership to local actors

27/07/2015

4 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The global humanitarian system is overstretched; inadequately investing in risk reduction and prevention, and providing assistance that is often insufficient, inappropriate and late. Humanitarian action led by governments in crisis-affected countries, assisted and held accountable by civil society, is usually faster and more appropriate, saving more lives and alleviating the suffering of many more men, […]

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We No Longer Share the Land: Agricultural change, land, and violence in Darfur

21/04/2014

2 documents

20 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

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Most analyses of violence in Darfur ignore the local dimension of the crisis, focusing instead on the region’s economic and political marginalization and climatic variability. However, agricultural change and other changes relating to the land-rights and land-use systems have led to competition and exclusion, and have played a major role in the collective violence that […]

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