Hastie, Rachel Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Discussion paper

A (More) Feminist Approach to Principled Humanitarian Aid

31/03/2025

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Historically there has been very little discussion of feminism within the international humanitarian system. In recent years, some donor governments – including Canada, Mexico, and Germany – have adopted overtly feminist foreign policies and applied these to their strategies and guidance for humanitarian assistance. At the same time, aid actors have started to reconfigure their […]

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Research report

Lighting the Way: Lighting, sanitation and the risk of gender-based violence

21/12/2018

3 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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Humanitarian agencies strive to provide sanitation facilities which are safe, accessible and afford users privacy and dignity. In reality, women in particular have many concerns which can prevent them from using the facilities, especially after dark. In 2016, the Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) set up a research challenge asking: Does lighting in or around sanitation […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Responsible Data Management training pack

29/03/2017

25 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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A stimulating, adaptable training pack for humanitarian organizations on managing programme data. Managing data properly may be the greatest challenge of the information age. We now have more ways to collect, store, share, transmit, analyse and publish data than ever before. As new legal frameworks emerge and increasing attention is paid to the ethics of […]

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Technical briefing

Oxfam and Protection: A guidance note (now out of date; see 2022 version for latest guidance)

01/02/2017

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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For the latest guidance, see the 2022 update. This guidance note outlines Oxfam’s understanding of protection within humanitarian responses, and the framework it uses for field-based protection work. It goes on to describe the main modes of action Oxfam uses in its work to bring about greater protection for civilians in conflict and disasters, including […]

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Case study

Protecting Communities in the DRC: Understanding gender dynamics and empowering women and men

08/10/2012

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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Armed conflict has devastated large swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1997. Civilians in many parts of the eastern provinces still face constant threats of forced displacement, sexual violence, abduction, and extortion, not only from militia groups but in many cases from those who are mandated to protect them. Oxfam’s protection programme in […]

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Book

Improving the Safety of Civilians: A protection training pack

12/12/2008

1 documents

176 pages long

Languages: English

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This training pack is intended to help humanitarian workers to improve the safety of civilians being subjected to violence, coercion, or deliberate deprivation. The pack includes modules on: What is protection? Planning a programme, Mainstreaming protection and Programming for protection. The activity sessions within the modules cover topics as diverse as international standards for civilian […]

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Book

Disabled Children in a Society at War: A casebook from Bosnia

01/01/1997

1 documents

144 pages long

Languages: English

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This casebook analyzes the lessons for working with disabled children learned from a programme initiated by Oxfam at the height of the civil war in Bosnia. Disabled children in Former Yugoslavia were traditionally cared for in centralized institutions which were run by State-paid ‘defectologists’. When State services began to break down under pressure of war, […]

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A (More) Feminist Approach to Principled Humanitarian Aid

Lighting the Way: Lighting, sanitation and the risk of gender-based violence

Responsible Data Management training pack

Oxfam and Protection: A guidance note (now out of date; see 2022 version for latest guidance)

Protecting Communities in the DRC: Understanding gender dynamics and empowering women and men

Improving the Safety of Civilians: A protection training pack

Disabled Children in a Society at War: A casebook from Bosnia