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Discussion paper

A Multidimensional Approach to Measuring Resilience

01/08/2013

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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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 […]

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Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Disaster Risk Reduction Programming in Ethiopia’s Somali Region

01/07/2013

4 documents

58 pages long

Languages: English

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The activities of two separate projects in Ethiopia’s Somali region were covered by this review. One was the third phase of the cross-border ‘Regional Drought Decision’ programme, which focused on building the capacity of community-based disaster risk management committees, as well as the construction of water storage facilities and the setting up of some pilot pastoralist […]

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Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: We Can Campaign, Bangladesh

08/10/2012

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s We Can Campaign seeks to change deeply ingrained attitudes and practices that endorse gender discrimination and violence. It was initially launched in 2004 in six South Asian countries and has since been replicated in several African and Middle Eastern countries. These full and summary reports document the findings of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation carried […]

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Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Enhancing Access and Control to Sustainable Livelihood Assets, Philippines

08/10/2012

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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The Enhancing Access and Control to Sustainable Livelihood Assets of the Manobo Tribe through Improved and Strengthened Self-governance of the Ancestral Territory programme is being implemented by Oxfam’s partner organisation, Paglilingkod Batas Pangkapatiran Foundation Incorporated (PBPF). The project aims is to improve household food security and empower women among a group of indigenous peoples that […]

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Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Community-based Disaster Risk Management and Livelihoods Programme, Pakistan

08/10/2012

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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Pakistan’s Community-based Disaster Risk Management and Livelihoods Programme sought to reduce loss of life, and asset and promote livelihood resilience in times of extreme natural disasters such as flooding. These full and summary reports document the findings of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation carried out in December 2011 on the work carried out under this programme […]

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Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: North Karamoja Development Project, Uganda

08/10/2012

4 documents

49 pages long

Languages: English

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Through the North Karamoja Development Project and other complementary initiatives, Oxfam directly supported 10 women’s groups in Kotido and Kaabong districts of Uganda’s Karamoja sub-region from 2007 to 2011. These full and summary reports document the findings of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation carried out in August 2011 used to assess the effectiveness of this support.

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Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Building Resilience: Eastern Indonesia

08/10/2012

4 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

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The Building Resilience in Eastern Indonesia project was a three-year initiative that aimed to substantially reduce disaster-related loss, including human life and the social, economic, and environmental assets which the communities it targeted depend on. These full and summary reports document the findings of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation carried out in March/April 2012 in three […]

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Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Sustainable Livelihood Development and Ethnic Minority Diversity in Lao Cai Province, Viet Nam

01/10/2012

4 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English

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The ‘Sustainable Livelihood Development and Ethnic Minority Diversity in Lao Cai Province’ project in Viet Nam aims to mobilise poor, ethnic minority farmers, the H’mong, Dao, and Tay in particular, into farmer groups and provide them with training and agricultural extension support. These full and summary reports document the findings of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation […]

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