Lain, Jonathan Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Journal article

Are female-headed households less resilient? Evidence from Oxfam’s impact evaluations

14/11/2019

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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Given the complexity of measuring resilience, development practitioners are constantly seeking observable proxies that can help target resilience-building initiatives. Evidence suggests that female-headed and male-headed households differ in terms of their vulnerability and resilience, so household head gender may provide policymakers with important information about how best to target their interventions. However, the extent to […]

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Evaluation report

Resilience in Zambia: Impact evaluation of the ‘Citizen Participation in Adaptation to Climate Change’ project

31/05/2018

2 documents

82 pages long

Languages: English

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The ‘Citizen Participation in Adaptation to Climate Change’ (CPACC) project aimed to build the resilience of farming households to climate shocks, through promoting conservation farming techniques and livelihood diversification, and through supporting disaster-planning activities and early-warning systems at the community level. This Effectiveness Review used a quasi-experimental approach to assess the impact of the project […]

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Evaluation report

Resilience in Kenya: Impact evaluation of the ‘Building Resilience in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands of Northern Kenya’ project

09/05/2018

2 documents

69 pages long

Languages: English

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The ‘Building Resilience in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands of Northern Kenya’ project was implemented in Turkana County, in Northern Kenya, between July 2012 and April 2015. The project was designed to build the resilience of project participants to a number of shocks and stresses: droughts – which threaten the area annually – floods and […]

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Evaluation report

Resilience in Nepal: Impact evaluation of the Joint Programme on Disaster Risk Management and Humanitarian Preparedness

08/11/2017

2 documents

84 pages long

Languages: English

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This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2015/16, selected for review under the resilience thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation carried out in January 2016 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the ‘Joint Programme on Disaster Risk Management and Humanitarian Preparedness’. […]

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Research report

Building Resilience: A meta-analysis of Oxfam’s resilience Effectiveness Reviews

25/10/2017

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s Effectiveness Reviews evaluate the impact of the organization’s projects on the lives of those they are intended to help. This research paper uses statistical meta-analysis to summarise the results of all 16 Effectiveness Reviews carried out under the theme of resilience between 2011 and 2015. The paper finds that projects evaluated had a significant […]

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Evaluation report

Resilience in Bolivia: Impact evaluation of supporting communities to adapt to changing weather patterns and improve their livelihoods

21/07/2017

2 documents

72 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2015/16, selected for review under the resilience thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental evaluation carried out in April 2015 of the ‘Supporting communities in Bolivia to adapt to changing weather patterns and improve their livelihoods’ project. It sought to assess […]

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Evaluation report

Resilience in Ethiopia and Somaliland: Impact evaluation of the reconstruction project ‘Development of Enabling Conditions for Pastoralist and Agro-Pastoralist Communities’

30/06/2017

2 documents

94 pages long

Languages: English

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This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2015/16, selected for review under the resilience thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation carried out in November 2015 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the ‘Contributing to the Development of Enabling Conditions for Human […]

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Discussion paper

Measuring Resilience: Lessons learned from measuring resilience in Oxfam’s large-N Effectiveness Reviews

14/12/2015

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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Resilience has rapidly become one of the most prominent objectives for the development sector, so ascertaining how best to measure it is an essential task for practioners working in monitoring and evaluation. In this discussion paper, the main insights emerging from the series of large-N Effectiveness Reviews, a set of quantitative studies that aim to […]

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