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The Right to be Heard: An overview

01/11/2008

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

This paper is part of set of 12 in a series drawing on Oxfam GB’s global programme of work on the theme of ‘the right to be heard’. The focus of this series of papers is on how the right to be heard can strengthen the participation of people in poverty in formulating public policy, […]

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Journal article

Thinking about change for development practice: a case study from Oxfam GB

01/03/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

Development practice is informed by theories of change, but individuals and organisations may not make them explicit. Practitioners may be unaware of the extent to which strategic choices and debates are informed by disparate thinking about how history happens and the role of purposeful intervention for progressive social change. In the past few years, some […]

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Book

Development Methods and Approaches: Critical reflections

01/06/2003

1 documents

302 pages long

Languages: English

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Many aid agencies advocate approaches to development which are people-centred, participatory, empowering and gender-fair. This volume of essays explores some of the middle ground between such values-based approaches and the methods and techniques that the agencies adopt. The selection offers critical assessments of fashionable tools such as Participatory Rural Appraisal and Logical Framework. It demonstrates […]

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Research report

Alive and Kicking: Women’s and men’s respones to poverty and globalisation in the UK

19/03/2003

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

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Livelihoods

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This paper explores what it means to be poor in a country generally percieved as wealthy, and how poverty itself is shaped by people’s gender identity and their relationships to a changing labour market. Some of the issues raised will also have a resonance in other contexts where paid employment has in the past been […]

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Journal article

Alive and kicking: women’s and men’s responses to poverty and globalisation in the UK

01/11/2002

10 pages long

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Alive and kicking: women’s and men’s responses to poverty and globalisation in the UK

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Globalisation is a process that affects people in the North as well as the South. Its negative effects are felt by people living in poverty in wealthier countries, as well as by those living in poorer ones. Drawing on experience from the work of Oxfam’s UK Poverty Programme, this article explores some aspects of how […]

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Book

Questioning Empowerment: Working with women in Honduras

01/01/1997

1 documents

192 pages long

Languages: English

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Empowerment is a term which is used by organisations as diverse as the World Bank and grassroots community groups. This book examines the various meanings given to the concept, and the many ways in which power can be expressed, in personal relationships and in wider social interactions. It focuses on two development projects in Honduras, […]

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Journal article

Empowerment examined

01/05/1995

7 pages long

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‘Empowerment’ is a term often used in development work, but rarely defined. This article explores the meaning of empowerment, in the context of its root-concept: power. Different understandings of what constitutes power lead to a variety of interpretations of empowerment, and hence to a range of implications for development policy and practice. ‘Empowerment’ terminology makes […]

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The Right to be Heard: An overview

Thinking about change for development practice: a case study from Oxfam GB

Development Methods and Approaches: Critical reflections

Alive and Kicking: Women’s and men’s respones to poverty and globalisation in the UK

Alive and kicking: women’s and men’s responses to poverty and globalisation in the UK

Questioning Empowerment: Working with women in Honduras

Empowerment examined