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Learning from Hindsight: Synthesis report on Oxfam resilience research

30/08/2017

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36 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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What can we learn about resilience by examining completed resilience, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation projects? Oxfam conducted three such case studies in Bolivia, Colombia, and Fiji, looking at the conditions required for successful resilient development as well as issues around timing and duration. This synthesis report presents a summary of the three […]

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‘Disaster is Nature Telling Us how to Live Resiliently’: Indigenous disaster risk reduction, organizing, and spirituality in Tierradentro, Colombia

30/08/2017

1 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Seeking to gain knowledge about resilience, this case study considered a 2007-09 Red Cross preparedness project funded by the Disaster Preparedness European Community Humanitarian Office (DIPECHO). The project was implemented around the Nevado del Huila volcano in Colombia, in a largely rural area with a predominantly indigenous population. The findings and analysis point to the importance of listening to […]

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Research report

Building Resilience through Iterative Processes: Mainstreaming ancestral knowledge, social movements, and the making of sustainable programming in Bolivia

30/08/2017

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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This case study takes a retrospective look at the 2010-11 Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG-ECHO) Small-Scale Disaster Project in La Paz and the context within which it took place. Our research found that absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities can be fostered by iterative development processes. It also demonstrated that disaster […]

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Briefing paper

Colombia: Contested spaces briefing paper

01/03/2013

2 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Colombia has one of the longest-running armed conflicts in the world. This briefing paper draws on Oxfam’s research in Colombia in late 2011 into the impacts of Colombia’s stabilization programme, the National Consolidation Plan (NCP). Interviewees clearly indicated that the NCP and other stabilization efforts had failed to make communities more secure, often leaving them […]

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Learning from Hindsight: Synthesis report on Oxfam resilience research

‘Disaster is Nature Telling Us how to Live Resiliently’: Indigenous disaster risk reduction, organizing, and spirituality in Tierradentro, Colombia

Building Resilience through Iterative Processes: Mainstreaming ancestral knowledge, social movements, and the making of sustainable programming in Bolivia

Colombia: Contested spaces briefing paper