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Guidelines and toolkits

Conducting Focus Groups

04/04/2019

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

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Part of Oxfam’s Research Guidelines series, this guideline gives an overview of how to organize and conduct focus group discussions for qualitative research. Focus groups help to answer the ‘who’, ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions by allowing researchers to draw out respondents’ feelings, beliefs, attitudes, experiences and reactions in a way that is often not feasible […]

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Book

Contribution to Change: An approach to evaluating the role of intervention in disaster recovery

22/11/2013

3 documents

122 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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As the number of people affected by disasters has risen, so have the expectations placed on humanitarian agencies by donors, the public and the affected populations themselves. Agencies must now provide evidence of the impact of their interventions. But applying conventional evaluation methods can pose problems. How can we assess the difference that intervention makes? […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

A Quick Guide to Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning in Fragile Contexts

19/07/2013

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

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Monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) are part of everyday programme management and are critical to the success of all Oxfam’s programmes, including those operating in fragile contexts. Without an effective MEAL system we would be unable to: track progress make adjustments discover unplanned effects of programmes judge the impact that we have made on […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Humanitarian Indicator Toolkit – Rapid Onset

18/07/2013

2 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Humanitarian practice

Overview

Oxfam’s humanitarian effectiveness reviews critically examine the performance of selected humanitarian responses against 12 recognised quality benchmarks. Following the protocol of the Humanitarian Indicator Tool (HIT), external humanitarian experts review existing documentation and interview the response’s key stakeholders to assign ratings against each benchmark. These methodological guidance documents, which are currently under revision, form the HIT […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Humanitarian Indicator Toolkit – Slow Onset

18/07/2013

2 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Humanitarian practice

Overview

The humanitarian effectiveness reviews critically examine the performance of selected humanitarian responses against 12 recognised quality benchmarks. Following the protocol of the Humanitarian Indicator Tool (HIT), external humanitarian experts review existing documentation and interview the response’s key stakeholders to assign ratings against each benchmark. These methodological guidance documents, which are currently under revision form the HIT […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of the Response to Hurricane Dean in Jamaica, St. Lucia and Dominica

01/06/2008

2 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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In 2007, Hurricane Dean hit Jamaica, temporarily displacing approximately 300,000 people. On St. Lucia and Dominica, the hurricane caused widespread damage to the agricultural sector, in particular banana crops but also to vegetable crops and animal pens. In Jamaica, Oxfam’s main objective was to contribute to the prevention of a major disease outbreak among women, […]

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Evaluation report

Mid Term Evaluation of Food Security and Livelihoods Programme in Kitgum district, Uganda

01/12/2007

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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The North Uganda Emergency Programme aims to save lives and protect livelihoods of people affected by conflict and natural disasters. The Kitgum programme has been running since 1997 providing water, sanitation, public health promotion and livelihoods support to 150,000 people displaced by conflict into IDP camps in Kitgum and Pader districts. Due to the insecure […]

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Book

Humanitarian Programmes and HIV and AIDS: A practical approach to mainstreaming

15/02/2007

1 documents

126 pages long

Languages: English

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This manual will help field staff to mainstream HIV and AIDS in humanitarian emergencies. It assumes some knowledge of humanitarian programming, and is intended to build staff skills in addressing the underlying causes of vulnerability to HIV infection and the consequences of HIV and AIDS, particularly in rapid-onset emergencies. The authors draw on experience in […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of the Urban Programme in Liberia

01/12/2005

2 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam GB implemented an integrated public health programme in Monrovia funded by ECHO and targeting cholera ‘hot spot’ communities in: urban slums (West Point and Clara Town); IDP camps (Soul Clinic and Mount Barclay); and host communities near the IDP camps. The programme ran from 2003 to 2007. A mid-term evaluation has been carried out […]

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