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A pack of green beans in a Northern supermarket may have journeyed 6000 miles, or 60. But while food miles loom large in our carbon-aware times, transporting it counts for less than you might think. And there is a far bigger picture. Food is more than a plateful of emissions. […] View resource Book Climate Change and Gender Justice 09/11/2009 1 documents 240 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Climate change adaptation Gender mainstreaming Overview Climate change is often framed as a problem that needs mainly technical and economic solutions. Climate Change and Gender Justice considers how gender issues are entwined with people’s vulnerability to the effects of climate change, and how gender identities and roles may affect women’s and men’s perceptions of the changes. The vivid case studies in […] View resource Book Speaking Out: Case studies on how poor people influence decision-making 09/11/2009 1 documents 176 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Advocacy Campaigning Civil society Development methods Participation Overview Many poor people around the world are denied the opportunity to have their say. Politics generally works well for those in power, but those in poverty are often excluded from forums that directly affect their welfare and so are unable to hold decision-makers to account. Speaking Out describes different ways to strengthen the participation of […] View resource Book Women’s Leadership and Participation: Case studies on learning for action 09/11/2009 1 documents 144 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Advocacy Campaigning Civil society Development methods Participation Overview Women across the world bear a disproportionate burden of poverty in terms of material deprivation, discrimination, and denial of their basic rights. This means they often have little opportunity to influence the processes and institutions which shape their lives. The under-representation of women’s voices in decision-making and agenda-setting at all levels mean that their interests […] View resource Book Climate Change: Stories of Witnesses 30/06/2009 1 documents 59 pages long Languages: Russian Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Overview This is the Russian part of an Oxfam International project called the Human Cost of Climate Change which consisted of a global report, case studies and a range of other tools to be used to build national campaigning capacity in different countries. The overall piece of work highlighted why Oxfam is working on climate change. […] View resource Book Gender Equality, HIV and AIDS: Challenges for the Education Sector 01/12/2008 1 documents 200 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Education financing Gender mainstreaming Girls' education Health promotion HIV and AIDS Overview The book shows that while gender inequalities in society generally, and particularly within the education sector, are driving aspects of the HIV epidemic, educational settings can be empowering and bring about change. It examines different expectations of what HIV education programmes and education settings can do to transform unequal gender relations and protect young people […] View resource Book From Poverty to Power: How active citizens and effective states can change the world 23/06/2008 2 documents 540 pages long Languages: English, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords FP2P From Poverty to Power Overview The twenty-first century will be defined by the fight against the scourges of poverty, inequality, and the threat of environmental collapse as the fight against slavery or for universal suffrage defined earlier eras. From Poverty to Power argues that it requires a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets to break the cycle of poverty […] View resource Book The Urgency of Now: A small book about the madness of inequality and poverty: how they’re wrecking people’s lives and why doing something about them will make things better for us all 23/06/2008 2 documents 35 pages long Languages: English, French Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Overview The urgency of now is essential reading for development, international politics, economics, and business students, activists and campaigners, and anyone interested in globalisation or development issues. In fact it’s for anyone with a questioning mind. The urgency of now accompanies Oxfam’s publication From Poverty to Power. View resource Book HIV and AIDS 31/03/2008 1 documents 160 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Gender mainstreaming HIV and AIDS Overview This book takes a look at the key challenges of HIV and AIDS from a gender perspective, and describes positive responses in areas of the world as diverse as Cambodia, South Africa, the UK, and Papua New Guinea. The impacts of HIV on women and men across the world are devastating and wide-ranging. Girls may […] View resource Book Rights-based Approaches: Learning project 30/03/2008 3 documents 134 pages long Languages: Arabic, English, French Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods M&E Monitoring and evaluation Programme management Research methods Training Overview The failure to respect, protect, or fulfil human rights is a fundamental and leading obstacle to economic development and social justice. Practically speaking, however, NGOs are still struggling to understand what this major organisational shift means. The term ‘rights-based approaches’ (RBAs) has become so familiar that we tend to assume that it is well-understood and […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 … Page 29 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know