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Public Opinion Survey on Metals Mining in Guatemala

11/08/2010

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9 pages long

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Executive summary of a report by the Association for Social Research and Study (ASÍES)

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Ownership in Practice: Information – Let countries know what donors are doing

04/06/2010

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24 pages long

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Oxfam America has been recommending reforms to US foreign aid practice to make it more responsive to and supportive of countries’ own development priorities. A first step in this direction is improving the information the US providesrecipient countries on its foreign aid. In particular, Oxfam is calling for the US to provide countries with information that is more […]

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People as Changemakers: Community based management for right to education

18/05/2010

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20 pages long

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This paper addresses the ways in which the community, a primary stakeholder in any education system, can influence the government’s initiatives to carry out India’s Right to Education Act of 2010. Practitioners, academics and policy-makers have come together to analyse the Act which sets out to achieve the fundamental right to education for all children […]

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Impact of Price Hikes on the Lives and Livelihoods of Poor People in Viet Nam: A follow-up activity to the participatory poverty monitoring initiative

04/05/2010

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84 pages long

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In January 2007, Viet Nam was admitted as the 150th member country of the WTO. It was widely recognised that this would bring many new opportunities to Viet Nam, but would also pose many challenges, especially in ensuring that the full benefits of WTO membership are shared by the whole of Viet Nam’s population, including […]

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Climate Change Adaptation: Enabling people living in poverty to adapt

29/04/2010

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48 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Climate change is fast pushing the poorest and most marginalized communities beyond their capacity to respond. This report draws on case studies from around the world and on Oxfam’s experience working with rural communities. It sets out what is needed to enable people living in poverty to adapt to climate change, and a range of […]

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The Rain Doesn’t Come On Time Anymore: Poverty, vulnerability, and climate variability in Ethiopia

26/04/2010

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45 pages long

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Climate variability in Ethiopia is not new – but now, in addition to the usual struggles, Ethiopians living in poverty are additionally suffering the effects of climate change – both more variable climate and more extreme weather events. People who are already poor and marginalized are struggling with the added burden of climate variability. For […]

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A Crisis Multiplied: How the global economic crisis, coming on top of other shocks, is worsening poverty in Burkina Faso

24/04/2010

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24 pages long

Languages: English, French

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This paper documents the impacts of the global economic crisis on Burkina Faso, which exacerbated the effects of the previous food and fuel price crises and was then made worse by subsequent serious flooding. Based on interviews by the author with a number of international donors, government officials, economists, and civil society organizations in Ouagadougou […]

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Adaptation to Climate Change in India : A study of Union budgets

05/04/2010

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86 pages long

Languages: English

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The implications of climate change are affecting many regions in the world; India is particularly vulnerable to the damaging, adverse effects of greenhouse emissions. This working paper is a collaborative study produced by Oxfam India and the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (a policy research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi). It is […]

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An Invisible Crisis? Women’s poverty and social exclusion in the European Union at a time of recession – A GenderWorks paper

24/03/2010

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38 pages long

Languages: English

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All over the world, women remain poor in relation to men. This also is true in every member state of the European Union. The persistence of poverty in such a rich region of the world is shocking, even before the impact of recession has been considered.In October 2009, Oxfam and the European Women’s Lobby, commissioned […]

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The WASH Factor: Oxfam’s experiences with humanitarian coordination for water, sanitation and health

24/02/2010

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22 pages long

Languages: English

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In the humanitarian coordination system of ‘clusters’, the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) cluster is widely acknowledged to be among the best functioning. This report, based on interviews conducted with more than 50 individuals with experience of the WASH cluster in more than 25 countries, focusses on evidence of improved humanitarian response from the WASH […]

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